Birds in a Bird House

I'm taking a little break from the fall themed bentos.

• Bird House-shaped sandwich. I used the brown crust to accent the house and decorated it with cheddar birds.


• Carrots with ranch


• Grapes with a bird house pick


• Nestle Crunch bar

Happy Birthday Bento!

Happy Birthday...to me! You know how I love a theme, so I made a bento to celebrate my birthday :)

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  2 party hat-shaped sandwiches with cheddar and provolone decorations



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  Clementine with a clown pick



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  Carrots and cucumber slices with ranch



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  Snickers bar

Field Trip Bento

H's class is going on a field trip and she needs a completely disposable lunch. I had remembered seeing "field trip lunches" over at Happy Little Bento and thought it was a great way to pack a bento style lunch in a disposable container.

I started out with a strawberry container which I washed and then lined with parchment paper. Instead of my standard silicone cups, I used paper jumbo-sized cupcake liners. The picks I used came from a box of 100 so I'm ok if they get tossed (this time).

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  Peanut Butter and jelly on whole wheat (it won't be refrigerated so I didn't want to send anything that might spoil).


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  Cucumber slices with cherry tomatoes


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  Red grapes


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  Kit Kat bar

All closed up and ready to go! (I actually added a piece of parchment to the top too to help keep everything packed in and because there are holes in the top of the container.)

This is pretty much the same lunch but packed in a more "normal" way.

• PB&J on whole wheat in the shape of a teddy bear


• Cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices and ranch


• Red grapes


• Mr. Good Bar

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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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

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

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!