mommy + me lunch box

Miss C's lunch: ham and cheese sandwich on Goldfish bread mini cucumbers with ranch grapes and applesauce Mommy's lunch: chicken salad stuffed tomato with cucumbers and yellow peppers cantaloupe and trail mix mix both packed in  EasyLunchBoxes I linked up to Following in My Shoe 's  I Heart Lunch and A Boy & His Lunch 's Grown-ups Gotta Eat

Miss C's lunch:   salad with turkey grapes and pretzel crackers cherry jello with fruit Mommy's lunch: Chicken salad over bed of lettuce, vanilla yogurt, grapes and wheat crackers

 Salad with chicken and cheddar sausage  packed in Lock&Lock rectangular divided container Salad with turkey roll ups  and miniature bananas with tomato hearts  ♥ packed in EasyLunchBox Salad with pork dumplings packed in a disposable Gladware bowl.

My first souvenir purchase in Florida during our vacation was a Mickey sandwich press. Then we went to Whole Foods to meet a fellow bento blogger, Sarah of Bentoriffic , where I passed by a Laptop Lunch bento display. I couldn't help it. I had to have one.  Mickey imprinted ham and cheese sandwich, simple salad w/tomatoes and ranch, yogurt w/diced strawberries, hummus with pita chips The salad, hummus, and yogurt little containers had lids. I did not buy a bag specifically for the Laptop lunch box, and most of my bags were too small for it. It fit in a regular rectangular lunch box, but did not have room for her drink or ice packs. It had to travel upright in a ThirtyOne thermal tote. Miss C reports that the containers did not leak, and that she ate all her salad.  My husband will not like it because there are more containers for him to wash. (Can I say again that I love that man? You'll probably get sick of reading that, if not already. haha!) Her...

Nothing says quick and easy than a salad and a few animal picks on an EasyLunchBox with vanilla yogurt w/sprinkles and fruit cocktail Dinosaur sandwiches with flower watermelon and cucumbers  Teriyaki chicken and vegetables with rice strawberries, graham crackers and marsmallows "Just Cheese sandwiches cut into Just Squares" was Miss C's request for her lunch. strawberries, with a few marshmallows and yogurt... SPRINKLES MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND!     Ham roll ups, cheese stick, grapes and pudding May is absolutely one of the craziest months for our family next to December! I had to prioritize all the preschool events, cakes, and birthday festivities, on top of our day-to-day activities, and blogging did not make it into the higher priority list. So in the next couple days, I'll try to catch up. 

C's lunch: Ham sandwich, snap pea crisps, carrots, strawberry, grapes C's lunch: ravioli, snap peas crisps, strawberries, pound cake My lunch: salad, bubble pizza, banana (my husband made the bubble pizza and it was awesome! I will have to post the recipe. I am planning on posting recipes during summer break.) C's Hello Kitty Bento w/deli rolls, clementine,  carrots, Babybel cheese (ranch inside the little chick) C's lunch: Mac&Cheese, edamame, grapes and yogurt C's lunch: Turkey sandwich w/veggie chips, maraschino cherries banana chips, and carrots C's lunch: clementine, edamame, snap pea crisps, deli rolls C's lunch: butterfly sunbutter&jelly sandwich veggie chips + apple C's lunch: rolls w/butter, chips&salsa yogurt, strawberries (C specifically asked for just bread and butter. We don't usually have bread/butter during dinner, but I think she had plain bread and butter at d...

Monday: C's lunch: Chawanmushi, deli rolls green peppers (w/ranch) and strawberry applesauce in a cute yellow bento box. My lunch: Udon noodles w/deli rolls in a small cute pink bento box (not pictured: apple) We had dinner at my mom's house after church and she prepared chawanmushi, spring rolls, lumpia, and udon noodles. So we had leftovers the next day. Chawanmushi is a Japanese steamed egg custard soup in a teacup, my mom added shrimp and mushroom, two of C's favorite foods.  I originally thought that I was going to have the egg soup for my lunch, but C loved it and wanted it for lunch, so I ended up with the Udon noodles instead.  Tuesday: C's off day My lunch: teriyaki salmon with rice, raw brocolli slaw, and carrots  using Lock&Lock divided container Wednesday: C's lunch: hummus, cauliflower, flower cookies fried SPAM, and garlic fried rice in a 2-tier bento box This was another case of C swiping my lunch. Sh...

Monday : C's lunch: DIY chicken wrap (chicken, lettuce, cheese) jello and apple My lunch (planned): Salad w/chicken (frozen, will thaw at work micro)  yogurt with granola My lunch (actual): Chinese--shrimp and broccoli extra spicy.  Tuesday:   C's day off. My lunch: see Monday's lunch above. Wednesday: C's lunch: Choco-Sunbutter and grape jelly sandwich "sushi" rice cakes, oranges, mozzarella stick My lunch: frozen chicken, carrots (and ranch), oranges Thursday: Groundhogs day lunch Friday: Giants/Super Bowl Football lunch My lunch: can of soup

Miss C loves Lunchables. For those who don't know what Lunchables are, they are a popular prepackaged lunch with crackers, some kind of cold cut meat, and cheese that the kids can stack. And most of the time they come with a candy bar. Typical lunchable I decided that a homemade version of a Lunchable is more budget friendly, earth friendly and kid friendly. I used some circle cutters that I use for cookies and baking to cut the ham and cheese, stacked them with Ritz crackers. Pineapple chunks speared with a heart pick and salad with ranch.   Right: Miss C's Lunchables Left: My lunch with scraps from cheese and ham from circle, cottage cheese, pineapple and soup (that I didn't end up eating). I was worried that Miss C won't eat her salad but she ate it up. She even said that there are some kids that brought salads as their lunches! I was very impressed with this group of 4-year-olds since I know more than a handful adults who won't even touch a ...