Mummy for Her Tummy

Completely inspired by Cristi's Mummy on a Stick over at BentOnBetterLunches came this slightly modified mummy:

• Tortilla with herb cream cheese and salami, decorated with icing eyes and cucumber peel
• Grapes with adorable mummy ring (which I won from AllthingsforSale.com's Halloween giveaway -- woot woot!)
• Cucumber slices
• Cheese stick
• Hershey Kisses

The following are the products (or similiar products) that I used to create this lunch:

My CuteZCute Came!

You know the expression "It's the little things that make you happy"?  Today my "little thing" was my CuteZCute coming in the mail!  I have been SO excited to try this thing out.  Many of my bento buddies have been making lots of adorable lunches with this new product and I was dying to get one of my own!  Thank you JeeJee from AllThingsforSale.com for making my day!

• 2 panda-shaped sandwiches (stacked) made with the CuteZCute and decorated with strawberry fruit leather, dyed provolone and a bow pick.
• Carrots with ranch
• Blackberries and raspberries with a panda pick
• Cheese stick
• York peppermint

Check out this Pinterest Board for l ots of other adorable lunches made with the CuteZCute!

These are the products (or similiar products) I used to create this lunch:

Food Picks

Sauce Cups

Mummy Loves You!

It's time to start Halloween Bentos -- YEA!!!!

• 2 circle-shaped sandwiches (stacked) decorated to look like a mummy using provolone cheese, icing eyes and cucumber peel
• Cucumber and tomato slices
• Strawberries and fresh pineapple
• Mini candy bar

The links below are for the products (or similiar products) that I used when making this lunch:

The Kissing Hand

For those that have followed my blog for awhile, you've seen this lunch (or something very similar) before.   Every time I go out of town without my kids (which isn't very often) I make them a lunch inspired by the book The Kissing Hand to remind them that I'll be thinking of them while I'm gone.  Last weekend, my husband and I went away to celebrate our 14th Anniversary (yea for us!) so I made the girls this lunch on the day we left:

• Hand-shaped sandwich with a strawberry fruit leather heart
• Peas
• Strawberry hearts with blackberries
• Hershey's KISSES

World Animal Day Hop

Today is "World Animal Day" so my bento blogging buddies have put together a treat for you!   We've each chosen a different animal to theme a lunch around...As you click through the hop, it will be like a walk around the zoo!!

I chose fish because the aquarium is one of our favorite exhibits at our zoo.  It's a "must see", every time we go.

• 2 fishy sandwiches with cheese and icing eyes decorations.  I used the crust of bread for the fins.
• Blackberry and raspberries on fishy picks
• Sugar snap peas with ranch (they are supposed to represent the reeds)
• "Cookies and Creme" goldfish crackers

Click here to see the next animal on exhibit at A Boy and His Lunch.

She Plays the Violin

My oldest recently started taking violin lessons through the school.  So far, she LOVES it.  So, I made her a bento lunch on "lesson day".

• Violin-shaped sandwich decorated using brown food coloring, angel hair noodles and bread crust.  The pretzel rod is supposed to be the bow.  I know it's WAY to big for the violin but what's a girl to do?
• Babybel with music note cut-out
• Carrots with ranch (ranch is hidden under a layer of carrots) with "MUSIC" picks
• Blackberries with music note picks
• Hershey kisses (under the carrots)

It's Fall Y'All!

Follow this link for the beautiful lunch my bento buddy, Glory, put together which inspired me to create the lunch below: 

• Sandwich decorated with food safe markers and Colby cheddar "fall" letters
• Apple leaves
• Broccoli and carrots with ranch
• Cheddar pumpkins