Easy Lunches!

Man, Oh man. This has a busy week. We had a couple of sick days, a day spent dealing with a broken wrist, a day getting the oldest girls homeschool plan strait and a snow day! Whew! What a week. I am saying T.G.I.F. tomorrow! I need a breather. We have been hoping around my house since the new year began. Hopefully I can get the schedule back in place next week. I also hope to bring Fandom Friday back next week. I do enjoy my geek inspired lunches. lol As well as my awesome fellow bloggers geek inspired lunches. Tomorrow the kids are buying lunch. Don't shoot me! Ha! Ha! Here are a few lunches from today.

This first lunch is for my 11 year old. She is in band so I thought the music notes added a nice touch. She has mini ham sandwiches, pretzel crisp, pineapple, grapes, carrots, cucumbers and mini all natural chocolate chip cookies.

My youngest girl requested a kitty cat lunch. She has a cat sandwich, pineapple, strawberries, carrots, pretzel crisp, mini yogurt star cookies and chocolate chip mini cookies.

 

This is lunch for the boy. He has a pepperoni star kabob, pretzel crisp, pineapple, grapes and mini chocolate chip cookies.                                                                                                                      

 

Have a great weekend!

 

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Back To School!

Every time I say the words Back To School I hear Adam Sandler singing in my head. It might be because when I say those words my hubby sings it out loud in his best Adam Sandler voice. Ha! Ha!
My kids go back to school in September so I have a little time left before my house is once again quiet and clean. Now I know what my grandmother meant when she said that silence was golden. It sure is. It is dang near priceless.
Today I want to share some of the things I use to pack lunch. The most important is a great lunchbox container(I have a few faves!) Also a durable lunch bag, silicone cupcake cups, a few cookie cutters and sandwich cutters. Sometimes I throw in a Lunchbox Love Note. Especially on the days I think the kids could use a laugh or a little encouragement. This year I also purchased two Thermos Funtainer food containers for the two older girls so they could have hot foods for lunch. My two younger children have access to a microwave so they don't need them yet. Let's get started.
Here are a few of my favorite lunch containers.

  These are my top picks. I use these the most when I pack lunch. The names of the boxes are from left to right. EasyLunchboxes, Authentic Japanese bento boxes, PlanetBox, LunchBots and the Goodbyn. At the bottom of this post I will give you links to each lunchbox. I have many lunchboxes for the kids and they love them all but these a definitely my go to lunchboxes.

 These are our new Thermos Funtainer food containers. These babies will keep foods piping hot for my girls on a cool day. I decided to go with plain pink but they come in many colors and lots of kid friendly designs.

 Now I have oodles of silicone cups from all kinds of places so these are just a few that we use regularly. They are a good size. About the size of a standard cupcake. They make packing a bento super easy and way cute.

  I also have hundreds of cookie cutters. (I make cookies too!) These are a few that I have had for years. The top cutters are LunchPunch sandwich cutters. These are super cute for any princess. They have several different designs to choose from. You can buy sandwich cutters from just about anywhere.

 

Here is a lunch I made this summer in a EasyLunchbox. I used my sweet new Cuddle Palz sandwich cutter.                                                                                                                                                      

 

Lunchtime doesn't have to take forever. You can pack a healthy and cute meal in minutes. I usually pack four in around twenty. That's with no prep work. My kids love these lunches and YES they do eat better since we bento. YES they do try new foods that they wouldn't try before! NO it doesn't take loads of time to make a lunch like this one. If you can use a cookie cutter and a knife you can make a cute bento lunch. Not that a cookie cutter is necessary for a bento lunch. Putting foods together to make them look appetizing is the only real skill you need.  As for that famous saying sweeping the internet" Ain't nobody got time for that.", that's rubbish because guess what? I am very busy and I can find 20 minutes in my day to pack a cute and healthy lunch. That is one thing I do have time for. I hope you found a few back to school ideas from this post. As always, Come back and stay tuned for what happens next!                  

 

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Cuddle Palz Review!

It's my very first review and I have an awesome product to share with you! Last weekend I received the brand spankin new Cuddle Palz cutter by CuteZCute. I will tell you that this cutter is so adorable. Get one of these and you will be making the cutest sammies in town. Your kiddos will be the envy of the lunchroom. Today I put this little gem to the test and made three different sandwiches for my youngest kids. We used our EasyLunchboxes for the lunches.

This little cutie is for my ten year old. I used the bear head cutter and made a simple little sandwich. I added a pretty red bow, Just because. To use up the leftover bread I also made three mini bear sandwiches. She had ham on the sandwiches, cucumbers, cashews, grapes and a few chips.

In this lunch I made a tiger ham sandwich for my youngest girl. She also has sweet peppers, cucumbers, a cheese stick, grapes and chips.

 

I made this cute little hamster pocket sammie for the boy. I added a top hat food pick for flare. I can totally get away with the cuteness when he is at home. Ha! Ha! He also has grapes and chips.         

 

The Cuddle Pals Sandwich cutter did not dissapoint. This simple sandwich cutter is the most versatile yet and has the same great quality that CuteZCute is known for. It has over 40 different ways to create a unique sandwich. You can also use the cutter for cheese, lunchmeat, rice,fruit and veggies. Not to mention you can also use the cutter to make cookies and shape fondant! It is a great value! Don't just take my word for it! Get your own and try out your own combinations. Believe me you will glad you did!     

