LOOK! Lunch!

It is another busy day - but we did pack lunch :)

Apples, oranges and Angry Bird cheese crackers packed in Easylunchboxes with a Pepperoni and Salad Hulk sandwich.

Apples, Oranges and Angry Bird cheese crackers in our new Good lunchbox with two chocolate spread Spider-Man sandwiches.

Easter Lunches

Today is the last day of school before spring break and I made the kids special lunches for the occasion! I am also reading to my son's class about the Spring Equinox and cultures all over celebrating the beginning of spring. I made them Easter themed lunches since we will be celebrating Easter next week :)

We packed a celery and carrot garden, oranges and two shaped peanut butter pockets.

I also found a sweet Lunchbox Love Card to match our Easter theme!

The other lunch we packed were a left over cinnamon roll, oranges and two oven baked pancakes. They also packed a mini dipper with syrup and a Chobani Champions Banana Honey yogurt. Easter breakfast in Easylunchboxes!

MSA Lunch

My oldest son has the first round of MSA (Maryland School Assessment) testing today and therefore we packed lunch with extra care today!

We packed home made snack mix (unsalted peanuts, white and dark chocolate chips), oranges, energy balls and three pitas filled with carrots, salad and turkey. Nestled on top are two small containers filled with mayo. We also packed a drinkable yogurt and ice water today to refuel.

I  packed a snack for the afternoon as well:

Lemon edamame, crackers and cheese and some apples are packed in our Lunchbot Trio.

Good Luck today!

Energy Lunches

Happy Monday! Hope everyone has a great start into the new week!

We made some no bake energy bites this weekend (recipe below) in preparation for state wide testing this week. They are filled with protein and a great snack for the days the kids need extra energy!

For my two older kids we packed no bake energy bites, all natural apple sauce and a chicken, mustard and salad sandwich with a Chobani Champions blueberry tube. They also packed ice water and a small orange juice.

My first grader packed a Chobani Champions blueberry tube in his yumbox as well as oranges, carrots, no bake energy bites, a protein cereal bar and a small treat.

We have been making no bake energy bites for a while and I first found them HERE. I still use the recipe from Smashed Peas and Carrots as a base recipe but I tweaked it a little bit.

Ingredients:

(it makes about 50 - 70 mini energy bites)

2 cups oatmeal

1 cup peanut butter 

2/3 cup honey

1 cup coconut flakes

1 cup ground flaxseed

1 cup mini chocolate chips

1/2 cup of sliced almonds or 1/2 cup of dried fruit

Add all ingredients into a large bowl and mix until a dough forms. 

Wet your hands slightly and roll into balls. 

I store mine in parchment paper lined tupperware in the fridge.

For a great picture tutorial visit Smashed Peas and Carrots :)

Funny Thursday

Simple sugar eyes and an air bubble in our bread made this lunch a lunch to giggle.

In addition to the funny bread we also packed crackers and cheese, strawberries and oranges and as always yogurt and ice water.

100th Day of School

Today is the 100th day of school!
And of course we packed a special lunch!

I packed our yumbox for my first grader with applesauce, strawberries and oranges, carrots with a cheese 100, bus pepperoni sandwiches, a cereal bar and a few UnREAL chocolate candies! 

The older kids packed lunch in EasyLunchboxes and have a pepperoni sandwich with a cheese 100, 100 cheese bunny crackers and strawberries and oranges. Everybody packed ice water and a yogurt as well.

For the afternoon snack we packed pretzels, a cereal bar, a chocolate treat and an apple :)

Rainy Day Lunch

It is raining but I am not complaining because I know it is snowing many other places!
It is gloomy, cold and rainy and I packed a cheery fish lunch in the hopes it brings back the sun :)
You can even see the rain drops on my ELB lid!

We packed our Easylunchbox with sweet strawberries, orange slices, Naturebox Cranberry Almond bites and two Lunch Punch fish sandwiches with candy eyes.

Elephants & Pandas

Lunches were packed fast this morning since we all woke up feeling tired.
Coffee here I come!

My son wanted a lunch similar to this yubo lunch so packed him vanilla yogurt, chocolate shavings and Naturebox Orange Crush Granola and a Lunch Punch Elephant sandwich with a chocolate chip eye standing on a vanilla chocolate chip cereal bar. He also brough ice water in a thermos!

