Special Delivery Lunches : Cupcake & Pirate

I recently had the pleasure of making fun lunches for my friend's little girl & delivering them to her at school while her mother was away for a couple of days. Her little girl is called Bella too, so I just had to use my alphabet stamps in one of the lunches, I already had the name put together! 

Bella's Cute Personalized Lunch contains:

• strawberry Go-Gurt (frozen in an L shape to fit)
• cupcake ham & cheese sandwich made with a Lunch Punch, stamped with her name, & topped with a cherry tomato
• roll of Rockets candy (or Smarties if you're American)
• organic strawberries cut like hearts, with a heart fork pick
• organic green grapes in a pink flower silicone cup

For the other day, she asked if I could make her a lunch like the one I made Birdie on Talk Like A Pirate Day, but without berries, & jelly instead of cheese on her treasure map sandwich. She definitely wanted me to include the jelly bean treasure & chocolate doubloon though! I packed her lunch in an EasyLunchbox with the treasure in a Mini Dipper.

Bella's Pirate Lunch contains:

• mozzarella string cheese through a pirate cupcake ring
• treasure map PB&J embellished with shark sprinkles, food marker, pirate flag, & palm tree cupcake pick
• organic green grapes
• jelly bean & chocolate coin treasure
• organic baby carrots

Both lunches were packed in EasyLunchboxes that she got to keep :) It was fun packing lunches for someone other than my own sproutlets! My friend told me how much her daughter was looking forward to lunch those days, rather than being bummed about having the school lunch, so I really wanted her to like them. And I'm told she loved them ♥

Talk Like A Pirate Day Treasure Lunch!

Yo-ho-ho! Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!  'Tis one o' me favourite days t' fix fancy grub fer me little sprogs, an I've amassed a fair bit o' pirate bento booty t' make it fun & easy :)

Avast! Wha' do ye reckon o' this, me hearties? Won't me smallest scallywag be sure t' love diggin' in t' this treasure lunch?!

Birdie's midday meal be packed in our new Frutti Blue Yumbox Panino. Arr! She's gone off veggies so I doubled th' fruit, t' keep th' scurvy at bay! Mixed berries 'n green grapes - plus one wee carrot stuck through a pirate cupcake ring - just in case th' wee wench might eat it, aye!

Me girly''s sandwich pirate isle be made of cheddar cheese & peanut butter, cut with a special promotional Lunch Punch Landwich cutter. 'Tis embellished with a tropical tree & a pirate flag pick, an X drawn with food marker, an' surrounded by sugar shark-infested water :) The shark cupcake sprinkles are affixed with dabs o' PB.

'Tis a special day so she gets to splurge with a special treasure treat of a few jelly belly jewels an' a chocolate doubloonie ;) Arr!

Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day, mateys!

Last Week's Lunches

I made a bunch more lunches than I posted last week. That's usually the case though, since I pack at least a dozen lunches a week - they just aren't all interesting enough to photograph or post. But I do like these ones, I just didn't get around to them until now :)

Bella's flatbread pizza sandwich looked too plain until I added a cheery pink raccoon waving Hi :) My alphabet picks are one of my bento essentials!

Sprout just wanted apples, Triscuits & cheese that day. I added baby carrots anyways & she did eat them :) Heart shapes made it pretty ♥

This one was from Talk Like A Pirate Day. Not as fancy as my Dread Pirate Roberts, but the paper pirate flag pick in the Fig Newtons & the pirate cupcake ring around the string cheese still made it fun.  Arr! 

Apple-shaped reusable ice cubes keep the string cheese extra cool.

Talk Like A Pirate Day... As You Wish

Arr, it be International Talk Like A Pirate Day yet again!  Not all pirates be talkin' like scurrilous rascals, ye ken... thar be some as talk right civilized like - th' Dread Pirate Roberts fer one... Ye'd be harrrd-pressed t' find a more courteous cap'n wit' his fancy way 'o speakin'...

Th' Dread Pirate Roberts bento lunch be a stack 'o 2 flatbread pizza sammiches - cheddar, mozzarella, & marinara sauce warmed t' melt th' cheese 'n cooled t' avoid condensation in th' lunchbox - topped wit' a grape fruit leather mask, scarf, & rakish moustache.

On th' side, a carrot cutlass & cantaloupe buttercups be embellished wit' alphabet picks spellin' Westley / Dread Pirate Roberts' words, "As you wish", 'n a scurvy pineapple pear oatmeal muffin be baked in a silicone buttercup.

If ye don't recognize the Dread Pirate Roberts, then ye mustn't 'ave seen th' film The Princess Bride nor read th' book, 'n why not? Arr, ye must! Th' wee cabin wench Mia Bella knew 'im straight away, bein' a fan like 'er mum 'n dad :)

Thar be t' reason fer makin' a fancy lunch right there...

'Tis a fine treasure, me girly's smile!

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Supplies used fer makin' 'tis midday meal:

 

A Pirate Lunch for my Treasured Girl

I'm so proud of my Bella! She does her best to help me out around the house, and with her little sisters, and she tries her best at school too. She even won an award at school last week! So today she has a treat for lunch, one of our treasured Iced Gingerbread Clif bars :) I'm not kidding - they're a seasonal flavour, and a favourite of hers, and we don't have many left!

Bella's Pirate Treasure lunch is packed in one of our new purple-lidded EasyLunchboxes Brights.  She has English cucumber slices, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes,  a Fig Newton & Oreo, & the Gingerbread Clif bar treasure :) I also tucked in a pirate map cloth napkin, & a Lunchbox Love note to thank her for her help & let her know I treasure her! ♥

Today's lunch is linked up to Bento for Kidlet's Meatless Monday!

