Laptop Lunches Review Including a shake test!

Yay! It’s another lunchbox review! Aren’t you excited? I sure am! I really love to review lunchboxes for my readers! I sure hope you like to read them as much as I like to write them. ♥♥

 

It’s true! We do! We love our Laptop Lunches! The Laptop Lunch Box was one of our very first lunchbox purchases. I had viewed many a bento blog which used them and quickly fell in love with the bright containers and endless possibilities. We started off with the purchase of the Purple Laptop Lunchbox and the Garden Laptop Lunch box. You can see a few of our lunches that were packed in these boxes in the photo above.

Imagine my surprised when the generous folks at Laptop Lunches offered us another lunchbox for this review! We of course chose pink this time around! ♥♥

The generous people at Laptop Lunches provided us with a pink Laptop Lunches box  for review. No other compensation was given for this post. All views and opinions expressed are my own or that of my children. This post does contain affiliate links.

Laptop Lunches Lunch Boxes are made from strong, durable, and safe plastic. They contain no lead and are free of BPA, phthalates, and PVC. Laptop Lunches are dishwasher (top rack only, without heat boost) and inner containers are microwave (without lids) safe. Want to know my favorite part about Laptop Lunches? They are USA made!

The EXACT lunchbox  as pictured above (as well as many others) can be purchased for $23.99. A really excellent price considering that this one lunchbox alone can eliminate the use of plastic snack bags forever! Each Laptop Lunches lunchbox comes complete with it’s own set of brightly colored inner containers. 2 large, 2 medium, and 1 small. 3 of the containers come with leak proof lids making those particular containers great for messy foods. Sure, there are a lot of extra pieces to wash, and heaven forbid, lose, but I personally am a container addict, so this doesn’t bother me a bit! In fact, one of the things I love most of all of the individual inner containers, is how easy it is to pack lunch ahead of time. It is very convenient to be able to separate refrigerated items from no refrigerated items with ease.  I can pack yogurt and/or fruit in one of the lidded containers the night before and then just pop them in the fridge while still being able to keep crackers or other non fridge items out. This saves me so much time in those hectic mornings when we are trying to get out the door on time. ♥

Laptop Lunches also provides lots of other products to complement your Laptop Lunchbox. Insulated lunch bags, water bottles, ice packs, and more! One of my personal favorite Laptop add on would have to be the Bento Buddies, and we don’t even have them yet! They are definitely next on my list of purchases. They are a set of extra containers including one larger container that could easily hold a full sized sandwich! ♥

Okay, how about some new Laptop Lunches lunchboxes that I have recently packed for my tiny princesses…

Tiny princess K chose the pink Laptop Lunchbox (courtesy of  Laptop Lunches) for her meal. She had… Chunked Colby cheese, some mini pepperoni rounds, Trader Joe’s sour cream and onion puffed corn, 2 Trader Joe’s yogurt stars, blueberry Greek yogurt with sprinkles, carrots with ranch for dipping in the small Laptop Lunches lidded container, a yummy berry mix, and few chunks of assorted melon. Another thing we really LOVE about the Laptop Lunches box is the side compartment which is PERFECT for utensils and a napkin! ♥

We decided to to a shake test with A’s Laptop Lunches meal and we think it was a great success!

Here is her meal before the shake…

She chose the Garden Laptop Lunches box that we purchased as one of our very first lunchbox purchases. She had… Blueberry yogurt with sprinkles, assorted grapes, carrot and snow peas with ranch for dipping, Colby cheese chunks, garden vegetable ritz crackers, Trader Joe’s yogurt stars, Trader Joe’s puffed corn, and a turkey sandwich.

As with our other shake tests, we gave the Laptop Lunches lunchbox a good hearty shake. So, if you ever wonder what our meals look like after traveling from home to school lunch table this might give you a better idea…

As usual the sprinkles were mixed into the yogurt, the seal food pick got somewhat buried in the grapes, and the yogurt starts shifted a bit, but all in all I think everything stayed together quite nicely. What do you think?

My tiny princesses give the Laptop Lunches lunchbox 4.5 out of 5 crowns. Wonder why 4.5? Well, my youngest tiny princess couldn’t quite give it all 5 crowns. The opening method can be a tad on the tricky side for younger lunchers. This should definitely be considered before your purchase. There is sort of an exact science for opening the box. I will say that once your child figures it out it’s easy as pie. It’s just a matter of getting there first. ♥♥ Other than that we have NO complaints. We love our Laptop Lunches boxes and my girls look forward to having lunch packed in them!

some things I used to make these meals…

Mickey, Yubo, and a little Lunchbox Love!

