
My favorite of the week! The frogs were cut out with bear cookie cutters, but I put jumbo sprinkles on top of the ears and some more sprinkle details for the mouth and eyes and- voila! - frogs! Lots of layers of silicone "baran" to make a psychedelic frog pond, and lots of fruit. Even the cup matched! DD really loved this one and ate every bite of the homemade sealed sandwich and fruit.
Any other Mary Poppins fans? It's DD's favorite movie, and here's a Poppins lunch. A Babybel cheese cut in half with umbrella handle picks (but a little piece of straw would work just as well). There's also a homemade sealed sandwich topped with berries and sunflower seeds (meant to look like the flower on Mary's hat ... my DD picked up on every detail!). A few cherries (Cherry Poppins - she thought this was SO funny) and a grape with a hat, also meant to be like Mary's hat.

This was packed in a two-tiered bento box and could easily have been closed up and taken for a to-go lunch. (We actually did that another day this week but I didn't take a picture. It is really nice to have an assortment of bento boxes because now I frequently pack DD a healthy snack or lunch for when we're running errands. If she gets hungry, she eats in the shopping cart, there's no waste from packaging, and nothing gets squished!). Anyway, this was a "sushi" roll lunch - tortilla, cream cheese, snap peas, meat and cheese all rolled up and then sliced into rolls, some fruit, and a Nilla wafer in the Hello Kitty container (which was a candy container from World Market that I bought just for bento purposes).
Breakfast for lunch. Oatmeal (have you had Coach's Oatmeal? It's so good and cooks a lot quicker than steel cut oats), cottage cheese, berries, some cinnamon/sugar in the little chick container for sprinkling on the oatmeal, and a chick pitcher of milk.
Have a great week and a Happy Fourth, everyone!
Re: *Cute lunch check-in*
love this!
talked to me about these sealed sandwiches. how do you make them?
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https://www.amazon.com/Krustbuster-Multi-Crust-Remover-Sealer/dp/B001W6Q53W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309889292&sr=8-1
I've been using this for a few months. It has very little bread waste, which is nice. Lately I've seen similar versions at my grocery store, and I've been told that Pampered Chef has them, too.
The only problem I have (but nobody else on Amazon seemed to have) is that they don't necessarily stay sealed for that long. I think it's the kind of bread I use - whole grain and a little dry. I think if I used a whiter bread, maybe even a "white wheat" - it might last longer. Even still, it's kind of a novelty item and DD gets a kick out of them even though she doesn't mind eating the crust. It works with all kinds of sandwiches - PBJ, meat and cheese - and the presentation is pretty. If I'm making the sandwich to go, and it won't be eaten right away, I put a thin layer of peanut butter on each piece of bread and a bit of jelly in the middle, so that the bread doesn't get soggy. I've also read that you can freeze them, just like UnCrustables that you buy.
HTH!
How to tell my boys apart
The different types of twins and triplets
Jack, Sydney and Carynne, Annaleigh, JW, Eden...forever in our hearts.
My blog * We made the national news!