One Lovely Blog & Very Inspiring Blogger Award

I would like to start by thanking Bobbi at Bobbi's Bentos for nominating my blog for the One Lovely Blog & Very Inspiring Blogger award!  Pretty fun!!



When a blog wins this award they must spread the love by:
Thanking and linking back to the person who nominated them, telling seven things about themselves, and nominating 15 other bloggers by commenting on their blogs to let them know.

Well let's see...seven things about me.

1.  I work part time as an IT audit manager and am a full time mom to my 2 daughters.

2. I LOVE traveling and am usually in the process of planning our next vacation (sometimes before we can home from the last!)

3.  My girls are fantastic eaters and I make sure they have a fruit and veggie in pretty much ever meal but am secretly a terrible eater myself.

4.   I've never had a McDonald's hamburger, of any kind.

5.  I'm training for a 5K but haven't found the love for running that everyone talks about.

6.  We have 3 pets - 1 puppy and 2 kitties. 

7.  I secretly want to be "Belle" at Walt Disney World.

There are so many amazing blogs out there but here are 15 of my favorites!

Bent on Better Lunches

Another Lunch

What's for Lunch at Our House

Wendolonia

Daily Bloom

Happy Little Bento

Family Fresh Meals

Bentobloggy
Bento School Lunches
Our Lunch Bags
Creative Food

Sonoma Bento

Bentoriffic

Keeley Mcguire's Blog

Meet the Dubiens

Your blogs have been an inspiration to me. I admire all of you and I am excited to spread the love!  Here's an award button if you choose to display it:

Teddy Bear

• Teddy Bear sandwich with a crust ears and snout and a cucumber peel nose.
• Carrots with ranch
• Clementine flower with a red grape center
• Pretzel snaps
• Mini candy bar

Roll-Ups

• Salami, herb cream cheese on a whole wheat tortilla roll-ups
• Build-Your-Own "Ants on a Log" (celery sticks, peanut butter, and raisins)
• Pretzel snaps
• Pineapple and blueberries
• Mini candy bar

Flower Power

• Sandwich, cut with the Pampered Chef sandwich cutter
• Cheddar flowers
• Cucumber slices with ranch
• Raspberry and blueberry flowers
• Pistachios (note, the container they are in has a clear plastic lid because I was afraid they wouldn't stay put on their own)
• Mini candy bar

Up, up and away!!!

We're flying high into the new school year!   We recently saw a hot air balloon flying through the evening sky.  This was a sight I saw often when I was growing up and it was fun to share it with my girls.  This lunch was inspired by that :)

• Sandwich with a hot air balloon made from a tortilla colored with food safe markers, spaghetti and bread crust for the basket.
• Peas
• Grapes with a balloon pick
• Cheddar balloons
• Hershey kiss

A Couple More Horse Camp Lunches

 - Horse-shaped sandwich with an icing eye and the crust of the bread used for the mane and tail.  As to avoid wasting sandwich, I cut small hearts out of what was left after I cut out the horse.
- Carrots with ranch
- Clementine and grape flower
- Hershey's Chocolate Nugget

These lunches went together to spell "Horse Camp"

- Roll-up (My youngest had PB&J, of course and my oldest had salami and cream cheese) with letter picks
- Fruit (My youngest has a clementine and grape flower and my oldest has red grapes)
- Carrots and cucumber slices with ranch
- Swedish Fish

Peace. Love. Horses.

Hello again!  Did you miss me?!   Sorry I haven't posted in awhile.   We've been having a ton of fun this summer and I've been taking a break from lunches.  Well, not a complete break...We've still been eating lunch...just not going to extremes to make them cute.)  But, the girls are going to a horse camp this week so it's backed to packed lunches for a week.  I find that it's very difficult for me to pack a bento style lunch without doing something to it.  So tomorrow, it's "Peace, Love, and Horses"

• 2 rectangle sandwiches (stacked) with a cheddar peace sign, heart and horse, decorated with food safe markers.
• Raspberries (don't they look delicious?!)
• Broccoli with ranch
• Pretzel snaps
• Hershey nugget