Here is my mantra on homemade school lunches: Lunch should be simple, healthy, inexpensive and tasty. Â I am in the process of putting together an E-Book on lunches that can be made in 10 minutes for around $2. My lunch making process is more of an assembly rather than actually “making” LOL. The truth is,…
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Bento boxes!
Hi guys, Here are a few recent bento boxes from our 4th graders lunch. I follow a simple formula for lunches that generally means it has four components: 1. Protein 2. Grain 3. Fruit 4. Veggie I work through these particulars when I do our meal planning for the week. This way my grocery list…
Throwback Pic of our Very 1st Bento Box! & Week 3 Bento lunches
Hi guys! Here are this weeks school lunch bento boxes along with a shot of the very first Bento box that I made. Our first Bento lunch was August 2012! Gabriel, our oldest, was in 3rd grade and Michael, our youngest was in 2nd grade. My, how times has flown by. 🙂 We’ve taken breaks…
Bento school lunches Week 2 + A weird birthday treat.
Hello everyone, We had an amazing week all week long! I hope your week knocked your socks off as well. Last weekend we celebrated Michael’s 9th birthday. We went laser tagging and then had a little party at the house. It was a really fun day. Every year for their birthday I make a weird…
School lunch item review + Week 1 (2014/15) Bentos.
Happy Friday. It’s been a busy week around here. The first week of school is officially completed and all the kids are talking about is sleeping in over the weekend. I would like to say that I am in 100% agreement with their weekend plans. I’m pooped and ready for some quiet time and a…
September Bento photo challenge.
Look what I found while wandering around Instagram! A Bento Photo challenge!! I’m so excited about this. I can’t promise to do them all but a few are just too nice to pass up. #24! #7!! You should join me! 🙂
Bento Tutorial: Sandwich creations using cookie cutters
I love using cookie cutters to make sandwiches for our Bento Boxes. My 3rd grader is on this Nutella sandwhich kick and I am bored to tears. So I decided to pull out the cookie cutters and have some fun! It’s really simple! I purchased my cutters from William & Sonoma. They were on sale!!…
A new school year and the Bentos are back!!
In my NFL Monday Night Football voice: Welcome to the 2013/2014 school year everyone. It’s gonna be an exciting year with a lot of growth and learning! Kids are pumped! Moms and Dads are pumped! The dog and cat are pumped! 🙂 Lets hear it for our starting line up: Aallll the kiiiiids everyyyyyywheeerrreeeee! *Cheers,…
My latest realities + Where the Bento’s have gone
Hello all, so…I’ve taken another small break from blogging mainly due to my need to re-assess and make some alterations to my life. I hope that it gives you the warm fuzzies to know that I missed you terribly! Some things I have been thinking about: -Purpose. Wanting to live my life in a way that is…
Bento boxes from last week + some Pirate’s Booty!
Hello all!! Here are our Bento boxes from last week. The week was kind of hectic and we allcrashed on Friday 🙂 Peanut butter crackers, mandarin orange wedges with a strawberry fruit flat cut out. Pretzels, marshmallows and apple chunks with a flower cut out. This is the result of my first attempt at making…
Bento boxes & help from my Bento Box mentor!
Recently I was visiting the Facebook page of my unofficial Bento Box mentor Wendy from Wendolonia. I have always LOVED her pictures of food. Clear, simple, straight forward and decidedly kid-like. A lot of that wonderfulness comes from her simple straight forward design approach. Everything in her box looks like something any mom on any day can…
As promised: Bento lunches from last week!
Good day friends!! Here are our most recent boxes. One morning I let the kids make all the choices for their boxes. All I did was take pictures, LOL!! It’s pretty obvious which box is theirs But hey, they ate and I heard no evening complaints about vegetables (because there were no vegetables). Here goes: This box has…
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