What's for Lunch Wednesday, Week 91

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End of the Week Bento

We got back from skiing last night, so today's lunches were a little creative. And I don't mean normal-creative for me, I mean, scrounging through the pantry and fridge to come up with something that bore a slight resemblance to lunch. In the end, I had soup to heat up in the freezer, so they each had a thermos of beef & veggie soup, yogurt, and string cheese. Not bad, and we hit the grocery today!

I did have another bento on my camera, so you're getting that one instead. That one looks like a bento.

This was Ben's from Friday and includes a ham and cheese stuffed muffin, sliced hard-boiled egg, carrots, blueberries, and a few pretzels. Friday was our "finish out the fridge" day, in case you were wondering.

Croissant Bento for F&B

We're back! We headed out to ski for the long weekend, to celebrate the husband's birthday (it's actually during the week, but we always take advantage of it being close to President's Day). In the process, I learned that the host I use for photos has a bandwidth limit that I was at, so had to fix that too. In case you were here yesterday, that's why there was no background and lots of "You've exceeded your bandwidth" graphics. I think everything is working now ...

Anyhow, this was lunch last week for F&B. One of the lunchroom monitors stopped me and told me that they always have such good lunches, which was nice to hear. And Ben's little friend still wants to live with us for the food.

Both kids had ham & cheese croissants with a wee bit of mayo (Faith had lettuce too), along with some veggie straws and a few caramel crisps. To the right, they had carrots with hummus and strawberries & blueberries.

It's packed in our Easy Lunchboxes (also available on Amazon), because I needed the croissant to fit without being squished.

What's for Lunch Wednesday, Week 90

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Happy Valentine's Day Bento

F&B have school parties this afternoon, which are more than likely laden with sweets, so we opted for a much simpler bento today than yesterday. The noticeable lack of treats has to do with the fact that I know what my kids are bringing to school (we made zebra nibbles and candy cane lollipops for their classes) along with only a few of their friends (cookies & cupcakes have been mentioned). So we're doing healthier lunch and enjoying the class parties later.

Faith has a ham and cheese muffin from the freezer stash, carrots with cucumber hearts, strawberries, and organic applesauce (from my baking stash, you can switch it with oil) topped with a sprinkle of hearts. Cute, simple, and reasonably healthy. At least until 1:30 today.

A Valentine's Bento, one day early

Why one day early? Because I had too many ideas and needed to share. Some bento friends & I all have posts live today to check out and get some great ideas for tomorrow's lunches. There's a link at the bottom of this post that will let you hop to another fun bento blog.

F&B both opted for ham and cheese sandwiches, with decorated tops. Faith has layered hearts and Ben got Xs and Os. Up on top of those are carrot hearts, similar to all the sausage style ones. Cut a carrot in a diagonal through the middle, flip a piece over and piece them together. I use toothpicks for ours, but F&B are old enough to not eat those. To the right, we've got strawberries for both, plus blueberries for Ben, and vanilla yogurt with some cute heart sprinkles that Nana sent.

It's packed in our Easy Lunchboxes (also available on Amazon), just use a small square of Press&Seal over the yogurt to keep it from leaking.

Just click here to hop to the next blog. Karen from What's in John's Lunchbag has some sweet ideas for you too.

The "When Mama is Sick" Bento

Apparently, the world does not stop because I am sick, and certain little people still demand food.

This is where the concept of a freezer stash is most handy--grab entree, shove in box, add sides, and GO! I always precut my fruit and lately, I've been prepping yogurt and granola containers in advance, so it's really just a matter of putting it into a container.

The pictures are kind of bad, but mostly, I wanted to go back to sleep once the kiddos were safely ensconced in school.

They had macaroni and cheese muffins, carrots, strawberries for Faith, strawberries & blueberries for Ben, and separate yogurt & granola containers. They ate, they enjoyed, and I didn't have to think about it, not too bad.

What's for Lunch Wednesday, Week 89

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Bento o' Randomness

While I still owe you all Day #5 of muffin mix ups, F&B only have 3 days of school this week and I have a lot of things that need to be finished. Hence, we have the bento o' randomness today

Miss Faith has a couple of mini zucchini-parmesan muffins, cheese cubes, carrots sticks, strawberries and creme brûlée crisps. As odd as I thought the bento was, she enjoyed it quite a bit.

Pizza Bento for Ben

The boy was in the mood for pizza, so pizza it is!

Granted, it's not fancy pizza, just leftover frozen pizza that we had the other night and Ben wanted to save some of his for a bento.

So the boy has two small slices of the leftover pizza, some carrot sticks, two mini blueberry muffins, and some frozen blackberries. After the picture, we managed to squeeze in a few more blackberries before packing up for lunch. Unfortunately, frozen blackberries don't photograph especially well, but they defrost nicely by lunchtime.

Groundhog Day Bento

Day #5 of muffin mix-ups is on hold to because it's Groundhog Day!

Or, as Ben put it last night, "I think tomorrow is an important day. I think they said Grouch Day." Since he showed up in our room around 4am, then got up for good when Shaun got up for PT and was fully dressed & playing when I woke up at 6:30am, I'm going to wager a guess that it really will be Grouch Day too.

However, lunch first!

Ben has turkey and cheese on multigrain rounds, topped with what I hope looks like a groundhog! He's made out of sharp cheddar with features from provolone and sugar eyes. I cut a small oval from the bread so he is actually popping out of his hole. If he doesn't look like a groundhog, just humor me, it was really early! To go with that, Ben has veggie straws and some grapes/strawberries/blueberries. He's also been on a yogurt kick, so he has a separate container of strawberry yogurt topped with granola for a treat. It's packed in our Easy Lunchboxes (also available on Amazon).

Up for some more cute groundhogs? Check out:

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What's for Lunch Wednesday, Week 88

Welcome to "What's for Lunch" Wednesday!!!

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