D is for Domo

 Aunt Agnes made some banana bread the other day. I have to say that I love hers. Not to much banana to make it mushy and it is not sweet either. It's perfect! Yet for some odd reason, the minions refuse to eat it.  They refuse to eat it even when it is sweet. So today, in preparation of me baking another bread to try, I decided to see if I could get them to eat it. Remember, I refuse to spend more than 15-20 minutes. I have 4 under the age of 5 and 3 are solid eaters.

I was talking to my anime friend and Domo came to mind. Yes! They are brown and would be perfect. There is not much I could do to mess this one up. So I cut the bread into a little bit more of a rectangle shape and added pretzels for arms and candy eyes. The mouth is made from strawberry cream cheese and mozzarella cheese for the teeth.

I have some not so ripe peaches, kiwi, and colby jack cheese helping to keep the arms steady for transport to the table. Minions are not to careful with their bento's. And we have bologna D's stacked up for their enjoyment as well.

Did they eat the bread? Yes! Pork emptied out his bento onto the table before he went after the Domo. Tyke ate them first thing while pointing to the peaches and telling me they were apples and how much he loves apples.

The frog bentos were purchased from AllThingsForSale.com . My Father-in-Law purchased the first one for me and the minions fought over it so much I had to purchase a second. Have I mentioned how much I love that site? Love cannot even begin to describe it.

Mama Bento #2 Yellow rice sushi

I must have been feeling my oats today! It only took me 5 minutes to get Clark out of the bath, dressed, coat, hat, boots, gloves and backpack on and out the door. I lost track of time and I did not want him to miss the afternoon bus. After putting a very fussy Porkums down for nap/quiet time, I made myself something. I was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of the yellow rice. I wanted sushi. Only I was pretty sure the yellow rice was not sticky enough. So I reheated it with a little bit of water and gave it a try.

Today's offering is yellow rice sushi with salmon, carrot, and red pepper (this would have been yummy with avocado too!). The veggies are carrot sticks, red pepper, and tomatoes. The bottom tier has 1/3 cup cottage cheese, plumbs (I think), carrot coins, and raisins. This ended up sitting for a little bit since Colonel Sanders decided she would like to be fed. I was afraid to drop food on her, so I waited till she was done eating and asleep enough for me to move. I was surprised how well the fruit kept the cottage cheese in place. Outside of the pieces touching it, nothing else had cottage cheese on it.

As you can see, the sushi came out pretty well. The only way I could get this to work was to make sure I rolled the sushi very tight and cut it double the normal length. As long as I did that, the rice stayed in the roll pretty well. Still, it was not very sticky. Next time I will be sure to have an avocado on hand.

This bento I have had for a while. Does anyone remember Bento TV ? Well, I got this bento from her. The more I think about it, I have had this one for 2 years (it spent most of that time packed in a box). I don't know if she still has this one, but she does have an Ebay store and you can always watch her movies on her site. She makes some simple things.

T is for Turtle

I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to make and bake a bread turtle. It turned out a little to crusty for something it's size. So I put it in a plastic bag while still warm and this morning it is much softer. Also, as you can see, my poor turtle looks more like a ladybug. Oh well, maybe I will do better next time.

Today's lunch is a peanut butter and jelly turtle. The "shell" is made from bologna, nori and had a "T" on it's back. The eyes are raisins. It sits on a bed of left over yellow rice. With that there are grape tomatoes, carrots, raisins, and part of a plumb.

This box is a Dora (I have a matching Spiderman too) "lunch pack" that I found at Walmart. There is a smaller box that comes with it.

 

C is for Cat

Today's lunch has kiwi, blueberries, berry yogurt, carrots, and a kitty face peanut butter and jelly sandwich with raisin eyes, grape nose, and carrot whiskers.

This was packed in my Gerber Meal Time Organizer.

F is for... Another lazy day

Another lazy day since I am not feeling well. F was a little bit of a far reach, but the minions picked up on it right away. So today F is for a peanut butter and cream cheese Face, gold Fish, Fruit, and then there is also some oh so delicious over processed chicken scrap nuggets. The little round dot is a piece of candy.

P is for Puzzle and....

 P is for Puzzle sandwich, Plumb Rabbits. The sandwich is Peanut butter and strawberry cream cheese. I know it is an odd combination, but I can't find my jelly. The day is always a huge rush to get lunch made before Clark gets on the bus and before one of the younger minions has a meltdown. I cut out bologna and cheese puzzle shapes to help decorate the sandwich. Also there are 4 puzzle pieces.

Here we have our cheese P on top of Popcorn, red Peppers, carrots, spinach, and Plumb cats with blueberries for balls.

I used Peanut butter to attach the whiskers and tails. Everything packed pretty tight and most of it did not move. Although the whiskers did fall off one of the cats.

W, 7, and crepes

Grape, Blueberry, and kiwi fruit salad, bologna, carrots, pudding filled crepes, tomato, cocktail onion, and green olive.

I had the bright idea to make the minions crepes today. Or what passes here as crepes. My mother always put fruit and yogurt in them. I decided it would be more of a hidden desert and put some pudding in them.