Day 364

Day 364 - Last day of school for this week!  Easter Bunny sandwiches!!  She wanted pb & honey today, she also has a clementine and some roasted almonds.  I used Wilton candy eyes, cookie icing and food color markers to decorate the face.

Day 363

Day 363 - Easter Eggs!!  D has 2 pb&j Easter Egg sandwiches, cottage cheese and grapes.  D had fun decorating her Easter Egg sandwiches with Wilton Cookie Icing.

Day 362

Day 362 - Kind of like a DIY lunchable but kind of not...Really I'm just cleaning some odds and ends out of the fridge.  She has turkey and cheese flowers, a pudding parfait, some Rainbows and Butterflies pasta salad and grapes.  Not pictured she also has a banana.  It doesn't seem like much food but she had a big breakfast and has cottage cheese for snack so I think she'll be satisfied.

Day 361

Day 361 - Rainbows and Butterflies pasta salad. The "rainbow" is yellow peppers, carrots, sun dried tomatoes, spinach, ham, turkey and cheddar cheese.  The "butterflies" are mini bow tie pasta dressed with a little bit of the oil from the sun dried tomatoes.  She also has a scoop of tuna & pickles, cherry tomatoes, grapes and some trail mix.

Day 360

Day 360 - Breakfast for lunch!!  D had a couple of cut out sandwiches this week so I had a stockpile of bread scraps.  That means baked french toast time!!  Bento bloggers often are asked what do you do with all the scraps?  Isn't making these cute lunches wasteful?  Well to be honest...NO!  Around here, cheese, meat and veggie scraps are eaten almost immediately and if they aren't they are typically added to pasta salad and used up that way.  Bread scraps either end up as "cinnamon fries" or baked french toast.  Simple, easy and D loves all those options!

Here are some links to recipes and ideas for using bento scraps!

http://www.mamabelly.com/2012/04/french-toast-casserole.html
http://www.bentonbetterlunches.com/2012/03/waste-not-bento-scrap-veggie-soup-stock.html
http://www.momables.com/breakfast-muffins-from-zero-waste-lunches/

Day 359

Day 359 - More CuteZCute Fun!!  Today D has turkey sandwiches cut out with the CuteZcute kitty. The sandwich on the left also has dried cherries in it to fill in the features.  She also has cherry tomatoes, grapes and some trail mix.

Day 358

Day 358 - It's the first day of Spring!!  You can't tell from my house...it is COLD!!  We wanted to celebrate it anyway!  We are soooo looking forward to the warm weather and getting outside!  D has peanut butter sandwiches cut out with my Linzer cutter and decorated with Wilton cookie icing.  She also has some green beans, grapes and a Special K protein bar.

Day 356 & 357

Day 356 - CuteZCute ham sandwiches, cherry tomatoes, grapes, homemade yogurt with strawberries.

Day 357 - Turkey/spinach roll up, snow peas, cherry tomatoes, marinated mozzarella and grapes.

Day 355

Day 355 - Today D has a little of her BBQ chicken wrap left over from dinner last night, some cherry tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, black grapes and some chocolate covered sunflower seeds.




This is D's birthday cake.  She has been playing Minecraft lately and really wanted a "Creeper".  I had to google it!  She was very happy with it!

Day 354

It feels like just yesterday that this beautiful little girl came into our lives.  I can't believe that eight years have passed.  Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby.

Day 354 - Not exactly knocking it out of the park on nutrition today but your birthday only comes once a year!  D has a peanut butter sandwich cut out with a Lunch Punch and decorated with Wilton Cookie Icing.  She also has grapes/cantaloupe and cherry tomatoes.  I didn't pack much food for her today since she will be sharing a treat with her classmates at lunch.

Day 353

Day 353 - Breakfast for lunch!!  D has some pancakes, chicken/blueberry sausage, a small bottle of s/f syrup, grapes & cantaloupe and a dark chocolate, cherry, cashew Kind bar.

Day 352

Day 352 - Grilled ham/cheese sticks, cucumber sticks, grapes and cantaloupe and the last couple of pieces of the peanut butter chocolate bark.

Day 351

Day 351 - Left over pizza!  Seems to be our new Monday staple!  She has cheese pizza, cherry tomatoes, cucumber spears, cantaloupe and grapes and some peanut butter/chocolate bark.

Day 350

Day 350 - Turkey sandwich today. I made a simple turkey sandwich and cut it out with my Linzer cutter.  I topped the sandwich with cheese stamped with a rubber stamp and food coloring, she also has yellow grape tomatoes and a lara bar.

Day 349

Day 349 - Quick and easy lunch!  Ham/mustard wrap, string cheese, clementine, red and yellow grape tomatoes, cucumber/feta salad, sunflower seeds with blueberry cereal bar hearts.

Cucumber/Feta Salad
1 English cucumber, diced
1/4 C feta cheese crumbles
1/4 tsp oregano
2 tsp olive oil

Toss it all together and enjoy!  I also like to add diced kalamata olives to it too!

Day 348

Day 348 - Left over pizza from our sleep over this weekend!  Once a month my BFF and I switch off babysitting to give each other a "date night" with our husbands.  We have been doing it for a few years now and it really works out for us.  I really look forward to my night with the girls and also to my date night!  So this weekend it was my turn to "pay the piper".  The girls are so much older now that it is so easy to have them here.  I pretty much only saw the tops of their heads while they all used their Ipods to play Minecraft together. LOL  They didn't eat too  much since they were so engrossed in their game.  So there was a ton of pizza left over!  D has pizza cut out with a FunBites cube it, red and yellow grape tomatoes, clementine and homemade yogurt.

Day 347

Day 347 - Just a turkey sandwich today, cut out with a Lunch Punch.  I found some Wilton Cake Stamps at Michael's on clearance so I grabbed some.  They are kind of the craft foam kind not rubber.  I don't think they worked as well on the cheese...maybe they work great on fondant.  I'll try to work with them some more and see if I can get them to work for me. She also has some grape tomatoes, cucumber slices with carrot flowers, blueberries and some chocolate covered sunflower seeds.