Ocean Week!

It's Ocean week in Taia's classroom!

I saw the inspiration for this idea on Pinterest and tracked it back to Lisa Storms. Taia has a food dye sensitivity and cannot have the Jell-o used in the original idea so we improvised!
A friend suggested blueberries and I think they worked great! They'll de-frost by tomorrow and hopefully be prettier!

And I need to go get some dolphin cutters!

Here she has:

-Blueberry "Ocean" with a sailboat made from an apple slice and cheese triangle!
-Apple "starfish" and carrot sticks
-Grapes in a seaturtle muffin cup and a fish pick
-Fish PB & J sandwich

A sandwich of sorts....

For today's lunch, I packed Taia a sandwich on a roll. I didn't post a picture because it honestly wasn't all that cute. Anyways, all but one bite of it came home. So tomorrow she has a sandwich in pieces. She loves all of the components so I'm not quite sure why she won't eat one.

She has:
-Apple slices soaked in tropical fruit juice
-Carrot coins and grapes
-Publix deli roll
-Cheese flowers
-Turkey skewer

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!