Monday Morning Lunches

A simple lunch for a hectic Monday morning in our yubo:

• a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a star cut out
• a cereal bar
• grapes and strawberries
• vanilla yogurt
• and to dress up the yogurt: granola and chocolate chips

Happy Monday, y'all!

Sharkalicious yubo Lunch with {Giveaway}

yubo is going to be on Shark Tank on November 22 at 9-10 pm EST!

I made the kids shark themed lunches to celebrate and Cristi from BentOnBetterLunches and I have teamed up for an exciting yubo GIVEAWAY. {at the end of this post!}

This grey yubo is packed with:

• sand star cookies
• a vanilla yogurt ocean with a shark fin
• a dangerous bull shark peanut butter sandwich decorated with cheese and candy eyes
• and spinach leaf sea weed and pepper under water plants

The Lunchbox Love card was of course perfect for this lunch!

My daughter wanted a lunch, too, but with a less scary shark so I made this cute shark after seeing him on a lunch box. This grey yubo also contains:

• sand star cookies
• a vanilla yogurt ocean with a shark fin
• a cute shark Nutella sandwich decorated with apple pieces and nori
• spinach leaf sea weed and pepper under water plants
• and a great Lunchbox Love card!

Want to win a personalized shark themed yubo lunch box? yubo generously offered to sponsor the lunch box! Thanks, yubo!

THIS IS A FLASH GIVEAWAY so you only have 3 DAYS to enter!

Don't forget! You have to visit both my blog and BentOnBetterLunches to complete the mandatory question entry {hint: look closely! You need 3!}

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Angry Bird Lunches

My lovely friend Michelle from Creative Food sent me Angry Bird Lip Pops recently and naturally I had to make some Angry Bird themed lunches! She made some as well so check out her beautiful lunches at the end of my post!

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The Yellow Angry Bird Lunch:

The Yellow Angry Bird is packed in our Easylunchboxes. We packed:

• the Angry Bird sandwich (peanut butter sandwich, candy eyes and fruit leather eyebrows)
• applesauce and 
• cherry tomatoes

The Red Angry Bird Lunch:

The Red Angry Bird* lunch is also packed in Easylunchboxes and contains:

• an Angry Bird sandwich (cheese sandwich topped with red pepper, candy eye and fruit leather accents)
• apple sauce and 
• cherry tomoatoes

*I was told by my son that the Red Angry Bird is ROUND not triangular so I redid the lunch for him:

This more accurate Red Angry Bird Lunch is packed in our yubo and contains:

• a WOWBUTTER Angry Bird sandwich with candy eyes and fruit leather eyebrows
• strawberries and
• Angry Bird Cheese crackers

 The Pig Angry Bird Lunch:

The Pig Angry Bird Lunch is packed in our Planetbox Shuttle and contains:

• a turkey wrap topped with a piece of green wrap and candy eyes to resemble the Pig
• Angry Bird crackers and
• black olive black birds

And now head over to Creative Food to see her amazing Angry Birds Lunches!

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

Look! Lunch! {Gluten Free}

Here are two recent gluten free school lunches. We are trying to keep one of my sons gluten free to determine if that would help with the recent bouts of stomachaches he has been having. I am very new to gluten free so we are still learning :)

Our yubo is packed with a gluten free lunch today:

• a Cocoa Loco bar from Enjoy Life
• Naturebox Cranberry Almond bites
• two tuxedo wearing onigiri
• applesauce and
• a gluten free coconut chocolate chip muffin - home made with rice flour

Our Laptop Lunches bento box is packed with:

• a gluten free coconut and blueberry muffin
• gluten free popcorn
• almonds
• a gluten free cheese sandwich and
• apple sauce

Mickey in a yubo

We packed our TALL yubo today with a little M-I-C-K-E-Y. My kids still love Mickey Mouse Club House and since I found a fun Mickey Mouse sandwich cutter on Ebay - I thought it would be a fun lunch to do.

Our yubo is packed with two round and two oval conatiners:

• Naturebox Cranberry Energy Bites
• Strawberry yogurt with Mickey Mouse chocolate sprinkles
• two nut butter Mickey sandwiches and
• blueberries with two Mickey Mouse watermelon bites

Miska Muska, Mickey Mouse!

Don't forget to enter my TALL yubo giveaway!

Have a great day out there and stay cool!

yubo TALL Review & Giveaway

Have you met the new TALL yubo yet? We love the idea of carrying the yubo this way. The new TALL faceplates are fun and make the lunchbox a lot more versatile ...

- especially for those of us whose kids have narrow lockers at school!

