Super Bowl Football Lunch

It's Super Bowl XLVIII this weekend... are you ready for some football?  Pickle & Sailor Boy are!  They're rooting for the Seattle Seahawks of course, we do live on Whidbey Island, they are the home team :)  I packed a green & blue Seahawks football lunch in my Pickle's EasyLunchbox.  I don't follow the game myself but I like making my kidlet smile at lunch  ;)

I took a chance with that brown bread football!  He may not eat that part.  I know he'll eat the oatmeal bar cut in a football shape & decorated with cookie icing :)  The stuff in the blue cup is yogurt, coloured blue & sprinkled with green sanding sugar & chocoladehagel.  'Hawks is spelled out with alphabet bento picks, & a Lunchbox Love note reminds him that he's number one with me :)

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Some stuff I used to make this lunch:

Amazing Spider-Man Lunch!

Just so we're clear - the lunch was not amazing - but with help from some Marvel-ous accessories it became an "Amazing Spider-Man" themed lunch :)

Pickle hasn't wanted me to get creative with his sandwiches lately - he doesn't want any of the sandwich to be missing, not even the crust! So I've been making his plain lunches more fun with cupcake decorations, cookie stamps, Lunchbox Love notes, & other accessories:

For this lunch I used a Spider-Man cupcake liner (inside out so the comic side shows) so he uncovered the superhero when he ate his Oreos, topped his yogurt with star sprinkles, & stamped Spidey's face on his sandwich.

I stuck a Spider-Man cupcake pick in the end of the wrapped string cheese - I like how it looks like Spidey is crawling down it :) And finding a blue & red Lunchbox Love note that said "have an amazing day" was serendipitous!

Thanks to my friend Kendra for the Spidey spoon. With the Spider-Man ice pack, red BUILT bag, & blue lidded EasyLunchbox, everything matched.

I like when stuff is matchy :)  Here's some of the stuff I used for this lunch:

The BUILT bag isn't available in solid red anymore but we have several in different prints, love them - they are insulating, machine-washable, & fold flat. The Marvel cookie cutters are hard to find which is probably why they are priced so high... and the blue cup I packed the yogurt in is one of my favourites - aside from being just the right size for snacks & easy to open, it has a leak-proof seal & it fits perfectly in the EasyLunchbox!

Sproutlets Choice

Sproutlet's choice lunches today. Bean Sprout asked for fruit, chocolate, & a Go-Gurt in her Go Green Lunch Box. I gave her grapes, strawberries (with a little chocolate bar bento pick), chocolate yogurt covered raisins, chocolate graham stars, & a strawberry Go-Gurt.  I also put some reusable ice cubes in the yogurt section to keep it nice & chilly. 

Bella wanted soup & sides. She got tomato & noodles in her LunchBots thermal container, and Wonderful salt & pepper pistachios, Cheez-It crackers, grapes, & sweet mini peppers in her LunchBots Quad.

Pickle's home with croup and not hungry, Beanstalk's buying in the cafeteria, and Birdie made herself a cheese sandwich with our ice cream cone Lunch Punch, then coloured it with food markers :

Yes, that's Birdie, she wanted her hair "shaved like Amy Pond" (Karen Gillan).

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Some stuff I used for today's lunches:

Almost Late Lunch

I've been out of the country for the past week so Sailor Boy's been making the sproutlets' lunches. I'm home now - and you might think I'd be excited to get back to packing for them, up early and making something cute, right? You'd be wrong, though - I slept in then scrambled around hurriedly throwing this & that in their lunchboxes :) Here's what Mia Bella got:

Lunch is a Clif bar, string cheese with a panda pick stuck in the top, gummy fruit snacks in a little panda cup, dried strawberries & cucumber slices also with panda bento picks in them, packed in EasyLunchboxes.

I had to dig around for the panda picks since I failed to put them away properly last time I used them! That left me too little time to do anything cute to, or snap pics of the other kidlets' lunches but no loss there, they were pretty lame :)

Today's lunch was packed with:

       

Hopping Back To School in EasyLunchboxes!

Winter break is over, the sproutlets are back in school. The older 3 chose to get the school's hot lunch on this cold day (well, cold for the PNW) but my Bean Sprout wanted me to pack her one:

Sydney Bean took a froggy-themed EasyLunchboxes bento with a frog face peanut butter & Nutella sandwich (made with our CuteZcute Animal Friends stamp & cutter), carrot sticks & green grapes with frog picks, & a GoGurt. GoGurts fit well folded in an L shape. I should try freezing some like this!

I even found a Lunchbox Love note (in vol. 55) with a fun frog fact to include :)

Birdie has three little pigs in her EasyLunchbox. And one big one :)

 

She has a cheese sandwich made with the stamper from our CuteZcute & a round pocket sandwich press, and a Halo orange & strawberries with piglet picks - one flipped around backwards so she could see the curly tail :)

Some stuff used to make these lunches:

 

Bent On Better Lunches' Top 13 of 2013

These aren't my Top 13 most popular posts of 2013 - they're my personal Top 13 of 2013 :)  I chose a favourite from each month, plus my favourite post of the year . Ok so I also snuck in some runners-up ;)

January ~ Through the Looking Glass Muffin Tin Meal 

This Alice in Wonderland themed muffin tin lunch was so much fun to make, and part of a fantastic link party itself.

February ~ Super Mario Power Up Lunch

It was a tough choice between this and the Pac-Man video game themed lunch I made this month, but those little melon stars won in the end :)

March ~ Fun Fuel! Lightning McQueen & Mater Cars Lunch

I love that every section of this PlanetBox fits the racing theme, from the checkered flag apple to the NASCAR Ritz crackers - and it's fun :)

April ~ Rex Manning Day!
One of the things I like most about these colourful lunches is that the girls loved them even though neither have seen the movie Empire Records, heh!

May ~ Live Long & Prosper Star Trek Lunch
Trekkie that I am, I've made more than a few Star Trek lunches, but this is my favourite. And the rest are linked to within ;)

June ~ Gnome Lunch!
No special reason for this one - I just like gnomes!

July ~ Stop For Lunch
Bella helped me make the melon balls for this lunch, and I finally shared the bento I made for the Cooking with Trader Joe's: EasyLunchboxes cookbook!

August ~ ThrifTeeGear Lunch Bag Review + Sherlock Lunch!

I love this post for several reasons: the cool ThrifTee Gear bag, the Sherlock lunch, my Minecraft lunch cameo, and the hidden Doctor Who reference :)

September ~ How To Train Your Dragon
This wasn't the most creative (Roald Dahl Day) or crafty (Princess Bride) lunch of the month, I just really loved how the "dragon egg" turned out!

October ~ Despicable Me Minions Lunch
The sproutlets love the minions! And I had fun making one from a Twinkie :)

November ~ Happy Anniversary Doctor Who

Most of November's posts were guest lunches made by my dear BBF while I took a stay-cation to welcome my Sailor Boy home from deployment (thank you!) so I only had a handful of lunches made by me to choose from. This K-9 bento that my littlest Whovian helped make was an easy choice.

December ~ Don't Blink! Doctor Who Weeping Angel Christmas Lunch

Yes, it's Doctor Who again! It was really hard to narrow this month's lunches down to one favourite! It came down to a contest between the cute (Tooth Fairy), the Christmassy (Santa Yumbox), & the geeky... so I went with the one that has all those elements :)

And My Favourite Post of 2013: It's Your Anniversary, Charlie Brown!

Besides the fact that I've been a huge Peanuts fan since always, I just love how each one turned out. Especially Charlie Brown's cheese T-shirt :)

Happy New Year!