Days 458 and 459

Day 458 - Grilled Chicken/BLT salad.  D's salad is baby spinach, grilled chicken, muenster cheese, tomatoes and bacon bits.  She also has homemade yogurt with homemade blueberry apple sauce and some graham crackers.

My salad is baby spinach, grilled chicken, muenster cheese and black beans.  I have my crushed red peppers and some grapes.

Day 459 - Breakfast for lunch!  D has mini pancakes, chicken/apple sausage, mini dipper of maple syrup, marinated mozzarella and some grapes.

I have a random odds and ends picking box.  There is some chicken/apple sausage, salami, muenster cheese, crostini and grapes.

 

Day 455

Day 455 - The picture quality is awful.  I had to take this with my cell phone at 8:00 last night, but you get the idea of what she has anyway!  She has a 1/2 of a short rib sandwich, spinach salad, homemade yogurt topped with sweetened spiced pumpkin and toasted pecans.

I have leftover grilled chicken, string cheese, the same pumpkin pie yogurt, pea pods and hummus.

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Days 450 and 451

Day 450 - Lasagna and salad!  I bought that over sized silicone muffin liner in the $1 spot at Target.  It is the perfect size for one serving of lasagna (for an 8 year old anyway).  She also has a salad, homemade yogurt with homemade blueberry applesauce and an Oreo cookie.

I had a DIY Lunchable.  Deli turkey and ham, cheese, grilled green beans and some grapes.

Day 451 - DIY Pizza Lunchable, homemade yogurt  with apple pie dip and grapes.

My lunch today is identical to yesterday's. 

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Days 442 and 443

Day 442 - DIY Lunchable..PIZZA!!  D's favorite pizza is BBQ chicken so to honor that she has 3 heart pizza crusts, some pizza sauce, some bbq chicken and shredded cheese to make her own pizzas.  She also has grapes, a cookie and 2 Swedish fish.

I have baked tofu, cheese, grapes and blueberry almonds.

Day 443 - Ham sandwich with a cheese horse, cherry tomatoes, grapes, homemade yogurt topped with crushed pineapples and quinoa brittle.

I have a pumpkin pie yogurt parfait.  I mixed my homemade yogurt with some s/f cinnamon vanilla syrup and I mixed a 1/2 can of pumpkin puree with pumpkin pie spice, chia seeds and some stevia.  Then I layered the two and topped it off with toasted pecans when I was ready to eat it.

Days 393 through 396

Still playing catch up!

Day 393 - BLT wrap.  D has 1/2 a Joseph's oat/flax wrap with mayo, spinach, bacon and tomatoes, petite baby carrots, fresh mozzarella, homemade yogurt with strawberries and some grapes.

Day 394 - Breakfast for lunch!  D has blueberry french toast sticks, turkey sausage, syrup, apple sauce with sprinkles and strawberries and raspberries (stuffed with a dark chocolate chip).

Day 395 - Ham/turkey pinwheels with colby jack cheese on cupcake toppers, yellow grape tomatoes, sliced pickles, petite baby carrots, homemade yogurt, strawberries and raspberries.

Day 396 - Spinach Chopped Salad.  There is ham, turkey, cheddar cheese, yellow grape tomatoes, red bell peppers, carrots and spinach in the salad with a small bottle of greek dressing on the side, raspberries and strawberries and some lemon cookies.

Days 388 through 391

So it turns out, working 2 jobs is very time consuming!  Not so time consuming that I can't pack D a lunch every day but so time consuming that I don't always have time to photograph it and blog about it.  I'll find my stride!!

Day 388 - Pb & banana sandwich.  I used some of the Wilton cookie icing on a toast stamp to make the image.  She also has strawberries, almonds and a Hello Kitty marshmallow.

Day 389 - This is a "Mom desperately needs to get to the store" lunch!  She has pb & j, freeze dried peaches and a hand full of trail mix.

Day 390 - D's favorite pasta salad!  It has mini pasta shells, peppers, tomatoes, spinach, carrots, ham, salami and cheese.  It is dressed with sun-dried tomato pesto.  She also has strawberries and homemade chocolate yogurt.

