Fun in the Summer Sun
June 20, 2012
It’s time for another blog hop with the amazing bento bloggers! Make sure you visit the link at the end of this post so you don’t miss out on any of the fun (and great ideas!)
For our summertime theme, we have a cutie wearing sunglasses and a drippy yummy ice cream. Both are cheese sandwiches, except for the cutie’s ponytails which are Wowbutter. The cutie is decorated with cheese and dye-free organic fruit leather while the ice cream cone is decorated with cheese and dye-free chocolate covered sesame seeds. They are so yummy!
Our cutie is playing in the hard-boiled egg sun with cheese rays. When she’s done with the ice cream, she has a fruit beach ball to play with (cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple) and cherries to munch on.
Don’t miss the hop – lots of fun ahead, starting with Molly’s Lunch Box!
To make this lunch I used:
Flumpy and the Gump
June 18, 2012
Cora loved the Roxy lunch so much we made another Moshling – Flumpy! And this time, I knew without being told to make a Gump too 🙂
Flumpy is a cheese quesadilla with fruit leather and cheese features and his name made out of fruit leather.
The Glump is another plum with cheese and fruit leather features, sitting on a pile of carrot sticks
The lunch is finished with a little hummus frozen in flower shapes.
To make this lunch I used:
Roxy and the Glump
June 13, 2012
Here’s another one for the Moshi Monster fans! Cora’s favorite Moshling is Roxy, a sparkly jewel that we ‘won’ by completing a Super Moshi Mission. Fun stuff!
Roxy is a cheese sandwich with cheese colored with natural colors and fruit leather and cheese features. Over her head are yogurt covered pretzels and fruit leather letters.
Cora took one look at the Roxy lunch and pointed out that the plum really should be a Glump. I love that kid, she is going to be making her own bentos in no time!
Lunch is finished with melon Rox (the Moshi Monsters currency) and a stack of carrot sticks.
To make this lunch I used:
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:
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:
Grover at the End of the Book Lunch
March 30, 2012
Looks like we are heading into a season of lunches based on books. The Monster at the End of the Book is one of my childhood favorites, so I love that its one of Cora’s favorites too!
Cheese grover (dyed blue with natural colors) bricked in with almond butter and marmalade wall
The lunch is finished off by fruit walls and Cora’s special addition – a snow scene. Not sure how it fits but she insists it’s snowing at the end of the book. She picked out the cutters, went to town on a slice of cheese and then climbed up on a stool to place them in the lunchbox. With all that, I had to concede that yes indeed, it is snowing at the end of the book!
To make this lunch I used:
Fancy Bird Lunch
December 9, 2011
Cheese sandwich peacock with Quorn cutlet body, mac n cheese bird also with Quorn cutlet body and carrot feet, salad and fruit birds
Where I get Ideas
November 7, 2011
I get most of my ideas from all the great bento web sites that are out there, including:
- http://www.mybentolicious.com/
- http://justbento.com
- http://www.cuteobento.com
- Adventures in Bento Making 2010 Compilation of Cuteness
- http://www.e-obento.com/
I also spend a lot of time looking through Flick’r and Pinterest with keywords ‘cute food’, bento or whatever kind of animal I am looking for (i.e. ‘lion bento’)
My non-bento inspiration lately is from simple coloring books and how-to’s on cartooning and drawing chibis.
My Pinterest boards, including Cute Food and Lunch Inspirations are at www.pinterest.com/llatorre/
