Lunch for Isi

Here are a couple of lunches I've put together for Isi.
This was his lunch Tuesday:

I tried the spinach pie recipe from Katsbentolove.blogspot.com. It was supper good see the recipe here.
I did make a couple of changes; my frozen crust wasn't gluten free and I added two tablespoons of jarred green pesto! It is a delicious pie that my whole family happily munched on for two days! Delicious hot or cold it's definitely going to be a picnic staple! Along with a big slice of Spinach pie he had:

• Salad greens
• Sliced cucumbers
• Cherry tomatoes
• Grated Parmesan Cheese
• Carrot sticks
• A  Babybel Cheese
• Blue Cheese Salad Dressing in the green container.

He had about the same today!

In this spinach pie lunch the only things different were:

• Lovely Red, Orange, and Yellow Bell Pepper Slices
• A container of delicious pine nuts for snacking or sprinkled on the salad greens
• Caesar Dressing in the container with parsley

This is a lunch from last week.

Not all that healthy but delicious anyways! Lol

• Liver pate spread sandwich on Wheat bread
• Deli Pickles
• Cherry tomatoes and red bell pepper slices
• Lays Hot BBQ Chips! A Daddy treasure shipped from America! Thanks Mommy!^.^

These lunches have been linked to Bentolunch.net's  What's for Lunch Wednesday! Week 95

Arrrgh, It's still Pirate Month at Leikkikoulu

Arrrgh, It's still Pirate month at Leikkikoulu! Here are a few of the snack bentos Missy Lulu has taken to playschool.

A Pirate Ship:

• Whole wheat tortilla spread with Apple butter. Cheese nori and salami details
• A banana wedge
• Mozzarella cheese balls and two cherry tomato swords!
• Orange juice to drink and a chocolate gold doubloon for a treat!

A Pirate Boy...this little guy is all over bento world, and he's been done a million times...but he's easy right?

• A Pirate sammie of bologna cheese and nori.
• Red Bell Pepper slices
• Banana Yogurt
• Apple juice to drink

Ugh, woke up late...had no clue what to do! LoL

• Flower sammie spread with a pineapple pecan cream cheese.
• A big strawberry, blueberries, and carrot sticks. (The tiny bear container holds Tzatziki sauce)
• Orange juice to drink

(Today's snack bento )A Pirate Egg

• A boiled egg "Pirate" Nori and bologna details
• two strips of bacon..yummy, bacon. ^.^
• A big strawberry and blueberries

I've got one more pirate lunch left in me (with a lot of month left..) If any of you ladies have any Pirate theme ideas please share with me!

These lunches have been linked to Bentolunch.net's  What's for Lunch Wednesday! Week 95

Sesame Street bentos

These meals are inspired by my favorite childhood show Sesame Street!  I am still a fan of these characters and eagerly teach Missy Lulu who all my favorites are; since she's never seen the show! The first is her snack bento for today's playschool.

Inside this snack bento we have:

• Cherry Yogurt topped with rice crispies
• Simply a banana and half a clementine orange decorated as my favorite odd couple Burt and Ernie. They are stylized with nori, food picks and pre made Wilton eyes!
• Some blueberries are in there as well!

Note: Coming home today she told me that she didn't eat her fruit because she couldn't peel it herself.  Maybe this idea would be better for a older child...even though I know a teacher would of helped her if she asked! But she ate it all after she had me peel the fruit before her lunch.

She had spinach pie for lunch, as I had just baked it for dinner. So this next meal was really saved as a bento dinner to be shared with Baby sunshine!

It's Big Bird made from Macaroni and cheese. Big bird  has cheddar cheese and salami details for his beak, and his eyes are the Wilton premade eyes with slices of salami and blueberry for his eye lids. Big Bird's legs are carrot strips and salami. Along with the Mac n' cheese they had:

• Roasted Chicken drumettes
• Steamed frozen broccoli 
• A cherry tomato
• A Big Strawberry and blueberries

The girls loved the dinner, which I packed in the strawberry plastic packaging. A good lesson because if you're just starting in bento making, any small container can become a bento box. All you need is food and imagination! I sometimes save the fruit packaging from the cherry tomatoes as well, because they'll be great for picnic season once the weather is warm again. Here's the bento with the top on.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week this week! This bento is linked to Bento Blogs Network's Bento of the week. Birds

Two Pirate Lunches

It's Pirates theme at playschool this month, so I'm making pirate theme bentos a lot this month! These are the bentos from yesterday and today!

