Making Lunch Fun, One Box at a Time

ben·tol·o·gy (ben t äləjē) Noun : The study of making nutritious and fun lunches for my daughters.

I get a lot of inspiration from other blogs. So, in hopes someone might get some inspiration from me, I've decided to post some pictures here.

This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.Proverbs 3:7-9

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Candy Corn Lunch

Hopefully the girls will enjoy this sweet treat lunch:






  • 2 candy corn-shaped sandwiches (stacked). The "candy corn" on top is made from a piece of provolone that I colored yellow with a food safe marker and then put a strip of cheddar in the center for the yellow/orange/white effect.


  • Carrots with ranch


  • Red and green grapes with a "Happy Halloween" pick


  • Candy corn (of course!!)

It's Haley's turn to eat lunch with the principal. She's a dog fan so we made her a puppy theme lunch.




  • 2 ham and cheddar puppy-shaped sandwiches

  • Carrots with ranch (in a puppy cup)

  • Red and Green grapes with puppy picks

  • Hershey Kisses

Check out the following link for other lunch ideas!


Bento Lunch

Monday, October 24, 2011

Ghostly Lunch

The girls have slightly different lunches so I'll post a picture of both:





  • Turkey and cheddar on a whole wheat sandwich thin with a provolone ghost. His features are made from cucumber skin.

  • BOO-berry yogurt with fresh BOO-berries, meant to look like a ghost face

  • Celery with peanut butter

  • Red grapes with ghost pick

  • Black and orange Hershey Kisses



  • PB&J on whole wheat cut out with the Pamper Chef sandwich cutter topped with a provolone ghost with cucumber features.

  • BOO-berry yogurt with fresh BOO-berries, meant to look like a ghost face

  • Clementine with a ghost pick

  • Build-Your-Own "Ants on a Log" (i.e. celery sticks, peanut butter and raisins)

  • Black and orange Hershey Kisses

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Going Batty!




  • 2 circle sandwiches (H has ham and cheddar and A has PB&J) with a bat pick. (If you look closely, you might see that I used a Wilton Cookie Stamp of a bat on the top of the sandwich, but I didn't think it showed up well enough (it's actually more visible in the picture than it is in real life))


  • Salad (H has a regular garden salad and A has a spinach salad) with orange tomatoes and Italian salad dressing. I carved one tomato to look like a jack-o-lantern.


  • Strawberry slices with blueberries on bat picks.


  • Pretzel snaps


  • String cheese

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Happy Halloween in LunchBot Trios




  • Ham and cheddar roll-ups

  • Carrots, cucumber slices and ranch

  • Strawberry slices

  • Cheddar pumpkins

  • Twix candy bar



  • PB&J pinwheels

  • Carrots, cucumber slices and ranch

  • Cheddar pumpkins

  • Clementine jack-o-lantern

  • Twix candy bar

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Bats and Spiders and Lunch...Oh my!



  • 2 bat-shaped sandwiches (one daughter has ham and cheese with honey mustard and the other, PB&J, of course!) I decorated the bats with icing eyes and a red sprinkle for the mouth.

  • Steamed broccoli in a spider cup with a "Boo!" pick. Ranch for dipping is in the yellow cup.

  • Babybel cheese with a bat cut out

  • Red and green grape kabobs on spider and bat picks

  • Candy corn

Check out What's for Lunch Wednesday for other lunch ideas!

Monday, October 17, 2011

Boo-tiful Lunch!




  • Ghost-shaped salami and cheese or PB&J on whole wheat sandwich topped with a tortilla ghost. (I was going to top it with a provolone ghost but the slice of cheese wasn't large enough.)

  • Blackberries with a ghost pick

  • Carrots with ranch

  • String cheese ghost

  • Candy corn

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Jolly Jack-O-Lanterns

Normally, the girls have identical lunches, except for the type of sandwich. But, these lunches ended up a little different so I thought I'd post a picture of both.

H's Lunch:






  • Turkey and cheddar on whole wheat. She has a cheddar jack-o-lantern accented with brown crust for the stem and a leaf pick


  • Cucumber and orange tomato kabobs on pumpkin picks with ranch


  • Strawberries with a pumpkin pick (H doesn't like clementines)


  • Candy pumpkins

A's Lunch:





  • Ave isn't a fan of large pieces of cheese on her sandwich so instead of doing the cheddar pumpkin, I just used the cut-outs from H's sandwich to decorate Ave's sandwich. I also decorated hers with brown crust for the stem and a leaf pick.


  • A Clementine jack-o-lantern


  • Cucumber and orange tomatoes on a pumpkin pick


  • Candy pumpkins