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22 May 2013 3 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, Nursery Rhyme, vegetarian
Here is the third lunch in my four part series this week of nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.
Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Wool: Cheese popcorn
Fruit: Peach
Background: Lettuce
Black Sheep: Peanut butter sandwich on pumpernickel bread
3 Bags: Corn and feta cheese fillo dough bundles tied with chives
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21 May 2013 11 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, Nursery Rhyme, vegetarian
This is second in my four part series this week of nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Background: Lettuce
Mary: Cheddar cheese quesadilla with hair and dress painted with food coloring and water
Lamb: English muffin served with cream cheese and pineapple (in Mini Dippers)
Wool: Cauliflower
Fruit: Raspberries
20 May 2013 14 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, lamb nursery tales, vegetarian
This week I am featuring nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.
Old McDonald has a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o, And on his farm he had a sheep, Ee-i-ee-i-o
With a baa-baa here, And a baa-baa there, Here a baa, there a baa , Everywhere a baa-baa
Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Background: Flour tortilla painted with a little blue food coloring and water
Baa-Baa: Carrot
Sheep: Peanut butter sandwich on wheat bread, eyes (chocolate sprinkles), nose (food safe marker)
Barn: Watermelon, door (Wegmans fruit flat details), apple slices
Wildflowers: Yellow bell pepper, centers (dried blueberries attached with spaghetti – it softens by lunch)
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17 May 2013 28 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, vegetarian
Last week I invited you to vote on the type of bento I would make. The winner was “Interesting colorful food layout (not character)”. I bought a lot of colorful produce for this bento but it ended up being red, green, and white.
I hope that you think of this as interesting and colorful. I tried a few new techniques in this lunch.
Container: ECO Lunchboxes
In Round Cup: Tri-Color Pearl Couscous cooked with vegetable bouillon, added chickpeas and decorated with chickpeas, green peas, and snow peas
In Oval Container: lettuce, cream cheese with some homemade pesto in cherry tomato cups, green pimento stuffed olives on star picks, checkered apple (this was my first time trying this, I used this awesome tutorial by Jenn of Bento for Kidlet), stamped watermelon (used cutter similar to this), and snow peas.
Not pictured: Blue Diamond Natural Oven Roasted Almonds with Sea Salt
16 May 2013 19 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, vegetarian
My 14 year old niece made this lunch. I only offered a little help/suggestions.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Ocean: Mukimame, sprouts
Starfish & Seahorse: Homemade grape jam sandwiches on wheat bread
Whale: Apple on blueberry yogurt
Fish: Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers
15 May 2013 18 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, pasta lunch, racchette pasta, vegan
When I found Racchette pasta at Wegmans, I knew I had to make a tennis themed bento lunch. I made this lunch for my 14 year old niece. She ate it at school and heated the pasta with a microwave available for students. I placed the sides in silicone cups so she could remove them before heating the pasta.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Fruit: Mineola Tangelo
Nuts: Toasted pecans
Tennis Pasta: DeCecco Racchette pasta with green peas, dressed with a garlic and olive oil sauce, carrot lettering
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14 May 2013 27 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, lily of the valley shaped food, vegan, vegetarian
Lily of the Valley is my favorite flower. I love the shape and smell. I am also reminded of my Grandmother’s garden in the house she had when I was a kid. That house and garden holds magical memories for me. I have a memory of fresh cut Lily of the Valley in a small juice glass on a counter in the kitchen. The memories are probably more special because that house and garden no longer exist. When I was about 11 my Grandparents sold that house. A contractor bought it, destroyed the house and garden and built apartments.
Container: ECO Lunchboxes
Soil: Wild rice cooked with a vegetable bouillon
Lily of the Valley: Apple with chives (from my herb garden)
Vegetables: Lettuce, mukimame, cucumber, carrot, roasted green and orange bell pepper, roasted asparagus (difficult to see in photo)
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13 May 2013 24 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bagel lunch, bento, vegetarian
I am not convinced that this looks like a bear. I think that the eyes are the problem. But my husband enjoyed this for breakfast on a day he went to work early. I love that he does not mind eating cute food because I love making cute food.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Bear: Homemade bagels with cinnamon sugar topping, eyes (Craisins), nose (carrot made with CuteZcute cutter), filled with cream cheese and homemade apricot jam
Vegetable Bears & Fruit: Cucumber bears and strawberries
Mini Bears: Mini Teddy Grahams – Honey
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09 May 2013 15 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, tree lunch, vegetarian
I wanted to try out a family tree idea. This was a quick and easy lunch to prepare.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Fruit: Apple and strawberries
Dip: Ranch
Hearts: Horseradish cheese
Tree: Peanut butter and homemade strawberry jam on wheat bread, broccoli, sugar snap peas, carrot lettering
07 May 2013 14 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, Star Wars, vegetarian
In preparation for my recent “May the 4th Be with You” blog hop, I made two bentos. This is the one that did not make the cut for the hop. But I thought that it would still be nice to share.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Background: Nori (dried seaweed)
Millennium Falcon: Cheese quesadilla with food marker details
Asteroid Field: Red grapes
Lightsabers: Pretzels with dyed white chocolate
???: I was aiming for Vader, looks more like Chewbacca, roasted green pepper with raw pepper slices behind
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06 May 2013 24 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Embroidery, Food Tags: bento, EasyLunchboxes, embroidered napkin, vegetarian
Awhile ago a reader suggested that I embroider a bento. I love my EasyLunchboxes so it was a natural choice to embroider it on a napkin. I enjoyed planning and creating this simple embroidered napkin with matching lunch.
Container: EasyLunchboxes
Stars: Peanut butter sandwiches on wheat bread
Fruit: Strawberry
Vegetable: Sugar snap peas
Embroidery in Progress
I made a 12 inch by 12 inch napkin from a Flour Sack Towel bought from Herrschners. I used a water erasable pen to transfer my pattern to my napkin. My stitching is done with a simple back stitch. For the food I used 2 strands of DMC thread. For the outline of the box I used DMC Perle 5. I would have used 2 strands of DMC thread but I did not have any black left in my stash. (If you would like the pattern, leave a comment or email me.)
EasyLunchboxes with Matching Napkin
05 May 2013 13 Comments
in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: bento, cinco de mayo, vegetarian
I made this simple lunch for Cinco de Mayo. For the lettering I used a cutter set similar to this.
Container: EasyLunchBoxes
Cactus: Cucumber
Sombrero: Watermelon with dried blueberry fringe (I attached the blueberries with pieces of spaghetti – it softens by lunchtime)
Lettering: Horseradish cheese
Mexican Rice: I used this recipe from Eating Well.
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