2 Non Sandwich Lunches In Leak Proof Yumbox

Nikolai loves lunchables style lunches and I'm guessing that he likes to assemble them at school.:) Lately, he has been asking for Ritz crackers almost daily and according to him, a majority of his friends also pack them for their lunches. Of course, I'm always happy to oblige.

Both of these lunches were packed in his leak-proof Yumbox panino.

In this bento lunch: Main compartment contains nitrate free salami topped with a butterfly shaped smoked Gouda cheese, slices of mozzarella string cheese in our favorite square silicone cup, Ritz crackers and a small pecan pie. His sides were sugar snap peas topped with another slice of butterfly shaped cheese, fruit snacks, and seedless grapes.

I've been using these eye picks a lot lately. It brightens up any simple lunch and they are super adorable.

In this bento lunch: A couple of tortilla roll-ups secured with cute eye picks, Pirate's booty, fruit snacks, goldfish crackers and organic apple sauce. Apple sauce is one of those foods that require a leak-proof container like this Yumbox. Fun lunch! Easy peasy!

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4 Cute Animal Themed Lunches

One idea I truly love is that of getting, and keeping ready at hand, one set of cutters from which I'm able to create several different and fun lunches. They are especially convenient for those times when I feel like packing something cute, but just seem to have momentarily run out of ideas. These critter cutters from the lunch punch set are absolutely adorable and as always, you can go with or without the accents and your lunches will still turn out cute. All of the cutters I used to create these lunches came in the one set, which for those who have multiple lunches to make every day, might provide an easy way to keep them organized. It surely is crazy fun being a parent!

These lunches were enjoyed by Nikolai a few months ago and it's about time that I post them.

Bento lunch 1: Butterfly themed in which I used the butterfly cutter from our lunch punch set, added a few cheddar cheese accents on the sandwich and used honey as glue. The adorable eyes pick completed the look. Sides are cheese crackers, Babybel cheese which I used a small butterfly cutter for the cut-out, sugar snap peas, choc covered sunflower seeds and seedless red grapes. This lunch is pack in a Planetbox rover.

Bento lunch 2: Dog in doghouse cute lunch. I used the bread end for the dog and cheddar cheese for his collar, a dot of food safe marker for the eye. Alongside are pineapple chunks, strawberries, fruit snack, organic celery sticks and ranch dip in the small container. This lunch is packed in a leak proof Yumbox panino.

Bento lunch 3: A couple of dolphin shaped sandwiches with candy eyes, organic granola bar, Babybel cheese with a small dolphin cut-out, watermelon chunks with a cute pick, organic baby carrots with dip in the small container, far right is Clif Kid berry fruit stick. This lunch is packed in a Bentology living bento box.

Bento lunch 4: Elephant with baby elephant sandwich with Colby cheese ears Mozzarella cheese tusks and candy eye. The baby's eyes are food save marker. Sides are strawberries with an elephant pick, seedless grapes, choc covered sunflower seeds, cheese sandwich crackers, ranch dip in the small elephant container and cucumber slices. Packed in Planetbox.

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Butterfly Stamped Sandwiches and Music Notes Lunch

Today Nikolai and most of the fifth grade students at his school went on a field trip to Busch Gardens. Since the departure was quite early in the morning, I had to drop him off earlier than usual and had to wake up at 5 a.m. which was unusual for me. I am sure they are having lots of fun especially with the roller coaster rides!

Here are a couple of lunches which he had enjoyed a while back. Sad to say that we are not likely to use many of our double tiered lunchboxes next year when he starts middle school, and I was thinking of packing a few more lunches in some of them before the end of this school year, but we'll have to see. This first lunch was packed in our Paris bento box which is one of my personal favorites, I may inherit this box for myself, lol.

In this bento lunch: Top tier contains buttery stamped sandwiches. Bottom tier contains seedless red grapes with a butterfly baran sheet, a Babybel cheese with a butterfly cut-out and organic baby carrots with a butterfly cupcake ring.

The next lunch was a simple music themed lunch. He had music class on that day when I packed this lunch and that's how I came up with the idea.

