School Days

Sometimes I am really thankful that my daughters don't follow bento blogs.  Because if they did, they would not be nearly as impressed with today's lunch.   Today's lunch was completely inspired by this lunch made by my friend Rina at Bento School Lunches.  I didn't even change the math equation!!  I want to make sure to give her credit for her adorable lunch...but I'm not going to share it with my girls ;-)

• PB and honey sandwich made on whole wheat bread, decorated with food safe markers to look like a piece of notebook paper.  I used strawberry fruit leather and Wilton's number cutters to make the math equation
• Strawberries with a school-themed pick
• Carrots and celery with ranch
• Cheese stick decorated with markers (I know I have seen this idea somewhere but can't find where to give credit.  If you know, please leave a comment)
• Hershey kisses

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

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First Day of School!

After taking the summer off, we are back in business as today was the first day of school!  I now have a middle schooler (ACK!) and a 4th grader.  The middle schooler has requested "no more cute lunches" but we are going to continue to pack "bento style" because it's environmentally friendly.

My 4th grader specifically requested a "pencil lunch" for the first day:

For my 6th grader, we kept it more simple:

Both lunches contained:

• PB&J Sandwich.   For the pencil, I just used food-safe markers to decorate it.
• Carrots or Broccoli with ranch
• Raspberries
• Oreos 

Plus, I included a Lunchbox Love Note to let them know I was thinking of them!

Listed below are the items, or similar items, I used when creating this lunch:

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Back to School Bus

The inspiration train continues...Today's lunch was inspired by Rina from Bento School Lunches, who was inspired by Jill from Kitchenfunwithmy3sons.

Even though we're finishing up our third week of school already (time flies when you're having fun?!) there are still kiddos just starting back.  So, today's lunch was a back-to-school bus theme.  The first thing both my daughters noticed was that all the passengers were girls!  That really wasn't intentional...I was just going with the picks that I had ;-)

 

• School bus shaped sandwich decorated with cheddar cheese, cucumber peel, black olives and people picks
• Sugar snap peas and carrots with ranch
• Blueberries and strawberry slices with a school themed cupcake pick
• Hershey kisses

I always include a Lunchbox Love Note in with the girls' lunches.  As I've mentioned before, they LOVE them and love sharing the trivia fact that's on the back of each card with their friends at the lunch table.   I don't always remember to include the note in the picture when I photograph the lunch but this one was too perfect, I just had to make sure I included it!

 

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

 

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First Day of School

It's the first day of school already!  I'm not going to lie, I'm fighting back tears.   I was NOT ready for summer to be over so soon.  Plus, with a 3rd and 5th grader this year, my babies are growing up.  *sniff sniff*

On to happier things...Here is the lunch I put together for the first day:

• Sandwich decorated with cheese and a leaf pick
• Broccoli and ranch and a school themed cupcake pick
• Red grapes
• Smarties

I got the idea for the Smarties from Pinterest. 

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


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