A PlanetBox Launch, With Love

Sailor Boy has another trip & will be away for Valentine's Day, so I made sure the last lunch I made him before he left was full of love ♥ 

I packed his PlanetBox Launch with:

• fresh strawberries, some notched & sliced to look like hearts
• grape tomatoes on a skewer
• turkey & cheddar wraps secured with forked heart picks
• a bunch of green grapes
• a Babybel cheese with little linked hearts cut out of the wax wrapper with a tiny bento decoration cutter

He had a lunch meeting too,  I hope his lovely lunch made everyone smile :)

All the heart accessories & tools I used came from BentoUSA.

Love Letter Lunch

A special delivery lunch, with love ♥

Bella asked for a Luna bar - I dressed it up with a homemade envelope:

She also has a string cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, & a Lunchbox Love note:

I know she's going to love opening this lunch! ♥

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Stuff I used to pack this lunch:

Valentine's Day Yumbox

I packed Birdie a simple & sweet pink & red Valentine Yumbox for preschool.

Yogurt with pink sugar, graham cracker stars, cheese, watermelon cubes, raspberries with a heart fork pick, & a red Hershey's Kisses treat. Birdie carries her Yumbox in a BUILT Gourmet Getaway Lunch Tote.

She'd been home from preschool with a cold & cough for a couple of days, so was very happy to be feeling better Valentine's Day and go to school and give her teacher the Valentine she'd made :)

The day before, I'd made my little Valentine this LOVE bento to eat at home, inspired by Anna of Becoming A Bentoholic's much lovelier original version she shared in the Bento Bloggers & friends Valentines Day Hop.

L - Baby carrots & a marshmallow heart
O - Strawberries
V - Cheese sandwich heart
E - Watermelon

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Lunch stuff I used:

February is Heart Month

Just 2 sproutlets took packed lunches today, Pickle & Sprout:

Sprout has graham cracker stars, baby carrots, honey ham rolls, & cheddar & mozzarella bites.  Silicone muffin cups, a conversation heart cupcake ring, & some heart bento picks make it pretty ♥ 

Pickle has a sandwich stamped with a heart, cookies, & yogurt with a swirl of strawberry syrup. Both sproutlets got Lunchbox Love notes. 

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I found those 2 particular Lunchbox Love cards quite amusing when I looked at my lunch photos - especially in the order they appear here ;)

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I used heart bento picks from these sets:

Hearty Yumbox

Maybe it's a little early for Valentine's Day, but I like hearts, so I packed this heart-filled Yumbox for my littlest love:

Her Yumbox full of love contains:

• yogurt with heart cupcake sprinkles
• strawberries, naturally heart-shaped when the stems are notched
• 2 little cheese sandwiches cut with a pastry stamp
• a heart-shaped hard-cooked egg
• grapes on a heart skewer
• & a few pink & red swirl berry gummy bears

Some of the heart accessories I used: 

Sproutlet trivia: Birdie was due on Valentine's Day, but was born the day after. She's still my Valentine baby though :)

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Taking It Easy

I've had flu this week, so the sproutlets have either packed their own lunches - and not bothered with photos - or had school lunch. I'm a bit better today, and back to making lunch - but I'm still taking it easy :)

Beanstalk's Lock & Lock bento box contains exactly what he asked for - ham, space goldfish crackers, half an apple, & two Oreos (in an EasyLunchboxes Mini Dipper). I chose the sword and Eat Me picks for fun. He can't call those too cute can he? I don't think so...

Bella asked for a "plain" turkey & cheddar croissant sandwich. The cheese inside is actually cut in a big heart shape - I know she'll look too, to make sure it's "plain" :)  On the side she has canteloupe and a sliced roma tomato. In the heart mini muffin cups she has a marshmallow and some dried strawberries.

I know, Valentine's Day is over... but I like hearts, and so does my Bella ♥

Some stuff used for these lunches:

Happy Valentine's Day Birthday Clifford!

Wow, what a sweet Valentine's Day! My sproutlets came home from school yesterday with almost as much candy as they got trick-or-treating! They'll have pink, red & heart-shaped treats to nibble for weeks :)

I was tired yesterday, so tired that I forgot to take a picture of Sprout's Valentine's Day lunch! You'll have to take my word for it that it was cute and full of hearts ♥ Ah well, the important thing is she loved it - and at least in my sleepiness I still remembered to pack it :) I stayed tired all day too, even fell asleep while writing my post of Birdie's Valentine's Day lunch and never finished it. But I got lots of sleep last night - so here it is today:

Did you know that Clifford the Big Red Dog turned 50 yesterday? Fifty! My girls love Clifford - he's even the mascot for Sprout's kindergarten class :)

Birdie's Clifford Love Yumbox bento lunch contains: 

• heart-sprinkled cherry Trix yogurt (coloured with natural food dye!)
• grapes, Galia melon & strawberry hearts
• a heart-shaped hard-cooked egg with a Clifford cupcake pick
• a heart-shaped frosting drizzled oatmeal bar
• organic baby carrots, one through a Clifford cupcake ring
• a red foil-wrapped Hershey's Kiss in the treat well ♥

There's lots of birthday fun to be had on Scholastic's website.

Lunch is linked to: