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
Oscar The Grouch Lunch
April 27, 2012
Today I had an avocado to use so I wracked my brain for something fun and green and came up with Oscar The Grouch
I used an Elmo cookie cutter to cut out a piece of toast then spread it with mashed up avocado mixed with salt and natural preservative (essentially, powdered vitamin c). The can is just an avocado sandwich.
Oscar does look awfully happy. I think its because he has his string cheese and cheese curls worms (Slimey is the one with eyes), stinky smelly green fish (hard-boiled egg dyed with natural food dye and put in an egg mold) and a messy pile of fruit (pineapple and strawberries). Unfortunately, Cora did not carry the lunch flat so Oscar got mangled and she really didn’t want to eat the resultant mess. Note to self, no open-faced sandwiches for awhile!
To make this lunch I used:
Giggly Lunch
April 25, 2012
I am officially obsessed with working out a ‘recipe’ for manga-like eyes! This giggling cutie is yet another cheese sandwich decorated with cheese and fruit leather
I also experimented with using silicone molds to make egg white shapes. They turned out great! I sprayed the mold with oil, poured in some egg whites and popped it in the oven for about 15 minutes on 325. The consistency is so smooth and the egg really picked up the details of the mold. I suspect I am about to start collecting molds now, we might need to build a second garage to house all my bento supplies!
I finished the lunch with organic baked cheese curls and butterfly watermelon and strawberry cutouts.
To make this lunch I used:
Dance of the Butterflies
April 23, 2012
I received a new how to draw manga book this week and am having a blast thinking through the characters and how to translate them to food. I’m still stuck on eyes. I might need to do a study of cartoon eyes in food!
Cheese sandwiches assembled into a dancing cutie, decorated with cheese and fruit leather.
I finished the lunch with hummus butterflies, cucumber and carrot sticks for dipping and fruit.
To make this lunch I used:
Super Tree Hugger Earth Day Lunch
April 21, 2012
Cora loved our Tree Hugger cutie from the other day, so I tried to turn her into a super hero
For more Earth Day themed lunches, see out the posts on Wednesday (Earth Day Tree Hugger Lunch) and Thursday (http://www.veggie-bento.com/2012/04/19/save-the-whale-earth-day-lunch/), then click on the button at the end of the post to hop through the amazing lunches in the Earth Day Bento Blog Hop. There are some really great cute n green lunches in there made by some very talented gals!
Our super hero cutie is a cheese sandwich decorated with fruit leather and more cheese. The Earth in the distance is a smushed up piece of bread. Super Tree Hugger needs some work, her eyes are kinda freaky.
The lunch is finished off with hummus and whole wheat pretzels, star fruit salad and berries and coconut yogurt for dipping.
See more Earthly delights in the Earth Day Blog Hop. Click the button below to start with Jenn’s masterpiece
Save the Whale Earth Day Lunch
April 19, 2012
Cora was so excited by the Earth Day theme yesterday, she woke up asking for another one today. I call this one Save the Whale because my ‘blue’ water turned out a sludgy purple so it looks like he is swimming in polluted water. Poor guy!
For more Earth Day themed lunches, see out yesterday’s post (Earth Day Tree Hugger Lunch), then click on the button at the end of the post to hop through the amazing lunches in the Earth Day Bento Blog Hop. There are some really great cute n green lunches in there made by some very talented gals!
In honor of Earth Day, I decided to go entirely vegan with this lunch (except for the gelatin in the vitamin).
Our poor little fruit leather whale is swimming in yummy coconut milk yogurt dyed an odd sludgy purple with blue natural food dye. Other folks got a really nice color using the natural dyes so I think it was a weird reaction to the coconut milk (as opposed to dairy products).
Our vegan Earth Day lunch is finished off with a hummus and spinach reduce, reuse, recycle Earth surrounded by carrot sticks, a broccoli and almond cheese forest (the grass is almond cheese dyed green with natural food dye) and fruit flowers.
See more Earthly delights in the Earth Day Blog Hop. Click the button below to start with Jenn’s masterpiece
Earth Day Tree Hugger Lunch
April 17, 2012
I’m back! My hand is in great shape and Cora is headed back to school, just in time to bring an Earth Day themed lunch for the Earth Day Blog Hop. I just love these, so many creative ideas in one place! So be sure to click on the button at the end of the post to see some great green, earthy, fun lunches! I posted an additional Earth Day lunch on Thursday, so you can hop on over there, then continue the hop with the button at the bottom of that post.
In honor of Earth Day, I decided to go entirely vegan with this lunch. I am curious to see how Cora reacts to vegan (almond) cheese!
We are all tree huggers in our family so I thought a tree hugging cutie would be a fun way to celebrate the day. The sandwich is cheddar style almond cheese quesadilla on whole wheat lavash and the girl is mozzarella style almond cheese with fruit leather and soy paper accents. Here is our cutie without her tree:
Our vegan Earth Day lunch is finished off with a hummus and spinach globe, whole wheat pretzel sticks, carrot sticks, pineapple flowers, raspberries and two little vegan marshmallow ‘clouds’
See more Earthly delights in the Earth Day Blog Hop. Click the button below to start with Jenn’s masterpiece
To make this lunch I used:
Easter Bunnies Everywhere!
April 5, 2012
I went a little bonkers with the bunnies today! For more lunch ideas, be sure to see my other posts this week and visit the Bunny Hop linked below. Some very fun and talented bloggers are contributing to it and there are a lot of great ideas for Easter and Spring themed healthy lunches!
Almond butter and marmalade bunny sandwiches decorated with sugar and dye free fruit leather and a vegan marshmallow
There are even more bunnies! A hummus bunny made by freezing it in an egg mold, cheddar bunnies, carrot sticks and bunny fruit salad.
To make this lunch I used:
Don’t forget to do the Bunny Hop!
The full list of Bunny Hoppers:
Easter Egg Lunch
April 5, 2012
Aaaaand we have another Easter themed lunch! For more spring/Easter fun, please check out my other lunches from this week or hop through the Bunny Hop linked at the end of the post.
Cheese Easter egg sandwich with natural (dye and sugar free) fruit leather designs.
In the upper corner I placed a pink egg (dyed with beet powder) with cheese stars in mung bean noodles dyed green using natural food dyes. I finished the lunch with Veggie Stix and fruit flowers.
To make this lunch I used:
Don’t forget to do the Bunny Hop!
The full list of Bunny Hoppers:
