MB Original Bento Box

I am excited to announce Bento-logy's partnership with monbento® company, the first French brand in nomad tableware and kitchenware.  As part of this partnership, they graciously offered to send some of their products for us to test.  My daughters are SUPER excited about the new box and accessories.   Although monbento offers a huge array of colors, we selected blue in case Daddy might want to use it too.   The biggest question was who got to use it first?!

The box we selected has 2 tiers.  Each tier has a valve you can open when heating food up. My daughters probably won't use that feature since they can't heat up lunches at school.  But, my husband and I definitely will when we take leftovers to work.   The lids seem to fit tightly but are easy enough my youngest daughter (who is 8) can get them open.   The box appears to be very high quality.

• Salad containing lettuce, spinach, peas, carrots, broccoli, grape tomatoes and green olives.  It is decorated with 2 snowflake cupcake picks.  The 2 small cups in the top tier contain Italian salad dressing.  One cup might have been enough but I wasn't sure so I included two.   I also included some croutons (or "salad crackers" as my daughters like to call them) in the second tier too. 
• Peanut butter/wheat cracker sandwiches
• Strawberries
• Ghiradelli chocolate
• monbento silverware set 

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In addition to the products mentioned above, here are some of the other products, or similar products, I used when creating this lunch:

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Summer Salad at School

My daughters have requested that I pack a salad for them at least once a week this school year.   So, today was their first of the year!  I went with a heart theme to remind them that I love them.

 

• Salad made with romaine lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, carrots, celery, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and a hard boiled egg, for added protein.   I used an egg mold to shape the egg into a heart and decorated it with heart picks.   The salad dressing is in a Mini Dipper container.
• Vanilla yogurt with a strawberry heart, stored in a Mini Dipper container
• Fresh pineapple and blueberries and a heart pick
• 2 Dove chocolates

I enclosed a Lunchbox Love Note to give them a sweet message and some trivia to enjoy while they eat.   Guess what!... Say Please Inc, the makers of Lunchbox Love Notes has offered me the opportunity to do a giveaway for Lunchbox Love Notes so stay tuned!!

 

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

 

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Chicken Salad

A yummy fresh lunch and a little twist to the standard sandwich:

• Chicken salad sandwich on a pretzel roll (To avoid it getting soggy, I packed the chicken salad separate from the roll and included a spoon so she could build it herself)
• Celery with peanut butter
• Blackberries with flower picks
• Hershey's milk chocolate Nugget

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Spring Time Salad

We're still feeling the sandwich rut so the girls had a salad as an alternative:

 

• Salad made with romaine lettuce, spinach, broccoli, carrots, celery, cucumber and cherry tomatoes and Italian dressing
• Hard boiled egg, shaped like a flower with bug picks
• Peanut butter on "spring" Ritz crackers
• Fresh pineapple with a flower pick

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Springtime Salad

My daughters informed me they are getting a little tired of sandwiches.  (I don't blame them!) So, we are going to try to mix things up a bit by packing some non-sandwich lunches throughout the week.    Today, they are both having salads.

• Salad made with lettuce, spinach, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, cucumbers, carrots and a hard boiled egg.  Packed with Italian dressing.
• Raspberries/blueberry flowers
• Pretzel thins
• Hershey Kisses

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

Salad!

My youngest daughter LOVES salad!  She was so excited when she saw the lunch I was making her...it was adorable!  It was nice to make something other than a PB&J for a change!  This is my second time using our new Yubo lunch box.   I have to say, I really like it!  It's on the large size, but the girls don't seems to mind and it gives me a lot of space to work with!

• Romaine lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, carrots and cherry tomatoes with Italian dressing on the side.  I used small heart cutters to make the cucumbers and carrots into hearts.
• Vanilla yogurt with a strawberry heart
• "Healthy" chocolate muffin with "XOXO" sprinkles.   Note:  I made the muffins according to the directions in the link.   However, instead of a sugar substitute, I made them with real sugar.  I would prefer my girls to have the "real stuff", even if it makes them higher calorie. And, no, mine look NOTHING like the picture on the website but they taste REALLY good!

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