This week in Bentos

So, last week was spring break for us and I got very sick with strep throat.  I'm just now beginning to feel like myself again and although these meals aren't quite as creative as I was hoping for, they have made KoKo very happy at school.  She told me just tonight that the kids at her table all asked her to tell me they like her lunches.  Squeeee!!!  :o)  She has been very excited to see what I create each day.

Here are my girls at the Clifford Live show we got to see on Sunday afternoon.  They were so excited to see Clifford the Big Red Dog and Emily Elizabeth on stage.  I loved watching them as they sat in their seats holding their little stuffed Cleo dogs.  Their little faces would just light up every time they saw Clifford!  I love these girls...

So of course, Tuesday's lunch had to reflect Clifford.  I wasn't happy with it, but still feeling a little under the weather, I guess it was okay.  I used a huge Lock and Lock container I purchased through Amazon.  It barely fit in the lunchbox and I packed way too much food, but at least there was leftovers for snack!

 I desperately needed to get to the grocery store, but used what I had on hand.  There were two little heart shaped sandwiches, dog bone and heart shaped cheese in the red heart silicone cup, dried apple chips, a clementine orange with little flower pick in the blue square silicone cup, a bazillion wheat thin crackers, and two spring time Oreos for dessert.

Tuesday night, we had taco salad.  For lunch on Wednesday, we had leftover taco salad, which I did a build your own taco salad thing.  I completely forgot to take pictures, but it wasn't all that inspiring.  I also got yelled at Tuesday night because they apparently had pickles with their school lunch that day.  Bad mommy for not letting her have a pickle!

Thursday, I played with an under the sea theme.  I really need to come up with cute names for these lunches.  I love that on other blogs.  Oh well, maybe someday I'll come up with some.  Anyhoo...there was a peanut butter sandwich on Pepperidge Farm goldfish bread (LOVE that stuff!) with a little pink heart sprinkle, little white American cheese fish and American cheese waves, pineapple in the blue square silicone container with a couple of fishy picks, American cheese whales with white American cheese blow hole stuff in the red heart silicone container, goldfish crackers with more cheese fish on top in the green silicone container, and a small container of yogurt.  She LOVED it!  Success!  Oh yeah, she also got a pickle in a ziplock.

Tomorrow is Panther Pride day at school.  They all wear purple (their school color) every single stinking Friday of the school year.  Ugh.  We have so much purple it's insane.  Anyway, I wasted a piece of bread trying to make the sandwich at first.  I ordered my paw print cookie cutter on Amazon and didn't realize when it said it was 4.5 inches that would be bigger than even normal sandwich bread.  So...after thinking for a moment, I remembered someone somewhere made some sandwich roll ups where they had flattened their bread a little first.  Surely I could do something like that and get enough bread to get the shape cut out.  I pulled out my trusty, handy dandy rolling pin, went to work, and voila!  It worked!  Yay!!!

So, the paw print sandwich has turkey and white American cheese and RV (for Royal Valley) written in food safe marker.  The second container has carrots (with two carrot hearts on top) in the pink heart silicone container and an oatmeal raisin Teddy Grahams Soft Paws.  I'm also going to send another stinking pickle and a cup of peaches.

This has become such an addiction for me.  I'm LOVING it and I know the girls are too.  Hope you all enjoy!