In this bento lunch (packed in our leak-proof Bentgo lunchbox): Main compartment contains a sandwich cut into half and stacked, with music notes Mozzarella cheese and a pick. Alongside are cheddar crackers, fruit snacks, organic apple sauce and seedless grapes with a music note pick.

Here are the supplies that I used to create and pack these lunches.

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Butterfly Bento

Monday, why must you come so quickly? It feels like it was Friday only minutes ago! I love butterflies and noticed that I've not made as many butterfly themed lunches as I'd thought. It just came to my mind that I should look up to see if there is a butterfly garden for us to visit this weekend. Thinking that, I'll quickly write this post and start searching.:)

This butterfly themed lunch was created with my butterfly cutter from the lunch punch animal set and  was packed in a Yumbox Panino.

In this bento lunch:

• Main compartment: Butterfly sandwiches (stacked) with decorations cut from Colby jack cheese and two picks.
• Center: Annie's organic fruit snacks.
• Top right: Organic broccoli florets with a flower pick.
• Bottom right: Butterfly shaped organic apple slices.

Here are the supplies that I used to create and pack this lunch.

 

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Butterfly and Quesadilla bento in Yumbox Panino (2)

This coming weekend Nikolai and others from his gifted students class will be participating in the local STEM Solar Car Challenge. Getting him to and from their meetings for design, construction, and testing made less time available for other things, and I've been super busy in the evenings. I can't wait to see them in action this coming Saturday!:)

I made a simple butterfly themed lunch shown in the upper photo, and a quesadilla lunch which he enjoyed on a different day. Both of these lunches were packed in his Yumbox Panino. 
Have a nice Friday and weekend, everyone!

In this bento lunch:

• Main compartment: Cheddar cheese butterflies above a sandwich.
• Sides: Seedless red grapes with a butterfly cupcake pick, mozzarella string cheese slices, organic spinach and organic baby carrots.

Here is the quesadilla lunch.

In this bento lunch:

• Main compartment: Quesadilla
• Sides: Organic baby carrots, Annie's organic cheddar crackers, organic kiwi slices. Packed in Yumbox.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Bento, Breakfast For Lunch

As you may already know, we are huge fans of breakfast for lunch or breakfast for anytime of the day. In this bento I used mini pancakes to make a caterpillar. After arranging them into the basic shape, I added the fruit leather feet, which I made by cutting the fruit leather into several 'L' shapes with the alphabet set and then dividing them into two 'feet'. Also from fruit leather I made the mouth and antennae then finally added some candy eyes.

Also included are some of Nikolai's favorite Applegate natural chicken and maple breakfast sausage in a silicone cup, a mozzarella cheese stick cut into two, a container of pure maple syrup and another silicone cup with grapes and a butterfly cupcake ring. I packed this lunch in our Monbento original bento box.

Here are the supplies or similar that I used to create and pack this lunch.

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Butterfly bento school lunch

I have been including carrots almost daily in Nikolai's lunchbox as I need to get him to start eating them again. Lately he has not been too keen on eating raw veggies, especially carrots. At home, most of the veggies I serve for dinner are cooked except for salad and I think that is the reason it is so difficult to get him to eat them raw .

Each time, when I use the Lunchbots Duo to pack lunches, I get so tempted to get their newer Lunchbots Duo which is slightly square at the sides, but there is really no good reason for me to do that. The one which we have is in perfect condition even after being used for many years.

In this bento lunch:

• Circular sandwich with butterflies made from Colby and Mozzarella cheese (swapping the holes punched for decoration) and fruit leather for antennae.
• Pretzels
• Upper right are organic baby carrots with butterfly pick.
• Lower right are pieces of pear with some grapes. Looks like a butterfly?  
• This lunch is packed in a LunchBots Duo. Linked to BentoLunch.net

Here are the supplies that I used to create and pack this lunch.

