Saturday Night Fever Bento

 I'm not sure who was more excited about Miss M's first school Disco - her or me! And it was a Retro theme to boot! I immediately had images of John Travolta doing his Saturday Night Fever thang and I knew what I wanted to make for lunch!

 It started off with a quick scour of the internet to find a suitable silhouette and a coloured disco floor. Some quick photo editing and I had my template for a nori cutting.

Then I hit that baby with a good dose of FooDoodler whilst not really trying to get 'You Should be Dancing' out of my head.

Pop the cheese/nori art on top of a sandwich and that's the main part of lunch done.

 For brain break I thought I'd try to make a disco floor out of popcorn. My FunBites Cube It made a great mould.

 I filled each section with some coloured popcorn.

 And removed the guide. It didn't really work *quite* the way I'd hope but I'm still rather happy with it.

 I did decide to top it up and really fill the container with what I could to satisfy my big eater.

 It doesn't look too Disco-y from this angle. . .

 . . . but turn it a little and you can see more of the colours.

 I love that you can see the colours through this lunchbox!

 My next challenge was to create a microphone. I found some mini ice cream cones in the back of the pantry (sadly they aren't available any more) and filled with some tiny carrot sticks.

 I made a dip-ball (cream cheese mixed with Miss M's favourite dip) and rolled it in black sesame and poppy seeds.

I think it worked fabulously! I did assemble this the morning of so the cone wouldn't get soggy by lunchtime.

 I also rolled the honeydew and dragon fruit balls in edible glitter the morning of as my test batch of Mirror Ball Fruit macerated overnight. o.O

Miss M thoroughly enjoyed her lunch and her Disco. . . and so did I! I hope you enjoy it to!


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.

April on Instagram

It seems that every month is flying by so quickly. We had a wonderful Easter holiday break and I was very happy to help cater for our local Gymnastics' club Tinkerbell Garden Party Tea Fundraiser to help celebrate the launch of the Tinkerbell & the Neverbeast movie. We also got our first taste of Winter which was oh so welcome in our household. We are still settling back into routine here and I fear it will be holiday time again before we are able to leave the house without an argument *sigh*. How are you going with Term 2?

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.

Orchid Lunch

 I tried to arrange the apple in this lunch into a flower (similar to this attempt) but it was so far from working that I gave up. . . then I noticed it looked more like an orchid and so a new lunchbox plan began!

Some quick FooDoodling on a slice of cheese atop a plain square sandwich and some yoghurt completed the ruse. I'd planned this all along. . . really I had!

What do you think? Did I get away with it?


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.

Super Simple May the Fourth

 I know I should be excited for May the Fourth this year with the new Star Wars episode (The Force Awakens) being released, but to be honest Miss M has enough to fangirl over without me introducing her to The Force just yet.

This simple sandwich with cheese stick is a reinvention of this sandwich from 2 years ago.

And this is what it looks like in our giant Nude Food Movers Lunch Pack. You can see a full lunch packed in it in this previous post.

 This is what Miss M has with her today, minus the toys :-)

I carved a Stormtrooper 'face' out of the top bread of her Vegemite sandwich which is sitting on the Nude Food Movers sandwich saver. There's a Sinchies yoghurt pouch hiding under that.

 I set to her snack pod of grapes with some masking tape in an attempt to represent R2D2. Admittedly it could do with some work! o.O

And her Tie Fighter inspired pepperoni & cheese I'm sure will go right over her head, but I know it's there.

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.

Twisted Pumpkin Soup Maker Soup

Did you love the first taste of Winter we had last week? I thought it was *wonderful*!! I evened the first soup of the season. Truth be told we'd come home from morning errands to a house smelling like Chicken korma thanks to our Kambrook Quattro Mulit Cooker so I started craving something with a little spice. There was also the large pumpkin taking up room in my fridge and just begging to be consumed. Add in the cans of coconut cream that seem to have multiplied in the pantry and my craving looked like it would be satisfied!

The very (*cough*) precise (*cough*) recipe is:

Roughly chop half a pumpkin and add it to your Soup Maker

Add 1 can of coconut cream (350 g - give or take)

Add 1 Tbsp red curry paste

Add 1TBp butter

Add 1 cup chicken stock

Select 'smooth' option

Come back in 21 minutes to this gorgeous, velvety soup with a twist! I prefer my soup with fresh salt added at serving and while I would normally jump at the chance to enjoy some read crust croutons, this was delicious on it's own!

I was a little surprised that Honey (now 20 months) really enjoyed this. I didn't think she liked spice! It just goes to show you never know and to keep offering taste experiences to the little ones. I'm a little excited that I might be able to send soup for her lunch when daycare starts, something Miss M was never into - yay!

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.