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Bent On Better Lunches

Chronicling my efforts to provide nutritious, affordable, and enjoyable portable lunches for my picky sproutlets.
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05/22/2013 03:38 PM
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There's something fishy about our FunBites :)

Yesterday FunBites unveiled their newest shape - triangles! Confession: I already have one! FunBites sent me mine in advance, to take a few pictures for them, but I couldn't post anything I made with them until they were officially revealed :) My little girls love "fishies" so of course that shape jumped right out at them and they wanted fishy snacks.You can make 2 complete fish shapes from o

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05/20/2013 02:42 PM
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Mia Made Lunch

I usually take a few minutes Sunday night to make sure everything is in order for Monday morning, but last night I failed to do so and as a result this morning was chaotic. Mia Bella was ready ahead of time though so I asked her if she wouldn't mind making her own lunch while I made her brother and sister's.She packed a lovely lunch ? She has a turkey & sharp cheddar croissant sandwi

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05/17/2013 07:00 AM
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Live Long And Prosper Star Trek Lunch

I bet Spock would describe this bento as "Fascinating, but highly illogical." :)Sailor Boy and I are both a little bit Trekkie, so I know he'll get a kick out of it! Inspired by the Vulcan salute, his PlanetBox lunch contains:Turkey & cheddar on wheat Vulcan salute sandwich (should have skipped the turkey since Vulcans are vegetarian, but I forgot)Freshly picked cherries! Sailor Boy has been l

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05/14/2013 03:00 AM
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Ladybug Lunches

I'm guest posting over at Ladybug Lunches today...  so I've made ladybug lunches for the occasion, what else? You can see Birdie's ladybug lunch here, and Sprout's similar but different version there!Birdie's Yumbox bento lunch contains:mozzarella string cheesestrawberry heartscherry tomatoesa ladybug cheese sandwichraspberries with a little heart forkchocolate covered raisin treatKinder

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05/13/2013 05:33 AM
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Hello, I Love You!

Bella has a Hello Kitty Thermos Funtainer filled with spaghettios, with a Light My Fire spork, and a LunchBots Quad filled with cucumber, cauliflower, pistachios, almonds, a little sauce cup full of rainbow chocolate covered sunflower seeds, and some animal crackers.Pickle has Lunch Punch ice cream cone peanut butter sandwiches:

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05/10/2013 08:18 PM
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Mother's Day FunBites Giveaway

Since this was supposed to be a Mother's Day giveaway,  I was going to have my littlest sproutlet make ME a lunch using her favourite FunBites cutter... but she just didn't want to cooperate :)No, she didn't want to make mummy a heart sandwich, she wanted to make pizza hearts. She reminded me that I did say "last day" (meaning any day prior to today) that we could make pizza hearts. So that i

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05/08/2013 03:35 PM
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Orange you looking forward to lunch?

Bella asked for her GoGreen LunchBox today. The orange theme was unintentional at first, but when I realized all the food that was going into it was orange, I chose orange picks & cups to match :)Bella's orange lunch contains:Turkey & cheddar flatbread sandwich. Cheetos puffed corn snacks.Yes, junk food. I allow it sometimes :)Mozzarella cheese stick cut in thirds. Cantaloupe chu

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05/07/2013 10:30 AM
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Tuesday, No Groceries Blues Day

Our fridge has a case of the blues right now, it's feeling a little low - on fresh fruit, cheese, & milk, that is. The pantry's sad & lonely too...  Luckily Tuesdays are always breakfast for lunch day at school, so Bella, Pickle & Sprout can have pancakes, yogurt & fruit, while Birdie & I do a big shop and stock up. Maybe I'll pack Birdie a Beaba tray of snacky foods to go

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05/06/2013 01:20 PM
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Star Trek Muffin Tin

Boldly going where no muffin tin meal has gone before :)Birdie's muffin tin meal contains:Trader Joe's yogurt vanilla cookiesPacific Rose apple wedgesOrganic baby carrotsCantaloupe starsCheese starsRanch seasoned star crackersLately Birdie's been leaving cantaloupe uneaten, claiming she doesn't like it. I don't buy that, since she used to eat it without complaint - so I keep offering it. Today, sh

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05/04/2013 12:00 PM
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May the 4th be With You

Last year Star Wars Day fell on a school day, so I made all the school age sproutlets themed lunches, but this year it's a Saturday, I don't need to pack school lunches. Instead, I packed one for Sailor Boy to take to work Monday:I'm really pleased with how the refried bean dip Sarlacc pit turned out! The tentacles are shredded Monterey Jack cheese. So the bean dip could be taken out of the m

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05/03/2013 06:32 AM
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IronMan Bento

IronMan 3 is in theatres today, and Beanstalk is so looking forward to it! I packed him an IronMan bento lunch in his Lego-style bento box.I used the IronMan cutter from our Marvel Comics Hero stamp cookie cutter set to make his peanut butter sandwich. Pretty decent detail for a cookie cutter on bread, it's actually recognizeable! Beanstalk was impressed :) Pretty cool bento box, wo

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05/01/2013 12:53 PM
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May Day!

