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.

Anything Goes

Every night before bed I ask the monkeys what they would like for lunch the next day. After they are asleep I go to work. I'd love to be one of those morning people that hop out of bed and get a jump on the day...but I'm not. I'm a zombie, even after coffee, and the monkeys are no better at mornings. So we all take a good hour to get up, fed, dressed, and out the door. So I bento at night. Last night it was 3 lunches for today and a cute snack for little monkey's class. They are on transportation so I made apple and grape cars, not pictured but you know the ones. If you ever see good outdoor lighting...it was probably a sick day :)

Pixar Transportation 

Cars and Planes 2 of his favorite movies in one bento!

In this lunch : In an ELB

• Dusty Crophopper - Low -carb tortilla with ham
• Lightning McQueen - Peanutbutter and jelly sandwich
• Carrots
• Yogurt pretzels

Spider 

In this lunch : In an ELB

• Spider - Ham and cheese sandwich with candy eyes
• Ghost Peep
• Carrot and orange spider

Jack-O-Lantern 

My class is studying pumpkins this week so I played with my food

In this lunch : In an ELB

• Jack-o-lantern - beans with cheese and nori details
• Rice crisps
• Roasted seaweed under everything
• Jack skeleton orange
• Cucumbers and tomatoes

Don't forget to go check out Day 3 of the Bento Bloggers and Friends Frightful Fall Blog Hop. Today begins with Becoming a Bentoholic sure to please and inspire you.

Spider Cinnamon Rolls

This year has been rough on me so I haven't been doing as much as I used to. I do still like to make special breakfasts when they least expect it. Which is any time really because if its fancier than cereal everyone is amazed :) This weekend I decided to spook up our cinnamon rolls. As part of the Immaculate Baking Program I received some cinnamon rolls and I cannot put into words how much my family loves them. from the pop of the can to the final mastication they hound me every minute as to when they can eat.

Directions :

1. Pre-heat oven as directed on packaging
2. Pop open the can and pull apart the 5 large cinnamon rolls
3. Unroll the outer layer and cut into 5 pieces ~ 1.5" each piece, the 6th leg can stay attached just bend to fit
4. Press legs into remaining roll "body"
5. Bake according to package instructions
6. Glaze the head - included
7. Eyes - 2 raisins
8. Fangs - 2 Brach's s'mores candy corn

My kids flipped for these and they were so easy. They fought over the last one and split it.

Minecraft meets Legos

Ok so Monday back to school kicked off with my son's favorite game Minecraft, it's not surprising that he wanted more Minecraft characters for today's lunch. Some say obsessed, we'll go with passionate :) I also got our Back to School supplies from All Things For Sale in the mail yesterday so we celebrated our very 1st Blogiversary with our 1st Giveaway, you have one week to enter and win 53 pieces of flair.

Minecraft Villains

In this lunch :

• Spider holding swiss cheese
• Skeleton - Swiss cheese on peanut butter and honey sandwich
• Zombie - Carrot sticks, grapes, fruit leather
• Steve (ok not a villain but a requested dessert) Caramel rice crispy treat with Nutella and candy eyes

Green monkey was so excited to see this bento box come in the mail yesterday, he had no idea I ordered it. We also found Minecraft legos at Legoland during our summer road trip, he was so excited to meld his 2 loves, and wants more sets.