Showing posts with label Easy Lunch Box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easy Lunch Box. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

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.



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 :)

Friday, September 20, 2013

Camping Fun

Our big Green Monkey has joined scouts this year. It is a fun new journey teaching the kids to enjoy being outdoors, along with all the other skills and behaviors it will teach.


 After our adventures we enjoyed a wonderful campfire dinner in our Easy Lunch Boxes. I can't say enough about how much we love these. I was so protective over them, no knives allowed! I packed a cutting board for the steaks :). They worked great for dinner, and we washed and reused them for breakfast. I love how easy they are for the kids to open, and it was a perfect way to keep food warm and safe from bugs until everyone was served.

Steak, mushrooms, carrots, edamame, and potatoes.

Of course there were s'mores for dessert, you can't build a fire and not have s'mores! That addiction sparked an idea so when we got home I baked some Gluten Free Peanut-butter cookies from Immaculate Baking and turned those into s'mores. I can't express how sinfully delicious this idea was mm mm mm!



2 Gluten Free Peanut Butter cookies + 1 large marshmallow + 1/4 Hershery bar = Blissful s'mores

Since these were made indoors we just zapped them in the microwave for 10 seconds, still awesome. I wish I had the cookies with me for our trip but this was a fun way to remember the fun we had and keep the camp experience going.



Sunday, September 15, 2013

Crescent Rolls 4 Ways

As part of the Immaculate Baking Program I receive some goodies and coupons to try out their products, everything else in this post is unbiased. So one late night around 11pm, I had an urge to bake, I know weird right? I had been planning to make pizza bites for my son's lunch, but once I popped the can open I had a few other ideas and decided to try them all. 1 can, 4 ideas, all winners according to me and my monkeys.


Pizza Pockets 

Directions:
  1. Unroll crescent dough
  2. Press 2 triangles together  (1/4 sheet) at the seam, then cut in half
  3. Add 1 spoonful of pizza sauce, I wen t the easy route with our local brand
  4. Sprinkle on cheese
  5. Top with other half and press together with the tines of a fork. I was using this one for Roald Dahl Day and wrote Willy Wonka in pizza sauce before baking
  6. Bake according to package directions for crescents

I sent this as part of our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lunches, cold, and my Green Monkey loved it! "Best lunch ever, can I have more?" If it's that good cold I'm telling you, you will never buy a hot pocket again. He LOVES his new Easy Lunch Box we even took them camping this weekend but that will be a story for another time. :)

Pizza Bites

Directions:
  1. Repeat the above directions
  2. Crease however many squares you want. I took the easy route and used my FunBites CubeIt!

Another fun Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lunch for Roald Dahl Day in our Easy Lunch Boxes. Again I didn't bother warming it up as the rest of the lunch I wanted to stay cold. Little Blue Monkey thought it was awesome and again requested more. So that solves our fears of serving the kids cold pizza, apparently all those nights avoiding dinner has created kids who love cold pizza. WIN!

Sunbutter and Jelly Rolls

Ok so this is where late night baking got me in trouble. Ideally I was going to send beautiful sunbutter and jelly pinwheel rolls to lunch....but it got eaten, before I got a picture, before it got sliced, but it was a delicious afternoon snack so we'll make it again soon.

Directions:
  1. Spread however you like on those conjoined triangles. I was going for a spiral so I did sunbutter on one triangle and jelly on the other and rolled it lengthwise .
  2. Tuck the ends to keep it from oozing out too much during baking
  3. Bake according to package same timing as crescent rolls
Cinnamon Rolls 

 
Again these got eaten up before a pretty presentation picture could be taken, but that just goes to show when it's good it's gone!

Directions:
  1. Spread butter, margarine, or whatever you like on the dough
  2. Sprinkle with a pinch of sugar and a dash of ground cinnamon (would be just as good with apple pie spice or pumpkin spice etc)
  3. Roll into crescents - deliciousness on the inside
  4. Bake according to package directions
 So there you have it, any way you roll it these are delicious!

Friday, September 13, 2013

Roald Dahl Day Blog Hop

"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination." - Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder)
 The Bento Bloggers and Friends are at it again, its time to make a date with Mischief and Mayhem in honor of one of our favorite authors Roald Dahl. Enjoy edible depictions of his best selling children's books. Roll through all of the Dahlicious lunches until you get back here. There's no way of knowing which direction you are going..

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory 
In keeping with the spirit, it was all done in excess and I ended up with 4 Wonka lunches this week. 

My favorite little Oompa Loompas

 In this lunch : In our brand new Easy Lunch Boxes!!!
  • Ham tree (Edible forest)
  • Golden ticket - Pizza Pocket using Immaculate Baking Croissants, pizza sauce and shredded Italian blend cheese. recipe to follow in later post.
  • Oompa Loompa - Cotton candy grapes, orange, marshmallow eyebrows, carrot nose, candy eyes
  • Carrots
  • World's Finest Chocolate - My son's school fundraiser chocolate in an ELB Mini Dipper

In this lunch: In an Easy Lunch Box with mini dipper
  • Willy Wonka's Hat - Ham stacked cubes with hat on top
  • Pizza on a stick - Immaculate Baking Company's crescent rolls pizza pocket, cut with a FunBites CubeIt and Starbucks skewers for the chocolate river. Recipe to follow in a later post.
  • Oompa Loompa - Orange, grapes, marshmallow eyebrows, candy eyes, carrot nose
  • Carrots
  • Willy Wonka - ELB mini dipper with World's Finest Chocolate
  

 In this lunch : (Before I got my ELBs sorry)
  • Oompa Loompa - Ham and cheddar with lettuce hair, marshmallow eyebrow, candy eye and food coloring
  • Trix swirls cereal
  • Grapes and cucumbers
  • Yogurt covered raisins and Babybel cheese questions?




 Wonka Boat Ride



 In this lunch : In my Easy Lunch Box with mini dipper
  • Wonka Boat - Ham and provolone
  • American blend salad with cucumber flowers
  •  World's finest Chocolate in Wonka Bar mini dipper
  • Oompa Loompa - grapes, orange, marshmallow, candy eyes, carrot nose
  • Pistachios 

Willy Wonka: But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie Bucket: What happened?
Willy Wonka: He lived happily ever after. 

Now off you go to see what Grace over at Eats Amazing has dreamed up in her imagination!