It's a beautiful PNW spring day today ? We live on Whidbey Island in Washington State, and this time of year, the tulips are in full bloom, so I've packed tulip-themed May Day school lunches for Bella & Pickle.Mia Bella has a chicken & cheese flatbread wrap,  cantaloupe tulips & blossoms,  salad with carrot & cheese tulips, spiced almonds, & dried strawberries. F

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04/30/2013 02:07 PM
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I Love You To Pieces :)

Today is the last day of April, which has been Autism Awareness Month,  so I made my Pickle a puzzle sandwich with our beloved Lunch Punch Match & Munch cutters. When I serve him a puzzle sandwich at home I tell him I love him to pieces; I hope thinks of that when he gets one at school ?Sometimes I do mess them up though... like today... I left some of the puzzle tabs in the cutter!

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04/29/2013 01:23 PM
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Panda Power!

Panda lunches for Bella, Sprout & Pickle:Bella has a cheese sandwich panda, carrots, golden Sunburst tomatoes, Fig Newtons, & in the little panda cup, dried strawberries.Bean Sprout has a Nutella sandwich panda, carrots, strawberries, animal crackers, & in the little panda cup, dried strawberries. Pickle has a panda in a house peanut butter sandwich,  in a Lunch Blox sandwich

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04/26/2013 06:05 PM
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Cute & hasty, plain but tasty :)

Bella's lunch has a few cute details inspired by the faceplate of her yubo lunchbox - blossom & star bento picks through the cheese & tomatoes, and the silicone cups that match the fairies' colours separating them from the carrots & cucumbers. And I found a fairy sticker to decorate the bottom of her jell-o cup :) This was a hastily made lunch with nothing particularly creative about i

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04/24/2013 03:41 PM
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Friends Share: Disposable Field Trip Lunches

Yes, that's right, I packed a completely disposable lunch. Bella's class was going on a field trip and they were asked to bring disposable lunches. Disposable doesn't have to mean it must be thrown in the trash though - I had saved some recyclable containers for things like this, so most of this could be thrown in a recycling bin if there was one available.I wanted to pack her some fresh

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04/23/2013 11:30 AM
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Impossible Astronaut Day

It's Impossible Astronaut Day! How many times have you already seen this lunch? I'm hoping that you've forgotten so I can get away with posting it again (I'm sick and don't feel like making food).  But if it does look familiar... ... then you saw my guest post on Bento for Kidlet... or did you look away? If you're a Doctor Who fan, you'll know what's up with the marks, if not, well,

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04/22/2013 11:36 PM
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Love our Earth, Love our Oceans

Happy Earth Day!  Last year I put a little planet earth in each lunchbox, but this year I chose a different theme, ocean life, because of course, one of the most important parts of taking care of our earth is taking care of our oceans!The sproutlets have always enjoyed nature programs about the ocean and marine life, and some new favourite family films are the whale tales Big Miracle &am

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04/19/2013 08:30 AM
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Friends Share: Nursery Rhyme Time

I had a nursery rhyme in mind when I packed this lunch:Hey diddle diddle, the cat & the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon ...Bella's Go Green Lunch Box contains:Fig NewtonsCow peanut butter sandwichApple moonsHorizon Organic milkCheddar moons & mozzarella cubesSunburst tomatoes & baby carrotsSome of my bento blogging friends have also made nursery rhyme inspired bentos & be

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04/17/2013 06:08 PM
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Laptop Lunches for my Sweetheart & my Little Man

Colourful, fun Laptop Lunches - one for Bella & one for Beanstalk ?Mia Bella's Laptop Lunches bento box contains:raspberry Trix yogurt with a frozen yogurt heart. I froze a bunch of yogurt in silicone cups to make mini edible ice packs. The heart will melt by lunch but it will help keep the whole yogurt cup coldham & swiss tortilla rollups, carrots, & grape tomatoesGalia melon hea

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04/16/2013 02:47 PM
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Lunch is a Hoot!

