Snailing into the New Year

I'm going to try something a little different this year and try to blog from my phone. Please forgive me as I'm sure to make lots of mistakes learning to use this new tool!

This snail inspired lunch for Miss M to take to vacation care after we found a family of snails in the backyard. 

Roll up sandwiches, sausage rolls with tomato sauce, mango and peaches. Yoghurt pouch and milk box not pictured. 

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Last Preppy Lunch for the Year!

I can hardly believe Miss M's time in Prep has come to an end! As always I'm left wondering where the year has gone!

Wishing you and yours a safe & happy Festive season!

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~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Christmas Lunch Round Up

Both the girls got Santa bellies today, inspired by a beautiful bauble I picked up at the local Christmas Markets

Love heart Santa <3

Honey asked for a Santa Pirate. . . as you do!

Room on the Broom Christmas lunch.

The Grinch inspired simple lunch

And a pirate for Miss M's Pirate Day at school. There was also a large morning tea/picnic with families this day, hence the skimpy lunchbox.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Simple Ninja Lunch

 I can't remember the reason I made this Ninja lunch earlier in the year, but the Annual Day of the Ninja seemed a great reason to share it!

In our Easy Lunchboxes Miss M took strawberries, yoghurt, popcorn and a sandwich topped with cheese and a quickie FooDoodler cheese art.

It was kind of cute, right?

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Display Bunny Lunch

 I like to take a display lunch when bringing a Little Bento to your World (contact me for more information!) and this is one of my favourites. How can you go past a cute little bunny butt?!?

 Apple bunnies.

 Bunny Butt sandwich cut with the CuteZCute cutter.

Egg bunny made with an egg mould.


Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Flutterbat Lunch

One of Miss M's favourite episodes of My Little Pony right now is the Flutterbat episode. I made this lunch in the lead up to Halloween, but Friday the 13th seemed just as appropriate to share :-)

The same week I also made an Apple Jack lunch for her, with most of the same ingredients.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Miscellaneous Mummy Lunches

I have been feeling a bit rushed of late and although I am still taking lunch each day, they are rather repetitive and so I haven't been recording them. Pie-day-Friday and once a week toasties (which have been twice a week or more) and then leftovers have been all I seem to be able to achieve for myself. I still look forward to the break though :-)

Leftovers, vegetables, rice and corned beef

Muffin pizzas, crackers and dip

Ham bread roll with pasta salad (packet pasta, frozen veg and corn relish - yum!)

Lasagne and salad

Yumcha box with sweet & sour sauce

Crisp bread with cheese and tomato

And why, yes, that _is_ chocolate hiding under my salt & pepper!

Salad and a lamington.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Lost Lunch Round Up

Have you noticed I've been a bit quiet of late? I've been flat out working, doing school runs, trying to get to the gym at least once a week. .  . and then on top of that and (attempting to) run a household and a blog I'm also getting busier with Little Bento World Parties and have signed up to Jamberry Nails! **phew!!** So here's some lunches in no particular order that haven't made it to publication yet :-)

This Easy Lunchbox was filled with nibbles for Honey to enjoy while I ran a Little Bento World in home demonstration. Click here to find out how you can see the best of the range in person!

Simple flowers for Miss M. Yoghurt, mandarin flower (inspired by Wendolonia), flower sandwich made with multi-sized cookie cutters, tulip silicon cup of grapes and a Take & Toss spoon.

Simple lunch for Miss M.

Apples, Fairy Lunch Punch, cashew butter/nutella dip in the cake pop mould, yogurt.

Another simple Easy Lunchbox for Honey to nibble on while I Little Bento Party-d :-)

Broccoli Bites, butter sandwich, cereal trail mix, macadamia honey mini cake, grapes.

Easy EasyLunchbox for Miss M. Yoghurt, apple slices, sandwich with 'Eat Me' cookie stamp imprinted with FooDoodler and cashew/Nutella dip. Juice in her Juice in the Box.

Random snack box of trail mix, sandwich and kiwi fruit.

Nibble box for Honey while I'm doing a Little Bento Party. Fruit, fruit, fruit and a sandwich :-)

Sandwich, fruit salad, salami/cheese/crackers, yoghurt.

Sandwich, 2 minutes noodles, yoghurt, cheerios and fruit salad. Must have been a last minute long daycare day.

Sports day for Miss M and I let her have tuckshop. She still took fruit and yoghurt.

Flower lunch with hash browns.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Simple Car Lunch

 Life is very busy at the moment so I haven't gotten around to getting the photos off the camera, so here's a throwback :-)

Simple car lunch. Apples with grapes (from BentOn Better Lunches), car egg, car sandwich made with the CuteZCute cutter.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

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Blinky Bill Lunch

I'd hoped to take Miss M to see the Blinky Bill movie over the holidays but we didn't quite make it there. No reason she couldn't have a Blinky Bill lunch though!

Yoghurt, Lamington (very Australian!), mandarin with tree and koala pick and CuteZCute Koala.

The same day Honey took a rice panda, mini lamingtons, CuteZCute koala sandwich, mandarin flower and yoghurt.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Easy Lunchbox Dinners

 For the school holidays I chose to trial working less days but for longer hours, which meant that the girls would most likely be aiming up for dinner at around their pick up time if not earlier, so I packed them dinner as well as lunch!

 And while I was packing their dinner, I made one for myself as lunch. I had Ferrero Rocher for my dessert instead of healthy yoghurt like the girls did. We all had garlic bread, lasagne muffins and salad.

I love these Texas Muffin cups I picked up in New Zealand last time we were there. They are a little tall for the Easy Lunchboxes but make a great sized meal. I made the lasagnes on the weekend prior and froze these babies ready to pack on the fly which made these dinner super quick to assemble. All I had to do was toss in some salad, some story bought garlic bread, and the variations on dessert.

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

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More Hearty Lunches

 More simple hearts for my loves <3

Miss M too yoghurt, strawberries, sandwich and cheerios with tomato sauce in the little container.

Honey took ham & cheese layered heart, sandwich, strawberries, yoghurt and cheerios which hadn't quite thawed out so didn't end up being cut. Oh well!


Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Wockets and Dragons

 The last of the Book Week lunches that I haven't gotten around to posting yet.

Miss M had just recently read 'Wocket in my Pocket' at school. This was one of her favourites when she was younger. I think she just liked all the funny names in it and hearing Mr Loving & I say them!

I was put onto a great app - Camera Lucida by some of my Bento Bloggers & Friends. Gee it makes this drawing business easy! More like tracing which is more to my skill level!

And of course I had to include Stormfly from How to Train Your Dragon for Miss M too!

Next time I think *I* will choose the image to trace. This one was a little difficult!


Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Is There Room on the Broom for a Lunch Like Me?

Have you read Room on the Broom? Or seen the short film? It is such a wonderful story, and my girls love it! I've been meaning to make a Room on the Broom lunch for some time and finally got around to it for BookWeek. The Easy Lunchbox was for Miss M

The witch had a *cat*, and a *very tall hat*, And *long ginger hair which she wore in a plait*.

CuteZCute Cat sandwich
Ice cream cone hat
Mandarin ginger plait

 And Honey took the same but different.

I also included a cheese and breadstick 'wand' which gets lost in the story.

As does the bow from her plait.

And for Miss M's brain break I made some strawberry and mini-marshmallow mushrooms :-)

Details of my tools & toys can be found on this page.

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. This post was written for Loving Lunches. No product was received for this post. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.