Welcome Elves!!

Our Elves, Dasher and Cupcake, come every year on December 1st. The girls have been counting down the days until they come. So, why not have a bento lunch to celebrate their arrival back from the North Pole!

Here are what Cupcake and Dasher look like:

The Cupcake inspired lunch:

The Dasher inspired lunch:

• 2 Elf shaped sandwiches (stacked). Their hats are provolone cheese that I painted (using a paint brush) with gel food coloring. Their cheeks are also food coloring that I painted on. Their eyes and mouth are cucumber peel and a bit of extra bread for their noses and ears. Their hair is made from the crust of the bread.


• Strawberries and blueberries with a candy cane pick


• Carrots with ranch


• Reeses peanut butter bells

Pretty Snowflakes, Pretty Snowflakes...

In celebration (Bah-hum-bug!!) of our first snow, today's lunch has a snowflake theme. At least the girls are excited about the snow.

• PB&J sandwich cut out with the Pampered Chef sandwich cutter and provolone snowflakes.


• Raspberries and blackberries with a snowglobe cupcake pick


• Peas


• Dove chocolate

**I was afraid this lunch was a little small so I threw some pretzel snaps in by the sandwich after I had taken the picture.

O Christmas Tree

I am not happy that these shorter days are affecting my ability to take pictures in natural light. Sorry for the picture quality!

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  2 Christmas tree shaped sandwiches (stacked) with mini M&M ornaments and a cheddar star


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  Strawberry slices with a Christmas tree pick


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  Cheddar trees


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  Cucumber and tomato slices with ranch


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  2 Reeses bells

Let the Christmas Bentos Begin!

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us (I hope everyone had a wonderful one!) it's time for Christmas themed bentos. I'm starting them off with a Rudolph themed lunch.

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  2 reindeer shaped sandwiches with crust antlers, a cherry tomato nose and icing eyes.


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  Carrots with ranch


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  Red grapes with a Christmas tree pick


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  Hershey Kisses

Give Thanks!

• Ham and cheddar roll-ups with "Give Thanks" letter picks


• Blackberries and raspberries


• Steamed broccoli with ranch


• String cheese


• Cornucopia snacks (i.e. Bugles)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

Turkey Feathers

My inspiration for this lunch was Tommy the Turkey.

• 2 circle-shaped sandwiches with a carrot beak, icing eyes and an apple skin gobbler
• Apple slices with peanut butter
• Carrots with ranch
• Hershey Kisses

  Click here for links to other Thanksgiving Themed lunches:  

Turkey Day is on It's Way!

And here's a lunch to celebrate:

• 2 Turkey-shaped peanut butter and honey sandwiches (stacked) with cheddar foot and beak, fruit leather gobbler, and an icing eye


• Strawberries and blackberries


• Carrots with ranch


• Mini PB Snickers bar