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.

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.

The Croods Eep

Miss M has been a bit under the weather and has had some time at home recovering. One thing she's enjoyed is chilling in front of the TV watching movies - don't we all when we're sick? Her current favourite? The Croods! So I made her an Eep lunch to help her feel better :-)

Mandarin and blueberry, sandwich with tortilla art, milk in her Juice in the Box, her favourite bikkies & dip, and an ANZAC biscuit.

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.

Mickey Mouse Lunches

 Miss M's show & share theme was Disney characters last week. She was very excited to take along some of the Disney food picks from my collection.

I used the CuteZCute cutter to cut out a shape and coloured in with FooDoodlers for this lunch, served with popcorn and strawberries. not pictured are the yoghurt pouch and drink box she took as well.

 I haven't gotten around to sharing this lunch yet either so thought I'd pop it in. We went through a few of the Lunchbox Love Notes a little while back and this was one of my favourites.

Do you know the answer?


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.

Happy Bento Book Tour

Have you heard the buzz? There's a new Bento book on the shelves! I've loved Anna Adden's work over at Becoming a Bentoholic for some time now, and when the opportunity arose to review her new book Happy Bento!: Lunches on the Go I jumped at the chance.

Anna clearly & concisely walks you through the basics of Bento - from what it is and 'tools of the trade' to techniques to help you achieve the types of lunches pictured in her book. Basic Bentos, Fun Bentos, Special Days, and Season Bentos are all accompanied by crisp and colourful photos with each lunch detailing supplies, ingredients and directions. Where needed photo tutorials are also included. I love that this book covers everything from simple basic bentos and techniques through to somethings that are more advanced and complicated. Something for everyone!

I decided to replicate her Super Mario Bros inspired lunch, not only because it is so cute, but because I've been wanting to make one in my mushroom lunchbox ever since I got it!

I replaced the hotdogs in the book with corndog muffins as we've just been to the circus and I can't get that side-show staple Dagwood Dogs out of my head! Following the directions in the book made creating the Piranha Plant a breeze, although I used regular spaghetti instead of angel hair pasta and didn't cut the small circles from the plant which wold have made it that extra bit cuter.

I bought cherry tomatoes instead of grape but I still think they look quite cute, don't you?

I love this lunch so much I'm taking it to work for myself!

(By the way, if you're quick there's a copy of Happy Bento!: Lunches on the Go up for grabs on Becoming a Bentoholic right now - and the giveaway is open world wide! Check out this post for details.)

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

~J

Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post and no monetary compensation was offered nor provided. This post was written for Loving Lunches and Becoming a Bentoholic who provided an e-copy of the book to review. All opinions expressed are my own, based on my personal experience with the product. This post may contain affiliate links.

Easy Elsa Lunch

Miss M has decided to get on the Frozen bandwagon. She enjoyed the film when it first came out but she wasn't hit with the hysteria which followed which I must admit was nice. Now though, she has decided it's the best thing ever! This Easy Lunchbox is filled with pepperoni & cheese (crackers came later when I realised I forgot to pack them); strawberry & kiwi fruit snowflakes and Vegemite sandwich topped with cheat cheese art. Milk in her Juice in the Box. Not pictured the yoghurt pouch she took that day and water bottle too :-)

You can see where I smudged the cheese art and it didn't quite work - she looks like she's scowling. . . or maybe having a stroke o.O

Miss M didn't seem to notice - phew!

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.

Little Charley Bear Quickie Lunch

A Little bonus lunch to remind you of our Juice in the Box #Giveaway that is ending this weekend!

Some pies and Juice in the Box milk are one of Honey's favourite lunches, and Little Charley Bear is one of her favourite shows! So for a day when she really didn't want to go to daycare it seemed an easy way to help her over that hurdle. And it worked!

She loved having a Charley sandwich in her lunchbox and the fact that she could see it through the lid also helped :-)

Some tomatoes, cheese and crackers for snack.

And some mix & match strawberry and kiwi fruit flowers.

Now, don't forget to enter our Giveaway in this previous post before it closes!!

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.

My Girls Took a Stroll in the Deep Dark Wood

They each found a lunch, and the lunch was good!

This is the very first lunch that Honey took to daycare *sigh*. The Gruffalo has been one of her favourite books and I love the very clever mouse! I also love that I could replicate all the 'favourite food's from the story. . .

Owl Ice Cream (sandwich ball with ice cream cone and carrot)

Roasted Fox (ham, cheese, sultana and black sesame)

Mouse on a slice of bread (FooDoodler cheese art on a sandwich)

Gruffalo Crumble (single serve apple crumble with white chocolate & FooDoodler eyes)

Scrambled Snake (FooDoodler on apple skin)

The Nut - well, Honey's daycare is nut free so I substituted grapes instead.

I knew Miss M would want to join in the fun so I made her a Gruffalo Favourite Food Bento too.

Gruffalo Crumble (singel serve apple crumble with white chocolate & FooDoodler eyes)

Owl Ice Cream (sandwich ball with ice cream cone and carrot)

Mouse on a slice of bread (FooDoodler cheese art)

Nut (Bento pick)

Roasted Fox (pepperoni & cheese with FooDoodler)

Scrambled Snake (FooDoodler on apple skin)

And both girls got milk in their Juice in the Box. Which version do you like best?

Would you take your Juice in the Box on a stroll through the deep, dark wood? 

I'm sure if you win one, a stroll would be good!

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.

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.

Curious George Lunch Version Two

 Did you see Miss M's Curious George lunch in this previous post? This is what Honey took to daycare that day.

Her George certainly does look 'Curious', don't you think? o.O
Ham, cheese & nori sitting atop her sandwich.

She also had a banana (a must for every young monkey!), a yoghurt pouch, lamington, cherry tomatoes and milk in her Juice in the Box.

 This was in her first week of daycare and she was all over the shop with her eating. Most of her lunch came home but she was ravenous and proceeded to eat the vast majority of it for afternoon tea.

I suspected she was getting ill when she didn't finish her lamington though! I was suitably impressed by the lack of leaks from her Juice in the Box.

Curious? Head on over to this previous post and enter to WIN a Juice in the Box starter bundle for yourself!

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.

Curious George Version One

Both the girls have been loving watching Curious George on ABC Kids lately so I thought it would be great to make some lunches along the theme. Especially after I saw this gorgeous lunch pop up in my newsfeed somewhere!

Miss M's round Vegemite sandwich is topped with ham, cheese & nori cutting. Some tomatoes with monkey and yellow hat pick (OK, I know it's the wrong style hat, but it's all I had ^-^) and a lamington. There's a Sinchies yoghurt pouch under George too :-)

Her Juice in the Box had milk today.

Snacks were yoghurt and pepperoni/cheese/crackers.

Stay tuned for Honey's version of the lunch!

Now, be a good little monkey and visit this previous post for details on how you could WIN a Juice in the Box starter bundle for yourself!







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.

Double Zecora - Two for One Nori Cutting!

 Miss M was working through the alphabet at Prep and came to Z . . .obviously for Zecora of My Little Pony fame!

I made this Easy Lunchbox for her with nori cutting and FooDoodler cheese. I tried to emulate Zecora's cutie mark with the mandarin and cheese 'swirl'. What do you think? Did it pass? There's some yoghurt in the red container as well.

I realised after I'd done the nori cutting that I'd accidentally made another perfect opportunity for lunch! The next day Miss M had the offcuts of the original design with some quickie rockmelon slices and a yoghurt pouch below the sandwich.

Brain break was packed separately both days.

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.

Kung Fu Panda Lunches of Awesomeness Fung and a Round Up

Did you enjoy this series of lunches? In case you missed any here are the links all in one place for you! And an added bonus of Miss M's favourite villain (today anyway) Fung!

Tigress
Po
Viper
Crane
Monkey
Mantis

Bonus - Mr Ping
Bonus - Master Shifu
Bonus - Fung - see below :-)

This EasyLunchbox is filled with bikkies & dip; grapes with extra Croc Bandits Picks and a quick cheese art onto of a Vegemite sandwich. A Sinchies food pouch joins the gang and a Juice in the Box juice for brain break round out the day :-)

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.

Kung Fu Panda Lunches of Awesomeness Master Shifu

 Did you enjoy the Kung Fu Panda inspired lunches I shared last week? I couldn't leave Master Shifu out and while I'd intended to make this lunch in much the same way as I did with Po life got in the way. I still think he turned out OK. Not pictured is the yoghurt pouch that accompanied this lunch. Do you like the look of that groovy milk bottle? Stay tuned for some exciting news about that! More details in the coming weeks :-)

A little FooDoodler and a fun pick turn a plain lunch into Kung Fu Awesome!


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.