Mold it!

Egg molds create small, fun, shaped boiled eggs.This egg mold tutorial makes it look easy! 

They are cute and at $3 for 2, I'm sure I will get my money's worth!  I am also going to try using them at dinner time for mashed potato. I may use them for freezing small amounts of yogurt too.

I'm sure I'll center many posts around these little guys! Just a shame the two molds are different shapes because I can guarantee my two will both want the same one!

I bought mine on Amazon  http://www.amazon.com/Kotobuki-Plastic-Mold-Rabbit-Bear

--A

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Australian residents try here or here
~J

The Very Cranky Bear Lunch

Honey loves her Very Cranky Bear books so I made her lunch about it.

Moose was made with cheese, sultanas and a cheerio; lion was nori and a corn cob; sheep CuteZCute egg mould; zebra from a banana and Bear a CuteZCute sandwich with FooDoodlers. She also had a bag of animal biscuits for snack, mandarin flower and yoghurt.

All in our Nude Food Movers.

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.

Pirate Fairy vs Pirate Chicken Lunches

 Avast! It be that time o' year agane when we be channelin' ARRR inner piratical selves fer a bit o' humorous fun! International Talk Like a Pirate Day be one o' me favARRRite excuses t' play wi' th' wee ones' food! I be askin' th'm what might be thar requests fo' t'is yar 'n were met wi' quite th' conundrum!

The elder lass insisted upon a Pirate o' th' Fairy nature so I obliged wi' th' aid o' some FooDoodlers, food picks, and a li'l blue pixie dust!

 O' course thar be mandarin fo' th' scurvy 'n cheese skull & crossbones f'r th' fun o' it. I pillaged th' notion from t'is great blog.

 Th' store be out o' me favourite treasure (chocolate coins) so we made do wi' some rice wheels 'n a blue pixie dust cake.











'n we canne' be forgettin' th' yoghurt for th' li'l lass!

 Th' other wee one requested a piratical chicken! Well now!

Some money bags f'r me treasure, 'n mandarin f'r the scurvy seemed th' obvious additions to th' Yumbox.

 Along wi' some more o' that thur fancy cheese 'n a honey soy chicken wing.

Th' pirate be rice wi' egg yolk 'n a little nori made wi' th' chicken egg old from me treasure chest!

Disclosure: Tis not be a sponsored post. Tis post be written fer Loving Lunches. No product were pillaged fer tis post. All opinions expressed ARRR me own, based on me persARRRnal experience with th' product.

Easy CuteZ Panda Lunch

This lunch was made as a display for one of the markets I've been doing. I've been meaning to recreate it and send to school or daycare but I keep forgetting!

cheese & pepperoni, CuteZCute Panda bread cutout, bear egg with FooDoodler and lettuce.

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.

Bunny Lunch with Egg Mould Repurpose

This toddler lunch was all inspired by our humble bunny egg mould.

Leftover pasta with some mini sausage bunnies are separated from mixed vegetables and a 'Bunny Eggy' with a little baran.

Using the egg mould as a stamp, I added a little Bunny love to her sandwich.

I then used the egg mould itself to house some store bought dip and carrot sticks. Again separated with a little baran.

A mandarin and strawberry flower along with some yoghurt are some of my Honey Bunny's favourite sides. And they go well with the milk in her Juice in the Box.

Have you entered to WIN one of FOUR Juice in the Box starer bundles yet? See this previous post for details! Hurry! Ends this weekend!!

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.

Thomas the Tank Engine Prep Lunch

 Did you enjoy Honey's Thomas the Tank Engine lunch the other day? (read all about it here) Well I couldn't send Miss M off to Prep without including her in the fun!

Spiral 'train wheel' sandwich, popcorn, grapes and yoghurt. A nice little snack for on a train I think. Add a milk Juice in the Box and a Thomas sandwich and you're all set for a tooting good time ;-)

Don't forget to check out this previous post with all the details you need to enter and WIN a Juice in the Box starter bundle! Hurry! Ends this weekend!!

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.

Thomas the Tank Engine Daycare Lunch

All aboard! Did you know that Thomas the Tank Engine is 70 this year? He's in pretty good shape don't you think? All the more reason to celebrate him in a lunchbox!!

I've used the Thomas pasta before as a bit of fun for both the girls. Today it was honey's turn to take it for lunch. She also has a Thomas shaped egg, coloured with FooDoodlers.

That egg mould I also used to create Thomas sandwiches! I felt so very clever!!

What do you think? Perfect to accompany Honey's yoghurt, mandarin, popcorn and Juice in the Box milk, right?

Don't forget to read up on this previous post about how you can WIN a Juice in the Box starter bundle to help keep your little ones chugging along ;-)

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.

Teddy Bear Toddler Lunch

Have you been getting creative in the kitchen these holidays? Miss M helped me to make some lemon cordial and I sent some to daycare with Honey in her Juice in the Box with this Teddy bear inspired lunch!

Simple side of fruit salad and yoghurt, along with some Teddy-rific mains :-)

I used our CuteZCute original cutter to shape some of our leftover spaghetti marinara. Some of the carrot was also cut with the CuteZCute.

Miss M never really went for eggs but Honey loves her 'Teddy Eggy' (and those Tiny Teddy treat biscuits below it)

Her sandwich today was also made with the CuteZute. I used the bear ears/nose/mouth and the eyes from the cat to make the Teddy extra cute ;-)

For those interested in the lemon cordial, it was based on this recipe by Matt Preston.



What would you pack in your Juice in the Box if you WIN one of the FOUR up for grabs in our current giveaway? Details in this previous post!

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.

The Cow That Laid an Egg Lunch

Every morning at school drop off Honey loves to run to the reading corner and pick a book (or ten!). And Miss M's friends love reading them to her which is so lovely to see. One of the new books she noticed this term was The Cow That Laid an Egg. All three of us really enjoyed it and in the back of my mind a quick lunch began to take shape!

I've been looking for an excuse to try out our Fred & Friends Chicken Egg Mould. What could be more perfect? And our favourite Lunch Punch cutter got a work out too. (The cow was part of a limited edition set, sadly no longer available). I trimmed baby cow's legs and set to with some FooDoodlers to turn it into a chick. 

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I also (poorly) attempted to recreate Marjorie's (the cow) expression when she found out she'd laid an egg. A few food picks complete the scene.

While we're here I found this cow lunch amongst my un-blogged photos. Let's pretend these were the sides I sent along with the feature lunch since I can't actually remember what I did send that day! All in our Nude Food Movers.

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.

Huge Easter Round Up

I've been a little slack posting Easter offerings this year so here's a giant round up of the lunches Miss M has been taking. This first one though was for Honey -her first official Bento Box! This is what I packed for her to graze on while we were at our local Playgroup open day and markets.

Cheese and sultanas, cucumber checkerboard, moulded egg on lettuce, sandwich hearts, celery with peanut butter and sultanas (ants on a log).

Gingerbread man repurposed as a bunny. 

Sides of grapes and salami & cheese, crackers not shown.

Yoghurt pouch beneath the sandwich.

Simple and quick cookie cutter imprint.

Add a few picks to make it super cute.

Easter Egg apple. I got this idea from the Little Bento World Customers group :-)

Practice run of my display lunch for the markets.

Upside-down CuteZCute with bread off cuts for ears.

Grapes and blueberries with a cute little pick.

Gotta love some Bunny Butts!

My new Rabbit vegetable cutter arrived so I had to try it out straight away :-)

Nestled it into some watermelon.

A simple FooDoodler egg

This was the display lunch I ended up making for the Playgroup markets - cute don't you think? I added some bunny picks in the morning after I realised I hadn't already done so :-/

Super quick cheese art. Out of the blue Miss M asked to watch Kung Fu Panda again, so I made her a  Child Rabbit :-)

And another gingerbread man-bunny.

*Phew*

Wishing you and yours a Happy and Safe Easter!

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.