Day 391 - Today is spinach salad with grape tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, cheese and turkey.  The small bottle has a little bit of greek dressing in it, she also has homemade yogurt and Trader Joe's yogurt stars.

Day 378

 Day 378 - Lunch today is a peanut butter & honey sandwich cut out with a Lunch Punch, homemade granola bar, grape tomatoes, homemade vanilla yogurt and a Hello Kitty marshmallow.

This is Earth Week at D's school.  One of the activities that they have to do is make a hat out of recyclable materials for their Recycled Hat Parade.

We started with a milk jug.  We cut it just under the handle and used the bottom as the hat base.  We put some felt around the edges in case they were sharp. 

We cut the tops off of plastic water bottles and made flowers out of them.  D painted them then we glued them to the top.

She used a rolled up paper bag as the brim and decorated it with newspaper/button flowers!

She is pretty proud of her beautiful Recycled Hat!!

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 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 345

Day 345 - It is such a dark rainy day here I couldn't find any light to take my picture!  For lunch today D has grilled cheese sticks, clementines, homemade yogurt and watermelon.  I found the recipe for the grilled cheese sticks on Pinterest.  D loves them!

Day 331

Day 331 - Today's lunch is a pb & blueberry jelly sandwich cut out with a Lunch Punch, red and orange tomatoes, a mini bell pepper stuffed with cream cheese and homemade blueberry yogurt.

1 C yogurt
1 packet truvia
a handful of frozen blueberries.

Day 328 and 329

Day 328 - DIY Lunchable.  It couldn't be more simple, no "fancy" cutters or anything.  I just cut a couple slices of deli ham into 6ths and quartered a couple slices of american cheese.  She also has some whole wheat crackers, cherry tomatoes, homemade yogurt and some sliced strawberries.

Day 329 - Pb & Honey puzzle sandwich, 1/2 a banana (not the most beautiful banana but a tasty one none the less!), homemade chocolate yogurt and strawberry slices.

For the chocolate yogurt I used 1 cup of my homemade yogurt and added 2 Tbs of unsweetened cocoa power and one packet of stevia.  I just mixed it all together.


 

Day 296

Day 296 - This is one of D's favorites.  She has fun shaped ravioli, topped with herbed sun dried tomatoes, kiwi and a hollowed out apple with caramel flavored yogurt topped with caramel sauce and unsweetened coconut.

To make the caramel flavored yogurt I use 1 cup of my homemade yogurt and add a tablespoon of sugar free coffee flavoring syrup (like Torani).

Day 290

Day 290 - Lunch meat "sushi", fresh mozarella pearls, yogurt parfait, grape tomatoes, apple crisp with a sugar star and grapes.

Day 286

Day 286 - Breakfast for lunch!  It's always a good standby! I got up a little late this morning so it was nice to be able to just grab some pancakes out of the freezer, some left over breakfast sausage from Saturday, a homemade yogurt parfait, maple syrup, an orange and some Trader Joe's yogurt stars.

Day 272

Day 271 -The other day Lise from Veggie Bento had commented on Facebook that she had seen a recipe from Giada De Laurentiis for Spaghetti Nests.  Spaghetti is one of D's favorites!  I had to adjust the recipe a bit because I didn't have any spinach.  I used kale instead.  I didn't have any fresh mozzarella either so I made bread onigiri.  I just put some garlic butter inside. I decorated them with carrots and black sesame seeds.  She also has some pineapple tidbits and yogurt with mixed berry all fruit spread.

Here are some that my Bento Blogger Friends have made!
http://daisyselalu.blogspot.jp/2012/05/oh-shucks-230312.html?m=0
http://www.apocketfullofbuttons.com/2010/05/muffin-tin-monday-mini-series-birds-and.html
http://mommasays.net/2264/chicken-or-the-egg-bento/
http://ellunchdemienano.blogspot.com/2012/09/nidos-de-espagueti-con-todo-y-su-pollito.html