Quick and Easy Halloweeny

Failure to launch, this was scheduled to post Friday and I messed something up. So I''m posting it anyway even though Halloween is over and we've moved into the season of being thankful for all this food. Another couple lunches from last week, still catching up. I hope everyone had a fun safe Halloween last night.

Spooky Pumpkin

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Scary Pumpkin - Jelly sandwich with ring pop vampire teeth
• Candy corn - No he didn't eat them all
• Grapes - red, black and green
• Ham and Turkey roll with spider 

Something's in my salad

 In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Spinach, cranberries, almonds, blue cheese salad with Spider rings
• Grapes - red, black and green
• Summer sausage and colby cheese

Just some simple Halloween flair to spruce up our lunches. they don't all have to be fancy to be fun.

Happy Halloween

Today was a busy day filled with costumed fun and of course candy! I love Halloween, even when I don't feel good. I didn't do nearly as many Halloween activities with the monkey's as years past, lucky for me, I'm the only one who cares about that anyway. They had a great night trick or treating with friends and have been spoiled rotten.

One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater 

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• OEOHFPPE - Peanutbutt wings, jelly face with candy eye, candy corn teeth, gummy bone, bugle horn, and ham legs
• Bloodshot eyeball - powdered donut, decorator's gel, M&M
• Monster mouth - carrots and cantaloup 

Monsters Mash-up

 In this lunch : In a Laptop lunch box

• Rice Crisps with Skeleton pick
• Spinach, Almond, cherry, bleu salad
• Skull avocado with colby cheese
• Silly eyes on salami with colby cheese monster teeth
• Cantaloup

 Creepy Crawly 

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Spider web - Jelly sandwich with spider ring
• Ghostly Smores - ghost marshmallows, nutella, and graham crackers
• Carrots with Jello Jiggler spider and web
• Cantaloup - jello jiggler spider on a spider web ring

 Happy Halloween

 In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Ghost - jelly sandwich
• Spooky smores - ghost marshmallows, nutella, graham crackers
• Coffin candy
• Spooky carrots with ghost pick
• Haunted bananas with chocolate chips

Two more lunches to post from last week and then we're all spooked out :) Then we can be Thankful for all bounty of candy we have received.

Hotel Transylvania

This past weekend we watched Hotel Transylvania. The first time they saw it they weren't in love with it, and one of the boys was actually a bit scared. This time though they loved it. Maybe it was having popcorn and soda for breakfast but they loved it. Green monkey has requested 2 lunches this week from the movie.

Murray the Mummy 

In this lunch : 

• Murray - Turkey and Cheese sandwich 
• Pyramid - Graham crackers
• Bones - Jello Jigglers
• Mummy - Babybel cheese on top of carrots
• Pumpkin patch - Grapes and cantaloupe

Count Dracula 

 In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Dracula - Provolone cheese on a ham sandwich coffin
• Carrots
• Candy bones - From inside the coffin, that I re-purposed to hold his ranch dressing instead
• Bloodshot Eye - Powdered donut, M&M, decorating gel
• Bats - Cantaloupe

The bloodshot eye was actually leftover from little blue monkey's preschool academy Halloween party the day before.

 

Let the sugar rush begin!

Last week's forgotten lunches

I've been a bad blogger, I had made lunches Wednesday and Thursday last week but never blogged them. Now here it is Monday and I have new lunches to blog, so here's just Green Monkey's from last week and I'll add ours later.

Lego Star Wars 

As both monkeys are going as Star Wars characters this year it fit for our Halloween lunches.

In this lunch : 

• Boba Fett and X-Wing fighter - Jelly sandwich
• Cheddar rocket crackers
• Carrots and grapes with light saber pick
• Han Solo trapped in jello jigglers

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

One of our favorite Halloween Movies of all time

 In this lunch : In Easy Lunch Box

• Snoopy - Stamped jelly sandwich
• Charlie Brown Ghost Costume - Jelly sandwich
• Great Pumpkin - Jelly sandwich
• Pumpkin Patch - grapes and cutie orange
• Pumpkin Peeps

Halloween is right around the corner. The house is finally decorated...outside, the inside has been scary for awhile, ahem. Pumpkins have been carved. Costumes have been worn 3 times already to various events.

New CuteZCute Animal Palz

I love love love new bento toys! Thanks to All Things For Sale we got the cutest new mini pocket sandwich set and some new Halloween picks too. I was so excited to get called in to work today because that meant I got to use most of them in 1 day! usually Mondays are just the big green Monkey but when I go to school...so does little blue so it was a triple header this morning and these were so fast and easy it made 3 lunches a breeze.

Cute Z Cute Animal Palz

Spooky Bats

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Cute Z Cute Bats hanging in their cave - Jelly sandwiches
• Bats hanging on a cheese stick
• Ghost Peep
• Ranch in an ELB mini dipper
• Carrots with Gate pick
• Grapes with bat pick

Cute Family 

 In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Cute Z Cute Panda mom with baby, Daddy monkey - Jelly Sandwiches
• Scrabble cheese - its
• Goldfish
• Carrots
• Grapes

Witch way to lunch?

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box

• Leftover barbacoa beef in carb smart tortilla with witch pick
• Edamame
• Carrots and grape tomatoes
• Grapes with spider ring

Simple yet festive. Mondays are like that :)

Ghostly fun food

Everyone has their holiday, this is ours. So yes we will do mostly Halloween themed lunches, but will squeeze in some other themes too, monkeys willing that is.

Witches House 

What makes it a witches house? I don't really know but little guy liked it.

In this lunch : In an ELB

• Witches house - Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• Jack-o-lanterns, Bat, and Cat Halloween gummys
• Ghost peep
• Ham flames in spider chimney
• Spider carrots
• Black grapes and orange with skull pick

 Ghostbusters 

In this lunch : In an ELB

• Boo - scrabble cheese-its
• Ghostbusters symbol - Ham and cheese sandwich
• Grave fruits - black grapes and orange with Gravestone pick
• Carrots

Planes

So i thought it was transportation week...nope I'm teaching pumpkins little blue monkey is on transportation theme this week... Oy!

In this lunch : In an ELB

• Rice Crisps
• Plane - cheese and beans
• Summer sausage and babybel cheese
• Cucumbers and grapes tomatoes

Yesterday I was part of a 3 day blog hop with my fellow Bento Bloggers and Friends. Day 2 is today beginning with One Crafty Thing so please go click through all of them they are sure to be amazing!

Spookylicous fun

I know, I know we have 3 more weeks until Halloween, 21 days, but who's counting. We love Halloween themes, I'll try to mix-it up some this month but let's face it there will be a lot of spooky fun things to eat.

Frankenstein 

In this lunch : In Easy Lunch Box

• Frankenstein - Sunbutter and jelly sandwich using our new 3-D cookie cutter
• Edamame
• Test tube - Turkey roll
• R.I.P. - Carrot chips and strawberry
• Skull - Grapes and strawberry

Witch

In this lunch : In Easy Lunch Box

• Witch - Turkey sandwich, gummy eyes, carrot hair, hat pick
• Ghost Peep
• Grapes and a strawberry with a ghost pick

 Frankenstein Cyberman 

*Aside - Every holiday my boy finds a way to work Doctor Who into the more traditional characters. So after the Frankenstein on Monday he wanted to turn it into a cyberman.

 In this lunch : In Easy Lunch Box

• Frankenstein - Cyberman - Turkey and cheese sandwich, carrot arms, 
• Ghost peep
• Cemetery - Grapes and Strawberry

 All of these were very fast and simple to put together, and that's good since I made them in the morning as opposed to my usual night before packing.