Yubo sent us this adorable personalized yubo with the new TALL style. Yubo added my son's name to the lunchbox (Thank you!) but because I don't share my kids' names on the internet I removed the name in Photoshop. You can see examples of the fonts HERE or at the end of the post.

My soon-to-be second grader says he likes carrying his yubo upright better. He finds it more comfortable!

Our verdict: We love the new TALL yubo!

We love the new colors! And as always your deluxe yubo comes with one large and two small round containers for lots of fun lunch ideas. All containers are leak proof and the whole lunchbox is dishwasher safe! Just remove the faceplates, wipe them down and put all other pieces in the dishwasher. Easy clean up!

This eco-friendly lunchbox is fun, can grow with your child since you can order new faceplates starting at $6.95, and the interchangable faceplates even let you share the lunchbox between siblings. We have two yubos in neutral colors but three sets of faceplates so everyone can have their own style. That makes this lunchbox so attractive to me. Everyone can take their "own" lunchbox to school without me having to buy four different yubos!

This is everything you get:

• the lunchbox 
• two lunchbox lids
• two faceplates (one for the front and one for the back)
• one large leakproof container
• two small round leakproof containers
• one large ice pack

But back to the lunch! We packed a lunch to match:

• A firetruck sandwich made out of whole wheat bread, cream cheese, red pepper with nori and cheese accents,
• a Z bar road for the fire truck to drive on,
• Dalmation yogurt made with mini chocolate chips and vanilla yogurt and
• Red and yellow pepper "fire." 

I love the new sleek looking grey yubo and really who wouldn't want to dig into a lunch like that?

I used the Lunch Punch truck cutter to cut the sandwich and red pepper and in no time we had a fire truck sandwich racing to extinguish the fire!

The new TALL designs are adorable! Check out all the new yubo colors and TALL designs here:

Love these new styles? Yubo agreed to send one of my readers a personalized yubo of their choice! Which one will you pick?

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First Day of Summer

Happy Summer!

We packed a simple summer lunch in our yubo today:

• a peanut butter sandwich sun
• cantaloupe
• blueberries

Hope you can enjoy the sun today! Have a great weekend!

Every-Bunny Loves Lunch

Last weekend we found a special visitor on our porch:

Can you guess how excited my kids were? We let him rest in the shade and gave him some water and carrots. He stayed for a couple of days and the kids loved having him around.

He eventually went home to a new home and I know the kids miss him. I decided that it would be nice to make them bunny themed lunches to remind them of our special guest :)

Our yubo is packed with:

• four mini bunny sandwiches
• carrots and Annie's bunny cheese crackers
• vanilla yogurt with a sprinkle bunny shape and 
• Naturebox Vanilla granola with a small bunny cup filled with mini chocolate chips for the yogurt

I also added a sweet Lunchbox Love Card to remind them how sweet it was of them to care for the bunny.

Our yumbox is packed with more bunny food:

• Annie's cheddar bunnies
• a cereal bar
• 4 mini bunny sandwiches
• tomatoes with a bunny pick
• cucumber flowers
• and a few gummy treats

And when my preschooler saw all the bunny lunches, she of course wanted one, too. She helped pack her own lunch for today:

Since she ate at home she just packed a yumbox tray:

• with baby carrots
• Annie's cheddar bunnies
• four mini bunny sandwiches
• apples with a bunny pick
• and cucumber flowers as well as
• a few fruit gummies

Rainy Day Lunches

We are starting the week on a rainy, dreary and windy Tuesday. I decided to brighten their day with colorful lunches and pack all their favorites.

I packed our yumbox with a blueberry Chobani Champions tube yogurt, apple slices and kiwi, left over chicken, mini ice cream shaped peanut butter sandwiches and some baby carrots with dip. We packed milk today instead of water. 

For my second grader I added some sun with a funny Lunchbox Love Card, and packed his yubo with Pirate Booty and cinnamon almonds, puzzle shaped peanut butter and blueberry jelly sandwiches and vanilla yogurt with Naturebox Vanilla Macroon Granola and a few mini chocolate chips. He brought home made strawberry milk in our thermos Funtainer. Hope the sun peaks out for lunch!

My 5th grader brought lunch in his Laptop Lunches bento box filled with Pirate Booty and Cinnamon Almonds, apples (and mini chocolate chips for his yogurt in the mini container), vanilla yogurt and a nitrate-free salami sandwich on whole wheat bread. He packed some lemonade to bring summer to school.

Let's hope the rain goes away!!

Here are some of the things I used to make these lunches (the links contain affiliate links):