this week in bento boxes

Pin It Well this post is a little late today. Better late than never though, right? What an incredibly crazy and busy weekend. My hubby just came back in town last night from a 3 week long work trip out of town. The last 3 weeks were absolutely exhausting without him. Kudos to single parents. I have no idea how you do it. I just about lost my sanity several times over the last few weeks. Whew, I'm glad he's home. This week is probably going to be crazy busy too. My little girl is turning 5 this week and we have a big birthday celebration planned for next weekend! If you know how I like to plan parties, I have a lot of work ahead of me this week! I am sooooo not on top of things lately. Anyway, here are some of Kirsten's recent school lunches. Nothing fancy, just easy and cute lunches.



This first bento was for Kirsten's afternoon nutrition break. The top orange tier held some multigrain crackers and some tiny cubed marble cheese. The bottom tier held some butterfly cut cucumbers and baby tomatoes.



This cute giraffe bento was for Kirsten's afternoon nutrition break. The top tier held some baby carrots. The bottom tier held a circle cut chicken sandwich. I cut a piece of marble cheese into a giraffe and added a food safe marker eye. The bottom tier also held some sliced cucumbers with a sweet little giraffe pick.



This bento was for Kirsten's morning nutrition break. The top tier held a flower silicone muffin cup with jello (I prepared the jello ahead of time in muffin cups and have them ready to go in the fridge). The top tier also held some yogurt-covered raisins. The bottom tier held a homemade blueberry muffin and some fresh blueberries with a cute elephant pick.



Here's another bento for Kirsten's morning nutrition break. The top tier held some unsweetened blueberry applesauce. The bottom tier held a silicone muffin cup with a sliced cereal bar and some sliced plums with a sweet little bunny face pick.



And lastly, an afternoon bento for a rainy day. The top tier held some fresh blueberries. The bottom tier held some crinkle cut cucumbers and a circle cut ham sandwich. I used a mini umbrella cookie cutter to cut an umbrella out of cheese and placed it on the sandwich.

Here are some of the supplies (or similar) that I used this week to make these lunches:




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a new bento box I love

Pin It This week in bento boxes will be showcasing a couple new bento boxes that I just bought and I absolutely love. I bought them, and most other bento supplies I used this week at All Things for Sale. I really love and recommend their store. They have super reasonable prices, all the cutest bento supplies around, amazing customer service and reasonable shipping - even to Canada for me!! My blog readers are always asking me about what products I love, so when I find a new one I absolutely adore, I want to share it with you guys. Without further ado, here it is:



Let me show you all about it and why I love it:



It's a colourful 2-tier bento with adorable little marching animals on top. They come in 2 different colours (blue/green and red/yellow) and I love them both. They are really easy for my daughter (4 years old) to open at school on her own, and they have to be secured closed with a bento elastic band.





The top plastic lid with the animals on it comes off to hold some utensils, which is pretty awesome. The utensils have to be relatively flat and small, but you really shouldn't have a hard time finding some that fit. I love this feature.



Take the top lid off and it will reveal the top tier. It's a little larger than the bottom tier, and holds a good amount of food.



When you take the top tier off, it will reveal the bottom tier with a white lid on top of it. I'm not sure if these lids are totally leakproof because I haven't put any liquids in them, but they do seem fairly secure.



The white lid comes off to reveal the bottom tier which is slightly smaller than the top tier. With both tiers together, it holds a perfect amount of food for a lunch for my daughter. I love it!



And here's all the pieces!

This is why I love them

1) They're cheap! They are currently selling for $2.99 for the red/yellow one and $3.50 for the blue/green one. Can't beat that. I don't like spending a lot of money on my kindergardeners lunch supplies in case they ever get lost. These adorable little lunchboxes are cheap and great!

2) They're super easy for my daughter to open herself. Kirsten doesn't like to ask for help with her lunch at school, so if she can't open it herself, it won't get eaten. These open very easily and are held together with a bento elastic band.

3) They're colourful and adorable! If you know me, or can tell from my blog, I love bright, colourful and cute. These lunchboxes fit that bill exactly.

4) They hold a perfect amount of food for her. She gets two nutrition breaks a day, so two of these lunchboxes daily. I think they hold a perfect amount of food for her!

Here are some of the lunches I packed for her this week in these adorable boxes:



This adorable bento was for her afternoon nutrition break. The top green tier held a silicone cup of turkey bologna roll-ups, some whole wheat crackers and some bear-shaped marble cheese. The bottom tier held a row of baby carrots.



And here's the red/yellow one. This bento was for Kirsten's morning nutrition break. The larger top tier held some watermelon chunks cut into flowers with blueberries. The smaller bottom tier held a sliced wholewheat and blueberry waffle with an adorable little bear container with maple syrup for dipping.



Here's another afternoon nutrition break bento. The larger top tier held a chicken sandwich cut into a rectangle. I put a cute piece of animal baran on top for decoration. Cute and easy! She also had some cubed marble cheese with a cute pick. The smaller bottom tier held a silicone pea pod with sliced carrots and some pretzels.



And lastly, another morning nutrition break bento. The larger yellow tier held some sliced pineapple and blackberries. The smaller red tier held a cereal bar and a silicone flower filled with yogurt-covered raisins.



Here are links to the boxes and the supplies I used this week:

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this week in bento boxes

Pin It Happy Mother's Day! I've got a busy day planned with my kiddos, so I'm getting this post up bright and early this morning before I forget! Here are some more bento boxes Kirsten has had recently:



This fun little bento was for Kirsten's afternoon nutrition break. The top tier held some crinkle cut cucumbers. The top tier held a circle cut ham sandwich with 2 baby tomatoes on a cute cherry leaf pick. She also had some crackers and a babybel cheese with her initial 'K' cut out of it.



This bento was for Kirsten's morning nutrition break. She top tier held some sliced strawberries with a cute panda bear pick. The bottom tier held a silicone container of jello (I made a batch and poured it into silicone muffin cups for her lunch), and some pretzels.



This cute bento was for Kirsten's afternoon nutrition break. The top tier held some cubed cheese and crackers. The bottom tier held a silicone flower with ham roll-ups and some flower cut cucumbers.



This was another afternoon nutrition break bento. The top tier held some sliced celery. The bottom tier held a silicone flower cup of cubed cheese with a cute little monkey pick and some crackers.



And lastly, another cute morning nutrition break bento. The top tier held some sliced strawberries with rainbow sprinkles. The bottom tier held a silicone cup with a sliced cereal bar and a peeled and segmented clementine orange.

Here are some of the supplies I used (or similar) to make these lunches:






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