Happy Holidays!

Our last Christmas lunch for 2013 :)

We packed our Lunchbot Trio festively with:

• candy cane stripe apples
• Christmas Goldfish crackers with Stockings and Christmas trees
• four mini Nutella Gingerbread Men sandwiches and
• a few green grapes

We also (as always) found the perfect Lunchbox Love Card to match our lunch!

Happy Holidays to all of you! This is our last lunch box before Christmas and I will be enjoying some time off with my family!

Santa Lunch

One more Santa Lunch before Santa is here!

We packed a stamped Santa peanut butter and jelly sandwich with extra jelly and a little chocolate Santa!

Having a child who loves peanut butter sandwiches with lots of jelly, I LOVE (yes, LOVE) the Smash protector of this Nude Food Movers lunchbox. No more squished sandwiches!

Plus our Funkins reusable Napkins fit perfectly in the spot between the smash protector and the lid!

We also packed pears, crackers, a tangerine and a breakfast cookie.

Only 2 more sleeps!

Holiday Easylunchboxes {by Request}

What do you get when your fun loving 3rd grader gets involved in lunch packing?
Some pretty amazing and creative school lunches!

My son helped me pack this Superhero lunch for school in his Easylunchboxes filled with:

• candy cane stripes apples
• fresh popcorn
• and a wintery Hulk pepperoni sandwich. He stamped the bread with our Hulk cookie stamp and added snow flake sprinkles and a winter hat.

For this puzzling Christmas lunch we packed:

• Grinch Fruit Kabobs as seen on MOMables (several were eaten while packing this lunch box)
• veggie sticks
• a puzzle sandwich (because it is cool)
• and some Christmas-y Gingerbread Men cookies

He was on a roll for this lunch (pun intended) and packed:

• strawberries
• veggie sticks
• a snowman pepperoni roll with candy eyes, a carrot nose and a mini chocolate chip mouth
• and a mini chocolate snowman treat

He also brought one of our new Funkins napkins and chocolate milk in a thermos (must-have for a snowman lunch!)

Things I used to make this lunch (contains affiliate links):

Goodbyn Christmas Lunches

I didn't get to share all of our packed lunches with you from last week and decided to do a round up instead! Three Goodbyn Christmas Lunch ideas with our new Funkins napkins! {Giveaway and Review coming in January!!}

Our first lunch is a Santa lunch:

• vanilla yogurt with sprinkles (in small green container)
• a Santa pepperoni sandwich
• a cereal bar
• carrots
• a clementine
• and a drinkable yogurt smoothie

Packed also is ice water and a Christmas Funkins reusable napkin.

This lunch is Gingerbread themed:

• a half a Nutella sandwich
• strawberries
• Gingerbread cookies
• Veggie sticks

Also packed are chocolate milk in a thermos and a Funkins napkin.

And last but not least a Christmas Goodbyn:

• yogurt
• a cereal bar
• a small container with sprinkles for the yogurt
• a present nut butter sandwich
• a clementine
• a mini snowman chocolate
• a breakfast oatmeal cookie

Also packed is ice water and a Christmas Funkins napkin.

Christmas Laptop Lunches Bento Box

Happy Monday! Only 9 days until Christmas!

I pack our Laptop Lunches bento box for my middle schooler every day but because he leaves for school relatively early I never get a chance to get a good picture. He was leaving later today so here is his Christmas Laptop Lunches bento box:

We packed:

• candy cane stripe apples
• snow popcorn with blue snowflake sprinkles and a mini chocolate Santa
• cucumbers and peppers
• a Santa peanut butter sandwich
• and a cereal bar tucked under our Funkins candy cane napkin

Santa Sandwiches

4 more days until Christmas and my kids are already so excited!
I packed them Santa Claus lunches today after they have been singing "Santa Claus is Coming To Town..." for days now :)

We packed Santa Grilled cheese sandwiches in our Easylunchboxes today with orange slices, popcorn and a Trader Joe's dye-free candy cane cookie and one mini chocolate Santa Claus! They are also bringing ice water and a drinkable yogurt.

More Santa Sandwiches but this time with lettuce, mustard and chicken. The sides are the same: oranges with a mini Santa chocolate, popcorn and a Trader Joe's Cookie :) 

I also packed some more of our Christmas Lunchbox Love notes!

Today is the last day of school before Winter Break so from my family to yours:

Holiday Lunches

My kids loved that I hid little Santa chocolates in their lunches yesterday, so I did it again today. It seems the little joys are sometimes the most important ones and the ones they remember :)

For my oldest I packed apples, popcorn, Wasa Crackerbread and ham and cheese on the side so he can make his own sandwiches. He also brought yogurt and ice water. I added a Lunchbox Love note as well since my kids love finding them and telling me after school what they said! What a conversation starter!

For my youngest I packed present shaped sandwiches, apples, popcorn, ice water and yogurt and of course a small Santa chocolate! There is a Lunchbox Love note in his lunch as well and if he cannot read it he will bring it home and we read it together :)

My second grader has present shaped sandwiches as well as apples and popcorn but I snuck in a special German Vanilla cookie as well since I knew he would love finding something special in his lunchbox. Besides having ice water and yogurt he also has a Lunchbox Love note. I love sending them and being able to talk about them after the kids get out of school. Plus, after last week it seems any love we can add to our kids' every day life is a gift in itself.

