Rover Fun Lunches

Today is the first day back after Spring break. Normally, my kids would be sad to leave vacation behind and head back to school but today they are just a little bit excited. Planetbox generously sent us two Rover lunchboxes and my kids cannot wait to take them to school today.

These fun magnets definitely help anyone to be cheery!

We packed one of the Rovers for my 4th Grader with:

• celery sticks with dip
• Crisp Thins 
• two mini Easter treats
• orange slices and
• left over spaghetti with tomatoes, mozarella, a little olive oil, salt and pepper.

The other Rover was packed for my middle schooler and filled with:

• a whole small apple
• Thin Crisps
• a small Easter treat
• cucumber and carrot slices
• a salami and lettuce sandwich on whole wheat

Monbento for Mama: Egg Avocado Sandwich

Monbento for Mama is back after Spring Break! We had a wonderful week and a lovely weekend and after enjoying many treats, I need to get back to eating better! I grabbed our Monbento Tresor for lunch today since it is a little bit smaller than my Monbento Original. It also has two separate containers which worked perfectly for today's lunch.

Packed for lunch in our Monbento Tresor are:

• a delicious Egg Avocado sandwich (I simply seasoned it with sea salt and pepper. No need for mayonaisse or any other spread) on whole wheat bread
• plain yogurt swirled with honey
• granola with a few blueberries

Happy Easter!

One more day until the Easter festivities start. My kids are so excited and are helping with the traditional carrot cake and Easter bread baking in the kitchen. To keep them happy, I packed lunches this morning, so they can eat when they are hungry.

Packed in our Planetbox Rover are:

• a mini chocolate bunny nestled in a handful of blueberries
• a peeled carrot
• Annie's Graham bunnies
• two mini chocolate eggs
• and a ham and cheese sandwich bunny with a cheese tail

Have a wonderful weekend! And Happy Easter from my family to yours!

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

Night Owl and Early Bird - a Literary Lunch

This lunch is also posted over at The Little Crooked Cottage as a Literary Lunch. Head over to the fabulous blog of four children's book authors and check out the wonderful Literary Interviews with Mr. Pig himself! 

Meet Early Bird and Night Owl, the wonderful stars of Toni Yuly's books. Early Bird likes to get up early and Night Owl loves to stay up late. Both books are beautifully illustrated with bright colors and clean shapes.

Early Bird tells the story of the search for breakfast early in the morning while emphasizing action words.

Night Owl, on the other side, emphasizes sound words and listening skills while telling the tales of one owl at night. No matter if your little one is an early Bird or Night Owl, they will surely enjoy these books!

Lunch for both early birds and night owls everywhere is packed in our ECOlunchbox:

• Night Owl's lunch includes blueberries and a peanut butter and almond Night Owl sandwich
• Early Bird's lunch includes blueberries as well (it has to be fair), a raspberry jelly Early Bird sandwich and of course an Early (Gummy) Worm

You can find the lunchbox and Toni Yuly's books on Amazon (contains affiliate links):

Lunch with Honest Fizz

I have to admit that even though I try to eat healthy, I often crave a soda midday. I love the Honest Fizz line of sodas since I don't have to feel guilty drinking one with lunch. They are now all organic and have zero calories! Plus, if you haven't tried the new Golden Ginger Ale, pick one up at the store! Instead of an almost non-existent ginger flavor of other soda brands, this new variety of Honest Fizz actually tastes like ginger! Perfect for a hot day!

We also love the other flavors of Honest Fizz and it's my go-to-treat when the soda craving sets in.

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Lunch is packed in our Easylunchboxes and includes:

• an Honest Fizz Ginger Ale
• cucumber and grape tomatoes
• a roll with liverwurst and lettuce 
• half an apple

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Monbento for Mama: Wontons

Mondays are always hard. Even though I have such great intentions on Sunday, when Monday morning comes along my tiredness almost always wins over the intentions. I focus on making sure my family leaves the house with healthy and fun lunches and when it's time to make lunch for myself - my lunch making skills seem to have left with the kids. However, today I decided that even if I have less time to make myself lunch it can still be healthy, colorful and fun.

My Monbento is packed with mini chicken and cilantro Wontons and a fun fruit salad. I stocked up on fruit at our local Costco on Friday and loved having a good selection of fruit on hand. I combined bananas, two kinds of apples, oranges and frozen dark cherries. A quick drizzle of honey and a few apple flowers completed today's lunch. 

Did you pack lunch for yourself today? I'd love to hear what you packed! Leave me a comment :)

Monbento for Mama: St. Patrick's Day Bento

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day so I could not pass up the chance to pack myself a St. Patrick's Day themed bento today! My husband's family is Irish and therefore corned beef, soda bread and Irish coffee (or coffee with Irish coffee creamer when St. Patrick's day falls on a week day like this year) are a must-have! My kids are not big fans of corned beef and cabbage so this year I simply bought corned beef cold cuts and will make a cole slaw instead of slaving over crockpot corned beef with cabbage.

My Monbento Original is packed with:

• Macaroni salad because I haven't made any cole slaw yet ;)
• a green salad with cucumbers and a cucumber clover 
• green grapes and
• a corned beef sandwich with mustard and lettuce on pumpernickel and rye bread

Happy St. Patrick's Day, folks! Sláinte!