Whatever Wednesday

Wednesday...hump day...the I don't know what to make and you don't care day. Ok maybe they do care, but they certainly gave me the "whatever" roll call when I asked the night before what to make for their lunches. I decided I wanted sleep over packing lunches so I went to bed with no creative juice in my brain. I awoke to the same 30 minutes to get them up, fed, and packed as any other day. So I grabbed the first to cutter in the drawers and this is what they got. Why am I telling you all this? Because regardless of how much or how little effort I put into their lunches they always love them. Some have been elaborate art pieces and some are no more creative than the closest tool to reach my un-caffeinated (fear not the coffee was brewing) hand.

Texas 

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunchbox

• Texas - Peanut butter and jelly sandwch
• Easy Lunchbox mini dipper - ranch dressing
• Heart strawberries
• Carrots

Darth Vader

In this lunch : Monster containers from Target dollar spot

• Darth Vader - Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• Carrots
• Heart strawberries

Balance in the Force

First off let me welcome all the new readers for joining our lunch making world. This week I asked my readers entering our very 1st Giveaway what their favorite lunch making tools are. We're getting some awesome responses. If you haven't entered to win some bento flair, don't worry it won't end until September 4th so click that link up there and go enter.

One of the most popular tools of the trade is cookie cutters, my very first set was the Wilton 101 cookie cutters from Walmart for $10. A friend recently donated her William-Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters to my collection, and for that I thank you :). We also got some new boxes this year, the one I used today was from our local grocery store and it has an icepack that fits in the top of the box.

Darth VS. Yoda 

(Apologies for the lighting but mornings aren't my thing so I bento at night)

In this lunch : 

• Darth Vader and Yoda - ham and swiss
• Trader Joe's Rocket cheddar crackers in the background
• Trader Joe's Yogurt star cookies (top center)
• Orange vs. Green - Oranges and carrots vs. grapes and cucumbers

So who will prevail? Hopefully both with bring balanced nutrition to his lunch. But no matter what I'm done done done, done, done done, done, done done. :)