A few flowers!

Tomorrow is the fourth day of Pre-k! I had a croissant left over from brunch yesterday so I figured I'd try a turkey and cheese sandwich! She loves all 3 but normally refuses them in sandwich form. She will likely separate it and eat it individually but there's always the chance....




- Turkey and cheddar croissant sandwich with cheese flowers.
-Carrot coins with flower picks.
-Apple chunks soaked in tropical fruit juice overnight ( This makes the BEST apple chunks ever. Seriously..... I randomly decided to try it and now I can't stop eating them! SO GOOD!!! )

We all scream for Ice Cream!!

This might be one of my favorite bentos yet!!


She has her usual Nutella sandwich (I snuck in some PB this time)
-a Cheese Ice Cream Cone with organic sprinkles!
-Apple slices in the shape of Ice Cream cones ( I soaked them in fruit juice)
-Grapes and Carrots with Ice cream cone picks
-The requested turkey skewer on an ice cream cone pick.

2nd bento of the school year!

Taia requested her name in fruit leather for tomorrow. And more deli meat.
Apparently that's her new food obsession! I'll take it! :)



Today we used our Pottery Barn Kids Spencer Box per Taia's request!
She had lots of requests today!

She has :


-nutella sandwich made with my Williams and Sonoma Crustless Sandwich Press with her name in fruit leather.
-Carrots with an animal pick
-Grapes with an animal pick
-Turkey skewers on animal picks
-Juice Box - This box is SO big that I run out of food ideas!
So I just pop a juice box in there! :)
On the website they show food piled to the top but it would take half a bag of carrots to fill one of the spots! This will come and handy as she gets older though! She LOVES this box!

School of Fish!

Tomorrow is Taia's first day of Pre-K! I can't believe it! Time sure does fly!

She has a "School of Fish" bento! Get it? School....fish....!? No? Well, I was amused!




She has:
-A Nutella sandwich on the new Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish bread with a raisin eye!
-A few Goldfish
-Carrot and grape skewers on fishy picks
-Turkey skewers on fishy picks (by request)
-Yogurt covered raisins for dessert. I took a friend's advice and wrapped the raisin box in paper and labeled it "Fish Food!" Thanks for the idea Ariana! LOVE IT!

Valley Parent Article!

I will be back to bento-ing and posting SOON! School starts THURSDAY!!!!

Meanwhile, check out the article about my bentos in Valley Parent Magazine!

Motts Sample on VocalPoint!

Check out the great Mott's sample on VocalPoint!

Every healthy lunch needs a healthy drink!

Mott's for Tots^® has 40% less sugar than 100% apple juice and a great taste kids love—it's an easy and healthy way to spoil 'em.

Summer Fun!

We've been having so much fun this summer hanging out with friends and playing in the pool! We haven't had a whole lot of time for bentos lately! But here are a few!

Here she has a simple lunch of a frog prince PB/Nutella sandwich (with super cool icing eyes from my good friend Gina!!!) Some carrots, chips and a few turkey skewers that I wound up eating! :) It is in a divided container from Target that a friend told me about!



Tomorrow's pool lunch! Half PB/half Nutella sandwich on a sandwich thin, carrots, Annie's cheddar bunnies and some star cookies that I got at The Fresh Market!