Thursday, September 5, 2013

Bento Boxes where you least expect them…

There was no packed lunches yesterday, and I’m sure if you have been following along you may have a good idea why….. Chicken sandwich day of course! My girls love chicken sandwich day at school and until I can sway them in the packed lunch direction it looks like Wednesdays will be my lunch making day off. :)

Today it was back to work and I was super excited to pack in some new fun boxes I found over the weekend. Oddly enough I found them in the baby section at our nearest Target. I’m not even sure what caused me to walk that way, but I’m kind of glad I did. ♥

It’s called the Munchkin Bento Meal Time Set. It’s marketed for the baby/toddler crowd, but after packing our second day of school lunches inside, I found that it holds plenty of food for each of my tiny princesses!

K chose the pink one ♥

Munchkin Click Lock Bento Box Lunch!

She had: Strawberries with a cute biting hippopotamus food pick, carrot sticks, salami-cucumber-cream cheese rollups with apple pick, a few dry roasted peanuts in the small green silicone cup nestled on top of a bed of alphabet pretzels, vanilla yogurt with star sprinkles, ranch in the blue sauce cup hidden underneath two rolls of Smarties candies. One for K and one of a friend. ♥♥

A chose the blue Munchkin box

Munchkin Click Lock Bento Box Lunch!

She had: Salami cream cheese roll ups with apple food pick, vanilla yogurt with star sprinkles, dill dip in the yellow sauce cup, 2 packs of smarties (one for her and one for a friend), alphabet pretzels, diced plums with biting alligator pick, cucumber and yellow pepper stars cut using a small star shaped cookie cutter I also added a bit of pepper to them cause my tiny princesses love pepper (so not to be wasteful I placed the veggie scraps underneath the cute star shapes).

I also took a picture of tiny princess K’s lunch with all the inner container lids on.

Munchkin Click Lock Bento Box Lunch!

I love that the fruit and veggie compartments can be removed and each compartment has it’s own individual lid. Even the main compartment. I also love that there is a special place for utensils in the main lid. Obviously I have only used this box once so far so I can’t really fully recommend it yet, but so so far I think it was  $7.99 well spent for each container. ♥♥ I will keep you posted.

Some things (or similar) that I used to make these meals…

6 comments:

  1. The containers look neat and the lunches are are fabulous as usual!

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  2. Very cool new container! and great lunches of course :D

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  3. Cute containers! Curious what you used for the yogurt? Can't seem to find the perfect yogurt container yet. Thanks!

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    1. Hi, Thea! The yogurt containers used in this lunch were purchased at a local dollar store. I can't quite remember if it was dollar general or family dollar. :/ another REALLY great leak proof container perfect for yogurt are EasyLunchbox mini dippers. You can purchase them online through Amazon, All Things For Sale, or right through the EasyLunchbox website. :)

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    2. Thanks! Well have to get some mini dippers I think. Bought these boxes last week and have used almost everyday since. Put yogurt in the little containers w/ no leakage and my twins in kinder had no problem opening after practicing at home a few minutes. Thanks for telling us @these! I've now told all my friends. Need to get one more for my lunch!

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  4. These look amazing and are so cute! Great lunches!

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