Smile - it's Friday

Today's lunch is a quick and simple again :)

A sandwich decorated with Nutella and white chcocolate chips to make a face, three yoghurt star cookies, 1/2 an apple with letter cinnamon cookies that spell HI and a mini cereal bar :)

One of my other kids wanted kid shushi. So I made Nutella, Jelly and Turkey with celery and carrot ones. All you do is roll a piece of bread flat with a rolling pin or glass, fill, roll and cut in about 1/3 :)
There is a great How-To make Kid Sushi over at MommyGoggles :)
I also backed a muffin cup with granola and decorated it with white chocolate chips, Nutella and a carrot mouth. There is also a kid energy bar, veggie sticks and cinnamon cookies. A snack lunch with a smile :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

I am so glad it's Friday ;)

To Each Their Own

My kids figured out very quickly yesterday that sandwiches decorated with melted chocolate are something very yummy and asked last night what else I can make besides faces.

Well, I decided to make everyone their very own special sandwich after hearing all their suggestions.

Son #1 who plays the cello got this Cello Lunch. I cut the cello shape out of bread and decorated it with strings by using melted chocolate and a sandwich bag. I cut one of the edges off the sandwich bag, filled it with melted chocolate and decorated away. After the chocolate set I pasted it with more melted chocolate onto a separate sandwich and sealed the edges with more chocolate. I also packed a lunch box size cereal bar, a Jo Jo cookie from Trader Joe's and a white yogurt star cookie. To balance off all this chocolate I also added 1/2 an apple stenciled out with a small moon shaped cheese cutter. Not shown in the picture is ice water and a yogurt :)

Son #2 is a huge Batman fan and got this Batman lunch. I used more of the melted chocolate to draw on the Batman sign and he brought just as his brother a cereal bar, two cookies and 1/2 an apple. Ice water and a yogurt were in the lunch bag.

Son #3 loves trucks and I made him a Recycling Truck Lunch. After drawing the Recycling truck, I added a robot bento pick to make sure the truck had a driver :) He also has the same cereal bar, two cookies and apple and of course ice water and yogurt.

For my daughter I made a Flower lunch. I drew the flower with the rest of the chocolate and added an unpacked cereal bar at the bottom of the sandwich for soil. She brought also some yoghurt star cookies and loved that they were pink and purple :) The cookies are from Trader Joe's and have no artificial food coloring which I love! To round up her lunch I made her apple fries with a cute flower and bee pick :)

Happy Thursday to all of you!

Faces

I made two different face lunches today. One very simple and one healthy.

This one is just very simplistic. I cut out the bread with a wide rim glass but a round cookie cutter works great, too. Then I drew on the face with some left over melted chocolate I had and let it dry for about 2-3 minutes in the freezer. I also packed strawberries and Veggie Straws :)

The lunch here has also Veggie Straws and Strawberries but I added blueberries on some simple bento picks and a lunchbox size cereal bar. The sandwich is cut with a square sandwich cutter and the face is held together with more bento picks. The eyes are blueberries, the hair Veggie Straws and the mouth is a piece of carrot :) I did not intend this but you can see some salad peeking out on the side that nearly looks like the ears of the face :)

Let's Go to School

We were running late this morning and a school bus lunch seemed to be fitting :)


The first lunch has little school bus sandwiches and Trader Joe's Schoolbook cookies to spell BUS, grapes with car bento picks and peanuts with white chocolate chips.

The second lunch has little school bus sandwiches with Trader Joe's Schoolbook cookies spelling ABC, Trader Joe's cheese puffs and Trail mix. Both kids also have ice water and yoghurt today :)

Happy Tuesday!

The Princess and the Cat

My daughter had been asking me for a while for a Princess Bento and I finally found some cute crown bento picks and today was the day. She helped me in the kitchen and told me all about the princess. Her beautiful hair, her crown, her lipstick and of course the royal cat. Mhmm ;) I love talking to my daughter and hearing all her cute stories!

So I tried hard to make the princess - and her cat. The sandwich is a Nutella sandwich cut into a circle with a glass. Her hair are carrot shavings and she has a fruit strip and sprinkle hairclip. Her eyes are food gel and her lips (of course she is wearing lipstick) are made out of fruit strip, too.

 I am not really good at making animals so I added some Trader Joe's Cat Chocolate cookies to represent the royal cat and some grapes with carrot and fruit strip flowers to make a garden.

Enjoy your Friday! Happy Weekend!

First Day of Spring

Hooray for the first day of Spring!

We only packed snack today since two of the kids are home but I got to use our new butterfly snack box :)

 There are ladybugs and bees and of course lots of flowers. I used the garden bento picks which included bees, ladybugs and daisies to decorate the blueberries and strawberries. Of course we needed a jelly bunny sandwich which is nestled on some butter salad grass with carrot and cheese flowers inmidst more jelly flower sandwiches, making the snack box look like a spring garden.

Enjoy the weather today and Happy Spring,

Under The Sea

I found some cute Underwater creature cupcake picks and some new cookie cutters at the store this weekend and had to of course try them out today :)

I packed some Vanilla Goldfish cookies with a cute Turtle pick, some Strawberry Fig Newtons sand dunes with a Octopus pick and made a Whale Nutella Sandwich with a blueberry and bread crust eye and a bread crust smile on blueberry waves.

Happy Monday,

P.S. I have to apologize for the picture quality. I used my phone since my camera has gone missing ;)