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!

Hello, I Love You!

Bella has a Hello Kitty Thermos Funtainer filled with spaghettios, with a Light My Fire spork, and a LunchBots Quad filled with cucumber, cauliflower, pistachios, almonds, a little sauce cup full of rainbow chocolate covered sunflower seeds, and some animal crackers.

Pickle has Lunch Punch ice cream cone peanut butter sandwiches:

Hello Kitty Preschool Lunch in Goodbyn Mix & Match

Peek-a-boo! A pretty Hello Kitty snack & lunch peek through the lids of Birdie's Goodbyn Mix & Match containers :

This preschool lunch may look like party food, but it's really a pretty nutritious lunch, in just the right portions for my 3-5 year old. I know, some of you might be saying "Fruit snacks? Those are NOT nutritious!" and of course, you're right, but I'm okay with my little ones having occasional sweet treats as long as they are in moderation and in addition to a healthy meal.

I love this Mix & Match container set from Goodbyn! It comes with a matching, stackable snack set & sectioned meal set (as well as an undivided box suitable for a sandwich), and a little dip container! Birdie's snack container holds gummy fruit snacks, apple wedges, and baby carrots. 

Her small meal container holds a small peanut butter sandwich topped with a little Hello Kitty peanut butter sandwich, a hard-cooked egg (made with an egg mold), some grapes & strawberries, & a little yogurt she could either dip the fruit in, or eat with the little spoon I included. It may not look like a lot of yogurt, but the Goodbyn leak-proof dipper holds about the same amount as is in a Minigo cup - only scooped from our large tub for a fraction of the cost! 

I used food colouring markers to embellish the egg and sandwich, the dip cup is decorated with a Goodbyn dishwasher-safe sticker, and the little Hello Kitty's bow is actually a food pick! Little touches make lunch lots of fun :)

Goodbyn's Mix & Match line also includes matching drink bottles, a great rounded ice pack (water-filled - no blue goo!), & it all fits into the Goodbyn insulated lunch bag by Arctic Zone: 

 

Goodbyn food containers are made of BPA-free, pthalate-free, dishwasher-safe recyclable plastic.

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Back To School Giveaway!

Tiny Wiggles sweetly gave me the set of bento picks I used for Hello Kitty's hair bow. And sweeter still, they're going to give a second set to one lucky reader! The set comes with all the picks shown above and below: 2 party hats, 2 bowler hats, 2 ball caps, and 2 bows. Tiny Wiggles carries more cute food picks and other fun mealtime accessories, as well as lunch gear like the Goodbyn Eco System Mix & Match containers I packed Birdie's lunch in.

My favourite pick from the giveaway set is the bow; it's so versatile. Yesterday I used it as a hair bow for a Hello Kitty, but it could also be a bow tie, or the ribbon under a kite... What would you make with these picks?

Good luck!  Giveaway Over - thanks for entering!

One more thing... Hats off to some of my bento blogger friends, they sure found some creative ways to use these picks! Check them out:

• Biting the Hand That Feeds You Goldilocks And The 3... Bunnies?
• Healthy Eating Starts At Home Summer Mealtime: Under The Sea
• Molly's Lunchbox Fast & Fun Lunches with Chobani Champions
• Lunches With Love Choo-Choo and the New ELB Mini Dippers
• Bento for Kidlet Friday Vlog: Kidlet Makes Lunch!
• Veggie-Bento A Quackin' Good Day At School
• A Boy & His Lunch Hats Bento
• Creative Food Elephant Bento
• Zoe's Lunchbox Flutter-Bye 

Too Cute To Eat

I made sweet little Hello Kitty bentos for the little girls' lunches yesterday:

Hello Kitty is a hard-cooked egg, cutified with a pink Hello Kitty egg mold, and embellished with food markers. Her little friends atop the strawberries are picks available from All Things For Sale, as are the cutters used for the cheese. I turned a muffin cup inside out for the applesauce - it makes more of a bowl shape that is easier to scoop a spoon against the side of. The applesauce is topped with a slice of strawberry, and surrounded by seedless red grapes. A few berry rice cakes are in there too :)

Well, Sprout wouldn't eat her egg. She didn't want to eat Hello Kitty! "I want to save her!" she told me and insisted I put Hello Kitty eggie in the fridge. Birdie made an angry face when she saw the applesauce. "I hate applesauce!" she told me in a tone that said I should have known that, crossed her arms, and wouldn't even sit down in her chair until I removed the offending fruit cup from the bento. Birdie had no qualms about biting into her Kitty-faced egg though!

Later, while the girls were having an afternoon snack, I was on the phone, and Sprout overheard me telling my friend that she wouldn't eat her Hello Kitty egg, "I suppose she doesn't like to eat food with faces" I said. "No!" piped up Sprout, "It's because it's cute, so I want to keep it! But see! I can eat a face!" and she arranged her snack like so:

I stand corrected :)

Stuff I used: