St. Patrick's Day disappointment (Bento #15)

     Ok, well St Patrick's day came and went and I failed to make a green-themed lunch or cute little shamrock sandwiches. I guess you can shoot me now.
     I am beginning to think about spring and Easter themed bentos and have a few cute ideas. For now, this will just have to do!

     This bento is packed in Nico's Fuel-brand sandwich box. It's nice and roomy and as you can see, it holds quite a bit of food! This one is an army green color.

     In this bento he has a chicken leg (wax paper around it to keep hands cleaner), baby carrots, grapes, ranch dip for his carrots, a strawberry-flavored Danonino yogurt cup, and a Minute Maid juice box.

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! :)

That always makes me happy!

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!

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.

Simple bento (Bento #2)

This is a simple, FAST bento that I did for Nico. He has ham & cheese triangles, a peeled cutie orange, marshmellows on a sword, penguin crackers, celery sticks with peanut butter and craisens, baby carrots, and broccoli with a container of ranch dressing. I think I packed way too much food for him, but he ate most all of it!

Makes a momma proud!