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Thanks so much for joining in last week, if you did, and looking forward to seeing all the fun lunches this week!Want to join in?Just choose a bento (please, just one bento or post or link) you've made from the last week you want to share, copy the URL of that post from your blog (you may need to click on the title to get it), and enter it into the linky below.Click on the "Add Your Link" button t
Another day, another field trip at our house! This time, Faith was off to the North Pole Amusement Park as a special end of the year 5th grade trip that the kids had to earn. She had the option between a regular or a disposable lunch, but I figured she'd rather not have to carry the containers around all day in her little backpack. I used a spare blueberry container, and since sh
Ben had his end of the year field trip to Garden of the Gods today. Since I got to be one of the parent chaperones, we were able to skip the disposable lunch and just use a recyclable one. It's always my preference and since I had my bag to carry things, we went with disposable. I originally had packed this lunch for Faith, but had to switch at the last minute, so switched out th
Today, Faith has her 5th grade wax museum project! The kids drew names for their characters and she got Rosa Parks. She loved learning about her, I bought her a great new book, she designed trading cards which I had printed, created an activity book that I had bound, created a Prezi, and made her own comic strip, plus her essay, speech and costume. Because of this, I was iffy on how mu
Or basically me thinking "Oh, I need a good picture, where are the darn cookie cutters?"On the plus side, Faith has always been fascinated with Egypt, hence her love of camels, and Ben will be at a 3 week Ancient Egypt day camp at Colorado College this summer, so it's not a bad theme.Both kids have the same lunch--ham and cheese sandwich on whole wheat rounds, topped with a cheddar camel, vanilla
Every mom knows that their kids probably need more fruits and vegetables in their diets, but it’s not always as easy as just putting an extra vegetable dish on the dinner table. Even for many adults, it can be difficult to get in the 5+ recommended servings. Add to that switches to healthier grains, lean meats, and more, and meals can seem like a huge challenge. Join me over at Van's Natural Foods
F&B love their corndog muffins and each time I post them, I have people asking me for details, so thought I'd combine all my previous posts and ideas about them into one more detailed one! Muffin Size vs Hot Dog Choices:First, decide if you want regular sized muffins or mini muffins, it does make a difference!With mini muffins, you can make the cute sized ones with a large piece of hot dog in
After a weekend that involved camping with the Girl Scouts, my inspiration for a lunch today was about nil. So I dipped into the freezer stash and the fridge stash and grabbed a few elephant picks for my elephant loving boy, and called it a day! Ben has a corndog muffin, which is the last of those, a cutie orange, sliced strawberries and animal crackers (with the elephant one placed predominantly
You know, with a 7 year old boy, we just had to have a Star Wars Day lunch! Ben also desperately wanted to make Star Wars cookies, like last year, but besides Star Wars Day, it's also district Pinewood Derby Day and Spartan Race day and GS campout day, so one lunch is all I can handle!The boy has two ham and cheese sandwiches on honey wheat, cut into Yoda (my favorite) and TIE fighter (becau
It's one of those simple lunch kind of days. This week has involved Faith's math team competition and a lot of prep for her GS campout this weekend. Her Junior troop is earning their Bronze Award by taking a Brownie troop camping, and there has been bits & pieces to do to get ready for that. No week would be complete without utter craziness on the weekend (the husband has the Spart
As you might know, I've been lucky enough to be working with Van's Natural Foods for the last few months, contributing on their blog as a writer. One of the perks of that was getting to try out their new gluten-free snack bars, cereals and crackers before they hit the shelves. All were met with F&B approval, which can be somewhat hard to obtain!Van's offered me a chance to share some coupons