We also packed our new yumbox today which seems perfect so far for my small appetite first grader! He chose vanilla yogurt, oranges, carrots and apples, a yogurt cereal bar and half a pretzel bagel with cream cheese for lunch today. I added a chocolate heart as a special treat for today as well. He has ice water in a thermos packed in his lunch bag, too.

I love that this lunchbox has so many small compartments! My son felt overwhelmed with the bigger lunchboxes and he loves this 6 compartment box. Less food but more choice!

Pandas and Onigiris

My kids love rice and what they consider Onigiri: plain sushi rice wrapped in seaweed. We finally found some Furikake seasoning this week and everybody liked it so now I need to get some Furikake containers for their lunch boxes :)

Our lunch consists of three Onigiri, apples and orange slices, energy bites and seaweed Arare which are Japanese crackers wrapped in seaweed.

For the younger kids I made smaller Onigiri and they packed apples, oranges, energy bites and Arare as well.

The kids loved decorating with our new panda picks and I think they came out very cute :)

My sister asked me the other day for a quick picture tutorial on how to make these very plain Onigiri because she wanted to make some to dip in different sauces and I made this tutorial on my phone - so pardon the light and quality - but I though some of you might like to see it.

Typically, I steam the rice and let it cool until it is only slightly warm. I put about one Tablespoon of rice on a small piece of plastic wrap and either form a ball by kneading the rice or twist the top of the foil until a ball forms. In this tutorial I used some seaweed and a seaweed stamp and made first a round rice ball with face. You can also cut a long strip of seaweed and wrap the rice ball in it to look more like an Onigiri. Beware that the seaweed will "shrink" once it absorbs some of the moisture from the rice so cut the strip a little longer then necessary!

Hope this helps if you are looking to make some very simple rice lunches!

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:

Pardon my Light - there is a storm coming...

So there is a storm in the air - literally. While preparing and hoping it will not hit too hard we still have eat - so we are packing lunches even though schools are closed :) However, it was omnious and dark this morning - so please pardon the picture quality. Last year, we had no power for 11 days. Let's hope that will not happen this year >.<

Lunch was simple but still in the spirit of Halloween today. Chocolate spread bat sandwiches with little liquorice bats, a cereal bar and apples as well as honey crackers and an Italian cookie, Goldfish crackers and a chocolate spread Pumpkin. 

I also used our new lunchboxes today but due to the poor lighting I will do my review next week :)

Packed in our Go Green Lunchbox are cheese and crackers, Chobani Champions Banana Honey yogurt, a pretzel roll with cold cuts, a cereal bar and apples and red oranges.

Boo!

♬♩ Storm, storm, go away, come again another day....♬♩

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Harvest Lunch

Today's lunch is fall inspired. I packed the kids mini grapes, red sweet oranges and apples, as well as cucumbers, carrots, red and orange peppers and one mini yellow pepper. In the main compartment are two chocolate chip cookies, whole wheat crackers and a sunflower seed spread sandwich.

Hoping the weather changes from rainy and dark to a beautiful colorful fall day to match :)

Fast Food

This morning I decide to make use of some of the other lunchboxes we own  because I forgot to run the dishwasher last night because it is fun to mix things up from time to time!

We own several of these neat Sistema containers!

For my oldest son I packed a BLT sandwich inspired by KeeleyMcGuire's lunch on Monday, a mini pepper, veggie sticks, a small container with Sunflower seed crackers, 1/2 apple and as a treat two Spanish cookies with marshmallows. 

For my second grader I packed a fish shaped sandwich with cold cuts and salad, oranges, strawberries, Italian cookies and Spanish cookies.

And since my First Grader just got a new lunchbox from his Grandparents in Germany we of course used that one today, too!

He packed apples, oranges and strawberries as well as no bake energy bites, a few Spanish treats and a chocolate spread roll.

Now, if only it stopped raining...

Happy Hump Day!

Look who's driving to School!

It is a dreary rainy Tuesday morning here and while I was in the kitchen making lunches my 5 year old came running in excited that we would have to drive to school because of the rain. He was so excited and so I decided to make him a "We are driving to School today" lunch.

I packed Veggie sticks, oranges and apples, no-bake energy bites as the tree trunk and spinach leaves for leaves and a LunchPunch peanut butter car.

I really love these picks and my son laughed when he saw his lunch because he thought it looked like him driving the car :)

Stay dry today!

Things I used to make this lunch - click on the pictures for more information :)