In Tuesday's Bento we had:

• A Captain's Pirate hat (Apple butter sammie with nori and cupcake sprinkles details)
• Bologna rolls 
• Cherry tomatoes
• Sliced cucumbers
• Bread sticks
• Sliced Kiwi and a big strawberry with a Pirate ship sticker pick

In Wednesday's Bento we had:

• A Pirate's treasure chest sammie (1/2  Wheat bread and bologna, 1/2 Apple butter sandwich with nori and cheddar cheese details)
• A cherry tomato with a treasure chest sticker pick
• sliced Kiwi
• One big strawberry with one green "Pirate" (She just went with that!)

Glad that St. Patrick's day is coming I need a Pirate break already! LoL
These lunches have been linked to What's For Lunch Wednesdays! Week 94

Hello Kitty Pirate

With this month being Pirate month at playschool everyone gets to be a swashbuckling rogue for at least a day, and today it's our favorite Kitty's turn!

It's A Pirate Kitty Muffin Tin Lunch! In this muffin tin we have:

• Pan seared tuna steak chunks
• Fried potato curls with sea salt
• Broccoli and a sliced up cherry tomato
• A blueberry mini muffin under a marzipan hello kitty pirate face
• Pirate punch  (OJ and mineral water)

For her playschool snack she also had a Hello Kitty Pirate snack bento

In this snack bento she had:

• A Pirate Kitty sandwich made with wheat bread and apple butter. The sammie had  marzipan details
• Half a banana
• Two cherry tomatoes
• Baby carrot sticks
• Cheddar cheese hearts 

This bento is so lovely! I really like the clear top so you can see what's inside!

Pirate Month at Playschool!

We have the wonderful theme of Pirates at playschool this month! I love Pirate lore and enjoy having a fun theme to play with! Here are some of what we've had so far.

Snack Bento

That day's muffin tin lunch

In these meals we had

• A Pirate cheese sandwich with salami, cheese and nori details
• A fruit treasure cup filled with clementine orange, mango and strawberry slices
• whole wheat alphabet cookies
• One chocolate gold coin
• Boxed OJ

In the muffin tin we had

• A serving of baked chicken spaghetti
• Baked butternut squash with maple syrup and cinnamon
• Tomato skewers with mozzarella and fresh basil
• A fresh baked Bisquick garlic muffin with cheese pirate face
• Slices Kiwis and a big strawberry
• Pirate Punch (OJ, and mineral water)

The following Day Missy Lulu took this snack bento to playschool

In this snack bento she had:

• A Pirate's parrot made from a quail egg  (even though he looks like a chicken..smh I tried)
• A roasted chicken drumette
• A Bisquick garlic muffin
•  Boiled edamame
• A big strawberry 
• Milk to drink
• Chocolate Pirate gold for dessert

Visit again for more pirate themes!

Kabob bento

Today Isi had a Kabob bento lunch. He loves the saucy mystery meat sliced roasts sold in sandwich form, from a dozen or more Turkish restaurants found all around here. I saw a frozen package of the same stuff in our local grocery store,  and decided to make his favorite take-away from home!

I pan fried the frozen meat with chili oil  to make it extra spicy! Instead of pita bread I used Finnish Lapland flat bread to hold his fillings. With this he had a small side salad of:

• Shredded carrots
• Red bell peppers
• sliced cucumbers
• Cherry tomatoes
• pickled Jalapeno peppers
• Lettuce and Tzatziki sauce with basil in the  small container

I had planned on serving a second container of thin sliced fried potatoes with sea salt along with his meal,but he and my oldest snarfed them down in the kitchen right as I took the ringlets from the hot pan to the paper towels for draining. Lol, I did the same as a kid when my mom made them! Overall he liked his lunch!