Just a simple heart bento! She has 3 mini heart sandwiches, some smart puffs and then 3 heart muffin cups with heart cantaloupe, heart strawberries, x and o cucumbers and freeze dried pineapple. 3 carrots peek out in the side 
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How adorable is this? It’s a little love letter sandwich with a heart to seal it ♥
To make, I flattened 3 pieces of bread with a rolling pin. Make sandwich as wanted (Sierra has almond butter and jam) and then I put together 2 pieces of bread and cut out a rectangle (the leftover will be the baby’s lunch) and with the last piece of bread, I folded it in half and cut out a triangle.
She also has some carrots and raisins in heart cups and heart shaped strawberries, which are super easy to do, just cut a V in the top
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Ok this one turned out much cuter Using two slightly different sized circle cutters, Sierra has a snowman made from almond butter and jam. He has fruit leather eyes, mouth and buttons, a real carrot nose and a cheese scarf. He’s snuggled in the left side of the lunchbots box with some yogurt raisins and jumbo pretzel sticks. In the right side are 2 Christmas colored cups holding some strawberries and kiwi (perfect Holiday colors!) and some carrots with a Christmas ornament cucumber.
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His lunches aren’t as cute. He specifically asked me last year to stop. My heart broke into a million pieces. But I still make his lunch every day (the school lunches are so gross!) they just aren’t cutesty-d up. I like to still post about them though for those of us that have big kids that are *sniff sniff* growing up.
I still make them visually pleasing though 
Riley has a laptop lunch today with an almond butter and jam sandwich and a cheese stick. To the right he has carrots and cucumber sticks, below that he has kiwi and strawberries, and finally some yogurt raisins and jumbo pretzel sticks. Simple. Healthy. And still a little fun!
This was thrown together so fast because we were running late. The creativity is just hanging on. It’s kind of sloppy. I have another idea for a better snowman that we’ll try this week But it is what it is and she was pretty happy with it!
The snowman is made out of 3 differently sized cutters, he has candy pieces for eyes, nose and buttons, chocolate sprinkles for his mouth and a fruit leather scarf made out of various small cutters and some wheat thins. In the right she has kiwi and strawberry Christmas trees on cute Christmas sticks along with some present shaped cucumbers and vanilla snowman marshmallows.
Just another Holiday themed bento lunch! Sierra has a Christmas tree almond butter and jam sandwich with some fruit leather decorations. The green garland is actually the wave/water cutter from a bento set that came with a whale and a boat 
She also has some carrots, a green container of ranch to dip and some “smarshmallows” In the right side she has some Santa hats (Strawberries with the hull part cut off and then some cool whip on the top) and some cinnamon and sugar popcorn.
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I love. love. LOVE making pancake shapes! I get nearly as giddy as my kids. Ok. Whatever. I get more giddy. There’s just something so satisfying than having a pancake turn out so pretty! I do let them eat them, but not before I take some photos, of course! This past Sunday morning I made some Christmas trees, candy canes, a snowman and then because I also love to write out words with pancake batter for some odd reason, I made a Merry Christmas sign out of pancakes.
Cute? Yep! And festive!
Want a couple tips? When writing out words or letters, remember the good side is going to be the underneath side when you are squeezing it out onto your griddle or pan. In order to get some nice looking letters, you need to write backwards. That way when you flip them over, the good side will be the correct way
Also, put your griddle on lower than you normally would to cook pancakes and let them stay on a bit longer. Your risk of browning or burning them go way, way down!
Please share on fb and pinterest! I appreciate all the likes ♥
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I did not mean to let his blog go unposted! I have had some medical issues of my own (if you’d like to read, here is the link to my photography blog) so I spent a good deal of time laying around. I’m done with that though and I love posting my daughter’s lunches so here we go with some Christmas themed ones Stay tuned all week for more!
Rudolph is a grilled ham and cheese sandwich and cut out with a reindeer cutter. I cut off the antlers so I could stick pretzles in and have them be the antlers He has sugar eyes and a red hot for a nose. Under him is some cinnamon and sugar popcorn. To the right she has some carrots and broccoli (and some ranch for dipping!) and strawberries and grapes (because they are Christmas colored!) along with a couple gingerbread men marshmallows
How. Cute. Are. They?
Seriously.
Seriously!?
Sometimes…I want to take her lunch and display it on my mantel. But these are so cute and turned out just how I pictured! I saw a snail bento on pinterest the other day but it was flat and the snail shell part was made out of cheese. I wanted 3d snails so after some experimenting I came up with these guys. I love them
Here’s how I did it…I flattened out 1 piece of bread with a rolling pin. Cut off 3 sides of the crust and left one side to be the top of the snail’s head. Spread a thin layer of almond butter and a thin layer of jam but stopping a bit before the top. Rolled up the bread and then I sliced it into 3 sections and then molded the top a bit it to stick it’s head up like shown. I used a toothpick and put a tiny blop of almond butter on the back of the eyes and the fruit leather mouths and pushed them into the bread. I cut some carrot antennas and stuck them on the back the same way
It really wasn’t hard! She also has some yogurt raisins, carrots and cucumbers (and dipping as she calls it in the blue container) and strawberries and grapes.
Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away! (well if you live in America, Canada already had their Thanksgiving!) And since we skipped Halloween Bentos this year (We were on vacation for half the month and Sierra was out of school for the other half on fall break) we are diving right into some fall themed lunches!
Here’s our first! A very easy to do turkey. He’s a round sandwich and his feathers are a piece of cheese cut out with a flower cutter. He has sugar eyes, a cheese mouth and his wattle is actually cut from a piece of strawberry. I’d normally use a fruit leather but I’m all out! To complete lunch there are some pirate’s booty puffs under the turkey, some veggies in the pumpkin mold and sliced strawberries and kiwi
And for breakfast yesterday morning, I made up some turkey pancakes. Don’t worry, they don’t taste like turkey Cute, huh?
