Batty Soup & Sides Bento

This morning was definitely Fall ♥ It was chilly & foggy & a little bit spooky,  the perfect day for a Hallowe'eny bat bento!

Bat Looks Yummy!

Bella took a LunchBots Thermal Insulated Food Container filled with tomato soup and a LunchBots Duo bento box packed with cheese, a mini bat sandwich, and veggie sides. Also included: shiny LunchBots stainless steel cutlery and a little bat trivia LunchBox Love note :

Bat's a fact!

Bat bento picks embellish her cucumber, sunburst tomatoes, orange sweet pepper, & Babybel cheese. And don't you love that fancy little pocket sandwich? It was made with Animal Palz, a totally new sandwich press & egg mold set from CuteZcute you're going to love it! Among other things, it makes the cutest little smiling bat pocket sandwiches you've ever seen!

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Hello, I Love You!

Bella has a Hello Kitty Thermos Funtainer filled with spaghettios, with a Light My Fire spork, and a LunchBots Quad filled with cucumber, cauliflower, pistachios, almonds, a little sauce cup full of rainbow chocolate covered sunflower seeds, and some animal crackers.

Pickle has Lunch Punch ice cream cone peanut butter sandwiches:

Salad & Sandwich, Soup & Sides

Where did our Spring go? We woke up to a gloomy damp day, boo. The girls wanted hot lunches, but they didn't want the school lunch, so I got out their Thermoses. The boys opted for the school lunch, so I had a few extra minutes to add some cutesy touches to Sailor Boy's lunch :

He has a ham & cheese flatbread wrap atop a salad (with radish heart cutouts), some Gala apple wedges, carrots, & dressing for the salad. I used my alphabet picks to add a love note to his sandwich.

Sprout has hot leftover noodles in her Thermos. In her Bynto she has a Goodbyn dip cup filled with grated parmesan - she likes to sprinkle it on her noodles - and some Gala apple wedges, carrots, & parmesan garlic Triscuits.

Bella has potato soup in her Thermos, and sides of cucumbers, radishes, baby carrots, sunburst tomatoes, Triscuits & string cheese. Bella likes her string cheese to be very cold, she says it "strings better" that way, so I put some reusable ice cubes right next to it. Both girls have iced tea to drink.

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A Beautiful Lunch

Bella has a Thermos Funtainer of cheese ravioli in tomato sauce for lunch today, and a LunchBots Trio packed with her choice of sides - cherry & sunburst tomatoes, Ritz crackers, & a carrot stick. I added flower bento picks & a little rainbow container with a few dried strawberries in it :)

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Skipped Over Soup 'n Sides Lunch

Somehow this colourful little soup & sides lunch of Bella's from before the Winter Break got skipped over and never posted :(

I *think* it was chicken noodle soup in the Thermos. And I forgot to ask Bella but I bet she & her friends had a laugh over the trivia on that Lunchbox Love note! And no, I didn't know that... did you?

In the Lock & Lock divided bento box she has a snacky side dish for the soup: cucumber slices, snowflake Ritz crackers, carrots, celery, tomatoes & grapes. Not many of each... I'm thinking this may have been the day of her class party when I knew there would be lots of treats later.

Winter Break hasn't ended yet here, my kidlets don't go back until Monday. This has been a long break, I'm probably out of practice packing lunch... I'd better get back in the habit of getting up earlier if I don't want to start the 2013 school year in a scramble!

Happy New Year!

Happy Monday!

I packed a smiley apple half in my Beanstalk's LunchBots Quad. The X's for eyes don't mean anything, I was just playing with my v-cutter tool :) He also has grapes, peppered beef jerky, & cheese crackers.

The folks at Fiber One sent us some boxes of chewy granola bars to try. Both Beanstalk & Bella liked them, and we've tried all the flavours now.  I only wish I could buy them unwrapped so they'd be trash-free, but they are convenient for Beanstalk to stick in his pocket for an afternoon snack between classes.

