Preschool Snack Bento #17 - Grapes, Bunnies & Mommy Overslept!

Wednesday morning, we all overslept, in that no one got up till somewhere between 10 & 11am. Now, granted, Ben does go to preschool at 1pm, but we need to leave our house by 12:30pm. And, we all had to shower, wash hair, dress, eat, etc, and I did not make his bento the night for once. Of course, that happens on the crazy morning of the week.

Anyhow, I started delegating the easy tasks and tossed together a quick bento lunch/snack for the boy.

Ben has crackers with circle of luncheon meat and bunny faces (dabs of cream cheese hold them together) and green grapes. Nothing complicated, but quick & easy!

Bento Snack #16 - Ben's Bear Bento Bonanza!

OK, maybe that's a bit much for the alliteration, but it amuses me!

Whilst at the Dollar Tree the other day (the word whilst also amuses me, in case you're curious), we stumbled upon these little bear picks. We were actually looking for a bag for a baby shower gift and they were tucked in the aisle with the party decorations, in the baby party section. Obviously, I'm not hosting any baby showers anytime soon, but I had to have them! There are also pink & lavender ones in our pack, but this is Ben's bento lunch and he is not having any part of pink & lavender teddy bears.



In Ben's bento, we have a plethora of bears--bear shaped sandwiches (I think they are chicken and tomato basil cream cheese), purple & green grapes on bear picks and koala "bear" cookies. Yes, I know koalas aren't really bears, but Ben doesn't know that! ;o)

Bento Snack #15 - Bunny Egg & Pocket Sandwiches

Another day of preschool for Mr. Benjamin and another mini bento lunch versus a snack. At least he's consistently hungry. ;o)



Yesterday, he had a bunny shaped egg and pocket sandwiches of tomato-basil cream cheese and pepperonis. Faith tried one as well and said they kind of tasted pizza-like. The mini pita breads have been a huge hit with both kids, I'm almost out and need to get another bag soon.

Preschool Snack Bento #14 - "Fishie" Sandwiches & Halloween Treats

Ben headed back to a regular school schedule after last week, but in honor of Halloween just happening, I thought he needed a little treat in his bento lunch. Out of everything the kiddos brought in from trick-or-treating, I figured M&Ms were the least messy. ;o)

Mr. Ben had two angel-fish shaped sandwiches that were not made with tuna fish! ;o) They were ham & cheese with a sundried tomato & basil cream cheese (which he does not know the composition of, because if I told him, he'd cease eating it). He also had a mini bag of M&Ms that had to go in a heart to look better and some grapes.

As mentioned before, he's only in school 2.5 hours, and they have a very short snack time. Ben just prefers a smaller bento lunch than a true snack.

Redoing the Diego Bento Giveaway!

I posted the winner two weeks ago, but have been unable to make contact with her, via this blog or through hers, and she has no email in her profile.

So since I still have a very lonely little Diego box sitting on my desk, I decided to draw a second number.



The winner is post #19, Kristi! :o)

Kristi, I'll email you or if you see this, email me at scarino @ gmail. :o)

Preschool Snack Bento #13 - A Simple Snack, because Mommy forgot

I know Ben goes to preschool on Mondays and Wednesdays. He has done that all this year *and* all last year. When Faith was in school, she went on Mondays & Wednesdays as well.

Yet noon on Monday rolled around and it hit me that I had to leave to take Ben to school in a half hour and I had yet to pack a bento lunch or snack for him. And we still kind of needed to make a grocery run.

This is the result:



We opted for meat & cheese kebabs on the leaf picks from the other day and diced canteloupe. Unfortunately, I forgot to send him crackers. At least he only goes for 2.5 hours, right?

Preschool Snack Bento #12 - Snack "Flowers" and Fruit

Ben had preschool again today, but he had a late breakfast. It was definitely more of a bento snack versus a bento lunch today. I asked him what he wanted and this was his choice. He even helped make the flowers.



Ben had meat & cheese flowers on Ritz crackers, stuck together with (hidden) sundried tomato and basil cream cheese, canteloupe chunks & red grapes. I'm not extremely proud that we opted for bologna flowers, but the kids really wanted it for a change. I do have to admit that it cut much better than the thinly sliced ham & turkey I prefer.