Umbrella bento

It's been raining almost everyday here lately, especially in the evenings. Last weekend, as usual, we were out and about and were caught in a sudden rain shower. The rain does not much bother Nikolai or my hubby is seems, but I tend to get headaches when I get wet in the rain and I have no idea as to why.
Anyway, with this bit of inspiration, I made a simple umbrella themed school lunch for Nikolai, packed it in his Lego lunchbox, and I like the lego mini box which fits nicely in the center of the larger box.

The sandwich is easy to make, I just removed the crust from the whole wheat bread, and used a small circle cookie cutter to shape the umbrella and a small teardrop cookie cutter for raindrops. A second umbrella was made by using half of a Babybel cheese, with the red wax coating trimmed to make the design and an umbrella handle food pick.

In this bento lunch:

• Sandwich with cheese umbrella and raindrops decoration.
• Babybel Gouda cheese in umbrella design.
• Sugar-snap peas.
• Black grapes.
• Goldfish crackers in the smaller Lego container. 

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

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Bento Lunch: Lego Lunch In A Lego Box

I have had these lego boxes for a while now and have packed many lunches in them. I noticed that I have not packed any lego themed lunch and decided to make one today.

I used the cover from the smaller blue lego box to cut the bread, how easy is that. I took 3 pictures of this lego lunch box, please scroll down to see how neatly the blue box fits inside the red box. I used the blue box quite often for snacks during the weekend and often incorporate it with other lunch boxes. Have a great weekend!

Showing the blue lego box with cover.

Closed perfectly and ready to go

In this bento lunch:

• Lego shaped sandwiches (stacked), I used a small circle cutter for the bread top and glued with honey.
• Square shaped mozzarella and mild cheddar cheese and used the same small circle cutter for the top.
• Organic apple sauce in blue lego box topped with organic fruit leather lettering.
• Square shaped cantaloupe and watermelon in a square silicone cup.
• Sugar snap peas and ranch for dip in small blue container. Linked to BentoBlogNetwork.com

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Bento Lunch: Mini Quiche bento

Super simple and quick bento for today. These mini quiche are from my freezer stash and I find them not only yummy, but very convenient during hectic mornings. Have a great weekend!

In this bento:

• Mini cheddar and spinach quiche with cute food picks.
• Pretzel snaps in small lego container.
• Seedless black grapes and cucumber slices.

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Bento Lunch: Winnie The Pooh & Friends Bento

N  is a huge fan of Winnie The Pooh and friends when he was little and while he has acquired new cartoon interests, Pooh is still one his favorites. I am also a huge fan of Winnie The Pooh and his Friends myself :). Here is a simple version of Pooh.

In this bento: From left to right, circle shaped sandwiches (stacked) topped with Winnie The Pooh face from Colby cheese, seaweed eyes, brows, and mouth, raisin nose, container of organic apple sauce with Piglet, green and red bell peppers and Tigger. Small container of ranch dip. Packed in Lego Box.

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Bento Lunch #275: Roll-Ups Sandwiches

This is a very simple and easy bento.

• Roll-ups ham and smoked gouda cheese. Used rolling pin to flatten bread first, add ham and cheese, roll and cut.
• Wheat crisps in mini lego box
• Organic mangoes above organic raisins
• String cheese

 

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Bento Lunch #244: Roll-Ups Bento

We had company over yesterday evening and I went blank with no idea whats for lunch today, happens to me quite often. Traders Joe's opened last Friday close to where we live. There is only one store in the whole of FL, wish they have more. It was packed with people from all over and quite difficult to move around, not to mention the parking problem.Hubby told me that I need to get a huge cooler for the suv looking at the way I shopped,funny.