Birdie has an owl for lunch today. Hoot hoot!Her owl is a cheese sandwich made of honey wheat & white, with mozzarella & American cheese details. Beneath the owl is the rest of the string cheese used for the eyes, baby carrots, & strawberry hearts.Her lunch was inspired by our new bento box, all the way from Britain! It was a surprise from my blogger friend Grace of Eats Amazing. I had

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04/15/2013 07:00 PM
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Mod 60's Muffin Tin Meal

This Muffin Tin Monday's theme is The 60's. It's also my 400th post. Far out!Birdie's mod muffin tin meal contains...sunburst & grape tomato flower powerswingin' swirled cheese sticklemon yogurt pretzelsgroovy baby carrotspsychedelic yogurtmod circles peanut butter sandwichesstrawberry hearts... served in a groovy Beaba tray :)Some stuff used to make this lunch:

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04/15/2013 01:59 PM
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ThrifTee Gear Review & Giveaway + MineCraft Steve & Creeper Lunch!

Do you have a favourite t-shirt that you don't wear anymore? Maybe it just doesn't fit right, or maybe it's torn or stained... but you just can't part with it, and so it sits in a drawer or closet, not getting the love it deserves... Poor t-shirt :( But wait, it doesn't have to end up like this! Your beloved old tee can begin life anew, as a ThrifTee Gear bag!Beanstalk doesn't norma

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04/12/2013 01:05 PM
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Racing Hearts

Mia Bella and I were up until past midnight last night finishing up a school project, and boy were we feeling it this morning. I felt like I was moving in slow motion! I dawdled over a cup of coffee, and before I knew it, it was 8:35 and I hadn't packed lunches yet - we leave at 8:45!  Luckily I only had to pack for 2 since the little girls are home today and I made Beanstalk's yesterday (Min

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04/11/2013 01:45 PM
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Clifford the Big Red Dog

Sprout's library day is today, and as I packed her last week's book in her schoolbag, I chuckled because the book she borrowed was one that we own, both on paper and as a Storia eBook - Clifford the Big Red Dog :) Of course we read the library copy anyways... that girl loves Clifford!She'll be very happy to open her lunchbox today:I made the Clifford in his doghouse sandwich with a Critter Cutter

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04/10/2013 06:22 PM
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Panda Pick Love!

I love having bento accessories for those mornings when I'm rushed or just not feeling up to doing much. This morning I woke up feeling dreadful and was going to tell the sproutlets to have school lunch, but none of today's choices appealed to Bella.  No worries, with the help of a handful of bento picks and silicone cups, I made this cute & colourful lunch in minutes.She has a Foldi

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04/09/2013 04:48 PM
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Salad & Sandwich, Soup & Sides

Where did our Spring go? We woke up to a gloomy damp day, boo. The girls wanted hot lunches, but they didn't want the school lunch, so I got out their Thermoses. The boys opted for the school lunch, so I had a few extra minutes to add some cutesy touches to Sailor Boy's lunch :He has a ham & cheese flatbread wrap atop a salad (with radish heart cutouts), some Gala apple wedges, carrots, &

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04/08/2013 02:16 PM
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Blossoms & Blox

Spring Break's over, back to school. It's really feeling like Spring on Whidbey Island now. Our front yard & neighbourhood streets are decorated with cherry blossoms :) Bella & Sprout have blossoms in their lunchboxes too:Bella's Laptop Lunches bento box contains:turkey & cheddar flatbread wrapcarrots & cucumberswhole grain Fig Newtonsspiced almondssunburst & grape tomatoe

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04/06/2013 01:37 PM
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Edible Geekery : Rex Manning Day!

Since it's the closest Saturday to the actual Rex Manning Day, my fellow nerdgirls and I thought we'd pay homage with a little blog hop.Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.I made Bean Sprout a superb lunch.  Superb.  Superb... Superb :)She has a cheese sandwich, apple wedges, baby carrots with a record cupcake ring, raspberries with cheese music, and yogurt with stars.&n

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04/03/2013 09:00 AM
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Edible Geekery : Fish Fingers & Custard Day

Yes, it's National Fish Fingers & Custard Day (UK), as decreed by the BBC in commemoration of the Eleventh Doctor's debut episode, "The Eleventh Hour,"  in which he consumes this curious combination. Think Bella will like it?No, I'm just kidding, that's not really what she's having ... (Although if these special Doctor Who fish fingers were actually available, I might buy some and insist

