Check out these awesome sandwich cutters

I got these from Target. Aren't they adorable?? My kiddos love having dinosaur sandwiches. :)

Bento Snacks for 4

These are the 4 snack bentos that I made for our trip to Wyoming. Clayton doesn't have a box of his own so I put his in my new Keroppi box. He felt soooo manly, lol. We had: onigiri (shaped sticky rice-bear, heart, star), pepperoni, cheese cubes, grapes, strawberries, cucumbers, carrots, yogurt pretzels, yo-gos fruit snack, strawberry fruit snacks, and organic chocolate chip bunnies. It was the perfect snack solution for the road.

My new bento stuff

Whoo hoo! My Keroppi stuff took forever to get here from Hong Kong but it finally arrived today. I just love that cute little frog. The box on the left is a double tier bento box with the coordinating Keroppi belt to hold it securely. The box on the right is a single tier one. I normally wouldn't buy a single tier box but I couldn't resist it. He is so dang cute! The lunch bag is perfectly sized to carry my bento lunch should I ever need to eat somewhere other than the kitchen table.

Friday's Bento Lunches

These were the kids' boxes. They both had pretty much the same things with the exception of the pepperoni and the mozzarella clovers (H doesn't like cheese and E doesn't care for pepperoni). They had: dog/bear onigiri (rice ball), pepperoni or mozzarella, cucumber slices, carrots, heart-shaped peanut butter sandwiches, bananas, strawberry fruit snacks and grapes.

I had: bunny onigiri, pepperoni, moon-shaped mozzarella, carrots, bananas, grapes, bunny-shaped boiled egg, strawberry fruit snacks and peanut butter sandwich hearts.

My Bento from Wednesday

Isn't my bento box adorable? I love all these cute Japanese things that I have been buying lately. This is definitely my new addiction. The items in my box are: grapes, strawberry flavored marshmallows, mozzarella stars, a hard-boiled egg shaped like a fish, carrots, broccoli, ranch dressing (in the blue sauce cup), edamame and cucumber flowers. Yummy!

Bento Lunches-The Newest Lunchtime Craze

I just recently got turned onto bento lunches from the message boards at 2 Peas. After spending a ton of money on eBay to get supplies shipped from Japan, here's what I came up with today:

The yellow monkey bento box is Emerson's and the blue bear box is Hayden's. I have a pink box with a bunny character that matches theirs.

The boxes contain the same stuff for each kid: 2 triangles of bologna/cheese sandwiches, grapes, goldfish crackers, pretzel goldfish, yo-gos, carrot sticks, cucumbers shaped like flowers and a sauce cup with ranch dressing.

The kids loved their bentos! I will try my hand at using some rice molds and egg molds later this week. Everything comes in cute shapes like fish, cars and animals. Oh, and I have these cute hot dog shapers that can make a hot dog look like a penguin, crab or octopus. I can't wait to play with everything. Who says that you can't play with your food? lol