Cuppow BNTO Gift Jars

I'm always late getting "holiday" posts up. Truth is, I blog as I go and I don't normally plan posts months ahead. If you are looking to be a great blogger, or even a successful blogger do not use my model of blogging :P 

Anyway, I think Cuppow rocks. I'm also a mason jar hoarder, I mean, fan. I think that using them as gift jars not only is eco friendly, but it's so fun! The gift recipient gets fun gifts AND the jar and Cuppow is a gift in itself! So Here's a fun little gift all "wrapped" up for you to see using a Cuppow lid and BNTO

From left to right-

Wonder Woman socks
Mason jar

Heart links
Hello Kitty Necklace

Lip balm

Nail polish

Cuppow lid and BNTO

How cute is that! It all closes up nice and tight. So very fun!

 A little about Cuppow, we've used them since 2012, you can see my review HERE. Since then the company has grown and the product line has expanded. However, what I love about Cuppow remains:

• American Made
• Environmentally Aware
• Family Friendly- we use these lids for smoothies, coffee, water, to pour homemade dressings. They are great for sugar and other spices also. The BNTO are perfect for foods, salad in a jar, parfait, and more.
• Free of BPA, phthalates, and BP
• Charity- We are proud to commit 5% of profits toward supporting other like-minded organizations and domestic charities that focus on engaging people on environmental stewardship, recycling, and social awareness.

Above is a Thai beef salad layered in the jar. The BNTO cup has plain Greek yogurt with local honey. It closes up nice and tight!

Find Cuppow

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This is not a sponsored post. I just love our Cuppow!

CUPPOW- GIVEAWAY

This video pretty much sums up the awesomeness that is this product. Cuppow. Such a simple concept. It turns a canning jar into a drinking cup with a BPA, 100% recyclable cover. I can't tell you how much I love drinking out of mason jars and glass bottles. I take my Nectar of the Gods coffee in them. It stays nice and cold. I think the flavor is cleaner. You don't have a metallic taste or a plastic taste. Just clean. Mason jars are perfect for hot or cold drinks.

My birthday and a "thank you" giveaway!

July is a busy month here, three of our five family members have birthdays. With mine smack dab in the middle of two of those birthdays! I'm also having a quick eye surgery, so I'd love if you all kept me in your prayers. Because of that I have some posts scheduled but I may not be very active here, or on Facebook and such. I didn't want to go off and celebrate a Dr Seuss birthday and an American Girl Ice Cream Social without including you in some sort of celebration. I'm not having a party... hmm does Starbucks have party rooms? They should. I can't wait to share all the party fun I'm frantically putting together for the girls though!
I'm so thankful you all, for some crazy reason, found Give Peas A Chance. I'm glad you're here, I'm blessed to say that I have gotten to know some of you and can call you friends. To celebrate my birthday I wanted to  have a giveaway!! So I'm offering up 2 prizes. Enter below, there's even a mobile friendly link. Share with a friend! Each prize pack will contain TWO awesome blossom CUPPOW lids. This isn't a sponsored post, just a thank you from me. Those Cuppow peeps are pretty awesome though, so you can check out their Facebook and let them know I sent you. If you don't know what Cuppow is here is the review I did in 2012.

So in a nutshell
July is a busy month filled with blessings
I'm having  minor eye surgery and would love your prayers that it goes well- I'm nervous!
There's a THANK YOU giveaway for 4 Cuppow lids below. Enter and 2 lucky readers will win a pack of two- my choice of style/size/color.

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2013 Bento 214-231 Take It Tuesday

 So many lunches this week! Don't forget to share yours, scroll down below for details. You can share via blog link, Instagram, Twitter, or on my Facebook page. Hashtags are below to tag your creations.
Here's what we've got this (past week) for lunches.

Avengers lunches

Hulk, Iron Man, and Captain America lunches

Bread stamped with Avengers

Lettuce
Tomatoes
Bacon
Olives
Dressing
York pieces

 Sushi lunches
Crab, cream cheese, cucumber rolls
Tamago
Ongiri
Mango
Seaweed
Tamari

2014 Lunches #138-151 Take It Tuesday

 #138-140

Roasted Turkey breast

Cucumber
Peppers

Kiwi
Dressing

Gluten Free Skillet Cookie (non Gluten Free one here)

#141- 143

Mini pretzel dogs (store bought)

Carrot coins

Kiwi

Dressing

Mustard

#144-146

I'm sorry for the extra crazy blurry shot. Sigh... I only took the one quickly.

Pasta Primavera 

Broccoli

Bell Pepper

Cheese

Banana

 #147

Beans and rice for DH with Pico. Used a mason jar and a Cuppow BNTO.

 #148-150

Ham

Cheese
Sunflower seeds

Tomatoes

Peppers

Kiwi

Pineapple

#151

Same as above with stuffed grape leaves.

YUM. Udon! I'm not counting this as a lunch but it's YUMMY>

Most lunches are packed in Planetboxes

and Yumboxes , found HERE.

CUPPOW info found HERE.

I want to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.

Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest #peasblog #TakeitTuesday

Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.

Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

2014 Lunches/Bentos 28-32 Take It Tuesday

 I'm so sorry I'm only posting these lunches today. I'm exhausted. We were home ALLL week, alllll of us last week due to illness and snow. I have lunches to post from the week before, but I'm just tired. Good thing is I'm not toooo behind because no lunches last week :).

Above 

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Beets
Strawberries 

Cucumber slices

Broccoli

Brownies

 I had a salad in this mason jar, from the bottom up

Papaya Salad

Sliced Cucumbers

 Beets

Egg Salad (in a silicone muffin tin)
I had meant to put something in the Cuppow BNTO but never got around to it.

This one lunch was for Diva, she did go to school one day last week ( I forgot, I'm tired)

Chicken Sliders

Strawberries

Broccoli

Chocolate covered Pomegranate seeds

Granola Bar

Most lunches are packed in Planetboxes

You can find Yumboxes HERE.

CUPPOW info found HERE.

I want to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.
Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest  #peasblog #TakeitTuesday
Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.
Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

Also I would love if you used my affiliate links for purchases on these sites. It doesn't cost you extra, doesn't change your price, but it does help me out.

Here are some of my links 

 LINK for Pick Your Plum ( http://tracking.pickyourplum.com/SH58 )

 LINK for YUMBOX (http://www.yumboxlunch.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=11 )

LINK for Zulily ( http://www.zulily.com/invite/kd489)
LINK for Planetbox ( http://planetbox.com/#oid=1017_1 )

Freaker USA #giveaway

 

This style is called Birdie-  I really like it!

Freaker USA. Have you heard of this fantastic product? Let me introduce you to Freaker and the Freaker USA team. Now, I haven't met any of these peeps in person but they are way nice, and rather entertaining. And I think once you see some of their videos --- I'm telling you right now. Go check them out you can get a flavor of their flair if you will. There's one of them battling Gandalf the White. Fun right? Want more of the business, now that you've seen the "party in the back"? (Disclaimer- none of the Freaker USA team have mullets. I don't think. But it wouldn't matter if they did. I love all people, mullet's or not.) Moving on-

About Freaker USA from their site-

2014 Lunches #72-82

This is going to be a very quick post, I need to get lunches packed and make sure I have everything ready for our oldest dd in the morning. She's having some teeth extracted. By the time you're reading this she should be out of surgery, but say a prayer for her today!

 #72-74

Thai Beef Salad

Strawberries

Yumboxes have pickles in them.
Only my oldest got Thai Beef salad vinaigrette because I made it quite spicy.

#75

Thai Beef salad for me also in the Cuppow BNTO 

I put Yogurt in the cup part with a little honey.

 #76-77

Roasted chicken

Cheese

Cucumber

Mango
Strawberries
Sunflower seeds 

These are from 3/17, it was a snow day so the girls and I ate the lunches above and below at home. 

#78-79

Pixie's on the left

Strawberries
Banana

Mango
Sunflower seeds

Cheese
Cucumber

Mine is 

Plain yogurt

Mango

Strawberry

Cucumber

By the way, the banana was packed the night before. We had lunch at 2 pm the next day and the banana looked like this when we opened the box, the picture is from my Instagram account. But as you can see, it's fairly fresh still!

#80-82

I apologize for this blurry picture, yikes. Sometimes I'm just really in a hurry.

Chicken (baked)
Cucumber 

Red Bell Pepper

Mango
Strawberries

That's it for this week, I have more to post but I'm so busy!

Most lunches are packed in Planetboxes

and Yumboxes , found HERE.

CUPPOW info found HERE.

I want to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.
Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest  #peasblog #TakeitTuesday
Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.
Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

Also I would love if you used my affiliate links for purchases on these sites. It doesn't cost you extra, doesn't change your price, but it does help me out.

Here are some of my links 

 LINK for Pick Your Plum ( http://tracking.pickyourplum.com/SH58 )

 LINK for YUMBOX (http://www.yumboxlunch.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=11 )

LINK for Zulily ( http://www.zulily.com/invite/kd489)
LINK for Planetbox ( http://planetbox.com/#oid=1017_1 )

2015 Bento Style Lunches #88-103

Vegetarian Green Lunches for color week at school.

YAY! Another Take It Tuesday! The weather is getting chilly here, and we have a storm moving in. I'm loving the weather and trying to get into some sort of after summer routine. The first giveaway of this school year for Bento Supplies ended and the winner was announced! I can't wait to ship her prize out this week. I have a Planetbox giveaway up this week, I would love for you to share this review with all your friends and family. We love our Planetboxes, and the more people who enter means more opportunities for giveaways! Thanks!

2015 lunches 20-22

Pizza
Cucumber
Dressing
Cheesecake

2014 Lunches #152-164 Take It Tuesday

Goodness, I can't keep up with these lunch posts in spite of being in a total lunch packing RUT! So there will probably be less and less lunches to post until I get out of my rut. What are you favorite lunches to pack? I need inspiration!

2015 Lunches 23-25

Simple lunches:

Chicken Salad

Grapes

Rice Krispie treats

2015 Bento Lunches 37-45

School lunches packed in yumbox and a lock n lock container.

Yay!! Lunches getting on the blog!! I'm so so far behind but here are lunches from the first through this days of school. Of course they aren't true bento, but they are bento style... and that's a stretch too haha.

Above we have:

Curry Quinoa

Salmon cucumber tomato salad

Roasted butternut squash

Plouts

2016 School lunches 7-21

Here are last week's, lunches have a GREAT week everyone!
There are some past lunches after this first picture, so it really throws the count off for this year haha, but at least they are blogged!)

School lunches #7-9
(Yumbox)
Turkey sandwiches
Cucumber
Fruit- strawberries, rambutan, persimmon
Andies mints

2015 Lunches 46-58 #TakeitTuesday

Lots of lunches to share today! How is lunch packing going for you? It's going well here. Some of these are last years lunches that I hadn't gotten around to blogging yet. If you have any lunch packing questions let me know what they are and I'll try my best to answer them for you. Leave a comment below!

2014 lunches #177-190 Take it Tuesday

Could it be? A Take it Tuesday post!?? IT IS!! I'm just thrilled because I miss blogging regularly. Once summer comes to a close we'll get back on schedule okay? You all can whip me back into shape. In the meantime here's some lunches to hopefully inspire us all for the upcoming school year!
Above is lunch number #177 a Mr Bento packed with
Roasted Chicken
Mac and Cheese
Cucumbers and Peppers
Oranges

2014 Lunches #165-176 Take It Tuesday

Happy Take It Tuesday! I'm still feeling like I'm in a lunch rut. School will be out soon and I'm just feeling done! What about you? Are you still packing lunches? What's your favorite go to lunch to pack?

Talk about hurry pack a lunch!

2016 Lunches 56-63

It seems like I'm always behind on posting lunches. I have... goodness probably all of April and much of March that I have yet to post. But here we are, at least there are some here. These I believe are from February. Yikes. These are pictures from my phone so they aren't the best but, here you go!

#56-58

Jasmine rice with Chinese sausage and a over medium egg.
Plums

Banana bread

2015 Lunches 17-19

Ravioli
Easy Stuffed Peppers
Mango
Dressing
Chocolate

2014 Lunches 33-51

Oh my, I'm so back logged on lunches and all posts in general. I just am. I was already behind after the New Year, then I was away on a family emergency for a week last month. It has been so hard for me to get back into the swing of things. I do find I get into these ruts, but I don't know. This rut seems to be longer than most. The whole Facebook changes debacle doesn't make it any better either. I do miss interacting with you all on Facebook, but with all the changes less and less people see posts on there. I am not very active on google + either. Where do you all find you interact most with bloggers and readers of your blog? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Also did you know that I have a giveaway up right now? Please check it out, enter, and share. I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much. Here's the link.
Let's look at some lunches-

 #33-35

Chicken
Simple Cabbage Salad
Oranges
Chocolate Covered Pretzels

 #36-38

Sausage

Cheese
Crackers
Kiwi
Carrots

 #39-41

These little boxes are actually snack boxes. The girls have dance after school so I try to give them a snack in the car. Even though it's against the rule to eat in the car. Sigh.

 #42

This was my lunch. 

Salad with leftover pork

Lime wedge (which is what I use on salads)

Kiwi
Avocado

 #43

Meatballs
Mac and Cheese
Broccoli

Strawberries
Peppermint Kisses 

 #44-46

Waffles

Grapefruit
Boiled Egg

Celery

Sunbutter
Chocolate Chips

 #47-49

Make your own Sushi hand rolls.

Sushi Rice

Imitation Crab

Cucumber
Egg

Kiwi

Roe
Seaweed

Here's a close up-

 #50

This Yumbox was packed for a plane trip. Pixie and I took off for my uncles funeral, we were gone for a whole week.

Apples
Sunflouwer seeds

Bananas

Grapes
Goldfish
Peppermint Kisses

#51

Diva's lunch
Soup
Pretzels
Celery
Sunbutter

Most lunches are packed in Planetboxes

You can find Yumboxes HERE.

CUPPOW info found HERE.

I want to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.
Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest  #peasblog #TakeitTuesday
Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.
Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

Also I would love if you used my affiliate links for purchases on these sites. It doesn't cost you extra, doesn't change your price, but it does help me out.

Here are some of my links 

 LINK for Pick Your Plum ( http://tracking.pickyourplum.com/SH58 )

 LINK for YUMBOX (http://www.yumboxlunch.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=11 )

LINK for Zulily ( http://www.zulily.com/invite/kd489)
LINK for Planetbox ( http://planetbox.com/#oid=1017_1 )