Birthday Lunch

My son is turning 10 today! Amazing! He is now officially in the double digits :)

For his special birthday lunch I packed a chocolate chunk muffin, popcorn and a cake shaped sandwich decorated with melted chocolate and icing. He also packed ice water and yogurt and a snack:

For snack I packed him more popcorn, half an apple and a cereal bar.

Happy Birthday, Son!

Spooky Lunch

Halloween is just around the corner and we had some fun picking out Halloween picks for this lunch. We  packed pumpkin cheese crackers, ghost vanilla yogurt with chocolate sprinkles (since our store was out of Chobani Champions Chocolate Chunk yogurt which we love), spider apples and a pumpkin shaped sandwich. I added the face later since we had not enough time for a cut out this morning.

The ghost and pumpkin picks as well as the spider are from the Dollar Store. My friend Ludicrous Mama from Biting the Hand that Feeds You introduced me to these. The ghosts and pumpkins are a peg game (contains 14 - 7 of each) and the spider ring comes in a pack of 50. Most Dollar Stores here also carry the pumpkin sandwich cutter. An inexpensive way to dress up a regular lunch and make it just right for the season :)

Angry Bird Lunch

My son asked me for an Angry Bird lunch yesterday and this was my first try in our new Yubo lunchbox :)

We packed a cheese stick with a red Angry Bird ring, a Salami and Cheese red Angry Bird Sandwich with Nori accents (inspired by Obento Momma), Vanilla yogurt with some mini chocolate chips and angry bird cheese crackers.

If you would like to see more Angry Bird Lunches:

• head over to Obento Momma who posted a linky at the end of her post :)
• and check out this lunch from Becoming a Bentoholic today!

World Animal Day Blog Hop

Today is World Animal Day and Bento Bloggers & Friends are having an exciting Blog Hop! 

We all picked a different animal to make today ~ click through the hop to see them all !

I picked a BEAR as my animal:

And here is the World Animal Lunch I made:

First I added some lettuce and my rice bear. The bear is made with rice and colored with soy sauce. I mixed about 1/2 cup of cooked rice with soy sauce until I was happy with the color. I added the rice to a piece of plastic wrap and shaped the head. I added thinly cut julienne style cucumbers with a tiny amount of salt and then folded them into the middle of the head of the bear. Then I made two small rice balls for the ears and added some white rice for his snout and also cheese and nori details to make his ears and face :)

I love the this tutorial from Moriazu on how to make a shaped onigiri! 

After that I added the details: straw-bear-ries, Italian cookies, Enjoy Life Chewy On-The-Go Bars Cocoa Loco -- 5 Bars, pretzels to make a fence and cheese flower to go with my soy sauce flavored bear. 

I hope you enjoyed my Bear Bento

 and now please click on the blog hop button to see what animal Obento Momma picked!

Happy World Animal Day!

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This is also my 100th post! 

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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 :)

        

Kitty Cat Snack

My daughter loves having special snacks and since we got the fabulous CuteZCute Animal Friends Cutter in the mail recently (review to follow) she wished for a Kitty Cat Lunch. I used the cutter to make a strawberry jelly bread sandwich and also added some grapes with bento picks. 

I really love how easy it was to make the cat and my daughter loved that it looked so cute!

I also made her a girl and her cat rice balls to complete her snack. I simply rolled some cooked white rice into balls and added seaweed decorations and a bow pick :)

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