I have a friend. And she is fabulous! I don’t even know her in real life, but it feels like I do! She shares my Disney passion, and is my number one bento lunch supporter! ♥♥ It just so happens that she lives very close to the Disneyland Resort! Sometimes, she picks up special treats for me and my girls! Yesterday’s mail included a package with Mickey shaped pretzels! YUM! Of course my girls couldn’t wait to have a lunch packed with them in it!

We decided on some packed dinners rather than lunches. My oldest tiny princess started cheerleading practices on Monday. She practices 5 days a week for 2 hours per night. (6pm to 8pm) This is her 5th year in the program. I am going on my 4th year of coaching. From now until mid October our evenings are going to be pretty tight. Especially once school and dance start. We won’t be quite as busy as last year though, cause tiny princess K decided cheerleading just wasn’t for her.

The girls decided on their Yubo lunchboxes cause they love them so! ♥♥ Tiny princess A had: Carrot coins and one lone cherry tomato, ranch for dipping in the Mickey sauce cup, rolled chicken lunch meat, Mickey head pretzels, homemade chocolate pudding, a couple of apple slices, and some bunchkins grapes.

So, who noticed my “hidden Minnie? See it? Right there, in the carrots and tomato. ♥

K had a mouse themed Yubo too!

She had: 2 small chicken/cheese sandwiches, 2 super small chicken/cheese sandwiches, (2 pieces of bread total) Mickey head pretzels, carrot coins, ranch for dipping, applesauce, and homemade chocolate pudding.

I also included a Lunchbox Love note in each of the meals. I love the messages and fun facts that are on each card! I can’t wait to get my hands on the new editions! Tiny princess A’s Lunchbox Love was not photographed.

I just love all the different combinations and layouts you can come up with when using the inner containers of the Yubo Lunchbox! It’s fantastic! I just adore endless possibilities! ♥♥

 

Some things I used to make these meals…

A Goodbyn Bynto is hard to resist!

Last Saturday while walking through Target, we spotted some Goodbyn Byntos!

Sure, we already have two, but the blue was so sweet. We don’t have a blue one. Now we do. ♥ Goodbyn Byntos are hard to resist….. plus I was a little bit excited about already “knowing” all about the product. It’s exciting to be on the the up and up of all the latest and greatest!

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By Sunday my tiny princesses were already begging for some Goodbyn Bynto lunches. I must admit…. I was excited to pack them, too!

We flipped a coin and tiny princess A got to use the new blue Bynto first. She had: Carrot coins, and a few tomatoes, ranch for dipping in the green sauce cup, all natural vanilla yogurt in the green Goodbyn sauce container, left over Mongolian BBQ from the night before with a cute panda pick to help her eat it, baby grapes and two raspberries, (we are still working on the fruit thing) two bite sized panda cookies, and a few honey wheat pretzel twists. ♥

 

Tiny princess K chose the green Bynto. She thought it looked nice wit the blue. I agree. Her lunch consisted of the same items, except she had a panda shaped PB&J cut using our CuteZCute sandwich cutter. She also had a cutie orange instead of grapes and raspberries. Bananas are really the only fruit K will eat. Sometimes applesauce, but I’m not sure if that counts. I recently gave her a cutie orange to try and though she could not bear to swallow it down, (due to the texture) she did however find that she really liked the taste. Now, when she asks me to pack her an orange, she will put a whole segment in her mouth and sucks and chews all the juice from it. :) So, while it’s not my ideal way for her to consume the fruit, it’s a lot better than her not eating it at all. ♥

Some things I used to make these lunches…

Laptop Lunches for my tiny princesses (and friend)

If you remember, last Thursday my oldest tiny princess had a friend spend the night as part of her 10 year birthday celebration.  I made them all lunches in EasyLunchboxes. You can check the post out here. ♥ On Friday the asked me to make their lunches again! I was so excited. It feels really good to be packing lunch again.

Tiny princess A’s friend was pretty infatuated with our lunch box collection. She spent over an hour checking out each one, as well as all of the accessories we use to make lunch fun!  She asked if I would pretty please use the Laptop Lunchboxes. I did. :) Stay tuned, cause pretty soon I will be doing a Laptop Lunchbox review!

