6 Ways To Use String Cheese in Lunch Packing

String cheese is quite popular in our home and we always have some in the refrigerator for a grab and go snack or to be included in lunch boxes. I am not a cheese fan but Nikolai and my hubby are. I included them often in Nikolai's school lunches and I'll share with you ways that they can be used. Here are just 6 examples.

Bento lunch 1: Message on the wrapper. I made a simple breakfast for lunch and added a message/letter above the string cheese. His breakfast contains french toast sticks, sausage patties cut into halves, organic maple syrup in the smaller container and the string cheese with a message. Alongside were rice crisps, organic apple sauce and a spoon wrapped in cloth napkin. This lunch was packed in a bentology lunchbox.

Bento lunch 2: Cheese roll-ups. I used salami and rolled it on the cheese and then had to add a few picks for fun, how easy is that. I've seen something similar in the grocery stores (without the picks) and they were quite pricey, why not make them myself. His sides were seedless red grapes, Annie's organic fruit snacks, heard shaped cookies which we purchased from Ikea, wheat crackers and organic baby carrots. This lunch was packed in a Bentgo leakproof lunchbox.

Bento lunch 3: Sushi roll-ups. Another easy roll-up with which I used uncured ham slices, rolled on the cheese sticks and cut into bite sizes. He also had some grape tomatoes, ants on the log (aka celery sticks, sun butter and raisins), Annie's organic cheddar crackers, seedless red and green grapes and a yogurt tube. This lunch was packed in a bentology lunchbox.

Bento lunch 4: Cut into slices. This idea is great when you have to fill up small sections in a lunchbox or to be included in silicone cups. This lunch contains seal shaped sandwiches, wheat cookies from Ikea, slices of string cheese, orange slices, and seedless grapes. It was packed in a Bentgo lunchbox.

Bento lunch 5: Use one as a separator. This is the most simple lunch which I spruced up with a cupcake pick on the string cheese (I've also used cupcake rings on string cheese). Nikolai had a sandwich cut into half, the string cheese, popcorn, seedless grapes, organic granola bar and cookies from Ikea. Packed in a bentology living box.

Bento lunch 6: Cut into shapes. I've cut a string cheese into octopus shape in many of my lunches and this is one of them. It's simple, cut the string cheese into half and slit lengthwise for about two thirds of each to make the eight tentacles and then gently spread them out slightly. He also had celery sticks with Sunbutter in the small container, fruit snacks, some huge seedless grapes and Annie's organic oatmeal cookies. This was packed in a Bentgo lunchbox.

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

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5 Food On A Stick Ideas - Kebabs bento

Everything's more fun on a stick, right? Kids love food on a stick as well as many adults like me, lol. I believe I've mentioned that my all time favorite is satay, which is meat on skewers, cooked over a charcoal grill and served with peanut sauce. This is also one of my hubby's favorites. There are endless foods that can be served on a stick, from fruits or veggies to sandwiches or deli items. Really, anything that you like that won't drip off the stick is a possible choice. They are fun, easy to prepare and ideal for party food as well. Here are five examples from lunches which Nikolai has enjoyed.

Bento lunch 1: I have a collection of fun bites cutters but I've not used them in a while except for party foods which I mostly used the fun bites square. I used it to cut the square sandwiches and the center was flower shaped cheddar cheese, inserted them to a couple of long picks and the kebabs looked neat and cute. His sides were Annie's organic crackers in a flower silicone cup, organic baby carrots, orange and strawberry slices. This lunch was packed in a Planetbox launch.

Bento lunch 2: The main compartment contains both mozzarella and cheddar cheese cubes with deli meat kebabs, red and green grapes in round silicone cups. Sides were organic baby carrots and Annie's organic cheddar crackers. This lunch was packed in an Easylunchboxes urban container.

Bento lunch 3: I used my fun bites cube it to cut the sandwiches and inserted them neatly to some heart shaped picks, and he also had Ikea's alphabet wheat cookies, organic baby carrots, crinkle cut cucumber ( I love my little crinkle cut knife), fruit snacks, strawberries and green grapes, all packed in a Bentgo lunchbox.

