I went a little crazy in Williams-Sonoma last week, and I got a package in the mail from J-Box so I had some new bento toys to play with this week! Wahoo! Read on to see some of my new goodies:
Monday
Monday, I dove into Halloween bentos in a big way with a pumpkin themed box I like to think of as “Pumpkinpalooza”. There was a piece of pumpkin cake with a jack-o-lantern cupcake pick
in it, some cantaloup cut into pumpkin shapes with a cutter from this set
Tuesday
On Tuesday, I debuted my new Star Wars vehicle cookie cutters! Augie chose to have a tie fighter sandwich with strawberry jam inside. He also had pumpkin cantaloup, strawberries and turkey meatballs.
Wyatt had the same lunch with just a little more of everything. He went for X-wing fighter sandwiches though and I packed this all in our Laptop Lunch Box
Wednesday
On Wednesday, Wyatt had pretzel thins, strawberries and a turkey and mayo jack-o-lantern sandwich.
Augie had pretzel thins, some chopped figs from the tree in our yard (they’re finally starting to ripen! Yay!), a ton of strawberries (I bought a half flat at the market) and some chunks of chicken breast leftover from dinner on Tuesday night.
When I first put this lunch together, I had the chicken in with the pretzels, but after I took a few photos I decided to swap the positions of the chicken and the figs. The reason I did this was to balance the the color in the box. In the first photo, the top container is really blah and all the color is in the bottom box. In the second photo the colors are a little more even. Is that crazy and control-freaky of me? Maybe, but I think a nice presentation makes food more appetizing and the change took all of 3 seconds, so I went with it.
I also wanted to show off my new Lucky Cat bento box that this lunch was packed in. Isn’t it cute? I’ve been eyeing this guy for over a year and I finally had enough credit at J-box when it came back into stock to get it. Apparently I got one of the last ones because it’s already out of stock again, but Amazon carries panda
Thursday
On Thursday, Augie took mini sandwiches filled with white bean dip, more Calimyrna figs from our tree, crackers and a few strawberries.
Wyatt had school luncheon.
Friday
Today, Augie took a boatload of strawberries, more figs, tomatoes from our garden and chopped chicken apple sausage.
Wyatt had a day off from school, so we went bowling and had a lunch date while Augie was at preschool.
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