It’s getting chilly!

The weather is finally starting to drop where it should be and the tiny princesses are sensing that the first snow fall will be just around the corner! Hopefully Mother Nature will not disappoint! :)
I have quite a bit to post today, so I’ll get on with it. The first set of lunches are from Tuesday. I debated whether to post them or not due to the horrible pictures. Same with Wednesday’s lunch for the guy I love. I got off my soap box about the picture thing though and have accepted that my photos are what they are! So…. here you ya go!!

Tiny princess A and K’s lunches 12/4/12
Exactly the same, except A got grapes and K got applesauce. Have you all figured out yet that these are pretty much the only fruits I can get these girls to eat? UGH! It’s very frustrating!

Here’s what they had…

• Candy Cane Turkey Sandwiches
• Grapes for A. Applesauce for K
• Peppermint sugar cookie
• Holiday shaped pretzels with mini peppermint marshmallows
• A small container of Nutella for pretzel dipping.
• They also each got a Christmas LunchBoxLove note! Get your own here!
• Packed in a holiday cookie container found at Walmart! Proof that anything can be a Bento box!

I’ll admit it. I’ve been slacking on lunches for the guy in my life. He has been going into work sometimes at 4:30am. That is just waaaaay too early for me to get up in the morning! Don’t worry, he hasn’t been going hungry. Leftovers usually do the trick for him. This week though he had a normal time day so I was able to create him a fun lunch! Apparently this one was quite the talk of the lunch table at work! ;)

Just a hodge podge of fun colors and whimsical picks, and lots of love. here’s what he had…

• Mozzarella string cheese cut into chunks and skewered onto sweet heart picks
• Turkey and cheese sandwich. I found the fun bread stamp in the Target dollar spot. It came with two different stamps, but was actually $3 not $1. You still can’t beat though. How cute right? I colored the smiley face with some food safe markers
• A few peanut M&Ms
• Green grapes. Don’t you love the little tree trunk picks? You can find them here at All Things For Sale
• Red grape tomatoes made to look like balloons with the sweet little balloon tie picks also from All Things For Sale
• Silicone heart cup with some Gardetto’s snack mix. YUM! The little blue sauce cup has a little bit of butter to dip his snack mix in. (Yes, he has a major butter addiction)
• Packed in a PlanetBox Rover. Also included some LunchBoxLove!

Now onto today’s lunches. Once again they are the same except for the grapes and the applesauce thing. ;)

Here’s what they had…

• Small sauce container with a few princess fruit snacks
• Crackers
• Salami
• Grapes/applesauce
• String cheese chunks with a cute paper penguin pick
• Dark chocolate mint penguin. YUM!
• Vanilla yogurt in a snowman cup from a local dollar store. Now I now there is a slight penguin theme going on here, but I really though without the lid to the snowman cup the shape resembles a penguin quite well. :) I also added a few snowflake sprinkles to get that “chilly” effect.
• Packed in our Goodbyn sandwich containers.

Some things I used to make these lunches…

Yes, my girls are still eating lunch….

Oh My! I’m having such a hard time with blogging lately! Oh well, I’m here now and I’ve got lunches to catch up on! :o) I have to admit part of the reason that I haven’t been posting our lunches is because I haven’t been satisfied with my photos. Now, I know they don’t have to be perfect…. I just wish they would be consistent.
Hard to remember where I left off, but I think it was here.

Tiny princess A & K’s lunches 11/8/12

 

Here’s what they had

• Heart sandwiches. Turkey/Butter for A. Peanut butter and jelly for K
• Brown Cow maple yogurt with sprinkles
• S’mores trail mix
• Hard cooked eggs Bunny for A. Bear for K. Salt/Pepper on the side for A
• Pretzel twists and cheese. Hold the cheese for A.
• Packed in Goodbyn sandwich containers

Tiny princess K’s lunch 11/9/12

Here’s what she had…

• Peanut butter and jelly mini leave and acorn sandwiches
• Tortilla chips and sweet onion salsa
• Frozen strawberry
• Carmel apple trail mix. (Gerber fruit puffs/marshmallows/caramel bits) YUM!!

Tiny princess A’s lunch 11/9/12

Here’s what she had…

• Turkey/butter leave and acorn sandwiches
• Pretzel rods
• Carrots and ranch
• Brown Cow maple yogurt with fall sprinkles
• Frozen berry mix
• Caramel apple trail mix. This one uses Apple straws instead of fruit puff, which in my opinion is much yummier! K doesn’t like the apple straws. Strange girl!
• packed in Yubo lunch boxes

Tiny princess A and K’s lunches 11/10/12

Here’s what they had…

• “Turkey” sandwiches. A’s was chicken K’s was PB&J
• Pretzel rods
• Nerds Pink for A. Purple for K.
• Granola bar for A. Cheese for K.
• Almonds
• Brown Cow maple yogurt
• Thanksgiving lunch box love! Get them HERE
• Packed in easy lunchboxes

Some things I used to make theses lunches…

So easy a kid can do it… and some Halloween fun thanks to Molly’s Lunch box

About a week ago I entered my Pretty In Pink Awareness Bento into a giveaway contest held by Shannon of Molly’s Lunch Box on her facebook page.  Guess what? I won! She sent me the most awesome box of Halloween lunch making goodies you have ever seen! We received out box on Saturday and my tiny princesses couldn’t wait til Monday to use the items. My youngest insisted I make them Bento dinners that night!

Tiny Princess A and K’s dinner 10/20/12

Here’s what they had…

• Brown Cow Maple flavored yogurt colored orange to go in the silicone pumpkin cup
• String cheese with witch ring from Molly’s Lunch Box
• A few chocolate covered sunflower seeds
• Mini chocolate chip pancake muffin in silicone spider cup complete with candy eyes. Thanks to Tara from Project Lunchbox for the idea!
• A bit of goldfish crackers to fill the spaces.
• Cloth ghost napkin from Molly’s Lunch Box
• String cheese
• Salami wit bat pick from Molly’s Lunch Box
• Organic baby carrots. A had ranch, but K, my ranch lovin’ carrot hatin’ girl decided she likes carrots now and that they are delicious without any dip at all!
• “Green slime” applesauce with sprinkles

Packed in our Yubo lunchboxes. Also included in this meal are the adorable lunchbox love notes from sayplease.com

Yesterday both of my tiny princesses requested trying their own hands at preparing their meals Bento style. Who was I to deny that request?

Here are they’re meals which they prepared and photographed themselves.Well, actually I prepared the food, but they arranged it in they’re lunchboxes. I also allowed them to add their own coloring to their yogurts. If you know me at all… that last little detail went very against my OCD habits! ;)

Tiny Princess A’s dinner 10/21/12

She had…

• Baked potato with extra pepper
• Animal crackers
• Half of a grilled horseradish cheeseburger which she cut using the fun bites cube it and then arranged it on the butterfly pick
• Brown Cow yogurt with green coloring and sprinkles
• A few goldfish crackers
• Mott’s Medleys fruit snacks
• Green beans

Packed in a Goodbyn  sandwich container.

Tiny princess K’s dinner 10/22/12

• Baked potato with extra pepper no butter
• The other half of the grilled horseradish cheeseburger. She had already eaten a few bites before she took her photo.
• Under her cheeseburger skewer is a bit of ranch for dipping. Told you she was my ranch girl! ;)
• Brown cow maple yogurt with green coloring and sprinkles
• Green beans

Packed in a Goodbyn small meal container.