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:
Fish Kisses
June 11, 2012
Another lunch inspired by digging through the cutter bin!
Kissing fish are almond butter, marmalade and coconut butter sandwiches decorated with candy eyes and swimming among sweet pea and carrot sea plants. The sun above is a little cup of ranch dressing held in place with a circle of yellow soy paper.
The lunch is finished with watermelon and pineapple fish and a hard boiled egg dyed orange with natural colors and molded in the shape of a fish.
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:
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:
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:
