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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Now 'tis the hour to be off... board th' Flying Lunchman an see what me shipmates have t' show ye's.. beginnin' wit' Kristie o' Beneficial Bento...

After ye've sailed 'round this hop, hang on t'yer sea legs!

Click 'ere to board t'next ship fer another hop!

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Supplies used fer makin' 'tis midday meal:

 

Marvelous Things Will Happen!

It's Roald Dahl's birthday! We're big fans of the author's splendiferous works at our house. Sprout even wants to be Matilda for Hallowe'en this year :) But since I made Matilda book sandwiches last Roald Dahl Day, I decided to base this year's Dahl-icious lunches on other favourites...

In Sprout's James and the Giant Peach lunch:

• a little peach cup of sliced cheddar, secured by Miss Spider
• an EasyLunchboxes Mini Dipper* filled with magical glowing green "Crocodile Tongues" (chopped up gummi fruit snacks)
• an Odwalla Kids bar (no significance other than she wanted one)
• a stack of baby carrots held together by Mrs. Ladybug
• a giant peach cup of strawberries & raspberries with the Earthworm being "buggy for books"
• a blank Lunchbox Love note on which I've written a reminder: Marvelous Things Will Happen

*You can use dry erase markers to label or decorate both the EasyLunchboxes containers & the Mini Dippers!

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Does this lunch look right to you? Or left?

In Bella's lunch, inspired by The BFG:

• whizpopped caramel corn rice snacks 
• sleeping pill raisins (from Danny the Champion of the World)
• a chunk of snozzcumber
• giant's ears flatbread cheese sandwiches
• a Lunchbox Love note with a little ear fact 

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Have you made any scrumdiddlyumptious lunches or treats, today or any other day, that were inspired by Roald Dahl's books? 

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Find out more about the whoppsy-wiffling world of Roald Dahl : 

Roald Dahl ~ The Official Website  

Some stuff used to make my sproutlets' lunches:

 

Books featured & mentioned:

   

Edible Geekery : Rex Manning Day!

Since it's the closest Saturday to the actual Rex Manning Day, my fellow nerdgirls and I thought we'd pay homage with a little blog hop.
Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.

I made Bean Sprout a superb lunch.  Superb.  Superb... Superb :)

She has a cheese sandwich, apple wedges, baby carrots with a record cupcake ring, raspberries with cheese music, and yogurt with stars. 

Bella has a rock star lunch too. But no quote for hers. Neither girl has seen Empire Records, the cheese quote in Sprout's was just a little fun for me :)  

Her EasyLunchbox contains a turkey & cheddar wrap secured with a guitar pick, a clementine orange, apple wedges, a couple of Oreos, some cucumber slices, baby carrots, & grape tomatoes on a music pick. Rock & Roll!

If you haven't seen the film Empire Records and don't know what's with today, today, it's okay... you mustn't dwell...  no, not today... you can't!

You can still enjoy the lovely lunches :)

So go see what Chaos & Confections has happening:

If you want to see a music video with Sexy Rexy, once you've hopped through and back to me, click here to see last year's Rex Manning Day post, with Pickle's lame record sandwich, heheh :)

Some stuff used to make these lunches:

Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Today is Read Across America Day, in honour of Dr. Seuss's birthday (tomorrow, March 2nd, but that's not a school day). I packed Bella a slightly Seuss-ish EasyLunchbox with a few random Seuss references. The cheese Eiffel Tower represents Paris - Bella is interested in fashion, and in the spirit of Seuss I wanted to remind her that if she can dream it, she can do it! 

Plus I've long been wanting to use these fabulous World Famous Landmark cutters I got as a Christmas gift from my friend JeeJee of BentoUSA:

Today is also National Peanut Butter Lovers Day, which is really every day for Pickle - to say he loves peanut butter is an understatement :)  I made him some heart-shaped peanut butter finger sandwiches stamped with LOVE ♥ I stopped counting when I reached my goal of 101 peanut butter sandwiches, but I wonder what number we're at now...

Click the pics for more Seussaliciousness ...

My Oh, The Places You'll Go bento was voted Bento of the Week!

Happy Mardi Gras!

I had no plans to make Fat Tuesday lunches this year. It's breakfast for lunch day at school - pancakes, which they often want, perfect for Shrove Tuesday / Pancake Day anyways. I figured if they didn't want the school lunch I'd just throw together something purple, green & gold :) 

Pickle did want the school pancake lunch, but Beanstalk & Sprout wanted me to make them something. So here's what I threw together quite last-minute:

Beanstalk has a LunchBots Quad packed with apples, grapes, Angry Birds Cheese Nips, & a Clif Bar, made Mardi Gras-ish with purple, green & gold muffin cups & fleur-de-lis cupcake picks :)

Sprout has a purple, green & gold themed Goodbyn Bynto packed with grapes, apples, carrot sticks, string cheese, garlic Triscuit Thins, and a foil-wrapped chocolate doubloon treat. Poor Beanstalk didn't get one of those, I didn't remember I had them until after he'd left for school. Lucky Sprout though!

When they get home from school they'll have a snack of warm, gooey, sugary cinnamon roll "Fake King Cake" like I made last year:

And this year I have plastic King Cake babies to hide in one of the pieces! Beanstalk will get a kick out of that - he's my New Orleans baby :)

Johnny Appleseed Day Bento

Today, some say, is Johnny Appleseed Day.  Beanstalk wanted to buy lunch at school, Pickle wanted a peanut butter pizza sandwich (it's not what you think) and Sprout & Birdie are both home today (I'll make them apple-themed muffin tin meals later), but Bella said "yes, please" to an apple bento :)

Bella's apple-icious Laptop Lunches bento box contains:

• Gala apple wedges with a caramel dip
• Fig Newtons skewered with an apple cupcake pick
• A few pieces of caramel apple candy corn
• Apple shaped peanut butter sandwiches - the tiny ones were made with the apple shape from a Fall themed mini cookie cutter set that was a gift from Kat of Obento Momma - so cute and they used up all the bread :)
• A few fruit snacks in a little apple cup 
• Cucumber spears topped with one apple shaped cucumber slice
• For snack, an Enjoy Life Caramel Apple bar

Here's everything all packed. Her cute owl print cloth napkin from The Red Poppy cushions her sandwiches and keeps the fruit snacks from falling out. And a LunchBox Love note reminds her of how proud I am of her :)

Click the apple for more bento goodness:

After you read the rest of my post, of course :)

Here's Pickle's peanut butter pizza sandwich :)

Told you it wasn't what you were thinking!

And for my Sailor Boy, leftover ginger teriyaki chicken, bacon horseradish deviled eggs nestled in a garden salad, a satsuma orange, and a Gouda Babybel cheese with a heart shape cut from the wax and stuck on top of the orange, packed in his personal favourite container, EasyLunchboxes.

 I remembered the dressing this time! He got Mandarin Orange Sesame packed in an EasyLunchboxes Mini-Dipper. And a Light My Fire spork :)

Stuff used for these lunches: