Panda Bento (Bento #12)

This is a panda bear sandwich filled with Nutella, 3 red, ripe strawberries, pistachios, and a boiled egg shaped as a fishy.

 



This lunch came back clean! :)

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Piggie bento (Bento #11)

Nico's bento lunch today consists of a ham and cheese piggie sandwich, mini carrot flowers, boiled egg in the shape of a car, 2 peanut butter patty cookies, and a small banana.

 

The piggie was made with my CutezCute cutter.

Wings and things (Bento #10)

This is yet another simple bento type lunch for Nico. He loves wings and since we had some leftover they went in his box!

Here you see 4 chicken wings, strawberries, broccoli, and cheese cubes. All the required foods for a balanced meal! Protein, fruit, vegetable, and dairy.

Not a cupcake kind of day (Bento #9)

There are days that I really feel like making bento lunches and then there was a day like today.

I had no plans of making Nico's lunch this morning, but he asked me to. Since I had time I agreed.
I compare making the "cute" bentos to decorating cupcakes. It's not something you mind doing but also it's not something you want to have to do everyday! Most days that Nico gets a bento it is average like this one. Simple foods that I have on hand here at home. Let's break this bento down.

In this bento, Nico had 4 cooked chicken nuggets, a mushroom sliced in half, 2 carrot/cucumber "flowers", a "bunny" apple wedge, a babybel cheese, and some minature chocolate chip bears. He had BBQ sauce on the side for his nuggets. Easy peasy and took maybe 7-8 minutes to put together!

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Which came first? (Bento #8)

The all-time pondered question... I would say the chicken, not the egg!
Here are some lunches I made with both! Chicken and the egg.

The first bento would be Nate's lunch. The following is Luis' lunch. I used leftover chicken tenders and nuggets from yesterdays dinner for the salads.

 

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No bento box

Wouldn't you know that I found myself without a clean box for my lunch. No worries though! This a regular pyrex dish with a plastic lid that works great! The trick is making sure your food is packed tightly so that it doesn't shift around alot with movement.

I had a grilled chicken breast cut into strips, potato salad (laden with vegetables), kiwi fruit, and 2 small boiled eggs.

Valentine bentos (Bento 6 & 7)

Today for valentines day, I made the boys a bento for lunch.

This was Nate's lunch: a ham sandwich with heart cut-out, cheese hearts, strawberry hearts, marshmellows with hearts (made from fruit roll-ups) and pasta salad. I included the monkey pick that I got from Hobby Lobby in their baking section.

This was Nico's lunch: ham sanwich cut from heart shaped cutter, cheese hearts, pasta salad, strawberry hearts, and marshmellows with fruit rollup hearts. I used another monkey pick in the sandwich. I used fondant cutters to cut out the letters.

I need to work on filling in those extra spaces around the food. Oh well, they both thanked me and gave me hugs and kisses so I dont think they minded at all.

Puppy love (Bento #5)

I was inspired to make Nico a puppy bento. All you need is a heart shaped cookie cutter! The puppy is decprated with sugar eyes and raisens. He has marshmellows, blue greek yogurt (sweetned with blue raspberry Torani syrup), cucumbers, and a sliced apple!

He didnt touch his yogurt today and it got totally nasty by the time he got home from school! Everything else he ate.

Angry Bird? Well sort of... (Bento #4)

Andrew (my third son) asked for a bento today, which is a rarity, since it's not always "cool" in high school to eat cute stuff. I made this for him. I have threatened to make a Hello Kitty version bento for him, but in a house full of boys I cant justify buying Hello Kitty for any reason!

He has a ham and cheese sandwich, an angry bird "piggy" sandwich from PB&J, nutter butters, a fruit roll-up, almonds, a mandarin, and carrots and cucumbers.

Keep in mind that he is in high school and had a big appetite.

Mom deserves a bento too!

Sometimes the kiddos just want to eat at school so I won't bother fixing lunch for them. Its days like that when I will sometimes throw together stuff for myself or Luis. I had yummy leftovers so I decided to fix a bento for myself too!

I had hot wings, celery sticks, a cup of ranch to dip my wings & celery in, fiesta dip (which ROCKS by the way), an apple and 2 mini cookies. Needless to say I ate really well! LOL