Bento lunch 4: This was a very simple lunch which was grapes kebabs, kiwi slices, yogurt covered star, sandwich cut into half and organic baby carrots. I used some music themed picks for some cuteness and this lunch was packed in a Planetbox rover.

Bento lunch 5: Roll-ups cream cheese and jelly kebabs inserted to a couple of Panera Bread coffee stirrers which I used for picks, Yoplait Gogurt, organic baby carrots with hummus in the small green container, kiwi slices and red grapes in a square silicone cup. This lunch was packed in an Easylunchboxes urban.

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Pac-Man Bento and Lunchables

The other day while we were having a conversation Nikolai asked me whether I've played the Pac-Man game before. I am certain that I have seen the game, but I'm really not much into video gaming. I've heard that it was, and perhaps still is, quite popular.

I decided to try creating a Pac-Man lunch for him. It was quite easy to make, I used a circle cutter to shape a sandwich topped with a slice of mild cheddar cheese and then removed a sector to create the Pac-Man. I used my Japanese bento cutter for the ghosts but you can also use a small ghost cookie cutter from your Halloween cutter collection if you have one. They are bite sized mini sandwiches, two were topped with fruit leather and the other with provolone cheese.
I also included some orange and apple slices and in the other section there are some cucumber slices cut with my crinkle cut knife. To the far right I included a mozzarella string cheese.

Here is a simple bento which Nikolai enjoyed on a different day. I had no idea as what to pack that day and went with some foods that I had on hand. Looked like lunchables to me, thus the title. He had rolled up honey ham, cheddar cheese slices, cucumber slices, wheat thins crackers, orange, strawberry slices and Yoplait Gogurt.

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

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Pancake Muffins and Pancake sausages, Breakfast For Lunch

As I've mentioned in my previous post about the breakfast which Nikolai made for me on Mother's day, one of the foods was chocolate chips pancake muffins. He followed my favorite recipe which can be found here. This recipe has made it to my personal recipe book. You see, I have this book in which I only write down the recipes which I've tried a gazillion times and which my family loves. The muffins which Nikolai made tasted fantastic, the only thing was, the chocolate chips sank to the center, but the flavor was there. I told him that "Practice Makes Perfect" and maybe he should bake more often.

He saved a couple for his lunchbox to have at school on Monday. I though I'd better post this first instead of my other back logged lunches. The main compartment contains the pancake muffins, Yoplait Gogurt and some sausages which I cooked and let cool in the morning before packing them into his Easylunchboxes container. His sides were watermelon cubes and Annie's homegrown organic granola bar cut into half. The picks which added instant cuteness to this simple lunch can also be used as forks, which I really like. :)

Here is another breakfast for lunch which he enjoyed a month or so ago. It was sausages covered in pancake, seedless red grapes, applesauce in a leak-proof mini dipper, Annie's organic cheddar bunnies and seedless green grapes. This lunch was packed in an Easylunchboxes urban container.

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

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Avengers Thor and Hulk Bento

We watched the movie Avengers: Age Of Ultron on the weekend and enjoyed the movie, can't say more, no spoiler alerts here. I like action heroes and I believe these are my first hero themed lunches. My personal favorite is Thor and I've watched the Thor movies as well, several times I would say.

For this THOR bento I made some Thor hammers from pretzel sticks and cube Mozzarella cheese. The T-H-O-R lettering was cut from mild cheddar with my alphabet cookie cutters, the A above the grapes and next to the baby carrots was free hand cut from fruit leather, and the one in the center is an alphabet cookie from IKEA. I also included a Thor yogurt from Yoplait GoGurt Avengers Collection. This lunch was packed in a Planetbox rover.

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I also like Hulk since I used to watch the incredible hulk t.v series when I was younger. Have you watched the series before? The main section contains a Thomas bagel thin and with the same alphabets cookie cutters I cut HULK from smoked Provolone cheese. In the lower left section I made the hulk face from a slice of honeydew melon (cut with a circle cutter) with nori hand cut for the hair and eyebrows candy eyes and another piece of Provolone cheese for the mouth. In the upper left section I included some organic baby carrots and some Annie's organic cheddar bunnies in a silicone cup. This lunch was packed in a Planetbox launch.

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

 

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