Monday is President's Day here in America and it's a Public holiday as well as Tuesday. Have a great weekend and holiday!
Linking this lunch to BBN and BentoLunch.net

• Colby cheese and ham roll-ups .I flattened the bread with a rolling pin, add the ham and cheese, roll them up together, cut them and added couple of picks.
• Cucumber slices
• Seedless green and red grapes
• Yogurt stars from Trader Joe's

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Valentine's Day Bento Lunch #230: Red Hearts

Red is one of my favorite colors. Finally, N saw something that he would like to eat at school lunch on Friday on the cafeteria menu. The school usually sends home a monthly menu. That will give me a break from making his lunch. Making lunches 5 days a week could be draining at times.
Will be linking this lunch for the theme red at BBN(BentoBlogNetwork.com). You could find lots of cute lunch inspirations there or just admire the work of other participants. It is FUN:) This lunch is packed in our favorite RED lego box.

• Mini heart shaped ham and cheese sandwiches,stacked. 2 topped with strawberry fruit leather and 2 topped with Colby and colored with food safe marker. Strawberry fruit snacks below.
• Red goldfish crackers.
• Heart shaped strawberries(I love cutting strawberries to heart shapes throughout the year to show my love:) Couple of red picks.
• Heart shaped red container has veggie stix. Found the container at $1 section at Target last week.

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Music note kebab, Bento Lunch #219

Today, Nick will be having a dance party at school. It is for all students who have achieved their AR(accelerated reader) goal for 2nd quarter. Nick also exceeded his Bonus goal and will have an additional treat from his class teacher another day. We are so proud of him !!

• Cream cheese sandwich with 'Have Fun' colby cheese
• Honey ham kebab with music note picks
• Cucumber slices
• Organic strawberry slices
• Pretzels in small blue lego box

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Bento Lunch: Gingerbread Boy & Girl under Mistletoe 12-15

While I was trying to color the skirt for the girl,the red ran out and I used red sparkle gel instead. Boss(we sometimes call him boss,Angel boy etc) was quite specific that he wanted a mistletoe and thankfully I had a pick. No way I could cut out a mistletoe (^-^). Packed in LegoBox.

• Gingerbread boy and girl with asiago cheese clothing,candy eyes
• L- Edamame,cheese-it crackers
• R-Blueberries,cheese-it crackers
• In the middle was some yogurt covered raisins topped with edible snowflakes and a mistletoe pick

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Bento Lunch: Star Light Star Bright 12-13

• Star shaped sandwich topped with marshmallow penguin
• Pretzels snaps topped with edible snowflakes
• Papaya 
• Mozzarella string cheese
• Packed in Lego Box

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Bento Lunch: Gingerbread Boy 12-2

Happy Friday everyone! Packed in Lego Box.

• Gingerbread boy sandwiches (stacked) with icing eyes,fruit leather mouth,bread crust hands and feet
• Blueberries
• Gingerbread marshmallows
• Organic baby carrots

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Bento Lunch: STARS 11-31

• Canadian bacon and Colby cheese STAR shaped sandwiches(stacked),topped with mini stars cheddar cheese
• Pretzel snaps
• Blueberries
• Organic baby carrots

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Bento Lunch: Lego Box Lunch & Picks

We made the picks during the weekend and made them to look like legos to go with the boxes. Thanks to Melissa's tutorial at anotherlunch.com. I made ours with construction paper, craft glue.markers and taped them with clear tape hoping that it will protect the paper.

• Ham and Colby Jack roll-ups with homemade lego picks
• Organic baby carrots
• Seedless green grapes
• Mini Oreo in blue lego box

Here is what I used to pack this lunch.

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Bento Lunch: Lego Boxes,First Day Gifted Class 11-18

I am so excited that I managed to get my hands on these.You can find them at www.containerstore.com. Today will be Nicks first day in his gifted child class and I am super excited that I received my Lego boxes just in time :) Wohoooo.

• Heart shapes ham and cheese sandwiches
• Edamame,Seedless black grapes,Panda cookies
• Goldfish crackers in small Lego Box.
• Packed in Lego box

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