Rainy Day Lunches

We are starting the week on a rainy, dreary and windy Tuesday. I decided to brighten their day with colorful lunches and pack all their favorites.

I packed our yumbox with a blueberry Chobani Champions tube yogurt, apple slices and kiwi, left over chicken, mini ice cream shaped peanut butter sandwiches and some baby carrots with dip. We packed milk today instead of water. 

For my second grader I added some sun with a funny Lunchbox Love Card, and packed his yubo with Pirate Booty and cinnamon almonds, puzzle shaped peanut butter and blueberry jelly sandwiches and vanilla yogurt with Naturebox Vanilla Macroon Granola and a few mini chocolate chips. He brought home made strawberry milk in our thermos Funtainer. Hope the sun peaks out for lunch!

My 5th grader brought lunch in his Laptop Lunches bento box filled with Pirate Booty and Cinnamon Almonds, apples (and mini chocolate chips for his yogurt in the mini container), vanilla yogurt and a nitrate-free salami sandwich on whole wheat bread. He packed some lemonade to bring summer to school.

Let's hope the rain goes away!!

Here are some of the things I used to make these lunches (the links contain affiliate links):

 

LunchBot Lunch

A quick lunch in our Lunchbot Trio:

• cucumber and cheese sticks
• salami sandwich
• veggie sticks and
• strawberries

I added a Lunchbox Love Card and marvel every day how far they have come this year!

Angry Bird Lunch

My son asked me for an Angry Bird lunch yesterday and this was my first try in our new Yubo lunchbox :)

We packed a cheese stick with a red Angry Bird ring, a Salami and Cheese red Angry Bird Sandwich with Nori accents (inspired by Obento Momma), Vanilla yogurt with some mini chocolate chips and angry bird cheese crackers.

If you would like to see more Angry Bird Lunches:

• head over to Obento Momma who posted a linky at the end of her post :)
• and check out this lunch from Becoming a Bentoholic today!

1/2 Birthdays and Baking adventures

We have a rich tradition of celebrating Half Birthdays in our family! The rule is: you have to self-promote the birthday to celebrate. Until recently the kids always forgot and it was mostly an adult tradition. Well, until last month when my 5 year old remembered and in turn got to celebrate his 1/2 birthday. It was such fun! Today is my 9 year old's 1/2 birthday and since he did promote it I wanted to do a little baking and make something fun! I did make vanilla and chocolate cupcakes since he asked for those but had so much dough left over I thought a black and white cake would be fun. Half and Half :)

Well, the baking Gods had something else in mind and this is what I found in the oven after the cake batter rose:

I was crushed at first that the cake did not come out as planned but then went with it. It does look very cool, doesn't it?

The kids all could not wait to cut it and they were rewarded with this:

and then the best thing was that every slice was different:

from round to

Batman and everything in between!

It also helped that the cake was still warm, but the kids thought that my shape changing chocolate and vanilla cake was the best 1/2 birthday cake we have had!

And my son of course got a birthday lunch. He wanted simple and not a birthday bento, so he got a simple lunchbox for today.

He has a salami roll with lettuce, veggie sticks, grapes and a vanilla cupcake with melted chocolate decorations.

Happy 9 1/2 Birthday!

Have a great day and Happy Half Birthday to you - if it is your 1/2 birthday today ;)