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:

 

The Hobbit Bento: An Unexpected Lunch

The Hobbit movie is in theatres today!  My biggest boy can't wait to see it, so I made him a Hobbit Movie Night bento lunch!

So how is this an unexpected lunch? Well, I hadn't even planned on participating in the Hobbit blog hop since Beanstalk hasn't read the book yet, then I thought, why not just make it with a movie theme? So what movie food could I put in a lunch... popcorn & raisinets! Then I remembered the movie night cupcake picks a friend gave me...  and it all just came together :)

In Beanstalk's Laptop Lunches bento box he has ● a Hobbit door peanut butter pocket sandwich with a raisinet doorknob ● grapes in a Giant Spider cup ● raisinets in a little mushroom cup (Hobbits love mushrooms) ● white cheddar popcorn ● & the One Ring in an apple with wavy peel River Anduin.

I think this Hobbit bento will be an unexpected lunch for Beanstalk too! I'm not sure he'll get many of the references even though he watched the Lord of the Rings movies with Sailor Boy - except the ring & the Hobbit Hole door, those one's are pretty obvious :)

Sadly, the Hobbit Hop is broken, so clicking on the Hobbit Hole won't take you anywhere.  But I like the graphic so I'll leave it here :)

Some stuff I used in this lunch:

Late Lunches

I'm a day behind in posts! I wasn't feeling well yesterday so totally slacked off on all my responsibilites, and when Sailor Boy's away there's no one to pick up my slack,  boo hoo.  So now I've got to catch up on yesterday's laundry and last night's dishes (yuck)...  so that I can get to today's!

Here are yesterday's lunches for Bella & Pickle:

Cucumber wedges & carrots, a ham & cheese panda pocket sandwich, dried strawberries, yogurt pretzels, whole wheat fig newtons, & spiced almonds.

Peanut butter puzzle sandwich (& yogurt, not shown).

There are no photos of today's lunch. I got my days mixed up and looked at Friday's menu on the school lunch calendar, which said pizza, and the sproutlets like pizza...  then on the way out the door Bella asked "Mummy, isn't today Thursday?" "Is it?" I asked myself... Uh-oh! It is! The school lunch is bean burritos, they won't eat those! So it was a mad rush to throw something together and no time for cute lunches or photos of not cute lunches :) 

I guess it's just as well I had yesterday's lunch to post today!

Some stuff used for these lunches: