Possum Magic Lunches

Well it has been an age since I've posted here properly and I think I've figure out how to make the most of the technology at my hands now.… I *think* ;)

Tomorrow is Mayflower's first day at kindy and in between my happy dance I made these 3 Possum Magic inspired lunches for the girls.

Sandwich with FooDoodler Hush sliding down a kangaroo's back, made with a sandwich stamp and star cookie cutter. Some star sprinkles added and stuck with butter.

Mango...yum

Lamington roll and mini meringue kisses

Last minute addition of pasta salad to go with some carrot and cucumber

I was really happy with how the star sprinkles worked in the big girls wraps

Miss M has same same as Mayflower with cucumber ad milk popper in the compartment not pictured from her Nude Food Movers

And Honey chose to keep her Sistema Quaddie again this year. Same same packing wise.

Belated Happy Australia Day!!

~Jackie

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.

Lost Daycare Lunches

I must admit that poor honey's lunches have been a little on the boring side. She gets a pretty sandwich but then the rest of it is pretty well tossed together. I still stick to my old daycare formula of something else for lunch, fruit and yoghurt for morning tea and a snack with sandwich for afternoon tea. Here's some of the Nude Food Movers Rubbish Free Lunchboxes she's been taking.

Sinchies yoghurt pouch, beetorrot & tomatoes, pretzels, CuteZCute tiger sandwich, milk Juice in the Box, kiwi and strawberry salad.

Fruit salad, dip, crackers, CuteZCute koala sandwich, beetroot, yoghurt.

Sinchies yoghurt pouch, spaghetti, cucumber and cheese, cow sandwich, milk Juice in the Box, watermelon and rockmelon.

Sinchies yoghurt pouch, pies, popcorn, sandwich, watermelon

Sinchies yoghurt, cheese, pasta with peas and corn, crackers, sandwich, strawberries and blueberries.

Sincheis yoghurt pouch, dinner leftovers (beans, carrot, baby corn, rice and BBQ chicken drumstick), ANZAC biscuits, sandwich, cheese/ham flower, mandarin/blueberry flower, milk Juice in the Box.

Sinchies yoghurt pouch, spaghetti, ANZAC biscuit, crisps and sip, sandwich, strawberries

Pumpkin soup, ANZAC biscuit, sandwich, yoghurt, apple flower, juice in our Juice in the Box.

Ham & cheese flower, banana, sandwich, yoghurt and corn on the cob.

Cheese, crackers, ham flower, dinosaur sandwich, pasta leftovers, yoghurt, kiwi fruit and strawberry flower.

Ham & cheese 'monster' croissant, picklet, sandwich, juice in her Juice in the Box, yoghurt, strawberries.

Popcorn, sandwich, yoghurt, watermelon balls, pies.

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.

Yumbox Nibble Tray

A simple little nibble tray to keep Honey occupied while watching Miss M at her athletics carnival earlier in the year.

Cheese, strawberries, celery and carrots, pasta, sandwich swirls and dip.

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.

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.

Yummy Kawaii Bento Review

Have you heard? One of my absolute favourite Bento Bloggers, Bento Monsters has released a book! I love Li's beautiful Bento style and have been a fan of her charaben works since I first discovered her. This is the lady who inspired me to use my wooden chopping board as a background for most of my lunches now. It cam from the crisp clean look of the photography on her blog, not to mention how fresh she makes everything look!

Li spent near on a year working on this incredible beginners Charaben Bento book. And the work has certainly paid off! Chock full of meal designs for all sort of serving ware (plates, bowls and various boxes) as well as recipes so you can complete the dish. The introductory section of the book is almost 20 pages long and covers everything from Bento tools & boxes through to creation and packing techniques. My favourite is the rice colouring guide!

 I decided to try my hand at Tamagoyaki. And Honey decided to help!

 You can never mix your eggs too much!

 I didn't have any Mirin or a Tamagoyaki pan so made do with what I had.

 I also couldn't find my sushi mat, but had this mini sized one tucked away.

Quite happy with my first attempt!

 I ended up making three 'layers' due to the size of my pan but I think they worked just fine!

 Then I decided to wrap them in ham and decorate as piggies just like one of the Charaben lunch boxes featured in Yummy Kawaii Bento.

I didn't hunt through all my tools to find the exact ones used in the book, opting instead for what was on top! Admittedly not quite as cute as in the book, but pretty darn close!

Then Miss M had a quick look through and asked for the clown lunch. I'm sure it was just so she could use my Mummy lunchbox, although the cherry tomato nose was also a big draw card.

But she wasn't happy when I told her the 'hair' was scrambled egg. It didn't take her long to let me know that she would be happy with scrambled egg whites instead. 'Just so long as there's no yolk, Mummy! And maybe you could colour it. . . like icing!!'

 So I tried! I mixed some food colouring into an egg white and microwaved in 20 second blasts until I was happy with the consistency.

After it cooled I added it to the sandwich. I was worried the egg might make the sandwich a little soggy so I added a ham 'skull cap' to act as a barrier between them.

I carved some apple in checks as are featured in the book, but decided to do one with stripes like a circus tent which I placed on top. I also included some strawberry hearts, again featured throughout the book.

Overall I've got to say this is a brilliant Bento book and I can see lots of the ideas, techniques and recipes being put to good use! There are lots of lovely simple yet amazing ideas like this scrambled egg clown that are so easy to replicate. A great book for beginners through to  advanced Bento Makers!


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 & Bento Monsters who generously provided me with an e-copy of their book. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.