She has a blossom egg (made with the flower egg mold I posted about here) , Spring Ritz crackers, cheese blossoms, and honeydew melon grass. It's not a whole lot of food but remember, she's only a preschooler :)
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Today is a great day for Birdie & me - she slept all through the night, in her own bed! Yay! You may be thinking, so what, isn't she like 5, what's the big deal? Yes, she is 5, but it's a big deal for us, as she's been waking me up every night since her Dad deployed and I'm tired! But not last night, hooray!
I added a Lunchbox Love note to tell her how proud I am of her :)
Today Birdie has cheese & crackers, grapes & apple wedges. The sproutlets love when the snowflake Ritz crackers come out :)
This Goodbyn Small Meal box is one of my favourite containers for Birdie these days. It's a good size for the snacky kind of lunches she likes. Each side holds just over a cup of food, but we never really fill it to capacity. Two standard size muffin cups fit in each side if I want to separate her foods a little, and both halves are individually sealed if I want to separate them a lot.
The only thing I don't like is that the lid is too difficult for her to put on. It has to be lined up and snapped down very firmly - it takes effort even for me - so she needs help with that. Fortunately her preschool has aides who help with lunch. She has no trouble taking the lid off though.
Remember that Sesame Street segment with that loveable, cute & furry monster Grover running back & forth to show preschoolers the difference between near & far? I wonder if they still play that segment... Anyways... these are not Sesame Street bentos nor do they teach near & far... it's my lunch photo that got me thinking about Grover's lesson... you'll see why.
Here's lunch for Birdie & Sprout. Birdie made her own cheese sandwich with our CuteZcute cutter! She didn't quite press hard enough for the kitty image to imprint well but she had fun making it & she's happy with it ♥
Usually I take the lunch's photo on the table on our front porch but Sailor Boy had some boxes on it so I put the lunch down on the porch instead, and took it from standing. Then I cropped in for this post. Now you see what got me thinking about Sesame Street's near & far skit!
I got a kick out of my toes peeking in because my socks match the lunch :) Kind of hard for those socks not to match something though, heh!
Anyways, they both have CuteZcute kitty sandwiches - Birdie's is cheese & Sprout's is Nutella & PB - carrots with one stuck through a heart cupcake topper ring, & apple wedges, packed in mis-matched Sassy boxes. I couldn't find one of the inner containers so subbed a silicone baking cup.
The school age sproutlets are home today - it's parent/teacher conference time. Ours were this morning, so now we have an extra long weekend ahead of us! Birdie still had preschool though, so I packed her a Sassy box lunch:
She asked for a bagel, and the one I pulled from the bag looked like it was sticking it's tongue out at me! So all it needed was some mozzarella string cheese slice eyes and a leaf pick to become a silly pumpkin :) The rest of the string cheese is cut in pieces and holding up alphabet picks, and a ghost pick flies up from some sweet Aurora apple slices.
Bella also took her Go Green with pretty much the same lunch, & Pickle's PB sandwiches were cut with the same fishy (or whale, if you like) Lunch Punch.
Birdie loves elephants, so I got her a Boon Trunk Snack Box. I'd love to see the size of the kidlet they had in mind when they called it a snack box, it's huge! Tons of room in this Trunk, heheh. But it's super cute! I like that the tail is a handle, and the lid stays on very well, so it really could be toted somewhere by it's tail - as long as Birdie did the toting, it's tot hand sized.
I had a hard time filling it, it's just too roomy for a little one's appetite. I think it could accommodate a hungry grown-up! Here is Birdie's snack of 2 crackers, strawberries, yogurt and a slice of cheese. That's a regular size cheese cracker there, not a bite size one, and that's more yogurt than I usually give her, because of the large capacity of the section. The Boon Trunk snack box could easily hold snacks for several!
Birdie liked it though, and that's what matters. It's not deep enough for any of our drink holders, but if you weren't opposed to puree or juice pouches you could fit one of those in the largest space, or maybe a juice box. It's a fun box!
The Boon Snack Box comes in 2 designs - Trunk elephant & Cargo snail:
Rise & shine, it's breakfast time! Birdie's having a summer morning bento of fresh cut strawberry flowers, carrot suns, cheese tulips, bunny grahams, apple blossoms, and yogurt with a garden of sweet sprinkles.
I didn't plan on making a patriotic bento today, but it evolved into one when I noticed all the foods I'd packed were red, white & blue... so I stuck a paper American flag in one of the cheese pieces and voilà ! A 4th of July-worthy preschool bento lunch or sampler snack tray :)
Birdie & Sprout shared this colourful sampler for an afternoon snack:
I packed yogurt in the detachable EZ Freeze dip section of the Nibble Tray specifically so I could do a shake test with it. A reader had recently asked: "Does the attached tray travel well with the body or come unattached easily? [Her child] is a lunchbox swinger and banger, so everything has to be very sturdy!" I didn't know... so I decided to put it to the test :)
The "leaf" dip section attaches securely to the "pineapple" main section with tabs on the leaf that clip into slots on the pineapple. The lid of the main section actually overlaps the clips so when it is filled and sealed, the dip section cannot come unattached, even when overturned, as shown in the pic above. The lids seal well too. To see if the Nibble Tray could survive being jostled about in a schoolbag, I filled it, sealed it, then shook it up, on video :
I just love our Nibble Tray, and so do my little ones!
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My 6 year old, Sprout, wanted her lunch in her little sister's Yumbox, and 4 year old Birdie was happy to share. Both girls had cheddar & mozzarella cheese, carrots, red grapes, strawberries, apples & goldfish crackers. I used alphabet bento picks & Scrabble Cheez-it crackers to spell their names.
Sprout also had a treat of Sunbursts candy coated sunflower seeds. Yummy :)
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