Veggie-Bento

It’s suddenly raining today aaand Cora wanted another green egg fish, so enter Dr Seuss lunch 2!

Almond butter and marmalade wet pet sandwich with cheese and fruit leather detail, baby bel umbrella and cheese rain drops, green egg fish and naturally colored goldfish, fruit stars

This lunch is part of a bento hop with a Seuss theme started by Bento Bloggers and Friends. Check back Friday to see Bobbi’s Seusstacular creation!

So it’s Dr Seuss week in bento land. I wasn’t sure I would get another one in so I went for the whole shebang all in one. Big thanks to Karen from What’s in John’s Lunch Bag for talking me through my perfectionism-inspired creative block!

Blue Goo made from naturally dyed mung bean noodles, goo goose cheese sandwich, green egg fish, goldfish (naturally colored, who knew?!) and strawberry and cream cheese cat hats

This lunch is part of a bento hop with a Seuss theme started by Bento Bloggers and Friends. Check out Bobbi’s Seusstacular creation!

Well I started off the day thinking I would honor Dr Seuss’ birthday (stay tuned) but Cora had other ideas. Of course she won, so may I present, Cora’s Ostrich Lunch

Almond butter and marmalade ostrich sandwich with naturally dyed cheese and fruit leather, cheese curl worms, bread nest with babybel hatching egg, strawberry hearts

Here’s Cora’s design. She worked on it while I did the lunch. Funny how similar our mommy ostriches are!

I found a cute cartoon of aliens and decided to try out my new natural colors to make them with cheese. I think they turned out cute, but they do look a lot like bunnies.

Cheese alien sandwiches, dyed with natural food colors and with fruit leather features, boiled egg spaceship, fruit stars

The inspiration art work is from nslittleshop on Etsy

Cheese monkey sandwich with cheese and fruit leather accents, cheddar soy chips, pineapple ‘bananas’, raspberries

Still longing for Spring!

Almond butter and marmalade tree sandwich with fruit leather and cheese features, egg chick in mung noodle nest, babybel, cheese curl worms, berry flowers

Cora and I both were thinking of Spring this morning. I was contemplating trees and birds, but Cora wanted butterflies. Since I was exhausted from three nights of very little sleep (Cora has a cough that is killing me!), I was thrilled she wanted something so easy. So, here we have butterfly lunch number two thousand and ten(ish).

Almond butter and marmalade sandwiches with fruit leather features, hummus frozen into flower and butterfly shapes, babybel with butterfly cut out, pop chips, melon butterflies

I went a little overboard on lunch today!

Almond butter and jelly heart sandwich with fruit leather cutout, multigrain toast with strawberry cream cheese and raspberries, pink mung noodles (dyed with cabbage water and a splash of vinegar) with red pepper and cheese mini hearts and cherry tomato heart with a pick arrow, ‘lavender’ dyed egg (using cabbage water and not enough vinegar, it later turned blue!), babybel cheese with a heart cut out, watermelon hearts

I also made her a valentine 🙂

On another related note, I got the best Valentine’s Day present ever from my hubby – a Veggie-Bento t-shirt. So sweet AND creative!

This lunch is part of the Bento Bloggers & Friends Valentine’s Day Hop. The logo above links to Karen’s site John’s Lunch Bag, which is perfect ‘cuz I love her site!

We are still into cute little Pinky. Today she dresses up as a cute little bunny for Valentine’s Day

Papusa girl dressed in bunny suit with cheese features, papusa hearts, baked bbq chips, cheese and fruit leather accents, pink bunny egg (died with beet water), honeydew and pineapple hearts

And back to the adventures of Pinky again! This time she is playing pirate and trying to find buried treasure

Almond butter and jelly girl sandwich with fruit leather and pink soy paper features, macaroni and cheese with fruit gummies treasures, carrots and dip, pineapple and honeydew triangles