BLTs {4 ways}

B(acon) L(ettuce) T(omato) sandwiches are great for school! You can cook the bacon the night or day before and they are assembled fast in the morning. We packed them this morning and I was able to pack all four lunches in under 20 minutes!

My second grader loves Spiderman, so his Spiderman BLT is packed in our Easylunchboxes with a few strawberries and Cheddar bunny crackers. He also packed ice water and a cereal bar.

My third grader loves jokes so I added a few funny picks to his BLT. Lunch is packed in Easylunchboxes as well with strawberries and cheese crackers. Ice water and a cereal bar was also packed in his cooler bag.

This lunch is packed in our Goodbyn Bynto and for my four year old. She wanted lots of strawberry hearts with her BLT on a stick and I packed her cucumbers and carrots as well as a few cheese crackers. 

My middle schooler packed his BLT in Laptop Lunches and we added:

• strawberries
• half an apple
• cheese crackers
• cinnamon almonds
• mini pickles and
• a cereal bar.

Things I used to make lunch (contains affiliate links):

We love Strawberries for lunch

Today's lunches only have one (or two) thing in common: Strawberries and bad lighting.
Strawberries remind us of summer and currently they are juicy, red, delicious and a big treat.
So, naturally all the kids asked for them for lunch - yum! And the bad lighting is due to a tired
Mamabelly who is still adjusting to Back to School ;)

Packed in our Easylunchboxes are:

• left over chicken tenders
• strawberries
• a nut butter sandwich with jelly
• and a Cocoa Loco cereal bar

In our Planetbox Shuttle are:

• strawberries
• two different kids of cereal bars
• Annie's cheddar bunnies and 
• Naturebox Cranberry Almond Bites

And last but not least, this Laptop Lunches bento box is packed with:

• strawberries - of course
• Annie's cheddar bunnies and
• two Naturebox Pistachio Clusters
• a roll with liver pate 
• pickles and
• a cereal bar

Things I used to make our lunches (contain affiliate links):

First Day of School 2013/2014

Yesterday was our first day back to school for everyone. Thankfully everybody had a wonderful day. I had to wipe away a tear or two and cannot believe how fast they grow up.

Here are our First Day of School Lunches:

My second grader was happy to take a school themed lunch in his Good Lunch Box:

• garden cucumbers and baby carrots
• strawberry hearts
• two peanut butter sandwiches and
• a Enjoy Life Cocoa Loco bar

I also added a sweet Lunchbox Love Card to make sure he knows how much I'll miss him!

My third grader wanted his Laptop Lunches bento box filled with all his favorites:

• apples and strawberry hearts
• Annie's Cheddar Bunnies
• a cute Snoopy container filled with dark mini chocolate chips for the vanilla yogurt
• Snoopy peanut butter sandwiches
• vanilla yogurt and a
• cereal bar

I also packed a Lunchbox Love Card in his lunch. It was very quiet here without him.

For my oldest son it was the first day of Middle School and nothing cute was allowed. We packed his Laptop Lunches bento box with:

• apples and strawberries
• Annie's Cheddar Bunnies
• a Woodstock container with dark mini chocolate chips for the yogurt
• two left over chicken pieces from the day before
• Vanilla yogurt and 
• a cereal bar

His Lunchbox Love Card is turned around to just show the trivia. All grown up!

Our after school snack

Things I used to make our lunches (contain affiliate links):

Star Wars Lunchbot

We still have 8 days before school starts and lunch packing will become more regular again. We have however been busy with our summer schedule of summer sports. I wanted to share this quick and easy Star Wars snack box I packed for my two little kids to eat while watching their big brothers play football.

We gathered our supplies and picked our food: apples, grapes, star shaped cheese crackers, a few leaves of salad and nut butter bread. I had recently won these fun Star Wars sandwich presses from Sarah from Blame it on the Bento and we already had a few light saber food picks.

Our Lunchbot Trio ended up looking like this filled with:

• two Star Wars nut butter sandwiches
• star crackers
• apples and grape lightsabers

And if you are wondering why we picked Darth Vader and C-3PO, there is a very simple explanation! They both in our Star Wars ABC book and on adjoining pages ;)

Things I used to make this lunch:

Disposable Field Trip Lunches {with Tutorial}

We had a couple of field trips lately and I wanted to share our disposable field trip lunches with you.

This field trip lunch was for a regular field trip for First Grade:

I packed a strawberry container with:

• an apple
• a peanut butter and jelly pocket sandwich
• an all natural blueberry fig bar from Nature's Bakery 
• and an Honest Kids juice pouch

I have gotten some questions lately about packing disposable field trip lunches and wanted to show you how I generally pack mine:

1) I layer napkins into the strawberry container.

2) I add the apple or other heavier large items like an applesauce or pudding.

3) Try to fill up the bottom with the heavier items like a cereal or fig bar.

4) Next, I added the pocket sandwich.

5) Last but not not least: the juice pouch. I froze mine to use as a cooler and added a piece of wax paper between the sandwich and juice pouch so the sandwich would not get soggy. Depending on your juice pouch or container you can also add the juice box first and layer the heavy items on top finishing with the sandwich. My son likes his sandwich very cold and that is why I chose to layer the juice pouch on top of the sandwich :)

6) Fold over the napkins to cover the lunch...

7) ...add a cute Lunchbox Love Card and you have a fun and thoughtful field trip lunch without squished sandwiches and broken crackers :)

Disposable Field Trip Lunch for Sports Day

The school requested a disposable brown bag lunch for last week's field trip and this is was we packed for lunch:

• Mott's all natural Applesauce
• Cheez-It Scrabble crackers
• a peanut butter sandwich
• carrots and cucumbers
• grapes in a paper muffin cup
• and three blueberry morning cookies as well as
• a big bottle of water

To prevent the peanut butter sandwich and grapes to be squished, I packed everything into a recyclable sandwich deli box. With the added fun napkin and Lunchbox Love Note - wishing them a great day - it was a fun and special day lunch. The bottle of water and deli sandwich box fit in a XL brown paper bag!

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