Kissy Moshling Lunch
May 29, 2012
Cora has discovered Moshlings. They are adorable, but most the puzzles are over her head, so I get to play too 🙂
Kissy is a cheese sandwich with fruit leather features. To make her eye lashes, I cut a smile in half. Her rosy cheeks are pink soy paper. She is sitting on a pretzel platform and has yogurt pretzel hearts floating over her head.
The lunch is finished with heart shaped baked egg whites dyed pink with natural colors and heart shaped watermelon and pineapple.
To make this lunch I used:
My Stars It’s A Lion Lunch!
May 21, 2012
Things got a little busy at the end of last week so I went with easy themes for a couple days. You can always tell my busy days because her lunch features yogurt :).
The lion is macaroni and cheese arranged in a cup so that the ends are facing up with a cheese cutout of a bear face in the middle. The features are drawn in with mustard using a food pick. The other cup has hummus with a star made by freezing hummus in a star ice mold. The compartment is filled out with pretzels, carrot sticks and peas for dipping into the hummus
The lunch is finished with blueberries stuffed into raspberries and vanilla coconut yogurt decorated with a pineapple star.
To make this lunch I used:
Kitty Cuddles
May 16, 2012
Another inspiration from manga today!
I blended some cream cheese and a small handful of raspberries to make the filing for our cute little girl and kitty sandwiches. The features are cheese and a heck of a lot of fruit leather. Good thing that stuff is sugar and chemical free!
I decided the lunch needed a bit more protein so I cut a hard-boiled egg into two kitties, decorated with mustard. The whiskers are uncooked spaghetti.
The lunch was finished off with kitty shaped pineapple, watermelon and cantaloupe cut outs
To make this lunch I used:
Spring Scene
May 16, 2012
Cora requested birdies in her lunch and the scene evolved as I went along
Cheese sandwich tree with cheese kissing birdies, cheese curl sun, sugar snap pea and carrot flowers, raspberries.
I finished the lunch with a hard boiled egg decorated with cheese features and picks, and watermelon birds.
To make this lunch I used:
Five Lil’ Lovebugs Jumping On The Bed
May 14, 2012
Cora loved Lola Lovebug last week, so I knew she would be thrilled to meet Lola’s little ones
Our lil lovebugs are almond butter, coconut butter and jelly sandwiches with fruit leather features.
In the smallest compartment are all the toys the lovebugs have shoved in the closet – sugar snap peas, broccoli and carrots dotted with cheese hearts. The midsized compartment has all the love in their hearts – pineapple, watermelon, strawberry and kiwi hearts.
To make this lunch I used:
Mom’s Day Off
May 13, 2012
Today I am participating in a Mother’s Day themed bento blog hop, sorta. In honor of Mother’s Day, we are all taking the day off and leaving the lunch making to the kids and/or our partners. The hop officially starts mid morning on Monday. It’s a great lesson in how much our kids pick up from watching us, so don’t miss it. These lunches are great!
To help ‘encourage’ Cora to participate, I ordered dinosaur cookie cutters for the occasion. It worked 🙂
Cora’s Lunch – pretty cute!
When they were done, I interviewed Cora about her lunch:
Cora can you tell me about making your lunch today with Daddy?
What kind of lunch did you make?
Dinosaurs made out of sandwiches. I used two sandwiches and fruit butterflies and broccoli trees. (Note from the editor: The bears are cinnamon apple muffins cut outs, I might need to swap a couple pieces out with whole wheat pretzels to bring down the sugar level a bit)
Can you tell me what you need to make a healthy lunch?
Carrots, hummus, some egg and a sandwich and fruit and broccoli!
Did you use all those things in your lunch?
Ummm I did the fruit part but I didn’t use all of that stuff.
Is it still healthy?
I think so. I did two sandwiches and I got the broccoli in there.
Did Daddy help? How?
Yes! By helping me and making the last stuff (Note from the editor: Cora abandoned the project midway through. D did a great job wrapping it up!). He was the one that asked me the question which cutter to use, and if I wanted to do butterflies or a bear or something else and he did that stuff. Now turn the show back on.
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And there you have it! Don’t forget to hop on through to see what transpired at Food, Family, Fun. and have a Happy Mother’s Day!
To make this lunch Cora used:
Lola Lovebug Chibi Lunch
May 9, 2012
I think today’s lunch is near the top of my all-time favorites list. It is inspired by my drawing manga book and it really made me and Cora smile! The main reason I love it so is that Cora helped a lot (hence the hats on the fruit cats and the watermelon all over the floor). Cora took one look at the cute little chibi and named her Lola.
Lola’s body is a cheese sandwich with fruit leather features and her feet are almond butter, coconut butter and jelly sandwiches with fruit leather features. Her balloons are cherry tomatoes.
Since Lola is a love bug, she has a heart-shaped hard-boiled egg died orange with natural food dyes. The fruit is watermelon cut into kitties wearing hats.
I am getting the hang of the EasyLunchBoxes, and falling deeper and deeper in love. The PlanetBox is going to start collecting dust pretty soon!
To make this lunch I used:
Home Is Where The Heart Is
May 8, 2012
I had no clue what to make this morning so I started pawing through the cookie cutters and came up with a house. It all came together from there!
You will notice I packed a different lunchbox today. I still love our PlanetBox, but I bought a bunch of EasyLunchBoxes in preparation for the book, and love them too! I am so used to the four compartments in the PB that switching to three is a bit of a challenge, but when I manage it, the end result is great. Unlike the PlanetBox, I can carry the ELB bag by the handle and the lunch stays flat. Cora loves it too!
House cheese sandwich, Pirate Booty smoke, soy paper curtains, whole wheat pita chips, cheese moon, carrot sticks, carrot flowers, cheese grass and fruit leather flowers.
Car shaped frozen hummus (it will defrost by lunch) and heart shaped strawberries on a bed of raspberries.
To make this lunch I used:
May The Fourth Be With You!
May 3, 2012
We are at it again, its another blog hop and I am having so much fun with the Star Wars theme!
Princess Leia is a cheese sandwich (big surprise!) with almond butter sandwich buns on the side. I’m kinda regretting the jelly
rosy cheeks’. Maybe pink soy paper circles would have worked better…
The Ewok is a cucumber bear with soy paper hood. He is resting on a bed of hummus, standing on a carrot log and holding a pretzel spear.
Our light sabers are pretzel sticks dipped into a mixture of cream cheese, coconut oil (to keep it from cracking as it dries) and a touch of vanilla syrup. I made a lot of ‘mistakes’ on this one because it was sooooo yummy! The colors are from using natural food colors. I tried for a blue using cabbage water and baking soda but the color wasn’t concentrated enough so it ended up too soupy.
For a little extra fun, I decorated the PlanetBox with stickers and included two Lego Ewoks
Don’t forget to check out the rest of the hop, these gals are so creative and fun. The hop starts bright and early on Friday (those dang East Coasters!) Click on the image below to see Kristie’s amazing work!
To make this lunch I used:
Cuddly Critter Lunch
May 1, 2012
I’m still working my way through a fun art of manga drawing book. Today’s lunch derived from a cute little chibi bunny-like critter
Cheese sandwich chibi with cheese and fruit leather features
I finished the lunch with cheese curls, yogurt covered pretzels, hummus and carrot sticks, kiwi butterflies