I had fun adding some sweets this week and even though I try to feed my kids very healthy foods it  was fun adding some sweets to their lunchboxes and see their excited faces after school!

For all those of you that have not tried the spring loaded cookie stamps on bread yet: It is fun, easy and worth it! They come out great and I will look for more shapes as the holidays end and the new year begins. I found these at my local Target. 

7 Days until Christmas

My Kids have started the last week before Christmas Countdown and it was time for some more Christmas themed lunches!

We packed a chicken cold cut and lettuce sandwich Christmas tree, a Gingerbread family and strawberries. Can you spy the little Santa chocolate I hid? We also packed ice water and a drinkable yogurt.

7 more days until Christmas - the kids are so excited!

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This is a ham and cheese grilled cheese on a English muffin with pretzels and strawberries. There is also a babybel cheese with a Christmas Tree cut out and a mini Santa chocolate :)

Last but not least, Candy Cane sandwiches decorated with organic fruit leather, candy cane pretzels and more strawberries. A little Santa chocolate is hidden in this lunch as well :)

Holiday Ho Ho Hop

Today is a special morning in Germany. Nikolaustag!
Children put their shoes out by the door the night of December 5th in the hopes St. Nick will fill them with candy and chocolate coins. I love Nikolaustag and since I am German we celebrate it each year and of course my kids put out their shoes last night:

We also left out some carrots for the donkey that Nikolaus rides on and it seems my kids were good this year!

Bento Bloggers and Friends is having a Ho Ho Hop today and  I made a special Nikolaus Lunch in honor of Nikolaustag!

We packed our yubo with a ham and cucumber boot sandwich filled with some small chocolates, Christmas tree shaped pretzels, yogurt with dye free chocolate sprinkles to make a Christmas Tree and some penguin crackers with a Nikolaus decoration.

And now hop over to my friend Keeley to see what she packed for today's Ho Ho Hop!

Day 3: Quesadillas

My kids asked for quesadillas for lunch today and I was happy to make them since they are fast and easy!

So here are our lunches from today:

I packed two slices of cheese quesadilla with a small gingerbread man quesadilla on top. I decorated the gingerbread man with cheese but it melted too fast so I added more cheese cut outs to make them stand out more. Also packed are pretzel rings and popcorn which reminded us of Christmas Tree decorations :) As always the kids also packed ice water and yogurt drinks.

I also made a Christmas tree quesadilla lunch. It has four quesadilla slices and the top slice is decorated with cheese stars and a star cupcake topper. They also have sour cream and salsa in Mini Dippers packed separately and popcorn and pretzel rings as well as ice water and yogurt drinks.

My oldest asked for a simple lunch and so he got 4 slices of quesadilla, pretzels, salsa, sour cream and a yogurt (not pictured). Like the others he also has ice water and in addition and small container with popcorn since he wanted the dip in his EasyLunchbox :)

Happy Tuesday!
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The Bento Elf {Christopher's Adventures}

Look who got into my bento stash: Christopher!
And he made himself a bento snack :)

Mini cucumber hearts, three yogurt raisins and two mini bunny chocolate sandwiches with sprinkle decorations.

Pretty good for an elf. Don't you think?

Day 2: Egg Sandwiches & Switch It Up Sandwich Link Up

Happy Monday!

Today is Day 2 of our "No peanut butter challenge" and today's lunch is inspired by our elf Christopher. He came December 1st from the North Pole to finally be able to see the kids he has been making toys for all year. He loves hiding over night and my kids love looking for him in the morning. Christopher has gotten into the snack cabinet already twice and so I thought it would be fitting to make an elf lunch today :)

Here he is this morning with some snatched yogurt raisins...

But back to lunch:

Today's lunch is apples, veggie sticks and elf egg sandwiches packed in our EasyLunchboxes. I added a small mini bottle of ketchup so everyone can add it if they'd like. We also packed drinkable yogurt and ice water and Christopher snuck a chocolate snowman into everyone's lunch ;)

{Recipe}

4 large eggs

1 Tablespoon milk

1/2 teaspoon of cooking oil

{Instructions}

First, I scrambled the 4 large eggs with 1 tablespoon milk in a small bowl. Meanwhile I heated a small amount of oil in a medium size pan. Once the pan was hot, I added the egg and turned the heat to low. I cooked the egg until the egg was set, turned it over once and made sure it was cooked properly. I then let it cool on a cutting board and used a cookie cutter to cut the egg in shape.

While the egg was cooling I used the same cookie cutter and cut two elf sandwiches for each child. Two plain bottoms and two tops with the embossed elf. Pictured are only 3 sets of bread but I had enough for 5 sets of elf sandwiches and my daughter and I had the other ones for breakfast.

Then I layered the sandwich. Here I added a piece of egg and a piece of ham, also cut in shape with the cutter.

How cute are these?

My kids were so excited for lunch today!

I also found this cute and very matching Lunchbox Love note from their Christmas Volume to complete today's lunch :)

And now it is your turn!

What did you pack for lunch today or in the past that is different from the 

"Peanut butter, Nut Butter, Nuttella, Jam" sandwich? 

I would love to see it!

You can link up all week!

Please don't link up more then 2 lunches per day!

Be nice and visit some of the other links :)

and Have Fun!