I just love how this one turned out. My kiddos just love this book and we've done several crafts and activities throughout the years, not to mention Cam's first birthday party in the hungry caterpillar theme. Kirsten got half a ham and cheese sandwich. The caterpillar is made from a cherry tomato and sliced cucumbers. Mozza and cucumber eyes and cucumber nose. A container of green jello and a container of cucumber leaves.
A fun morning nutrition break. An orange, banana, vanilla smoothie with some homemade chocolate zucchini bread. A sliced orange bird-like creature with icing eyes, and fruit leather beak and feet.
This was a great afternoon nutrition break bento. Colourful shaped pasta sauteed with butter, parmesan cheese and peas. A homemade pumpkin pie tart and some orange segments.
Here's another Halloween bento. Red and yellow apple ghosts with food marker faces and craisins. A cheddar babybel cheese with jack o'lantern face and crackers. Marshmallow ghosts made with food marker.
And another Halloween bento. Definitely not my best work but I was running out of Halloween ideas. A container of vanilla yogurt with Halloween sprinkles, a container of baby carrots and a cereal bar with a halloween cookie for a treat.
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I have never seen pasta like that before. It almost looks like the center of a bell pepper top, minus the stem. Awesome bentos!
ReplyDeleteso so so so cute! how adorable, how creative! i just want to pinterest all of it!
ReplyDeleteJill- you are so creative!! I love these lunches. Lila
ReplyDeleteI love your ideas! My 6 yr old son loves checking them out also!
ReplyDeleteMy 4 year old likes these posts, too. She always tells me what she'd eat first if the lunch were hers. I get so many great ideas from your site.
ReplyDeleteI love these lunches, so fun and clever!! Cute ghosts and those are cool looking shaped pasta?? What is it?? Great job on all of them and sharing them with us. Love love seeing them.
ReplyDeleteThank-you so much ladies!
ReplyDeleteDawn - yes, it's pasta. I found a bag of it at the grocery store and quickly scooped it up!
I love the caterpillar and ghost lunches!
ReplyDeleteA couple Bentos ago, you made one with a tiny dip container in it, can I ask where I can find one like it? Thank you for all the incredible ideas!
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies!
ReplyDeleteOlsenend - I got the tiny dip containers at a store called All Things for Sale - there's a link to their store on my sidebar. I hope that helps!
odd question, dont you waste a lot of food this way? what do you do with all the left over scraps from the cut outs? This looks fun but I think Im too frugal to just toss whats left over of the food after you use the shape cutter to get the shape you want. Do you save the scraps and use for another creative use?
ReplyDeleteHi Sara! I'm frugal like you and don't waste anything. I always make the school lunches after Kirsten gets off the school bus everyday. Both her and her brother eat any scraps as I'm making the lunches. It's a great after school snack for both of them. With 2 hungry kiddos, everything always gets eaten in my house. If the kids don't eat it, I do! Usually the only scraps are fruits, veggies and cheese that I cut with the cutters. My kiddos are always happy to eat those scraps.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you find the tupperwares with the little compartments. Also, when you put yogurt in them does it spill out?
ReplyDeleteHi Sara! I bought the bento boxes on Amazon. There's a link to them at the bottom of the post. Liquidy stuff would for sure leak into the other compartments so before I pack her lunch in her lunch bag, I wrap the compartments that I used yogurt, applesauce, or anything runny in tinfoil. As long as the lunch bag lays flat, I haven't had any problems with it.
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