Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer had a cherry tomato nose!

Ok, so that's not how the original song goes, but that's how Haley's lunch goes.

- 2 Salami and cheese on whole wheat reindeer sandwiches (stacked). His features are made from a cherry tomato nose, sugar eyes and fruit leather antlers.
- strawberries with a candy cane pick.
- Babybel cheese with a snowman cutout
- Carrots and cucumber slices

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I'm sure my excitement over the Christmas lunches will wear off, but so far I'm having oodles of fun :)

Both girls have the same lunch:

- PB&J on whole wheat Christmas tree sandwich. Garland and star are cheddar cheese and the ornaments are made from dyed provolone.

- red grapes with a Christmas tree pick

- cheddar cheese Christmas trees

- cucumber slice ornaments. The ornaments were based on an idea I saw in Family Fun this month. It is a cucumber slice with cream cheese decorated with red bell pepper slices, diced carrot and peas.

Here is a close up of the veggie ornament.

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Christmas Bentos Can Begin!

As you know, I have been quite anxious to get the Christmas bentos going. I had such a good time with the Halloween theme that I think the Christmas ones will be even more fun!

We're starting things out with Mr. Snowman. The girls are so anxious for the first big snow. My parents gave the girls Hallmark's "Count Down To Christmas" ornament so the girls have been counting the days down. Today Ave asked "How many days until it snows"...they don't make an ornament for that! ;)

Lunch: Turkey and cheese on whole wheat snowman. His hat and buttons are made from fruit leather and the holly on his hat is cucumber and tomato and of course, a carrot nose! She also has a cheddar cheese snowflake, strawberries with snowman picks, carrots and celery sticks with ranch and a couple Hershey kisses.

One Last Turkey

YEA!!!! LAST LUNCH UNTIL CHRISTMAS LUNCHES CAN BEGIN!!!!!

Can you tell I'm excited about getting to start making Christmas themed lunches? I got so many cute Christmas themed bento supplies for my birthday and I can't wait to bust them out!

But, alas, we have one more school lunch before Thanksgiving break. I made turkeys, one more time. This time, I used the food coloring technique to make multi-colored feathers.

They have the exact same lunch...2 PB&J sandwiches with provolone turkeys on top, celery and carrots with ranch and red grapes.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Slim Pickins'

We were out of town this weekend so I haven't been to the store yet - it was pretty slim pickins' at our house. This is what we came up with for lunch tomorrow:

Salad with cherry tomato flowers and italian dressing, cheddar flowers with wheat crackers, and pineapple slices with blueberries.

Ribbit Ribbit

Some new birthday bento supplies arrived today (thank you, Rachel!) so you know, I had to try them out right away. I got a fun froggie cutter and these cute froggie picks. I remembered a tutorial from one of my favorite bento blogs, Crouching Mother Hidden Toddler, and thought I'd give it a try. The girls helped me color the cheese and thought it was REALLY cool!!

Lunch: They have the same lunch with the exception of the type of sandwich. Haley's is ham and cheese and Avery's is...you guessed it...PB&J! They both have 2 frog sandwiches (stacked) with a colored provolone frog on top, carrots with ranch (I know that's a ton of carrots but I needed them to stabilize the sandwich. We'll see how they do with them), strawberries and blueberries and a cup of yogurt.