Clovers and Rainbow

Another pair of St. Patrick's Day themed lunches, this time in Laptop Lunch boxes.

Bean has pepper jack cheese cubes and Ritz crackers with pickles, tuna salad in the larger closed container, a mandarin orange with a few blueberries and some blackberries, and sunflower seeds in the small closed container.

The gold at the end of the rainbow = gold foil chocolate coins, yum! This container also has a lid, which protected the crackers from any juice that might have potentially leaked from the pickles.

I am really starting to love these boxes. I was a tiny bit cautious at first, just because there are so many little dishes and pieces to fiddle around with, but the more I use them the more I love them. The little containers are so convenient to swap around and even leave out if you need more space for something bigger. The little space on the side is perfect for holding a spoon or fork, or even fruit or a granola bar.

For Princess, fruit and veggies with ranch dip, yogurt with sprinkles, bits of roasted turkey, Pirate's Booty, and some sunflower seeds.

Her delicious rainbow of fruits and veggies is made of red and yellow sweet bell pepper spears, baby carrots, celery sticks, and blackberries. A pair of gold foil wrapped chocolate coins are tucked in next to the  ELB Mini Dipper full of ranch dressing.

If you have been on the fence about buying Laptop Lunch boxes, I say go for it! They're pretty great! I have packed lunches for kids and for adults in them and they are perfectly sized for either.

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St. Patrick's Pandas

Today's lunches for Bean and Princess are all decked out in St. Patrick's Day green! Shamrocks, rainbows, and pandas for a happy fun Friday. Kicking off the weekend right!

For Princess:

She has cucumbers with ranch in the little rainbow cup, a shamrock cupcake with rainbow baran, mango pieces, a mini Baybel cheese with Wheat Thins, sweet bell pepper rings, and turkey-and-cream cheese rolls.

I love this rainbow baran from BentoUSA. Probably one of my most used accessories, so it's a good thing it's so sturdy!

I love the little matching mayo cup, too. It holds just the right amount of dip for my younger kids to dunk their veggies.

For Bean:

Mostly the same foods as Princess, but with kiwi instead of sweet peppers, and no cheese wheel.

Have a happy Friday and a great weekend!

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A Dalek-table Lunch

Did you know that today is a palindrome? Well, it is! The date, in standard US format, is 3-13-13, or 31313, which is the same read front or back. Nifty! In fact, all of the 'teen' days this March are palindromes.

In honor of that geeky little factoid, and for just because, G-man requested a Doctor Who lunch for today. More specifically, he wanted a Dalek. The real challenge is that G is super picky due to food aversions and sensory issues, and his school is nut-free so his standard home meal of peanut butter is out. This is what I came up with:

He has a Dalek-ish Sunbutter and honey sandwich on whole wheat white bread. I used honey roasted sunflower seeds and sesame sticks for the accents, with a pretzel stick for the plunger-arm and a Sunburst candy coated sunflower seed for the red light 'eye', all stuck to the bread with a little bit of honey. The 'backdrop' is just the heel of the bread, for a little color contrast.

His Dalek is festively dressed for St. Patrick's Day!

G also has green grapes and blackberries, CheezIt snack mix, Pirate's Booty, and two chocolate gold coins.

I placed a couple of napkins inside to keep everything inside from shifting around, and then used dry erase marker on the Easy Lunchbox lid to sketch out a quick picture for him. 

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A Pair of St. Patrick's Lunches

For Bean:

Shamrock sandwiches resting on a bed of lettuce, with sliced up string cheese, dark chocolate cranberries, blackberries and blueberries, and CheezIt Scrabble letter crackers.

You don't want to know how long it took me to dig through the box of crackers to find these letters. The K, C, and L were pretty easy, but the U took me longer to find than it took to make the entire rest of the lunch. But Bean's big grin when she saw her lunch was worth the extra effort.

And an Americanized Irish-ish leftovers lunch for the Dude:

I made a corned beef brisket with potatoes, carrots, and brussel sprouts for dinner. For the Dude's lunch I used the leftover corned beef to make faux sushi rolls, and also packed in leftover brussel sprouts (in a silicone cup, so he can pull it out and just heat up the veggie at work) and a mini Danish.

The rolls are made using the corned beef, carrots, cucumbers, mustard, and whole wheat white bread. I put it all together, rolled up tight, and then sliced with a sharp knife. They looked pretty good when I was making them! Hopefully they tasted as good as they looked. I think they would have been better with shredded cabbage instead of cucumber, but unfortunately I was out of cabbage.

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St. Patrick's Froggy

Saint Patrick's Day is one of Bean's favorite days. Most likely because green is her favorite color, and because it means her birthday is nearly here.

Today I realized that it is only a week to St. P's and we haven't done any theme lunches for the day yet. Time to rectify that error!

For Beaker's lunch today, a sweet and tasty leprechaun froggy.

I found this two section plate at Target for a buck. Super cute, and the perfect size for Beaker's meals.

Adorable froggy sandwich made with roasted turkey, colby jack cheese, and the CuteZCute cutter.

Fresh sweet blackberries are the perfect side for a little froggy snacking.

Plus some baby carrots and cucumber pieces with ranch for dipping.

For Bean, a pretty simple lunch to take on a field trip.

She has a turkey sandwich, baby carrots and peace sign pretzel crisps with Laughing Cow cheese, frozen yogurt, and a fruit toss with green grapes, blueberries, and blackberries.

The frozen yogurt bites were made using a flower shaped silicone ice cube tray from Ikea. 

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