Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone - last Halloween lunch of the season!

• Ghost-shaped sandwich with a piece of white American cheese on top.  I used a straw to cut out the ghost's mouth and eyes.
• Carrot sticks and ranch
• Apple slices with small ghost cut-outs
• Mini candy bar

Here are some of the products I used when making this lunch:

Vampires!

I love it when something new comes to me.   I was making sandwiches today and it hit me...could I make that look like Dracula? 

Here's what I came up with:

• Sandwich on a whole wheat bun.  I carved a bit of the top of the bun off to leave a part for his face.   Eyebrows and mouth are made from the carved away bread, icing eyes and fruit leather fangs.
• Kiwi Vampire with cheddar eyes and fruit leather fangs.
• Cheese stick
• Broccoli and ranch
• Mini snickers bar

Spiders



•  Sandwich made with Pampered Chef cutter, decorated white chocolate web and a raisin spider (inspired by these raisin bugs by Michelle at Creative Food)
• Blackberries with a spider pick
• Babybel with a web cut-out a a spider pick
• Carrots with ranch
• Mini candy bar

To make the white chocolate web, I printed this web template and followed the instructions:

Here are some of the items I used when making this lunch:



Halloween Witch!

• Witch Hat-shaped sandwich with a cheddar decoration
• Cucumber slices with ranch
• Raspberries with a cute witch pick (Thanks Sarah at Bentoriffic!)
• Babybel cheese with a witch hat cut-out
• Pretzel "Witch fingers"
• Hershey Kisses

Couple of More Halloween Lunches

Sorry I have been MIA for a few days...Here are a couple lunches to catch you up.

• Salami and herb cream cheese roll-ups with Halloween picks
• Red and green grapes with a pumpkin pick
• Carrots and sugar snap peas with ranch, and a ghost pick
• Cheese stick
• Mini candy bar 

• 2 skull shaped sandwiches
• Raspberries with a skull pick (thanks Alex from LunchwithEyeness)
• Sugar snap peas and ranch
• Hershey kisses 

Close up of sandwich to show detail

Here are some of the products I used when making these lunches:

Halloween Hop

Are you ready for Halloween?  My bento buddies and I have put together a Halloween Hop to give you lots of Halloween lunch ideas. From scary to adorable, you'll find it all if you hop through Halloween by following the links provided in each post.

My oldest has a Frankenstein themed lunch:

• 2 Frankenstein-shaped sandwiches (stacked), decorated with cheddar (shirt), cucumber peel and a Frankenstein face cupcake ring
• Carrots with ranch
• Frankenstein kiwi (inspired by this one at Another Lunch)
• Babybel cheese with a ghost cut-out, decorated with a food safe marker
• Mini candy bar

My youngest wanted a pumpkin themed lunch:

• Pumpkin shaped sandwich.  Normally, I would have decorated it with cheese but my youngest is not a super fan of cheese on top of her sandwich.  So, I just pressed the face print into the bread and then added a little outline with food safe color to make it pop.
• Broccoli with ranch, and a pumpkin pick
• Clementine with a jack-o-lantern face cut out
• Bat, pumpkin and moon shaped marshmallows

Ready to hop?  Check out Dina's Halloween post over at What The Girls Are Having!

Here are some of the products (or similar products) that I used when created these lunches.

Trick or Treat? We like Treats!

• 2 cauldron-shaped sandwiches (stacked), filled with candy picks and decorated with cheddar letters
• Peas (in a mini dipper cup).  Note: The cup has a lid that I added after I took the picture so that the peas stay put)
• Raspberries and blackberries with a witch's hat
• Mini bag of M&Ms

In addition to the products linked above, here are some of the other products I used when creating this lunch: