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!

World Turtle Day

Today we are celebrating the 13th annual World Turtle Day. Since 2000 American Tortoise Rescue has been raising awareness on May 23rd to celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises.

So we played around with some of our favorite sealife and featured sea turtles in our veggies.

Finding Dori 

 This is our veggie ode to crush made from cucumber and broccoli

Dori, Ray, and Crush

In this lunch :

• Ray and Dori are made from peanutbutter and jelly with candy eyes and food coloring hand painted (sorry no time for cheese art today) 
• Pirates booty sand
• Strawberry clams with marshmallow pearls on top of cherris
• Crush - Cucumber slices and broccoli Florette

Tropical Dreams 

 Sandy beaches and palm trees yes we are ready for summer even without a beach in sight.

Another veggie turtle

In this lunch :

• Pirates booty sand
• Funbites peanut butter and jelly cubes on palm trees
• Clam shell strawberry on cherries
• Cucumber and broccoli turtle on carrots with Americolor marker used for the eyes

 We just did a turtle lunch last week using out CuteZCute cutter for the shell as well. See that post here. Am I turtle enough for the turtle club?

A fellow Bento Blogger and Friends  Lunchbox Dad recently posted a tutorial for his veggie turtles check it out.

Happy World Turtle Day!