One of my favorite snacks when I was a kid was "bumps on a log" which consisted of peanut butter on celery with raisins. As the kids aren't allowed peanut butter at daycare, and cheese wiz (real nutritional I know) was on sale I figured I'd give it a shot. I thought this lunch looked pretty tasty, even with the cheese wiz! In this bento: penguin crackers, edamame beans, … [Read more...]
Madagascar Inspired Bento
The theme (if you can call it that) for this bento is the upcoming release of Madagascar 3! My kids, and us, have loved all the Madagascar movies so far, so when I was picking up bananas at the grocery store that had little Madagascar 3 stickers on them, I wanted to somehow incorporate these into the kids lunches. Lacking creativity, I decided to do little cheese penguins, and … [Read more...]
Blast Off & Flower Power Bento’s
I made a trip to Daiso the other day and got some new cutters. One great thing about Daiso is that their product seems to completely change every time I go there so there's always something exciting and new! This is another pretty simple bento, just spicing some regular sammies with cute little pictures! Small Fry got a little flower scene with a butterfly, and The boy got the … [Read more...]
Under the Sea
Today we decided to check out a park that was a short drive away in our new neighbourhood. So glad we did!! It's a big beautiful park with a small playground, a walking track that's about 1 km and goes around a great little fishing lake. The kids loved tossing rocks into the lake, seeing a man de-hook the fish that he had just caught, chasing geese, and picking raspberries off … [Read more...]
