Another Rudolph Lunch

I know, I've already done a Rudolph lunch but he's so cute, he deserves another.  After all, he is the most famous reindeer of all!!

 

• 2 reindeer-shaped sandwiches (stacked), decorated with icing eyes, a cherry tomato nose and crust of the bread for the antlers
• Spinach and tomato salad with Italian dressing
• Fresh pineapple chunks with a Christmas Tree cupcake pick
• Peppermint dipped pretzel stars
• Lunchbox Love Note from the Christmas series

Here are some of the items, or similar items, I used when creating this lunch:

 

 

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Kid Created Christmas Bentos

I have been super busy with work (and life!) so my kids got into the fun and created some Christmas themed lunches for themselves!

My 8 year old made herself this lunch:

• Stocking-shaped sandwich decorated with food safe markers
• Clementine flower with a raspberry center
• Peas
• Peppermint covered pretzel stars

And my 10 year old made this one: 

• Christmas tree-shaped sandwiches (stacked), decorated with food safe markers
• Raspberries with a Christmas tree pick
• Peas
• Peppermint covered pretzel stars

Here are some of the items, or similar items, they used when creating these lunches:

 

Deck the lunch with boughs of holly

Fa la la la la, la la la la!...Cucumber and cherry tomato "holly"!

 

• 2 circle-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated with food safe markers and a ring pick to look like an ornament
• Red grapes with a ornament cupcake pick
• Cucumber slices that I cut using a leaf shaped cookie stamp, and cherry tomatoes
• Peppermint dipped pretzel stars
• Lunchbox Love Note from the Christmas series

In addition to the product links above, here are some of the other items, or similar items, that I used when creating this lunch:

 

 

 

You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixon...

...Comet, and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen...
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?

• 2 reindeer sandwiches (circle-shaped sandwiches decorated with icing eyes, a red M&M and food safe markers)
• Strawberries with a Christmas tree pick
• Broccoli with a "Merry Christmas" pick and ranch
• Pretzel crisps
• Hershey kisses
• Lunchbox Love Note from Christmas series

And the Stockings were Hung by the Chimney with Care

Talk about a super quick and easy lunch!

• 2 rectangle-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated to look like a mantle using the crust of the bread and stocking picks
• Raspberries with a stocking pick
• Carrots with ranch
• Pretzels
• Dove Milk Chocolate Promises

Here are some of the items that I used when making this lunch:

Santa and Rudolph

I made these doughnuts for the girls to take to a Christmas party this weekend.  (Thanks Pinterest!) As you may have seen, I've made the snowman doughnuts in the girls' lunches before.  My youngest specifically asked me if I'd make one of the Rudolph ones for her lunch.   

I've made quite a few reindeer sandwiches so far this year so I didn't want to go with a strictly reindeer theme.  What goes better with Rudolph than Santa?  So, pulling lots of inspiration from Michelle at Creative Foods (AGAIN!), I made this lunch:

• 2 circle-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated to look like Santa using strawberry fruit leather, white whole grain bread and sprinkles.
• Broccoli with ranch and a present pick
• Blackberries with a "Merry Christmas" pick
• Mini chocolate doughnut decorated to look like Rudolph using an M&M, icing eyes and pretzels

Here are some of the items, or similar items, that I used when creating this lunch:

Candy Canes

I am happy today!  I discovered a cookie cutter, cupcake picks, sprinkles store, called Smidge and Pinch, and it's right down the street from my house!  How dangerous is that?!?!?  A friend of my told mine about it the other day so I ventured in this morning to check it out.  It is super cute and has tons of great things that I'll be able to use in my bento lunches!   If you aren't lucky enough to live in central Ohio, you can check out their online store.
Anyway, so here's the lunch of the day:

• 2 candy cane-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated with salami and stabalized with parsley.
• Carrots and ranch with a candy cane pick
• Blackberries and fresh pineapple with a "Merry Christmas" pick (one of my purchases today at Smidge and Pinch!)
• Mini candy cane for dessert

Here are some of the products, or similiar products,  I used when creating this lunch:

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Had a Very Shiny Nose!

Completely inspired by this adorable Rudolph made by my bento buddy, Michelle at Creative Foods, I made a super simple but cute reindeer lunch!

• Circle shaped sandwich decorate to look like a reindeer using icing eyes, a cherry tomato and pretzels
• Holly veggies (Cucumber "leaves" and cherry tomato "berries") with ranch for dipping
• Raspberries with a Christmas tree pick
• Pretzels
• Hershey kisses

Here are some of the items I used to create this lunch:

The Big Man Himself!

• 2 Santa-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated with strawberry fruit leather, whole grain white bread and icing eyes
• Red Raspberries with a "Believe" cupcake pick
• Red and Green goldfish crackers with a Christmas tree cupcake pick
• Peas
• 2 Hershey Kisses

Here are some of the items (or similar items) that I used when creating this lunch:

Check out What's For Lunch Wednesday for other cute lunch ideas!

Elves!

I'm sure you are all familiar with the phenomenon of the Elf on the Shelf.  We have 2 at our house, Cupcake and Dasher.  They arrived from the North Pole on December 1st.   I had intended to do an elf lunch on the day they arrived.   But, it was the weekend and I wasn't feeling overly ambitious so...better late than never!

 

• 2 elf-shaped sandwiches, decorated with a cookie stamp
• Cucumber slices and ranch, with an elf cupcake ring
• Red grapes
• Simply Gogurt
• Mini doughnut decorated as a snowman, using candy corn and mini chocolate chips

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

I have made a sandwich similar to this in the past, but he's so cute that he makes me smile...So, I made him again!

• 2 reindeer-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated with the crust from the bread (antlers), icing eyes and a halved cheery tomato (nose)
• Kiwi and strawberry slices
• Broccoflower and ranch with a Rudolph cupcake ring
• Christmas colored goldfish crackers

Here are some of the items, or similar items,  I used when creating this lunch:

He's Coming to Town!

So, can you tell it's been a crazy busy week?  I think it shows in the creativity of the lunches but
what can you do?   

• Sandwich roll-ups, made from a whole wheat tortilla, herb cream cheese and salami.  Decorated with letter picks
• Carrots and ranch
• Red grapes with a Santa cupcake ring
• Babybel with "Ho Ho!" cut out
• Mini candy bar

Here are some of the items I used when making this lunch:

Quick and Easy Christmas Lunch

I have to say, I am loving the set of Christmas cookie cutter stamps that I got at Target.  The stamps make it so easy to add a little "something" to the cut-out.

This lunch was super easy to make.  However, when I was done, I wasn't thrilled with how monochromatic it came out...too much green.  Oh well, they can't all be winners!

• 2 sandwiches (stacked)
• Red grapes
• Broccoli, with a present pick, and ranch
• Hershey kisses

Here are a few of the items I used when making this lunch:

First Christmas Bento of the Year

With Thanksgiving over, it's time to move on to Christmas!!  We usually do all our decorating the day after Thanksgiving.  Because we were out of town, we haven't decorated yet, so I'm feeling a little behind.  But, at least I can decorate lunches!!

• Reindeer and sleigh shaped sandwiches, decorated with food safe markers
• Raspberries with a reindeer pick
• Sugar snap peas with cherry tomatoes and ranch
• Hershey Kisses

Here are some of the items I used when making this lunch: