Old Faithful

I have been moving this box out of the way to get to my new favorites day after day. But today, when I went to move it out of the way I decided to give it some time to shine. The Pottery Barn Spencer Bento Box is a great box. My only issue with it is that it requires a certain lunchbox and takes up the entire thing and therefore requires a juice box. Not really a big deal. But I over think EVERYTHING. All that to explain why you haven't seen this beautiful box in a while. . . .

For tomorrow, Taia has:
-Grapes and shredded carrots (she likes them like that....)
-Juice box
-Strawberries
-Homemade "trail mix" (nothing fancy. It's everything that was open in the pantry dumped into a Tupperware container to be used for snacks and lunches! I think this one has pretzels, whole wheat Annie's bunnies, raisins, dye free fruit snacks, candied sunflower seeds, mini chocolate chips, a few kinds of cereal, etc....)
-The usual peanut butter goldfish sandwich

Hopefully time will permit some super fun Valentines lunches soon in the coming weeks!

100th Day of School/Bynto Box

First things first. I am sorry that I have been MIA lately. I've been cheating on lunches and using the Goldfish bread that is filling my freezer just about every day. That stuff is genius! It went BOGO at Publix a few weeks ago and I bought about 10 bags.... Like everyone else, I've got a million things going on and I took a shortcut!

But my (I mean Taia's.....) new Bynto Box came in today!!Tomorrow is the 100th day of school so a special lunch seemed in order! After we decorated her new box of course! The goldfish sandwich is still in there under the cheese 100. Along with some fruit juice and pretzels. Nothing fancy. But much fancier than the last few weeks!

Quick lunch...

It's not fancy... but:

-Peanut butter and tortilla roll ups with Christmas picks
-Graham crackers
-Carrots
-Holiday Goldfish

Ooey gooey peanut butter rolls!

Tomorrow's lunch is nothing fancy.
-Ooey gooey peanut butter and tortilla rolls on holiday picks that I got at the dollar tree!
-Carrots - the tiny ones. The smaller they are, the more she'll eat!
-Holiday Goldfish Crackers
-Grapes

Apple Snowman by Daddy!

Dean decided to help with Taia's lunch for today! He made the apple snowman! And he did a great job!

-Apple Snowman with icing eyes, carrot nose, natural gummy worm scarf and dye free fruit snack buttons.
-PB sandwich trees with chocolate covered sunflower seeds and a cheese star
- Mini Carrots

The artist at work.

Where has my motivation gone?

It's probably hiding with my creativity...

Today's inspiration came from Little Nummies!



I finally made it to the grocery store but still didn't venture away from my usual. I'm not quite sure why. Maybe Thursday's lunch will be different!

She has:
-What is supposed to be a reindeer PB sandwich. But it looks like I just crumbled some crust on top of a heart with a face....
-Holiday Goldfish
-Grapes and tiny baby carrots with a snowman pick. (Hey! The carrots got smaller! That's a change!)

First few Christmas bentos!

I'm not doing so great in the time and inspiration departments this week... Not to mention the shopping department.... ;) Maybe I'll get to the store this weekend so the kiddo will have some variety in her lunches!

Here she has a gingerbread man on a PB sandwich, carrots and Christmas goldfish.

Christmas Tree with dye free decorations and marshmallow snow, carrots and Christmas goldfish.

A "decorate your own" snowman on a PB sandwich with Christmas goldfish.

Not much originality but eh- I made an effort! :)