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Valentine Butterfly Bento

I hope everyone had a great weekend. We enjoyed our weekend and did some cooking yesterday ( I taught Nikolai to wrap wontons in the morning), baked cookies in the afternoon and my hubby cooked a very nice Italian style dinner.
Since Valentine's Day is approaching soon, I expect to at least make a few Valentine's Day bento so here is the first one for this year.:)

In this bento lunch:

• Butterfly shaped Linzer sandwiches with the removed inner heart shaped sections forming the center section with two small heart picks for the antennae. I used strawberry jam for the filling.
• Heart shaped cucumber slices in a silicone cup with a cupcake pick.
• Heart shaped strawberries above seedless green grapes. 

Here are the supplies or similar that I used to make and pack this lunch.

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Butterfly Bento

Happy Friday everyone! I find it quite handy to use our LunchBots quad when I need to pack a quick bento. It has these already separated sections and I just need to add the various foods that Nikolai likes to eat, and have a bit of fun making them cute for him.

In this bento lunch:

• Butterfly shaped sandwiches which I used our butterfly cutter and stamp for them.
• Cucumber slices and a baby carrot with food safe marker accents and a pick.
• Whole wheat crackers and a granola bar.
• Seedless grapes with a cute butterfly pick. Packed in our LunchBots Quad. 
• Linked to Bentosonthebayou.com- Fifteen minute Friday

Here are the supplies or similar that I used to make and pack this lunch.

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Butterfly bento and cute bowl of Mac & Cheese lunch (2)

How are y'all doing? I made this butterfly bento just before the school holidays, and I am only posting it now.

Annie's organic Mac & Cheese was our lunch after we came home to an almost empty refrigerator except for frozen foods. Besides, I can't wait to use the cute bowl which was given to us by the Manager at A&W during our vacation. He was very kind to give us several bowls and my hubby wanted his lunch to be served in one too,lol.

In this bento lunch:

• Main compartment -Butterfly shaped sandwich flattened with rolling pin, accents are fruit leather cut into heart shapes, string cheese center and food picks for antennae. Sandwich is above Newtons fruit thins.
• Lower left -Seedless green grapes and butterfly shaped strawberries.
• Upper left -Cucumber slices and couple of grape tomatoes with food picks.
• Center -Goldfish crackers topped with baran.
• Upper right - Chobani Greek yogurt tube. Packed in our PlanetBox Rover.

Annie's Organic white cheddar Mac & Cheese lunch with ham, organic mashups fruit & veggie smoothie and some grape tomatoes.
 

Here are the supplies or similar that I used to make and pack this lunch.
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Bento Lunch: Butterfly Filled bento

We received information that school here will be ending for the summer break in the 3rd week of May, which I think is too early. It is an occasion which produces bitter-sweet feelings for me. While it is always great to have Nikolai around with me, it also is a reminder that he is growing up too fast for me to enjoy all the tiny moments as much as I would like. Well, it is time for me to start planning our summer fun activities.

In this bento lunch:

• Top tier contains butterfly shaped sandwiches which I used our butterfly cutter and stamp for them, butterfly shaped cucumber slices and carrot slices.
• Bottom tier contains seedless green grapes and a couple of butterfly shaped strawberry slices, string cheese pieces with a cute butterfly pick. I also included a lunchbox love note that says " Did you know? Butterflies taste with their feet".
• Linked to BentoLunch.net

Here are the supplies or similar that I used to make and pack this lunch.

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Bento Lunch: World Animal Day Butterfly Bento and Blog Hop

Today, we Bento Bloggers and Friends are joining together for a blog hop to celebrate World Animal Day. Though this is an especially busy week for me at work, I am looking forward to hopping along to see everyone's creations!

 In this bento:

• Top left contains watermelon pieces.
• Top right contains blanched broccoli florets and butterfly shaped carrots.
• Below is a flower shaped sandwich topped with colby cheese on provolone leaves detailed with food safe marker. A flattened bread butterfly decorated with organic baby carrot, the antennae are crinkle cut carrot sticks and organic fruit leather on wings.
• Linked to Lunchbox Dad: Throwback Thursday

Want to see more World Animal Day themed lunches? Click to check out the next one from Ming at  Bento Monsters or click on the image below. Keep celebrating by hopping through the rest of the Blog Hop!



Here are the items or similar that I used to make this lunch.

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