Cat in the Hat bento

I made my first "theme" bento. It's a "Children's Book" theme - Cat in the Hat. It's not great, but it's a start! Here it is.

Beth's bento

Beth's bento was pretty simple this morning, but she really liked it. I cut up carrots, celery, and apples. I put a container of dressing and a container of peanut butter for dipping. Then I added pickles, yogurt raisins, honey roasted pecans, and a juice.

Ray's last bento of kindergarten

My Ray is graduating from kindergarten tonight, and I made his last bento lunch of kindergarten today. I packed him two deviled eggs, dried blueberies, baby cut carrots, a dill pickle, chocolate-strawberry pudding, sesame tofu, tortilla chips, rice crackers, soy cheese that spelled "RAY," a chocolate, and a V8.

Cheese Names

The kiddos love to see their names in cheese. Who knew making them happy would be so easy! LOL. Today's lunch was tofu, carrots, soy cheese, a pickle, pudding, Fritos, mangoes, a vile of Bragg, juice, and a bag of Sharkies for Ray.

The Bento That Wasn't!

I made Ray's bento lunch this morning, and it was cute! I cute up veggie dogs and carrots into discs and then put olives and strawberry tomatoes in with them. I cut out "RAY" in soy cheese and put it on the top. Then on the bottom I put veggie booty and cinnamon-raisin rice pudding and gave him a juice to go with it all. It got spilled all over the garage! Gah. Oh well. At least I got a picture of it first!

octo-dog bento

I finally tried out my new cookie cutters this morning. I spelled Ray's name with white and yellow soy cheese. Ray thought it was pretty cool! Ray's lunch this morning included: two octo-dogs, a vile of ketchup, an olive, veggie booty, a strawberry tomato, two baby cut carrots, dried blueberries, Sharkies, a juice, Fritos, soy cheese cut into "RAY," and grapes.

On a sad note, one of the plates that Beth Ann made busted and had to be thrown away. This is the second one to break, and it's always so sad when it happens. She made this one just a few months after Louis was born. I got a picture of this one, so we could remember it! It was so cute.

bento pictures

Here's a couple of pictures of the bentos that I packed for the kiddos today. I packed mandarin oranges, blueberries, oat-walnut balls with a bottle of ketchup, a chocolate, gf pretzels, carrots, Sharkies, juice, and a pickle for Ray. I also packed a Clif Bar for Ray's snack. Man, he loves those things.

daughter's bento bit the dust

Well, my daughter's bento is toast thanks to a super powered dish washer. She was pretty bummed, so I'm going to have to order her another one. She used mine this morning. Thanks to a super busy morning, I didn't get pictures. This morning I packed the kids a cheese round (soy cheese for my son), a pickle, a chocolate kiss, some Flat Earth chips, soy nuts, dried blueberries, apple sauce, mandarin oranges, Sharkies, and a smoothie or a juice. It was not the greatest lunch ever, but we overslept a bit, and I forgot to make their lunches last night. Oops.

early bentos

Here is an example of some of the other bento box lunches I've made for the kids. This one has BBQ tofu, dried plums, gf Ian's cookie buttons, a strawberry, a sesame candy, rice sembeh, olives, and grapes.








This lunch includes soy nuts, sushi with avocado and carrots, olives, a dried plum, a cherry tomato, a veggie "octodog," Pamela's chocolate chip cookies, and (not pictured) grapes.