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04/02/2013 08:44 AM
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Every Day is Autism Awareness Day

Today is World Autism Awareness Day. If you're a regular reader you know that my middle child, Pickle, has autism. Or is autistic. I never know which is the "right" way to describe him. Person with autism, autistic person, it's a subject of debate. If Pickle ever claims a preference, that's what I'll go with, but for now I vacillate between the two. The label makes no difference to me - he's just

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04/01/2013 04:08 PM
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Bunny Food

For the last day of school before Spring Break I packed Bella a special Eastery lunch in her Laptop Lunches bento box:She had turkey & cheddar flatbread roll-ups, an Easter egg filled with spiced almonds, a ginger carrot bran muffin, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, radish rabbits, & cantaloupe with candy picks. Bella loved this lunch so much she asked to have her picture taken with it!

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03/29/2013 01:12 PM
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Rockin' the Lunch Box

Recently, Bella woke me up asking if I had any poodle bento picks. "No, why?" "Poodle skirts Mum! You know, from the '50s? To make a lunch to go with the Rock Hop?" I wasn't fully awake yet so I was confused for a moment, then I remembered. Her school was having a 1950s themed "spirit day" followed by a dance, called the Rock Hop. I said I'd see what I could do.Ooh, I had a record cupcak

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03/28/2013 01:37 PM
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Lunch On A Stick : Late Edition :)

At almost the last minute before it was time to leave for school, Sprout decided she wanted a "mum lunch" instead of the school lunch. So with less than 10 minutes to spare I made her one a lot like her brothers, but prettier:Sprout's sweet Something On A Stick Day lunch contains peanut butter sandwiches on a stick, made with my FunBites squares cutter, a string cheese stick and a fruit leather ro

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03/28/2013 08:45 AM
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Lunch On A Stick

Today is Something On A Stick Day!Pickle almost always takes a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. It's the only kind of sandwich he likes. I usually cut it in fun shapes with a Lunch Punch or cookie cutters, but today, he's getting it on a stick!I just got a whole bunch of these long skewers from BentoUSA, and I used my FunBites cutter to make the bite sized squares. His lunch on a stick is packed

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03/27/2013 05:47 AM
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Fun Fuel! Mater & Lightning McQueen Cars Lunches

I'm back in the race!  I made these lunches while on my brief blogging hiatus, so if you follow me on Facebook you've probably seen them already - but hey, now you can get the detailed description :)I love this Cars themed PlanetBox I made for Beanstalk!  I found NASCAR Ritz at our base commissary - and this is how a theme starts sometimes, with one little thing - and remembered I'd save

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03/15/2013 10:06 AM
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Healthy Lunch Challenge + Giveaway!

When Jennifer of Crunch a Color asked if I'd like to join her Healthy Lunch Challenge, I was flattered and a little incredulous... me? I try to pack healthy for my sproutlets but it often is a challenge, so wow, it's such a compliment to have my efforts recognized by such a healthy eating role model! Thank you, Jennifer, it's an honour to be asked, and I'll do my best :)What's the Healthy Lunch Ch

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03/14/2013 07:15 AM
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Bring Me Some Pi!

It's March 14th ... 3.14 ... Pi Day! In a couple of hours, my fellow Edible Geekery nerds & I will have a blog hop full of pi for you to enjoy...But for now, if you're up this early AND you have a Pi Day post of your own... And why not check out the Pi Day bento I made last year ?(it's also the first lunch linked above)Just don't forget to come back at 7am PST when this button will work!

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03/12/2013 01:34 PM
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McHappy Spring!

Last night was McTeacher's Night, where the sproutlets' school teachers worked at the local McDonald's to raise funds for their school. Sprout was having so much fun seeing her classmates and teachers and just being at McDonald's, that she hardly ate or drank anything! So she has her Happy Meal apple juice box in her lunch today :)Spring is here, and things are beginning to bloom!  I filled S

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03/11/2013 01:56 PM
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iHeart Spaghetti Tacos

No, this is not déja vu, I've made this lunch before :) Mia Bella loves iCarly & spaghetti tacos. Not an iCarly fan and wondering what spaghetti tacos are? Basically, you replace the meat in a taco with spaghetti! It might sound strange, but it's actually really good!Bella has her iCarly Thermos Funtainer packed with hot spaghetti & marinara sauce. I chopped the pasta a bit to make it easi

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03/08/2013 11:00 AM
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz Cowardly Lion Bento

Surprise! Wizard of Oz Hop, Take 2! I already posted my Oz bento in yesterday's hop, but I just had to jump into today's as well, so I could share this wonderful Cowardly Lion bento, that I did NOT make :) Isn't it incredible? My friend Lauri Fitzsimmons made this bento. Lauri is an amazing food artist.  She not only contributed her gluten-free recipes, but she helped Kelly Lester o

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03/07/2013 11:00 AM
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road!