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For Bella, I packed a thermos of tomato soup, and a LunchBots Trio of fruit, veggies, crackers & yogurt pretzels.

Her cantaloupe cubes are skewered with a pink flamingo cupcake pick, and the Sunburst & Cherub tomatoes with a pink flamingo cocktail pick. Both flamingos were gifts from fellow bento bloggers Lori of Pink 'n Punchy Lunches & Bobbi of Bobbi's Bentos, respectively - as part of a pick swap - fun!

Also fun - I found a Lunchbox Love note with a bit of flamingo trivia on it!

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Soup & Sassy

After all the candy she consumed Hallowe'en Night, Bella wanted a healthy lunch to take to school yesterday, and said tomato soup sounded good.

I also packed her a Sassy box full of veggies & crackers, and little cup of shredded cheddar to sprinkle on the hot soup in her Thermos Funtainer. 

And of course, a Lunchbox Love note ♥ Her whole lunch table enjoys them :)

I'll be posting a Lunchbox Love review & giveaway on Monday! 

Look, Horizon Organic milk boxes are a perfect fit in Sprout's Bynto! And there was just enough room to fit a string cheese in there too, perfect, the cold milk box would keep the cheese cool too :)

I was running behind by the time I packed Sprout's lunch so quickly cut her sandwich into hearts and added baby carrots & Hallowe'en Oreos. Pickle had Oreos in his lunch too, and a sandwich & yogurt, but there was no time for a pic of his. We were dragging our feet the morning after trick-or-treating!

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Slightly Hallowe'en-ish Bentos

What a rough start to today! Long story short, Pickle got up early and reset my alarm clock so he could commit mischief (that's the long part), and I didn't wake until 5 minutes after Beanstalk was supposed to be at school. Luckily, it's Tuesday, and the school hot lunch is pancakes, which they like.

These are from last week:

Bella's got tomato soup in a Thermos Funtainer, crackers, tomatoes, grapes, Fig newtons & a yogurt pretzel. And a Hallowe'en Lunchbox Love note!

Beanstalk has half an apple, a dinner roll (plain, that's what Mr. Picky likes), grapes, a Clif bar (cut in half & stacked it looks like a brownie treat), & chocolate covered & yogurt pretzels.

Beanstalk got a Lunchbox Love note too. His is not Hallowe'en though. We'd had a difficult morning and I thought he could use a message of love.

Sprout got a muffin, cookie, cheese sandwich squares, stacked, grapes, & carrots. Peeking out from under he rmuffin is a Hallowe'en chocolate, and she got a Lunchbox Love note too, packed joke side up :)

I filled a party platter with healthy snacks to nibble while doing homework:

Update: In response to a comment, here is Beanstalk's lunchbox he chose that day. It was a gift from his grandma, a retro-style metal lunchbox that came filled with a Wii game and accessories :)

iCarly-Inspired Spaghetti Tacos!

If your kidlet is an iCarly fan, you're probably already aware of the deliciousness that is spaghetti tacos. We had them for supper the other night, and today Bella has the leftovers in her lunchbox. These are leftovers she's excited about eating!

Bella has mini taco shells to fill with spaghetti at lunch time. I stuffed her folded napkin into the end one to help keep it from breaking. I filled a gummy bear container (a gift from Biting The Hand That feeds You, originally a fast-food meal toy) with shredded cheddar for topping.  On the side she has cherry tomatoes & baby carrots with bear picks (random dancing),  Fig Newtons, and in the little pink lidded cup, a few gummy bears for a treat.

I packed the hot spaghetti & "meat" sauce (ours is made with veggie protein crumbles) in her iCarly Thermos Funtainer. I chopped the noodles up a bit so she'd have an easier time filling the shells with her spork. The gummy bear container holding the cheese was filled with gummy bear-shaped notepaper and stickers so I wrote her a note and stuck it to the lid of her EasyLunchbox :)

Bella was so looking forward to lunchtime today!

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