                                                                                                                                    

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3 Tools, 4 Bloggers on Wendolonia!

This week I participated in an awesome post hosted by the lovely Wendy of Wendolonia. It shows how four different bloggers take the same three tools and create a bento lunch. What an awesome idea! We get to show you how four different people can take the same three tools and make completely different lunches. I love how it shows the versatility of our bento tools and the creativeness of my fellow bloggers. You are in for a treat today so don't forget to pop over to Wendolonia and check out all the awesome lunches today. Here is my lunch from 3 tools, 4 bloggers. Enjoy!

My three tools consisted of the Planetbox Rover, CuteZCute Animal Palz cutter set and alphabet food picks.

 

In this lunch I packed. Cute little sheep ham sandwiches made with my Animal Palz set, sweet pepper rings, carrots, cantaloupe, watermelon and blueberries. I also packed a Babybell cheese and barbeque waffle chips. What a yummy lunch!                                                                                                         

You can find the food picks and Animal Palz cutters at All Things For Sale by clicking on the add in   the upper right hand corner of this post. You can order the Planetbox from Amazon by clicking on the Planetbox picture below or the link for Amazon in the upper right hand corner. I really enjoyed           participating in this post. I hope you enjoyed it also!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                            

Simple Lunches In Our New Lunchbots!

Happy Monday all! We received two brand new Lunchbots lunch boxes over the weekend. I am very excited about these lunch boxes. We have wanted to get them for awhile now. They are stainless steel and very durable. Today we used them both for lunch and the kids were so excited to take them to school and show all their friends.

This is lunch for the boy. He has a pepperoni and deli pretzel kabob, a mandarin orange, grapes and pineapple(in the small dipper from Lunchbots). He also has cheese crackers and Spiderman grahams.

This is lunch for the middle girl. She has a ham frog princess sandwich, a mandarin orange, grapes, carrots and cucumbers. She also has pretzels and Annie's bunny grahams.

 

This is lunch for the youngest girl. She has a ham sandwich, carrot sticks, cucumbers, sweet pepper rings, a mandarin orange and grapes. She also has bunny grahams and pretzels.

 

Todays lunch was so easy and really simple to make cute. Enjoy the rest of your day!

The Princess And The Pea!

T.G.I.F. everyone. I for one am so glad it is Friday. It has been a long week full of illnesses here at my house. I can go for sleeping in tomorrow. At least for a little bit. I only had to make lunch today. The three youngest are buying today. I used our new Lunch Punches for todays lunch.

 

 

This is lunch for the oldest. She has a Nutella sandwich shaped like a crown. She also has sugar snap peas, sweet pepper rings and grapes. Also she has mini deli pretzels and an apple cereal bar.

 

This lunch took about ten minutes and it was worth it to see her face light up. Have a great weekend!

New Bento Boxes!

Good morning. Hope you are having an awesome day! The kids got to take new bento boxes to school today. We got our shipment in from All Things For Sale and the kids couldn't wait to use the fun stuff we got. Check them out.(link on the right side of page)

This is lunch for the 10 year old. She has mini ham sammies, grapes, cucumbers, sunflower seeds and a side salad. She also has Annie's bunny grahams.

This is lunch for the oldest. She has mini ham sammies, a orange, grapes, broccoli, cucumbers, sweet pepper rings and sugar snap peas. She also has mini deli pretzels.

This is lunch for the boy. He has a pepperoni monster sandwich, oranges and grapes. He also has pretzels and cheese crackers.

 

This is lunch for the youngest girl. She loved these boxes. She has ham roll-ups, broccoli, carrots, sugar snap peas, cucumbers and sweet pepper rings. She also has grapes and mini deli pretzels.

 

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Friday Lunches!

Good morning all! T.G.I.F.! Todays lunches are super cute and super simple. I spent very little time making them.

This is lunch for the middle girl. I packed it in our Goodbyn Bento box. She has ham rolls, a tossed salad, cucumber slices, carrots and grapes. She also has pistachios, a Annie's Homegrown chocolate chip granola bar and Annie's Homegrown bunny snack mix.

 

This is lunch for the youngest girl. She has ham rolls, grapes, cucumber slices and sweet pepper rings. She also has pistachios, Annie's Homegrown bunny snack mix and an Annie's Homegrown chocolate chip granola bar. 

 

 

This is lunch for the oldest girl. She has ham rolls, grapes, sweet pepper rings, sugar snap peas and a couple of cucumber slices. She also has pistachios, a Annie's Homegrown granola bar and bunny snack mix.

 

This is lunch for the boy. He has Earths Best mini meatballs(from the freezer section), a mandarin orange and grapes. He also has pretzel wheels and Apple Newton's.

 

You can find the Easy Lunchboxes and shaped silicone cups at Amazon. Just click the link to Amazon in the upper right hand corner of the page and it takes you there. Yu can also find the small silicone cups and some of the food picks at All Things For Sale. The link is also at the upper right hand corner of the page!