Bella's EasyLunchboxes bento celebrates tomorrow's release of the new Wizard of Oz movie, Oz the Great and Powerful!A scarecrow cupcake pick sits beside a cheddar cheese yellow brick road atop a salad of hearts of romaine, cucumber chunks, & carrot poppies,  smoked turkey & spinach flatbread cyclones on ruby slipper skewers, and for dessert, melted witch gelatin topped with a fru

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03/06/2013 10:48 PM
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Dentist Day PlanetBox

I almost forgot to blog this! It's been a busy day :) Today was National Dentist Day, so I added a smile & some tooth picks to Beanstalk's PlanetBox:Beanstalk's the only one who took a packed lunch to school today, but I did add some smiles to my salad, with the cucumber scraps I saved from Bella's leaf-shaped cucumbers in Monday's lunch :)Bella had a visit from the tooth fairy last night, but

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03/05/2013 06:32 PM
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This Little Piggy...

This little piggy was made with our CuteZcute!I made Birdie a little piggy bento :) She has a checkered Pacific Rose apple, watermelon, Sunburst tomatoes, and a cheese sandwich piggy - packed in a pink Sassy box. I love the Sassy On the Go Feeding Set for preschool bentos. It's just the right size for a little appetite, versatile, inexpensive, and easy for Birdie to open and close. And the Cu

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03/05/2013 01:06 PM
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A Beautiful Lunch

Bella has a Thermos Funtainer of ravioli in tomato sauce for lunch today, and a LunchBots Trio packed with her choice of sides - cherry & sunburst tomatoes, Ritz crackers, & a carrot stick. I added flower bento picks & a little rainbow container with a few dried strawberries in it :)Stuff I used in today's lunch:

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03/04/2013 03:29 PM
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Lunchbox Love to Learn :)

We love our Lunchbox Love note cards; they're an easy way to add some extra love to the sproutlets' lunches. And a little learning fun too! All the notes have a sentiment side, but on the flip side, some have jokes, and some have tidbits of trivia. We especially love the ones with animal facts ?I made my girls bentos to match the themes of their Lunchbox Love :)Bella's panda bento was inspired by

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03/01/2013 08:15 PM
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Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Today is Read Across America Day, in honour of Dr. Seuss's birthday (tomorrow, March 2nd, but that's not a school day). I packed Bella a slightly Seuss-ish EasyLunchbox with a few random Seuss references. The Eiffel Tower symbolizes Paris, because Bella is interested in fashion, and in the spirit of Seuss I wanted to remind her that if she can dream it, she can do it! Plus I've long

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02/28/2013 09:03 PM
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A Seussalicious After School Snack

She would probably say "Someone has too much time on their hands!"Heheh ... I don't often make things like this... when trying to get 5 littles out the door there's no time for tiny fiddly bits - and something like this could never survive in a lunchbox anyways - but when I got the idea in my head I just had to see if it would work, so I made time to make it for an after school snack :)"I am the L

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02/27/2013 07:34 PM
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Skydiving Judi Dench!

I'm so psyched! Tonight is the season premiere of Psych! My bestest buddy and I just had to make Psych-themed bentos for ourselves - here's mine:Did you know that Saturday was Twin Peaks Day? (And my Pickle's birthday - but he didn't want a Twin Peaks lunch.) And did you know that Psych did a Twin Peaks parody/tribute episode? Dual Spires :) Damn fine episode! My lunch pays humble homage to that a

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02/27/2013 04:58 PM
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Berry-licious Bentos

Today is National Strawberry Day!Birdie has a berry-licious garden bento in her Yumbox - so cute! The hard-cooked egg with a butterfly pick on top looks a little like a berry, doesn't it?She also has blossom-shaped carrots, cheddar cheese, oatmeal bar, and strawberries,  blossom-sprinkled yogurt, and 2 gummy butterfly treats ?Pickle has strawberry-shaped mini PB sandwiches & a wee st

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