Fourth of July Fireworks
June 29, 2012
My super talented bento blogger friends are hopping again! Today we are getting a head start on July 4th with a Patriotic Bento Blog Hop. Make sure you click the button at the end of the post to see Cristi’s cute creation celebrating Canada. Sounds fun, eh?
Cora’s cheese sandwich is a fireworks display decorated with cheese and fruit leather. The vegan marshmallow clouds are holding adorable pinwheel cupcake picks. They really spin, Cora is going to LOVE them! I probably should have saved them for her birthday lunch next week, but I couldn’t resist!
The patriotic lunch is finished with a vanilla coconut yogurt flag (decorated with blueberries and raspberries) and pineapple and watermelon stars. I put a cling wrap layer on top of the yogurt to keep it from spilling. This lunch is pretty light on complex grains, but she eats a ton of crackers and pretzels at snack time, so I’m not worried. Now veggies is a whole ‘nother story. At least we manage to slip carrot juice and spinach into her morning smoothies!
Don’t forget to hop!
To make this lunch I used:
Fun in the Summer Sun
June 20, 2012
It’s time for another blog hop with the amazing bento bloggers! Make sure you visit the link at the end of this post so you don’t miss out on any of the fun (and great ideas!)
For our summertime theme, we have a cutie wearing sunglasses and a drippy yummy ice cream. Both are cheese sandwiches, except for the cutie’s ponytails which are Wowbutter. The cutie is decorated with cheese and dye-free organic fruit leather while the ice cream cone is decorated with cheese and dye-free chocolate covered sesame seeds. They are so yummy!
Our cutie is playing in the hard-boiled egg sun with cheese rays. When she’s done with the ice cream, she has a fruit beach ball to play with (cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple) and cherries to munch on.
Don’t miss the hop – lots of fun ahead, starting with Molly’s Lunch Box!
To make this lunch I used:
Flumpy and the Gump
June 18, 2012
Cora loved the Roxy lunch so much we made another Moshling – Flumpy! And this time, I knew without being told to make a Gump too 🙂
Flumpy is a cheese quesadilla with fruit leather and cheese features and his name made out of fruit leather.
The Glump is another plum with cheese and fruit leather features, sitting on a pile of carrot sticks
The lunch is finished with a little hummus frozen in flower shapes.
To make this lunch I used:
Roxy and the Glump
June 13, 2012
Here’s another one for the Moshi Monster fans! Cora’s favorite Moshling is Roxy, a sparkly jewel that we ‘won’ by completing a Super Moshi Mission. Fun stuff!
Roxy is a cheese sandwich with cheese colored with natural colors and fruit leather and cheese features. Over her head are yogurt covered pretzels and fruit leather letters.
Cora took one look at the Roxy lunch and pointed out that the plum really should be a Glump. I love that kid, she is going to be making her own bentos in no time!
Lunch is finished with melon Rox (the Moshi Monsters currency) and a stack of carrot sticks.
To make this lunch I used:
Fish Kisses
June 11, 2012
Another lunch inspired by digging through the cutter bin!
Kissing fish are almond butter, marmalade and coconut butter sandwiches decorated with candy eyes and swimming among sweet pea and carrot sea plants. The sun above is a little cup of ranch dressing held in place with a circle of yellow soy paper.
The lunch is finished with watermelon and pineapple fish and a hard boiled egg dyed orange with natural colors and molded in the shape of a fish.
To make this lunch I used:
Up Up And Away!
June 7, 2012
I pulled a blank the other morning, so I started digging through my cookie cutters. Inspiration struck when I picked up the balloon!
Cheese sandwich balloons decorated with cheese with fruit leather decorations and with string cheese tails alongside strawberry balloons with string bento picks
The lunch is finished with a watermelon balloon with cheese dots and string cheese string, berry flowers and a raspberry yogurt pretzel
To make this lunch I used:
