I am feeding my children...

I am making the girls lunches for school. I just haven't been able to sit and blog them! And when I think I have all the pictures sorted I find more bento pictures in other folders, sigh...
So there's like a ton of pictures here.

These two lunches have chicken salad, cheese cubes and whole grain crackers. Piglets has a jello cup I made in silicone cupcake cups. Diva has almonds, fruit and a prune in hers. I didn't pack much for Piglet she was home with me.

What's cookin'...

I have been so busy with the girls and the opening of my new store that I can hardly think straight... I apologize if you all are getting bored with these mass uploads of pictures and no recipes! SORRY... but here are some lunches...
Above is a taco salad for Diva in a Lap Top Lunch box... along with two chocolate chip mascarpone muffins and a fruit cup.

Popcorn chicken, cheese, BBQ sauce for dipping and grapes...

Chicken and wild rice soup... YUM!!!

Baked Ziti with ground turkey...

Will I ever get caught up???

I doubt it... but here are some of the girls latest bentos/lunches and a couple of new recipes I have tweaked...

I love this box, I think it's one of my favorites, it's a stainless steel two tired box. Just too cute...
what's in it? a turkey sandwich on a Hawaiian sweet roll, cheese cubes, blue corn tortilla chips and grapes. Diva ate everything I packed!

Tortillas with no nitrate added hot dogs, cubed mozzarella, and fruit skewers... if it's on a skewer my girls will eat it...

Bentos from the last two days...

Diva's lunch today... two mini pies made with ground turkey and ground beef in a pastry shell, blueberries, banana and ketchup for dipping. She ate everything!! YAY!

Diva's lunch tomorrow, Larb Gai, cucumber slices, whole wheat carrot cake and grapes that i put on little animal skewers.

Tomorrow piglet is having a turkey and cheese roll up, no Larb for her it's easier for her to have finger foods for the most part. Whole wheat carrot cake, whole wheat crackers, blueberries and grapes.

First bento's for the school year...

The girls start school tomorrow! YIKES!! Where did the time go? Piglet actually is only two but she's been so ready since last year, both the girls cried and didn't want to leave their classes during orientation last week. Piglet was so excited, her teacher pulled me aside and goes, "Is she really potty trained?" and I said, "yes for a while now", her teacher said she's the only one in the class that is. I suspect it's because she's got an older sibling I told her. Who knows, anyway. Moving on... Piglets is the pink bento, both girls have pork filled Bun bao that we made with my mommy :-). Diva's bento does have a whole wheat carrot muffin.

Last Friday's bento lunch

Diva's lunch, last Friday? I think it was last Friday.
Mini meat loaves
broccoli
 hot milk cake
strawberries
 fresh whipped cream
You can see the Mini Meatloaf post HERE.

Cobb Salad Bento

As per request a salad bento for Diva, the little container has dressing, there is rolled turkey and pepperoni. She ate it all, yes even the blue cheese, she eats a wide variety of foods LOL.

Thank goodness for the freezer...

It was about 12 am when I realized I needed to pack Diva a lunch. I am soo glad I had these mini meat loaves, broccoli and pumpkin cream cheese muffins in the freezer for her. Fast easy and her teacher warmed it up for her. It was thawed by the time it needed to be warmed. She didn't eat the fruit. But ate everything else.

Coconut Rice Bentos

Diva requested coconut rice for lunch so I was glad, I am always glad to pack leftovers. She ate every single grain of rice, and all her fruit and the egg also. (I had her teacher warm the rice, that's why it's packed separate and no fruit is on top of it)

Piglet got an egg and some fruit, she also ate some chicken and some papaya salad since she was home.

Lunches for last week...

I am swamped with pictures. But here are some of Diva's lunches last week. The top one is an Egg roll vermicelli salad and a almond pillow cookie.

The bottom lunch is a pork filled bun bao, mandarin oranges, string cheese and sun sweet one prune.

Tamale lunch

Diva's lunch today a pork tamale, frijoles refritos , rice with cheese, and apples.

Diva's Turkey sandwich bento and a dinner bento

Tonight I packed the girls a little dinner bento because we were going out. They each got a tier, both tiers have fried rice, sausage tortellini, strawberries and a lychee fruit jelly.

I love this little box, too cute and it's not plastic. My mom called this week to say she got me a four tiered one like it. I can't wait to see it.

Tomorrow for lunch I packed a veggie cream cheese and turkey sandwich on a yeast roll for Diva. There is also some cinnamon sugar sweet potato, mango, banana and maraschino cherries.

Turkey roll up bento

Quick lunches for the girls today. Simple turkey roll ups with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and blue cheese stuffed olives- which the girls love on skewered, there is also mini pumpkin muffins which I keep in the freezer, and yogurt covered raisins. Diva's lunch on the right has organic yogurt with sprinkles, it needed color and I didn't have berries.


For the roll ups
sliced turkey
vegetables- cucumbers, carrots, bell peppers etc.
garden vegetable cream cheese

For the skewers
cheese- the girls and I are on a fresh mozzarella kick right now
tomatoes- grape or cut up ones
other vegetables
olives


Lay out a slice of turkey.









Place thin strips of vegetables. (If you have younger kids that can't chew some of the harder veggies, blanch and cool them first.) Roll up the slices and cut into pieces.








Ready to skewer.




I ended cover up Diva's yogurt with some decorative foil so it wouldn't go all over the place.

Mini Cheese ball bento...

When I asked Diva what she wanted for lunch she said, vegetable cream cheese, shredded cheese and sliced tomatoes. Easy enough. I packed her the little cheese ball made with shredded cheese and vegetable cream cheese. (some herbs in there also), wheat thins, sliced tomatoes, a prune and pineapple upside-down cake.

Return of the vermicelli

On Sunday the girls and I went to the park right after church for a picnic and to play. I packed these bentos for us the night before. Basically fruit and Grilled Pork Vermicelli salad. Diva and I shared the big one and Piglet's is in her pig bento. We had fun, and lunch was yummy.

Vermicelli salad lunch

Diva requested this Grilled pork vermicelli for lunch so I packed it for her with some strawberries and a prune, which she likes. Nice and easy for me when it's something I can pack the night before.

Related posts-

Vermicelli Salad

Spring Rolls 

Egg Rolls

Nam Pla Dressing

Vermicelli Salad Bentos/Lunches

More Lunches

Diva's "I ate it all, Mama!" lunch

Usually Diva doesn't finish all her lunch, I would say she eats a good 75-80% but lick the bento occurrence I think maybe twice a month. But today she said to me, "Mama look in my bento, you'll be so surprised!" yep she ate it all, I am glad, it wasn't much food but still. Rolled sun dried tomato, turkey and provolone sandwich, almonds, cucumbers, with roasted red pepper dressing, a strawberry and a lychee jelly.

Diva's Sorta Senate Bean soup lunch

Diva's requested Sorta Senate Bean soup lunch. Every once in a while I am surprised by what she requests. I guess because while I liked the bean soup I am unsure three meals in a week with it would fly with me... Her lunch was packed in a Laptop Lunch container. I don't use it often especially for Diva, it holds way too much food for a three year old. I had to throw chips in there for a filler to keep everything from moving around, hopefully she won't eat them, the last time I packed chips she didn't eat them either. Which was odd to me I thought she liked chips. There is also some cornbread, sliced tomatoes with balsamic and olive oil and some Clementine segments.
I placed press and seal over the tomatoes and covered up the soup so the lunch wouldn't be a mess once she got to it.

Dutch baby bento...

Diva requested this lunch, leftover Cinnamon Apple Dutch baby, bacon, banana and jello. SO there you have it...

It's all fishy...

Diva's first day back at school. We went to the beach twice during spring break and I think that was her favorite so I made her this little lunch to remind her of the fun times at the beach. There is a molded fish egg, his tail got cut off, two feta stuffed beach balls (OK olives), sliced strawberries, craisins, some jello she helped me make and some cottage cheese with a Swedish fish on top, I hope they don't kick her out of school because her mom put candy in her lunch. :-)

I didn't take a picture of Piglet's lunch but I gave her an egg , applesauce and crackers in her pig bento, she had it at the doctors office.