Bento-logy: October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Puppies for the Author Visit

Tomorrow, the girls' school is hosting a visit from the author Sandra Phillipson. In preparation for the visit, the whole school has learned about the author, read her books, made artwork and other various projects. Many of the main characters in her books are dogs. In fact, 2 of her dogs are coming with her tomorrow. The girls are VERY excited! So, in celebration of her visit, I made doggie bentos:

2 bone-shaped sandwiches with fruit leather hearts

Cheddar "Scottie dogs"

Carrots with ranch

Strawberry slices with blueberries on puppy picks

Dog bone-shaped graham cracker sticks.

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Last Halloween Bento!

Wow, where did the month go? I can't believe Halloween is already here!

Peanut butter cracker "spider" sandwiches (peanut butter on whole wheat crackers with pretzel stick legs and icing eyes)

Peas with a spider pick

Babybel "spider"

Raspberries with a spider pick

Yogurt covered pretzels

Friday, October 28, 2011

Bat to Basics

I had a crazy busy day which equals a very simple lunch:

Turkey and cheddar with honey mustard on a whole wheat sandwich thin with a cheddar bat. The bat's face is made from cucumber peel.

Sliced strawberries with a bat pick

Carrots with ranch

Mini Milky Way

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Itsy Bitsy Spider

3 spider-shaped sandwiches with icing eyes

Cucumber and tomato slices with ranch and a creepy spider pick

Sliced strawberries

String Cheese

White chocolate spider web*

*Ok, I know my "web" looks more like a snowflake but hopefully in context they will know it's a web. On the bright side, I'll have to remember the snowflake idea come January!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Candy Corn Lunch

Hopefully the girls will enjoy this sweet treat lunch:

2 candy corn-shaped sandwiches (stacked). The "candy corn" on top is made from a piece of provolone that I colored yellow with a food safe marker and then put a strip of cheddar in the center for the yellow/orange/white effect.

Carrots with ranch

Red and green grapes with a "Happy Halloween" pick

Candy corn (of course!!)

It's Haley's turn to eat lunch with the principal. She's a dog fan so we made her a puppy theme lunch.

2 ham and cheddar puppy-shaped sandwiches

Carrots with ranch (in a puppy cup)

Red and Green grapes with puppy picks

Hershey Kisses

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Ghostly Lunch

The girls have slightly different lunches so I'll post a picture of both:

Turkey and cheddar on a whole wheat sandwich thin with a provolone ghost. His features are made from cucumber skin.

BOO-berry yogurt with fresh BOO-berries, meant to look like a ghost face

Celery with peanut butter

Red grapes with ghost pick

Black and orange Hershey Kisses

PB&J on whole wheat cut out with the Pamper Chef sandwich cutter topped with a provolone ghost with cucumber features.

BOO-berry yogurt with fresh BOO-berries, meant to look like a ghost face

Clementine with a ghost pick

Build-Your-Own "Ants on a Log" (i.e. celery sticks, peanut butter and raisins)

Black and orange Hershey Kisses

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Going Batty!

2 circle sandwiches (H has ham and cheddar and A has PB&J) with a bat pick. (If you look closely, you might see that I used a Wilton Cookie Stamp of a bat on the top of the sandwich, but I didn't think it showed up well enough (it's actually more visible in the picture than it is in real life))

Salad (H has a regular garden salad and A has a spinach salad) with orange tomatoes and Italian salad dressing. I carved one tomato to look like a jack-o-lantern.

Strawberry slices with blueberries on bat picks.

Pretzel snaps

String cheese

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Happy Halloween in LunchBot Trios

Ham and cheddar roll-ups

Carrots, cucumber slices and ranch

Strawberry slices

Cheddar pumpkins

Twix candy bar

PB&J pinwheels

Carrots, cucumber slices and ranch

Cheddar pumpkins

Clementine jack-o-lantern

Twix candy bar

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Bats and Spiders and Lunch...Oh my!

2 bat-shaped sandwiches (one daughter has ham and cheese with honey mustard and the other, PB&J, of course!) I decorated the bats with icing eyes and a red sprinkle for the mouth.

Steamed broccoli in a spider cup with a "Boo!" pick. Ranch for dipping is in the yellow cup.

Babybel cheese with a bat cut out

Red and green grape kabobs on spider and bat picks

Candy corn

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Boo-tiful Lunch!

Ghost-shaped salami and cheese or PB&J on whole wheat sandwich topped with a tortilla ghost. (I was going to top it with a provolone ghost but the slice of cheese wasn't large enough.)

Blackberries with a ghost pick

Carrots with ranch

String cheese ghost

Candy corn

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Jolly Jack-O-Lanterns

Normally, the girls have identical lunches, except for the type of sandwich. But, these lunches ended up a little different so I thought I'd post a picture of both.

H's Lunch:

Turkey and cheddar on whole wheat. She has a cheddar jack-o-lantern accented with brown crust for the stem and a leaf pick

Cucumber and orange tomato kabobs on pumpkin picks with ranch

Strawberries with a pumpkin pick (H doesn't like clementines)

Candy pumpkins

A's Lunch:

Ave isn't a fan of large pieces of cheese on her sandwich so instead of doing the cheddar pumpkin, I just used the cut-outs from H's sandwich to decorate Ave's sandwich. I also decorated hers with brown crust for the stem and a leaf pick.

A Clementine jack-o-lantern

Cucumber and orange tomatoes on a pumpkin pick

Candy pumpkins

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Pumpkin Patch

Salami and herb cream cheese in a whole wheat mini pita with a cheddar pumpkin and lettuce "grass"

Tomato and cucumber slices with ranch with a scarecrow pick

Blackberries

Pumpkin candies

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Wacky Witch

Witch-shaped sandwich. I used cucumber peel for her hat and broom stick, cheddar for the band on the hat and the broom, carrot sticks for hair, icing eye and a red sprinkle for her mouth.

Carrots and ranch

Cheese moon with a witch pick

Red grapes with a witch hat

Mini Milky Way

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Scary Skeleton

Hopefully this lunch won't be too scary to eat!

2 skeleton-shaped sandwiches (stacked). His face his made from fruit leather. Nori would have worked better but I didn't have any.

Cucumber slices with ranch

Blackberries with a skeleton pick

Babybel with a skeleton cut out. His face is made from cucumber peel.

Mini Milky Way

This girls have a new principal at their school this year. She spends almost every lunch period in the cafeteria interacting with the kids (which I love). Almost every day she checks out the girls lunches and comments that she wishes I'd make her one too. I assumed she was kidding but I ran into her the other day and she mentioned it to me. So, we made plans for her to have a bento lunch with the girls. I hope she likes it!