*Cute lunch check-in*

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Let's start with the over-achiever lunch, shall we?

Hello Kitty! I forgot to include the box lid in this picture, but it's a Hello Kitty bento box (ridiculously overpriced on Amazon, but I couldn't resist). The HK cookie cutter is from Party City, and a while ago I bought a Hello Kitty nori cutter from allthingsforsale.com, so she's got whiskers and eyes - the nose is a chocolate-covered sunflower seed. DD picked off the nori, but I probably would have done the same thing at 5! There's also a sandwich, chicken/carrot roll-ups, cucumbers, a strawberry and a banana.

A much less cute lunch in the same box. Leftover green beans, ham on picks, a Babybel cheese, blackberries and raspberries and a few peanut butter pretzels in the lid.

 
Cupcakes! A cheese sandwich surrounded by raspberries, snap peas, carrots, blackberries, Goldfish (she will.not.eat the round ones - so annoying!), cashews and some Easter M&Ms. I tried to make the carrots/blackberries look like a cupcake but it didn't work out.

DD wanted to learn how to spell "jump," so here's the corresponding lunch. Mini sealed peanut butter & honey sandwiches with letter picks and raspberries. On the other side of this two-tiered box are snap peas (I think they're so much prettier cut in half and presented like this) with a strawberry and blueberry in the center, plus some celery and a carved Babybel cheese. (The nice thing about cheese - if you mess up your carving, you can always just turn it over and try again!)

Bear? I think the sandwich looks like a dog, though. This is packed in one of our new containers from Old Navy. The open-faced cheese puzzle sandwich with cupcake topper details has a piece of silicone "lettuce" to keep the wet cucumber from touching it. Love this stuff! In the bottom half are blueberries, carrots, a strawberry and Goldfish.

 
Dogs! DD really wanted to point out the "bone" picks in the meatball - she thinks they're hilarious. From top left are dog bone grahams in a cute silicone plus baby carrots, raspberries and blueberries with a sprinkling of mini marshmallows (which were declared "fish bait" so I guess that's why she didn't eat them), snap peas and a leftover PW comfort meatball (delicious!), and a cheese sandwich with "dog" picks.

The dino obsession continues. Two pieces of Havarti cheese-osaurus are on top of a silicone lettuce, on top of a huge portion of watermelon. There's also chicken-wrapped carrots, cucumbers, dinosaur chewies and pretzels. She also had a banana.

Cute, no. Human, yes.

Have a great week! PIP your cute lunches here.

ConnieRob

I've been lurking on this board for months just for your posts. I love them! They are so creative!

 

babypuplove

Amazing!  Just a quick question/request~I would love to see a picture or two of your drawers and cabinets where you keep all of this bento stuff organized.  I want to start doing cute lunches once in a while, but have no idea where to start, or more importantly, where/how to store everything so I know what I have and can find it easily.  :-)

the_jackpot

@babypuplove- I use two shoe box sized plastic bins and put my stuff in there. I have only been doing these lunches for the past yr so I don't have boatloads of stuff but these are good for me. One box has all of my cutters and the other has the silicon molds, picks (I have two little glass spice size jars that house the mini forks and picks) etc. The sprinkles, eyes and stuff are on the spice shelf and the food markers are in the fridge.

I just pull the bins out in the am and figure it out from there.