Do you ever feel like you're in a breakfast rut?We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but some mornings, it feels like it should be an option! Two tired kids, little time, all that jazz, and we're grabbing bagels or cereal. Weekends are a bit better, but weekdays, the quick and easy breakfast meal rules. I've even hit the point of making/sending breakf
Yesterday was Day 4 of our packing ahead week and also our last day. Because of the kids' theater schedule, we opted for the 4 day week as I think they are having pizza before their last daytime rehearsal today. Plus, the 4 day week seems to make a lot of sense, as I know quite a few people who do "Make 4 days, buy 1" deals with their kids. And it's pretty easy to just add one mo
Day three of our second make ahead lunch week on Wednesday and I realized how much I appreciate not getting up and making lunches in the mornings. For that matter, I also enjoy not having to think the night before either. These may not be the fanciest bentos I have ever made, but the convenience is quite unparalleled.Today, the kids opted for bagels with strawberry cream cheese, boiled
It's Day 2 this week and already feeling a bit crazy. It's definitely weird having the kids gone close to 12 hours. Thankfully, it's only for this week and they are both really excited about it.Today, the kids have mini corndog muffins that I made the other night, along with a mini-dipper of ketchup for a dipping sauce. To the side, they had vanilla yogurt with blueberries and sl
Starting another week and trying another group of make-ahead lunches. F&B tried out for a play today and both got parts, so you all may be seeing some bento dinners this week too. Their school brings in a theater group and they do a weeklong, fairly intensive workshop, then put on the play Friday evening. Both kiddos will be at school till around 7pm each evening. Because the kids wanted eg
Today is Day 4 of Pack Ahead Bento Week and it's also our last day. F&B are off school tomorrow for a teacher workday, so no lunch has been packed. However, I've heard a lot of people mention that they let their kids have pizza Fridays or something similar at school, so the 4 days packed, 1 day other works quite well!Because this was the 4th meal of the week, I knew I didn't want a
It's Day 3 of Pack Ahead Bento Week and everything has been going rather swimmingly. (Which is a rather appropriate term, given the theme of today's lunch.) The kids have said both of the previous days food has been just the same as normal, which is another plus to the Easy Lunchboxes. It seems no different than storing the cut fruits, veggies or muffins in regular sealed contain
Day 2 of Pack Ahead Bento Week is upon us! One thing I did want to make sure was to alternate lunches enough that it wasn't 5 days of nearly identical sandwiches or muffins or any one kind of lunch. Packing ahead actually made me more aware of it, I think, by seeing all the boxes lined up on the table. I moved items from box to box to come up with a good mix each day. Even in the
This is something I've been wanting to try for awhile, packing lunches on Sunday night for the whole week, and this week, I finally went ahead with it!F&B have a 4 day school week, which meshes well with what I hear a lot of people say--pack 4 lunches, pick a hot lunch on the 5th day. On the other hand, by the time you've packed 4 days of lunches, what's one more? To keep things si
There are definitely occasions where lunches are not pretty around here, especially when it comes time to use up the leftovers.We were skiing last weekend and went to a great little Italian place that did brick oven pizzas for dinner. Our waitress told us we could do a kids' portion of their pizzas, which seemed perfect for F&B, but still came with a ton of leftovers, so we ended up bringing
Ben had a field trip today, so we had a fun round of "Same lunch, different containers!" He needed a more disposable lunch, so he didn't have to schlep his lunch bag around on the field trip, whereas Faith was at school, so any container was fine. Since I knew this trip was coming up, I saved a takeout container from the last week, washed out the inside and reused it. (It only held a
Without spending tons of money! This cute lunch was created for Van's Natural Foods blog, featuring their new gluten-free cheese crackers, along with using cookie cutters and picks from the dollar stores. A cute lunch doesn't have to involve pricey bento tools!Come check out the lunch on Van's for lots more details!
