Week in Bentos - Sep 22-26th

This week featured our wonderful first day of Fall, so this week in bentos was sort of themed as such. 

We are going to start with the first official day of Fall which was, 

Tuesday - Leaf shaped cheese w/ crackers, carrots w/ ranch, chicken, apple cinnamon fig neutons w/ mini pumpkin candy, and leaf shaped cranberry sauce. 

Monday - Grilled cheese sandwich, carrots w/ ranch, berry jello, fig neutons, and yogurt covered strawberries. 

Wednesday - Soy butter, banana and chocolate chip roll with pumpkin patch, Mozzerella and cheddar cheese kabobs, carrots w/ ranch, and strawberry/banana smoothie. 

Thursday - Tri colored cous cous, morning star chick patty (vegetarian) strips, carrots w/ ranch, cheese stick, and mandarin oranges. 

Friday - Cheese quesadilla, carrots w/ ranch, fig neutons, apple/strawberry GoGo squeeze and a marshmallow pumpkin candy. 

P.S. - Have I mentioned how much I LOVE this new lunch bag?!?! Look at how much I can fit in there!! 

Have a great week! See you next Friday! 

Week in bentos- Sept 15-19th

Cutting to the chase, this week's bentos include: 

Monday - Chicken and cheese kabobs, energy bites, ants on a log (using soy nut butter), carrots w/ranch and strawberry fruit burst pouch. 

Tuesday- Soy nut butter and jelly bunny sandwich with chocolate chip eyes, celery sticks w/ ranch, grapes, home made Rice Krispie treat bites, and a strawberry & banana smoothie, which is new to the mix and my daughter loved! 

Wednesday - Rice heart & star w/ soy sauce, carrot sticks w/ ranch, berry jello, mandarin oranges, and juicy juice box. 

Thursday - We tried Nachoes again because my daughter didn't eat the salsa or sour cream last time and wanted to give it another go. So we have Nachoes, with olives, jello, grapes, and celery & carrot sticks w/ ranch. This time she ate it all! :) (except for the olives, which I found out she gave to her cousin) 

Friday - Star and heart shaped cheese slices w/ ritz crackers, chicken, energy bites, carrot sticks w/ ranch, berry jello, grapes, and pear juice. Look how much can fit in one sandwich sized box!! 

And I'm in LOVE with these grass seperators!! They save so much space and your food doesn't touch!! Not to mention, I find them adorable! 

I hope everyone has a great week! See you next Friday!! 

Week of Bentos - Sept 8-12

Another week of school down, and my little first grader is thriving!! She is reading and has passed both spelling tests! This is one proud mama!! Now excuse my bragging while I show you what I fed her... 

Monday - Breakfast for lunch, that ended up being totally animal themed! Mini homemade pancakes with syrup for dipping, hard boiled egg that turned into a polar bear, mozzarella cheese stick bites, banana and a strawberry Fruit Burst pouch. 

Tuesday - Apple sandwich, consisting of two apple slices with the core cut out and filled with soy nut butter (like peanut butter), oats and mini chocolate chips. Chicken and mozzarella cheese kabobs, broccoli w/ ranch, teddy grahams, and organic lemonade juice box. 

Wednesday - Soy nut butter & banana butterfly sandwich with marshamellow accents, cheese stick bites, diced pears, carrots w/ ranch, and an apple juice. 

Thursday - Chicken and cheese sandwich on Hawaiian roll, apple slices, carrots w/ ranch, homemade pumpkin and oat muffin w/ a little pumpkin candy because why not? :) 

Friday - Mozzerella cheese stuffed bites that I baked the night before, carrots w/ ranch, two homemade energy bites, banana that you can sort of see I imprinted her name on the peel with Wilton alphabet cut outs, a peice of Texas toast, and pear juice. 

I was pretty proud of myself because this week we are in desperate need of one of those big long shopping trips where you stock up on everything, and I still managed to pull all this off. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention! 

I hope everyone has a good week! See you next Friday! 

Week in Bentos - Sep 1st - 5th

Happy Friday!! We've got Back to School night out of the way and in a few weeks school pictures will be taken! We are in the swing of things now!! 

This weeks lunches included: 

Monday - Soy nut butter, banana and chocolate chip roll on a whole wheat tortilla, cheese stick, celery & carrots w/ ranch, and watermelon. 

Tuesday - Apples w/ soy nut butter, cheddar and mozzarella kabobs, celery w/ ranch, corn bread muffin, and lemonade.

Wednesday - Rice heart and star w/ soy sauce, broccoli and carrots w/ ranch, watermelon, and apple juice. 

Friday - Cheese quesadilla, three Apple fig neutons, carrots w/ ranch, strawberries, and apple banana GoGo squeeze. 

Notice how all these lunches are vegetarian? I didn't mean for it to be that way, but my daughter loved every one of them. Have a great weekend!! See you next week!