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.

Moscow Circus Lunches

The Great Moscow Circus came through town recently and the girls thoroughly enjoyed it.

To keep the magic going a little longer I made some lunches, as you do :-)

Miss's first lunch of the week was an Easy Lunchbox filled with passionfruit & yoghurt, strawberry & rockmelon 'circus tent' and a Nino the Clown inspired sandwich.

Honey had to wait a day for her lunch. Yoghurt pouch, corn dog muffins, sandwich with Little Charley Bear cheese art, mini capsicums filled with dip, watermelon & rockmelon circles and some milk.

Miss M also had a Yumbox later that week. Filled with passionfruit & yoghurt; watermelon & rockmelon; mini capsicum and carrot; corn relish dip; sandwich squares; corn dog muffins and tomato sauce in the rainbow container. I added a cute carrot face and balloon string pick to the muffins.

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.

Cake Stall Bento

Our local Playgroup had a Barefoot in the Park celebration for Under 8s week recently and when they asked for donations to go towards the cake stall I knew I had to spread a little more Loving Lunches love around :-)

The afternoon before the big day I cut made some Vegemite dolphin and some Honey elephant sandwiches. I also assembled some mandarin/grape flowers and made some mini bread & butter puddings from some of the bread offcuts. The sandwiches stayed on the bench overnight while the fruit & pudding were tucked away in the fridge. In the morning it was a simple task of assembling in their disposable containers and popping them in cooler bags while I did the school run.

I had a stall at the Fun Day too and this is the Yumbox I packed for Honey to share with her friend while she had a playdate at the event.

Their favourite wafer biscuits, some muesli bites (recipe soon), cheese stick, bread & butter puddings and cucumber.

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.

Mr Snail Bento

Miss M found a snail in the garden a few months ago and I've been meaning to make a snail lunch ever since. I finally got around to it!

 Ham & cheese flowers and some Tick Tock biscuits with FooDoodler snail drawn on.

 Cherry Tomato & Cucumber flowers with leaf food picks.

And my favourite pieces of the lunch - a whole Vegemite sandwich rolled up with a FooDoodler face and a mini mandarin with cute face drawn on.

Love ticking another item off the 'must make' list! This cute mandarin snail popped up on my newsfeed in Facebook  ages ago and I was reminded when Eats Amazing made her gorgeous lunchbox of snails earlier this year.

And I had to decorate Miss M's drink as 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.

The Very Ugly Bug Yumbox Edition

I mentioned Miss M borrowed The Very Ugly Bug form the library in this previous post. I loved it so much I decided to make two lunches based on it :-)

I made her bogey eyes with a marshmallow; wobbly wobbly head with a squished sandwich section; horrible hairy back from a kiwi fruit; and wonky purple legs from some purple carrot, served with dip.

Her little buggy friends came along in the form of food picks in the rest of her sandwich.

Oh, and there's some yoghurt there too ;-).

Have you read this book? What did you think?


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.

Last Easter Lunch (for this year)

This is the last lunch Miss M took to Prep for term one. Can you believe it's over already?

Her Yumbox has: yoghurt, Kiwi fruit carved like an Easter Egg, carrot bunny in lettuce, chocolate egg treat, round Vegemite sandwiches - tomb with the stone rolled away and a cross pick, and ham flowers.

I hope you are enjoying the beginning of your school holidays. I'm looking forward to some quiet down time with the girls. What do you have planned?


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.

How to Train Your Sheep?

 I'm a little late posting this Lunar New Year Yumbox. We've been on a How To Train Your Dragon bender so I thought it would be nice to celebrate the Year of the Sheep with Silent Sven's flock.

I love that the Yumbox reminds me to pack vegetables, something I tend to overlook. A small floret of cauliflower toped with some pepperoni coloured with FooDoodlers and served with ranch dressing.

I left some seeds in a few of the lychees so they looked like little sheep too :-)

Vegemite sandwiches topped with cheese. the one black sheep had Vegemite on top too.

Yoghurt dotted with sultanas and the brain break popcorn didn't quite get a close up.







For treat I saved a marshmallow sheep from Miss M's party. More on that later!


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.