Hello Kitty Soup & Sides

Warm soup makes a super lunch on a foggy & chilly winter day.

Fresh fruit, crackers, & cheese nestled in colourful cups & embellished with Hello Kitty details make cheerful sides. Packed in a LunchBots Quad.

The blossom in the Babybel cheese was made using a flower cutter to cut a piece of wax out and a circle cutter to cut a piece from it to put back on.

Happy Friday!

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:

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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Rainy Day Monday

Have you ever forgotten it was a holiday and made school lunches?

It's raining this Memorial Day Monday, perfect day to make umbrella sandwiches for Pickle, using the sticks I saved from the Lindt chocolate carrots the sproutlets got in their Easter baskets: 

One of Bella's favourite rainy day lunches is soup & veggie sides.  She has cream of potato soup in a Thermos Foogo (really keeps it hot all day!) and a Light My Fire spork, cucumbers, sweet peppers, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and Ritz crackers.

Sprout loves hearts in her lunch. Her Goodbyn Bynto is packed with cheddar hearts, peanut butter sandwich hearts, baby carrots, and strawberry hearts.

Little sister Birdie wanted the same thing as her big sis. I gave her triangle shaped cheese made from the scraps of Sprout's hearts.

The adorable cloth napkins are from The Red Poppy on Etsy. 

Other stuff used to make these lunches:

Linked to Bento for Kidlet's last Meatless Monday of the school year:

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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Stuff used for these lunches: