Day 14- A not so boring Ham and cheese sandwich

Hame and cheeze sandwiches cut out with bottom of a glass (I freeze all the bread scraps for stuffing later on and give all the meat and  veggie and fruit and cheese scraps to the kids for late afternoon snack). I cut flowers out of cucumbers and kiwi using mini flower cookie cutters and also cut some grapes into flower shapes. Most of the ingredients were already in use for the chef salad we had for dinner the prior night.

Day 13-Lion Bento

2 part bento box/ Macaroni and cheese lion with celery whiskers, carrot mouth with carrot and celery stick, grapes and fishy craker sides. Grapes and bunny graham for snack. King Soopers carries these packages of three color grapes. Love them!

Day 12- Make your own pizza

Bagel thins with mini pepperonis, olives, cheese and a little bit of the sauce left over from the spaghetti and meatballs dinner. Another very easy box.

Day 11- Meatball chickens

Meatballs and noodles left over from dinner with carrot beaks and side of asparagus, cherry tomatos and orange. The other container is snack (Costco veggie fries and orange).

Day 10 - Homemade chicken noodle soup

Very basic boring quick Bento with home made chicken noodle soup left overs served in our all time favorite Toy Story thermos with peaches in their own juice and low salt-baked ritz for sides. Love to use left overs when I can. Bunny grahams for snack. I love Annies!

Day 9-Breakfast for Lunch

The whole family is filled with big breakfast fans! Subsequently, we frequently have "breakfast for dinner" nights when Mommy is feeling particularly burnt out and there happens to be eggs etc in the fridge. On Sunday, DH used his "Belgian Waffle Maker" and made us all belgian waffles for breakfast (yum). There were quite a few left over so I cut one of them up into squares and sent to school with Peanut with a little "syrup" container", a Babybel cheese cut into a smily face with Nori features, apples, and edamame on skewers (plastic toothpickes). Snack was pita crackers with hummus dip (in green stripey container) and a peeled tangelo.I made hummus dip for the get together this past weekend with red onions, from an internet recipe and froze the left overs in an ice cude tray. If Peanut doesn't like it, I will put it in future lunches for DH and I. A friend of mine on ColoradoMoms.com, also told me that you can buy excellent dip in individual containers at Costco, but haven't tried those yet.

Day 8- Octopus and Ramen

This one was fun to make! I used cocktail weiners which I actually had purchased for an appetizer for the upcoming weekend but then on thinking about it, went ahead and bought two packages and froze the remainder (before re-boiling) in zip locks in groups of 8 for later use. This is plain old Ramen (another kiddo favorite) with cheese starfish and Cocktail weiner octipi (use the hot dog vs. the 'sausage" version and cut two to three slits in bottom up to half way and then boil them with the noodles). Sides are fresh stemed green beans left over from dinner, fishy pretzel crackers and peeled tangelos. Anything that is leftover, I either freeze for later use, stick in a tupperware for myself or hubby to use, or keep until the next day for after school snack or for inclusion in breakfast. Snack today was dried apricots and baked/salt free ritz crackers. This lunch was eaten completely!