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February 12, 2014

Secret Valentine

I played not-so-secret admirer today of the kiddo, so that she could have a fun Valentine’s Day lunch. This year our school has Friday off, so no Valentine’s Day lunch for her 😛 Boo! Hearts and love earlier in the week instead!

In this lunch:

Main PB&J on whole wheat “conversation” heart
Sides Cherry tomato hearts and strawberries. Also, secret message banana. I recently got a cookie cutter set with the ability to set custom letters and I used them to write her a message in her banana. By the time it gets to lunch, the message will be much darker. So fun! So this was my big debut with the cookie cutters.
Also included but not pictured Yogurt

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Today we are a part of a Valentine’s day hop with the Bento Bloggers and Friends! Hop on over to the next blog for more Valentine’s Day goodness!

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January 31, 2014

The Year of the Horse

Yesterday’s bento celebrated today’s Chinese New Year. Gung hay fat choi! It’s the year of the horse!

Here’s the lunch:

Main PB&J on wheat (crust for the dark part), M&M eyes, nori hair
Sides oranges, strawberries, trail mix
Also included (but not pictured) yogurt

Products included coming soon!

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January 17, 2014

Have a Henry Hugglemonster Day!

Yesterday, I made a My Little Pony bento for my oldest kiddo and my younger kiddo (who stayed home from preschool) complained that I only make “pretty lunches” for her sister. It’s true, I do only do them for the first grader, but mainly because preschool gives her lunch on the days she goes! But she was home, and she begged for a pretty lunch and to help make it. Trying to keep her entertained, I gave in 🙂

She had been watching Henry Hugglemonster and I suggested that as a theme. She was unsure but I thought she would like the turkey and cheese sandwich (something my other kiddo is only marginally ok with — she’s really a PB&J lover). So we started and this is what we came up with. I think it’s pretty close!

Main Open faced turkey sandwich with cheddar cheese. I don’t have an oval cutter that big so I flexed a circle cutter just enough to make the cut and then eased it back into shape. The horns were made from blue star-shaped marshmallows and the dots on the ends of the big horns are large dot sprinkles (the greenish parts are colored on with yellow foodwriter pen to make it a soft green). I used turkey for the whites of the eyes, the teeth, and the eye highlights, and blueberries for the pupils. His nose is just the end of a baby carrot.
Sides Carrots, oranges, blueberries and pistachios

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December 19, 2013

Santa Claus Bento

Today’s bento is Santa themed! I had to slip at least one Santa in there before the holidays, as I’ve not been up on my holiday themed lunches this year as I have in the past. It’s been a very busy holiday season! It has a little more sugar than I usually put in, but I guess it’s ok once in a while. Anyhow, I’m participating in another blog hop today so after you’re done perusing around here, check out Eats Amazing’s amazing Santa lunch!

In today’s lunch:

Main PB&J as usual! Beard is made of vanilla frosting, and the hat is a fruit roll up. I made little cuts in mini marshmallows for the pompon and the hat trim; also, holly sprinkles and charcoal round sprinkles for eyes.
Sides Pomegranate seeds and edamame, reindeer cookies (can you spot Rudolph?), the North Pole sign is just a marshmallow on a paper straw with frosting for the snow/icicles. The writing is made with a food marker.
Also included (but not pictured) yogurt

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Now hop on over to Eat’s Amazing and check out another Santa Claus that’s coming to town!

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November 25, 2013

Movember

This was a lunch from earlier in the month. I should’ve posted it earlier but it’s been such a busy month what with coming off of Halloween and going into Thanksgiving! Anyhow, here is a mustachioed lunch in the middle of Movember.

Main PB&J on white and wheat
Sides Grapes and string cheese
Also included (but not pictured) Graham crackers

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November 14, 2013

Penguin Bento

Today’s bento theme was penguins… just because 🙂 It’s getting chillier out and it reminds me of cold and so on and so forth and then — penguins.

I’m kind of excited today because I just received my new Easy Lunch Boxes 😀 So nice and sturdily built. They are able to carry large portions (like full sandwiches in the main compartment and then some) and so don’t fit in our usual thermos lunch bag but do in another lunchbag we had. That lunchbag makes the whole thing stand upright and I hope the penguins make it to lunch, lol.

In today’s bento:

Main PB&J. The black part is nori, which might be eaten by my kiddo or might not (peeled off first). We shall see. The beak is an orange large circle sprinkle cut in a pie slice shape and the eyes are black flat circle sprinkles.
Sides Grapes, marshmallow “ice bergs” and some yogurt covered raisin “snowballs”

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November 8, 2013

On the Road Bento

Today’s bento is On the Road themed 🙂 Transportation is on my mind lately because my city’s roads are being all re-done and the city figures that the best way to do it is all at the same time :-/ which for me is totally inconvenient, as going somewhere usually takes twice as long because of all the stops. Traffic gripes aside, here’s the bento!

Main PB&J sandwiches, stacked two up
Sides Mandarins, string cheese, black grapes, and three M&Ms
Also included (but not pictured) yogurt

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November 7, 2013

Safari Bento

Today’s bento is safari themed 🙂 I found these Kinder hippos over the weekend and it inspired me to do a fun little bento today. I think the picks pull it together thematically and I absolutely love how the monkey mini sandwiches fit into a Quad Lunchbot!

It was much loved in the morning when I showed it to the kiddos.

Main PB&J Monkeys
Sides Sun gold tomatoes fresh from our garden, red grapes and a Kinder hippo for dessert
Also included (but not pictured) yogurt

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November 2, 2013

Dia de los Muertos

I don’t often wax poetic on this blog, simply because it is a crafty blog and I mainly want to focus on the important stuff — the crafting! But I think this one lunch might just need it.

I am hispanic. Latina, some term it. I am Peruvian. We don’t generally celebrate Day of the Dead. However, in the recent years as I’ve seen some of the older generation in my life pass on, I’ve often thought Dia de los Muertos made so much sense. A time to think about and remember our dearly departed. A time for memories, but also a time for love. It’s to remember the love. I saw this a few days back:

This video spoke to me. I have a daughter (I actually have two daughters) and I would want her (them) to have her good memories about me and to remember how much love we shared. I would want her to light a candle on the Day of the Dead (on November first, which is my birthday). I would want something like this beautiful little film for her. To remember the silly fruit her mama would carve for her for lunch. To remember the way we were together.

This year I volunteered at her school for their Halloween activities. And inspired by the love in that film, I went dressed like this:

I hope she liked it 🙂

In this bento:

Main PB&J with laffy taffy, starburst and tootsie roll details. I also used candy eyes for the girl.
Sides Some hidden grapes and mandarin oranges along with wafer roses that I bought in Italy for no particular reason — now I know why!
Also included (but not pictured) yogurt

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October 19, 2013

A Casual Halloween Bento

That BBF hop yesterday was where all my creativity went 😉 Today’s Halloween lunch was a little more casual. A frog witch, who actually kind a looks like a sorcerer, a mallowcreme jack-o’-lantern, and some ghost chips were all that I could muster 😉 stay tuned for some more fun Halloween bentos next week though!

Main PB&J with green peanut butter! I put a few drops of food coloring into the peanut butter to make it green. Maybe to make it look a little more froggy. Or maybe a little more witchy.
Sides ghost potato chips, trail mix with a mallowcreme jack-o’-lantern on top. I quickly drew a face on the mallowcreme pumpkin with an edible food marker.
Also included (but not shown) A kiwi and grape salad.

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