Halloween Wrap Up

Well, I’m finally getting around to posting our last few lunches. Life got hectic really fast, and thought I’ve still been making lunches, it’s been hard to find the time to blog about them. :)
So, here we go!

Tiny princess A’s lunch 10/29/12

Here’s what she had…

• Halloween shaped pretzels with decorative ghost candy. (My girls don’t like to eat these so they are included solely as a decoration)
• Cream cheese for pretzel dipping and bagel spreading
• Half of a bagel
• Mott’s Medleys fruit snacks
• A few Skittles candies…. taste the rainbow!
• Vanilla yogurt with Halloween sprinkles
• Carrots and ranch

Tiny princess K’s lunch 10/29/12

Here’s what she had…

• Halloween shaped pretzels
• Half a bagel
• Cream cheese for pretzel dipping and bagel spreading
• Applesauce with vampire teeth and sprinkles
• Vanilla yogurt with sprinkles
• Veggie chips

Tiny princess A’s lunch 10/31/12

Here’s what she had…

• Carrots with spider ring. Container to the right of the silicone spider cup holds ranch for dipping.
• Silicone spider cup with string cheese worms
• Creepy vampire cream cheese bagel. Complete with candy eyes and taffy tongue.
• 1 lone chocolate eye
• Mott’s Medleys peach applesauce
• Ritz crackers
• Half of a granola bar
• Vanilla Yogurt with Halloween sprinkles

Tiny princess K’s lunch with inner container lids on 10/31/12 (here lunch contained the same items as A’s.

Both packed in our Easylunchboxes. I love these lunchboxes! They are really just perfect, but one of the main things I love about them is that even with the lid on them you can get a glimpse of the lunch. Check out this awesome picture with the top lid on of tiny princess K’s lunch! ((LOVE IT))

I also made my sweet husband a Halloween lunch in an Easylunchbox!

Here’s what he had…

• One bat and two cat peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches
• Oyster crackers in dollar store coffin container. (3 for a dollar. each contained candy to start)
• Small silicone cup with spreadable butter for crackers
• Lots of chocolate eyes
• A few cheese puffs
• Granola bar halved
• Applesauce

Spooky things are in the air… er, I mean lunch boxes!

Halloween is almost here! Only 4 more school days left to add a little scary flare to the lunch boxes! (actually only 3 since I’m sure I won’t get away with packing cold lunch on chicken sandwich day 2 weeks in a row.)
I took a trip to the dollar tree today and picked up some fun spooky hard candies. (Bones & Skulls) and some chocolate eye balls. Some of the bones came in cute little lidded coffin containers which I thought would be just perfect used in some Halloween lunches.
Both lunches are the same again today, except for the sandwich fillings.

Tiny princess K’s lunch inner container lids off 10/26/12

Tiny princess A’s lunch inner container lids on 10/26/12

Here’s what they had…

• Dollar tree coffin container with Gerber Graduates fruit puffs and bloody bone candies. The candies that came inside the containers were white bones. I decided to make them bloody by adding a bit of food safe marker to each one.
• One lone chocolate eyeball
• Veggie straws
• Applesauce with Halloween sprinkles in the PlanetBox Little Dipper
• A few regular old non healthy fruit snacks
• Mozzarella cheese chunks and oyster crackers complete with creepy crawly centipede and spooky spider ring
• Scaredy  cat Fairy Bread.(idea found HERE) A’s filling is honey butter. K’s filling is PB&J

Packed in our favorite PlanetBox lunch boxes! Also included in these lunches are the ever fabulous Lunch Box Love Notes!! Have I mentioned how much my girls adore finding these in their lunch each day?

On a side note, totally un-lunch related…. I need to get busy on my tiny princesses costumes! What are your little ones going to be for Halloween this year?

Some things (or similair) I used to make these 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.

Too cute to spook in Easy LunchBoxes

Just as I thought using Easy Lunch Boxes for a second (and third and fourth) time did not disappoint! These lunch containers truly are easy! They are the absolutly perfect size. Roomy enough to add a great variety of foods, yet small enough that I don’t feel pressured to add un-needed items just to fill space, as I do with many of our other lunch containers.

After checking out some of the most amazing Halloween Bentos from The BentoBlogger&Friends blog hop I really felt inspired to add some Halloween spirit to my sweet girls lunches for today. I still don’t have a ton of supplies to make a really great spooky lunch, but I did pick up a few items at the store since my last attempt at a Halloween theme. I don’t think they cam out too bad. :o)
Same lunches again today. I’m on a roll!

Tiny princess A & K’s lunch 10/19/12 inner container lids off

And with inner container lid on

Here is what they had…

• Granola bar halved and few Mott’s Medley fruit snacks in silicone pumpkin cup
• S’mores trail mix complete with marshmallow monster on a pumpkin food pick. Face drawn with food safe markers
• Carrots with candy eyes stuck on with a dab of cream cheese. Ranch for dipping in white contaier
• Taco sandwich Jack-O-Lantern. Two oven baked tortilla pumpkin cutouts (Jack-O-Lantern features cut freehand) for the “bread”. Inside sandwich contents are just taco meat and cheese. I spread a very thin layer of refried beans on the insides of the tortilla chips to act as a glue to hold the “sandwich” together. Now, only my youngest tiny princess enjoys the beans. I’m hoping this detail will go un-noticed by my oldest tiny princess. ;)
• Apple Cinnamon Gerber Graduate fruit puffs with a special candy ghost on top. I thought these really lacked the color they needed to make them pop so I added mock sprinkles using food safe markers.
• Chobani Champions chocolate chunk yogurt with sprinkles

I also made my husbands lunch in Easy LunchBoxes, but it wasn’t very cute and didn’t really warrant a photo.;)

Some things I used to make this lunch