Stuff used for this lunch:

Pirates Don't Change Diapers Muffin Tin Meal

Wednesday was Talk Like A Pirate Day, and I read the small sproutlets a pirate bedtime story. Birdie really liked it and took it to bed with her, so yesterday I read it to her again and made her a muffin tin meal to go with it. I'm a longtime admirer of Keitha's Story Themed Lunches, and wow, kudos to her - tying a book into a meal is harder than it looks - and she does it every school day! So here is my imitation = flattery tribute lunch pic, Keitha-style :)

As you can see, our copy of the book is well-loved :) 

Pirates Don't Change Diapers, written by Melinda Long and illustrated by David Shannon,  is a sequel to How I Became A Pirate, (which we also loved). In the book, Jeremy Jacob gets a visit from his pirate friends, who wake his baby sister Bonney Anne from her nap and then must help take care of her. And of course, pirates don't know how to take care of a baby!

 

The baby in the book, Bonney Anne, has strained spinach for lunch. I didn't have any spinach, but I did have broccoli, so I substituted that - it's green! I made a little wailing Bonney Anne from cheddar cheese, and just happened to have a daisy bento pick just like the flower in her baby hair :)

The rest of the lunch is just a little bit pirate-y in general. She has parmesan goldfish, anti-scurvy oranges, grapes on swords, white cheddar Pirate Booty, and mozzarella cheese X-marks-the-spot with one piece of the cheese stuck through a skull & crossbones cupcake ring. 

Birdie loved the pink pirate ring best!

 

I love the Bonney Anne skull & crossbones on the back cover of the book!

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Did ye catch the Talk Like A Pirate Day Bento Booty Treasure Hunt blog hop I took part in? Nay? Arr, what are ye waitin' fer? Th' hunt is only on 'til Sunday night... don't miss yer chance t' find th' treasure!

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Arrr! It Be Talk Like A Pirate Day!

In honour 'o 'tis 10th annual Talk Like A Pirate Day, I've crafted me wee rapscallion sproutlets some scurvy pirate lunches! 

Beanstalk has a PlanetBox packed w' wedges o'oranges (t' prevent scurvy), barrrbeque Pirate's Booty, a Jolly Roger ham sandwich, a Jolly Roger carrot mini muffin, & a piece o' salt water taffy fer a treat.

Fer his snack 'tween school an' soccer, he has grapes skewered on swords, string cheese through a cupcake ring, & white cheddar Pirate's Booty.

Bella has an EasyLunchbox packed w' grapes on swords, veggie Pirate's Booty, Jake & the Neverland Pirates gummy fruit snacks, a Jolly Roger ham & cheese sandwich, carrot mini muffin, & a piece o' salt water taffy fer a treat.

Pickle has a Yubo lunchbox packed w' carrot mini muffin stuck wit' a pirate flag & sword, Jake & the Neverland Pirates gummy fruit snacks, a Jolly Roger peanut butter sandwich, & 2 yogurts. One is fer his snack, t'other is fer wit' his lunch.  Th' yogurt fer wit' his lunch is coloured blue fer water & infested wit' sugar sprinkle sharks.

The yogurt meant fer his snack is Chobani Champions honey-nana wit' a pirate print paper cupcake liner atop it. Yo ho!

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An' now fer some fun!

This blog hop be a treasure hunt, and ye need me scrap o' th' map! Every blog in th' hop has a piece 'o th' map to a lovely bento booty treasure - a giveaway! As ye be off through th' hop, collect th' pieces 'n put them in th' right order to find out whar to enter! Ye'll be needin' somethin' to scribe wit', for thar be 39 blogs to visit, so 39 scraps o' th' map to collect! 37 pieces spell a URL, 'n 2 bonus pieces wit' words on them get ye 2 chances to win! T'win what? Well, ye'll have to follow the map t' find out!

Here's me piece 'o th' map, 'n an important piece it be!

Now be on yer way, th' treasure awaits! 

An' Karen o' Our Lunch Bags has made a pirate lunch that puts me own pirate grub to shame ... click th' Jolly Roger t' go see!

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Arrr Ye Hungry, Me Hearties?

It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day!  And Muffin Tin Monday too :)

I had kind of a hard time thinking of something pirate-y AND healthy to make for my sproutlets. The first things to come to mind were gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins, and gummy fruit snacks shaped like gems or sharks... which the kids would love... BUT, candy doesn't have a place in our lunches this week - I've taken the Family Fresh Cooking Project Lunchbox 30-Day Challenge pledge :)  I'll give the scallywags their chocolate doubloons some other time - this week their pirate's gold will come in the form of sliced carrots ;)  So, what do little pirates eat? Whatever they can catch with their little swords! Their seaworthy tins hold turkey dog octopi, fish sticks, fish eggs, a school of goldfish, grape jellyfish & peach starfish, and a cheese map around the tin to the X marks the spot over the carrot gold.

Cap'n Bean Sprout

First Mate Black Birdie

My schoolgirl didn't get a pirate booty lunch, but this friendly frittata should put a smile on her face anyways...

Carrots & mozzarella stripes, mango fruit leather squares nestled in almonds, and ham, cheese & peppers frittata (modified from this recipe for the ingredients I had).

Pickle got playful dolphins peanut butter sandwiches made with a Flipper Bytes sandwich cutter, yogurt & apple juice.

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