Four Bento Lunches!

Today is the first day back to school after a four day weekend. I decided I wasn't really in the mood to be very creative. I just really wanted to throw lunches together quickly. So that's what I did. I made four simple lunches in twenty minutes. Yep. Twenty minutes! I pulled out the trusty sandwich cutters and made lunch.

  Lunch for the 11 year old. She has a ham sandwich, yogurt star cookies, cashews, carrots, cucumbers and a half of a clementine.

 
This is lunch for my niece. She has a cute flower sandwich, pretzels, star cookies, cucumbers, carrots, cucumbers and a half of a clementine.

This is a simple lunch for the boy. He has a P.B.&J. puzzle sandwich, pretzels, a half of a clementine and a yogurt smoothie drink.

This is lunch for my youngest. She has a princess frog ham sandwich, a half a clementine, a Babybell, star cookies, pretzels, sweet peppers, sugar snap peas, cucumbers and carrots.

This was lunch. It was simple and quick to make.

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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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Three Easy Lunches!

Today I packed for three. One is home feeling sickly. The girls all took super easy lunches today in our Easy Lunchboxes! Here's lunch!

 

Today the oldest (lower right) took bird shaped Nutella sandwiches, apples, grapes, broccoli, sugar snap peas and Annie's bunny grahams. The middle girl (lower left) took a P.B.&J. crown sandwich, apples, grapes, carrots and Annie's bunny grahams. The youngest (top) took a Nutella dog shaped sandwich, apples, grapes, broccoli, carrots and bunny grahams. I got the bird and dog shaped sandwich cutters from Target and you can find the crown one at Lunch Punch. They make packing a fast lunch so simple and cute! Hope you have a great day! Come back to see us!

 

 

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!