It's time for #UBP13! For those playing along at home, that would be Ultimate Blog Party 2013.While I've played along several times, it has almost always been with my personal blog, but since there is a category for specialty blogs (like food, beauty, decor), I really wanted to include this one too. However, my brilliant "I should make a themed lunch for this" plan failed when I
Faith had her Battle of the Books practice meet yesterday! Basically, there are 40 books for each team of 4 to read, then they answer trivia type questions on them. They can discuss with their teammates and the group submits one answer per question. So far, Faith has read 25 of the 40, and hoping to get a few more done before the real competition. She has also reread several too, to make sure
Like most others, I'm sure, we have a plethora of Easter leftovers right now, including quite a bit of ham and boiled eggs. Despite finding a smaller ham in the 7lb range, it appears as if no one in our house actually ate any. My plans include split pea soup with the ham bone, some sandwiches, and some new ideas, especially the mini-pies today!My friend Kelly from EasyLunchboxes shared an Imposs
March features lots of fun ideas for food this year--St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Dr. Seuss's birthday, and more. What could be more fun for kids than green eggs and ham? Just add spinach or other green veggies, or even a drop or two of food coloring! And don't forget coloring Easter eggs or making fun cupcakes--marshmallow bunnies and chicks make awesome toppers. And there's alway
The other day, I made Ben a piggie shaped sandwich and he had commented that it looked like it could be an Angry Bird pig. I promised him I'd see what I could do about making it an actual Angry Bird pig and this bento was born. Ben has two Angry Birds sandwiches--one King Pig and one regular, along with blackberries, blueberries and some veggie straws. He also took a Greek yogurt for s
Or maybe, it's a Soft Kitty bento? I do love Big Bang Theory, and my CutezCute cutter did make a perfect little kitty for Miss Faith today.Faith has her kitty sandwich--ham, cheese and honey wheat bread, with a cheddar flower, cut with the CutezCute cutter (which is currently one of my favorite bento tools, extra cute with little work). To go with her sandwich, she has strawberries, a cutie
I do love a good challenge, especially lunch related ones. Jennifer, from Crunch a Color, offered a healthy lunch challenge to bloggers, creating a fun, colorful meal that incorporated her game. The specifics? A protein, a healthy grain, and at least three colors of fruits and veggies. Challenge accepted!F&B and I talked about a few different ideas and decided to pick o
We're definitely not anti-treat in this house! I bake for F&B a lot or try to find treats that aren't too junk-filled. One of our favorite options have always been veggie chips or veggie straws.And that's where Green Giant's Giant Surprise comes in. They now have a line of veggie chips too and we got to sample them! We received a bag of the Green Giant™ Roasted Veggie
I've got two specific bento related projects to work on this week, so did not want to have to make a fancy Monday morning bento too. Plus a few items (the last few strawberries, for instance) needed to be saved for those projects, so we need something easy, quick and low on the required ingredients list.So for an easy Monday morning, we opted for corn dog muffins from our freezer stash, a cu
While the plague is going through my house, I was trying to figure out what to do blogwis. My awesome friend Cristi from BentOnBetterLunches offered to share a guest post for me because she is a wonderful person!I'm so berry thrilled to be here! No, seriously, wordplay aside, it's truly an honour to be guest posting at What's For Lunch At Our House, one of my own inspirations for bento & blogg
Despite the fact that my kids are now 10 and 7, I really really wanted the Sesame Street cookie cutters from Williams-Sonoma. When they went on sale for $6ish with free shipping, I finally ordered them. They arrived, Faith took one look at them and said "You *have* to make me a Cookie Monster sandwich!!!"Well then, that worked out perfectly! She also popped into the kitchen to help out, al
February is Idaho Potato Lovers Month!Besides a tasty side dish, baked potatoes can be a yummy and easy dinner. It's often one of our favorite choices for a quick weeknight meal. (You can either place potatoes in a crockpot for day long baking or pierce them with a fork and nuke them to bake, both plans cut down on the prep time.)Besides bacon, of course, one of our favorite baked pota
I'm on Van's again today, this time showcasing their new yummy gluten-free snack bars! And what can you do with a snack bar? Well, it makes a great palm tree trunk! Check out the full post on Van's for lots of details as to how you can make your own.As for the adorable sandwich presses, you can find them right here on All Things for Sale!
It was Kung Fu Panda lunch time for the boy the other day. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the box closed since it is a Kung Fu Panda box. Inside was full of other panda themed goodies. Ben had a panda sandwich--ham and cheese on honey wheat, cut with a CutezCute cutter. Because of the size, I was able to save the bread edges to make egg in a hole on the weekend. To go w
Snow day today in Colorado Springs! Not only are the kids off, but the husband is home too. All non-essential personnel got a day off, so he's been here too. Of course, I have two semi-disappointed kids. They have enjoyed playing in the snow with their friends and Dante-puppy, but they are upset at Double AR Point Night being cancelled (both have been saving up books for tonight, they are #1 a
