Chinese New Year Sheep Bento Lunches (2)

Chinese New Year is tomorrow and it will be the year of the sheep. I may have to cook the reunion Chinese New Year Eve dinner this year. Even though it is not hugely celebrated in the U.S, I try to explain and teach Nikola the tradition every single year. I am sure those who are celebrating will be quite busy this week with last minute baking, filling 'ang pows' (red envelopes) with cash, cleaning and organizing your house etc.

I would love to wish everyone who celebrates 'Gong Xi Fa Cai'  and have a fantastic celebration with your family and friends!

Nikolai told me that the sheep I created in the first lunch looked like 'Shaun the sheep', to me, a sheep is a sheep, lol. This lunch was packed in a Planetbox Rover.

In this bento lunch:

• Main compartment - 'Sheep' sandwich. Top is larger circle of Provolone cheese with numerous smaller ones shaped with a cutter. Face is free hand cut nori with candy eyes and legs are black seedless grapes
• Upper left - Wheat crackers.
• Upper right - Cucumber slices with carrot alphabets.
• Center - Yogurt covered star
• Lower left -Organic kiwi slices with a couple of cute sheep picks.

Here is another fun sheep bento which I created using my CuteZCute animal palz. The main compartment contains organic cream cheese and strawberry jam sheep shaped pocket sandwiches (stacked) and a cheese stick. I used the sealer from the set as a separator and filled it with strawberry pieces. He also had cucumber slices and a little sheep pick. This lunch was packed in a cute book shaped bento box.

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

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Sheep Bento

Cotton candy grapes are back at our grocery store, yay! I love cotton candy and I have been eating these grapes every evening as dessert, while watching t.v and for snacks lately.:) 

I have always wanted to make a sheep bento ever since we went to a petting zoo last year. I finally made a simple version and I'll probably make another version someday when again I get the inspiration.

In this bento lunch:

• Sandwiches cut to resemble a woolly sheep with fruit leather, raisin bits and Colby cheese features.
• Organic baby carrots and cucumber slices in a silicone cup.
• Orange slices and cotton candy grapes.
• This lunch is packed in our ECOlunchbox solo cube. Linked to BentoLunch.net

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

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