***Cute Lunch Check in*****

[madringal]

Good Morning everyone! Here are the lunches that I came up with this past week. I only make 2 or 3 a week while DD is home with the nanny. The other days she is with my MIL. In the fall she will start full day Pre K 5 days a week so I am practicing for she when she needs to take a lunch every day. I hope this check in will give us all a chance to share some ideas and tips.

This first one was a big hit, but I can't take the credit, I got the idea of the sandwich from a great blog "Meet the Dubiens" - she has some adorable bentos.



Bottom tier has a turkey "Sun" Sandwich, with the cheese on top. Eyes are candy, and the mouth and cheeks are drawn on with a food marker. Top tier has pretzels, cheese cubes with a animal pick, and some strawberries.

Hmmm...I can't seem to post more then one in a post. I'll comment with some more.

[madringal]

This one was really easy and really fast. Top tier has PB&J sandwiches cut into circles with fruit bar cut out on top. Bottom tier has cheese cubes, animal pick, and some strawberries

[madringal]

Sorry it is sideways! Another quick lunch. Turkey butterfly sandwich, some carrots with a pig full of ranch, and a baby bel cheese with her first initial. She thought the pig was hilarious!

Ok ladies- what do you think? Anyone have one the want to share?

[my4girls]

cute! let me see if my pictures work....



well I cant seem to make it any bigger. I have others so let me see if I can figure this out....

but this is graham cracker scooby snacks, plums cut with mini dog bone cutter, bread and cheese doxies and fruit leather

[madringal]

I had trouble PIP'ing with shutterfly too. I finally gave up and went with the app.

[madringal]

Runnermom - I LOVE the theme! My DD would get a kick out of food shaped like dog bones!

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So cute!

[my4girls]

Ok let me try on the app....yeah still won't work. Bummer

[cheese]

Cute ideas!

[pierogigirl]

This reminds me that I have a set of 4 transportation cutters for DS1 that I never use. I almost bought an egg mold in a fish shape, but we have a tiny house and I'm trying to eliminate clutter (even if it's small and adorable).

[my4girls]

May 21, 2012 12:32:02 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

This reminds me that I have a set of 4 transportation cutters for DS1 that I never use. I almost bought an egg mold in a fish shape, but we have a tiny house and I'm trying to eliminate clutter (even if it's small and adorable).

DD LOVES the egg molds, we have quite a few of them and the teachers were telling me how all the kids are so excited when she gets a shaped egg in her lunch. I am a sucker for cute things like that. I got her a hello kitty one for her stocking last Christmas, it was a big hit

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my kids got this today

[mesop]

This is a great idea.

[madringal]

May 21, 2012 13:48:43 GMT -5 my4girls said:

May 21, 2012 12:32:02 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

This reminds me that I have a set of 4 transportation cutters for DS1 that I never use. I almost bought an egg mold in a fish shape, but we have a tiny house and I'm trying to eliminate clutter (even if it's small and adorable).

DD LOVES the egg molds, we have quite a few of them and the teachers were telling me how all the kids are so excited when she gets a shaped egg in her lunch. I am a sucker for cute things like that. I got her a hello kitty one for her stocking last Christmas, it was a big hit

Hardboiled eggs are one of the few things that DD just doesn't want to eat. I love them, and pack them as a snack in my own lunch. I think if I did give her one, she would probably just eat the egg white, and that just seems like such a waste. But some of those egg molds are so cute, and I really need a reason to buy some!

Be sure to take a pic next time and share!

[beaver12]

They're cute, but it seems wasteful. What do you do with all the scraps?

[my4girls]

May 21, 2012 17:29:36 GMT -5 beaver12 said:

They're cute, but it seems wasteful. What do you do with all the scraps?

Depends on what it is but I either feed them to the little one who doesn't care what shape her things are, work them into the lunch somehow- cut a shape from the middle and use the blank space as part of the cute design or I put the scraps under the cute shapes in the box so you can't see them. Cheese scraps i use in my eggs. I don't waste anything though

[af1212]

I don't pack a lunch for my DD (yet), but I have this link bookmarked for when she starts school: www.laptoplunches.com/bento-menus/

They have lots of yummy and healthy ideas!

[madringal]

May 21, 2012 17:29:36 GMT -5 beaver12 said:

They're cute, but it seems wasteful. What do you do with all the scraps?

The only scraps I really have are the bread crusts - which she normally doesn't eat anyways. The butterfly fruit bars had some, but I took care of those myself ;D

Most of the sandwiches are pretty small, so they are made out of one full sandwich, so that really limits the waste.

[madringal]

May 21, 2012 18:20:22 GMT -5 af1212 said:

I don't pack a lunch for my DD (yet), but I have this link bookmarked for when she starts school: www.laptoplunches.com/bento-menus/

They have lots of yummy and healthy ideas!

I haven't seen this one before! Looks great, thanks for sharing!