Tiny princess K’s lunch…

She had: Green beans with blue flower pick, four vanilla wafer cookies, bow tie pasta with pink kitty pick, pizza sauce with a bit of parmesan cheese on top for dipping, extra parmesan in the shooting star cup, all natural applesauce with sprinkles, two slices of garlic toast cut using our Cute-Z-Cute cutter from All Things For Sale, (the toast was a bit overdone so the slices were more like giant sized croutons, but the girls didn’t seem to care) colby cheese scraps underneath some cubed cuts, topped with a flower cutout and stem food pick.

Tiny princess S’s lunch…

S’s lunch contained the exact same items as K’s. Hold the sprinkles, a little change in picks, and instead of the kitty face from the Cute-Z-Cute cutter, she chose the pig. ♥

Tiny princess A’s lunch…

A’s lunch had a few more differences. She is not a fan of applesauce so we exchanged that with some all natural strawberry yogurt with a few berries on top. She is not much of a fruit eater, but she handles a few just to make her mama happy. A is not big on cheese either. She will eat it from time to time, but only when the mood strikes her. We switched out the cheese with some turkey rolls and added a flowerbed of picks to keep them together. She also decided on a different animal from the Cute-Z-Cute cutter. She chose the frog, so naturally we went with the frog food pick for her pasta. 

 

Some things I used to make these lunches…

EasyLunchboxes for the birthday girl and friends!

Two days ago, my oldest tiny princess celebrated her birthday. Not just any old birthday, it was a milestone birthday. She joined the double digit club! It’s so bitter sweet to me. I adore watching her grow into a beautiful young lady, but I miss her baby days with all my heart!

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I don’t know about yours, but in our family,  you don’t just have a birthDAY….. No way! It’s a birthWEEK around here! What can I say? We love any chance we get to PARTAY!

Yesterday’s portion of the celebration included tiny princess A being allowed to have a friend spend the night. It was no surprise who she chose. A & S are FOREVER friends for sure. ♥  Tiny princess S was set to arrive right around lunchtime so I thought it would be fun to make up a few Birthday Bash Bentos!

Deciding which boxes to use was a no brainer! Fabulous EasyLunchboxes, of course! In brights! ♥♥ This way all the boxes were the same AND I was able to color coordinate them to each tiny princess!

First up, lunch for the birthday girl! Here is what she had…

• Honey Roasted Turkey and butter sandwich. I used the super fun cake sandwich cutter from our Sweet Treats LunchPunch set to cut the sandwich I added a few sprinkles “glued” with butter to the top and some super fun letter picks to spell out “Happy Birthday”.
• A few frosted animal cookies separated from the sandwich with a silicone divider.
• In the blue “cake slice” silicone cup I added some overly dry carrots that desperately needed to be be eaten up and two cherry tomatoes turned birthday balloons with our fun food picks from All Things For Sale.
• Pink sauce cup with ranch for dipping.
• Small silicone cup (hidden by the EasyLunchbox mini dipper lid) full of small Colby cheese chunks.
• The mini dipper contains all natural strawberry go-gurt that I removed from the tube. I also added more sprinkles…. cause what’s a birthday without em’?
• Baby grapes and apples in the third and final compartment of our Easylunchbox.

Tiny princess S (A’s friend) had a lunch consisting of all the same items. The only thing different was the sandwich. Her sandwich contained: Honey roasted turkey, mayonnaise, and mustard. (those are condiments that I NEVER get to pack for my picky princesses.) Since it wasn't  S’s birthday I decided to cut her sandwich using the cupcake from the same LunchPunch set. Of course I added sprinkles.  AND a mini pepperoni “cherry”.  Ugh! Those carrots look really awful. At least the girls didn’t complain. ♥

Last, but certainly not least…. Tiny princess K’s lunch! (Sometimes it can be really hard being the birthday girl’s sister) K’s lunch contained most of the same items as well. The few changes were as follows: Turkey and cheese sandwich cut with the cupcake LunchPunch, and her fruit side was a bit different too. She had raspberries instead of baby grapes with her apple slices. To be honest she doesn’t care for any of the 3 fruits I included. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, If I don’t continue to offer her these things she may never learn to enjoy them. She ate one apple slice, but that’s it. Babysteps.

All in all it was a lunchtime success! I even overheard tiny princess S tell Allison that she was going to ask her mom if they could pay me to make her lunches when school resumes in the fall! :)

The girls loved their lunches so much they even asked me to make some again today! ♥

Some things I used to make these lunches…