feeling a little country

Inspired by Wendy Thorpe Copley's book EVERYDAY BENTO, I made this lunch. Thanks Wendy!




Turkey and cheese on Italian white bread with an egg adorned with carrots, an orange with raisins and some pretzel thins. Not as pretty as what's in Wendy's book, but just as tasty! I used a CuteZCute cutter for the piggie and just some good old fashioned knife work on that egg.



And of course, we have almost the same lunch in a more acceptable way for a middle schooler...minus the egg and the raisins (she doesn't like raisins or eggs in her lunch like the wild child does.)


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feeling a little kindle love

Have a Kindle?  Don't know how to loan books on it? Here's a quick graphic I made to help you figure it out quickly. I've tried to explain it to a lot of people over the years...don't know why it took me so long to just make a step by step!  Here ya go!


Check out my friend Wendy's book, Everyday Bento, while you're at it! 



feeling a little easy...how many times do I have to say this??!!

EasyLunchBoxes are definitely easy...who wouldn't love being able to slap some food into one container instead of all those little bags and boxes?  I've been working a bit more, and focusing on some other things lately, so lunch is the last thing on my mind. In fact, the girls have been making their own lunches this week and after getting the eye-roll from the husband last night for not packing lunches, I felt I needed to step it up. And this is about as far as I stepped it up, folks. A mushroom ring on top of some grapes with salami and cheese on leftover hamburger buns and pretzel thins. 




Call me easy...I don't care. But please don't say "Ain't nobody got time for that" to me or my other bento moms...and never question what someone packs for lunch.  You don't know their entire meal plan.  Please try and recognize that there's real moms and real people behind these blogs and lunches...they're not just some random pictures. Their kids DO eat this food. Don't comment on their Facebook posts that there's too many carbs or not enough whatever. It's the Internet, yo...and quite frankly, the internet can't accomodate for what you do in your own home. Your kids might not typically eat it, but you'd be surprised if that's what you packed and they were hungry. My wild child won't touch a vegetable at the dinner table, but she scarfs down a whole EasyLunchboxes full of salad at school during lunch. 

Here's the wild child's lunch...she made it herself. Think she's learned it by watching me? (So glad we won't be featured in that Just Say No to Drugs ad campaign just yet). She even took the picture (explains the blur) and set it up on that black and white paper. There's some Star Wars action going on there with goldfish, a homemade chocolate chip cookie, a hot dog bun, peanut butter and jelly in the mini-dippers with a little cheese spreader for that. We are glad to report that there were no issues with her having a cheese knife at school...otherwise we'd have been on the news defending it's blunt edges and versatility. 



John Lennon said it best..."Time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted."  I'm living by that now and teaching my daughters to do the same. So much so, I felt the need to waste good time drawing on my chalkboard. And I wasted a LOT of time here...I have sensory issues with chalkboards and just doing that foggy chalk around the clock took like 15 minutes. Tickety tock.  You make time for what you enjoy...so just enjoy it.


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feeling a little sick of winter

But I made a snowflake lunch anyways. Using a big cookie cutter, I punched out a sandwich and served it up with some butter snap pretzels, cheese cubes and carrots. 


Hopefully the last of the severe winter weather has left Atlanta.  Although sometimes we get one last pop in March. Lunchy is craving some sunshine for sure!  I've not been diagnosed, but I'm fairly certain that I get seasonal depression. Every winter around this time, I fall into a slump and feel so sluggish and lazy and full of anxiety. This year I'm not suffering so much from the anxiety, but the sluggishness is definitely present. Here's to sunshine and flowers and pollen!


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feeling like something is missing

Yep. No bread. Oh well. They'll have to survive on this pieced together lunch. 


Thanks to my friend over at Bentos on the Bayou for the little paper cups and bunny picks. They jazzed this up a little. Hard boiled egg, Goldfish, turkey slices, raisins, a leftover fortune cookie, Smokehouse almonds and a clementine. 

On the bunny note...this video has been circulated recently and I may have watched it about 42 times. I want to go to there and have bunnies chase me!




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