Simple Halloween lunch

Usually I post my fancy lunches that I have planned and thought about what I am going to make. Today you will see what I normally do day in day out. I have three kids to pack for everyday and I pack the night before often late at night so no brain power can be involved!

This is what I usually pack for my son who is a fussy eater, my two daughters lunches are usually healthier as they don't think vegetables are evil! So sandwich with spooky pick and bat pick, cheese stick, cheese crackers with a spider cupcake ring,  raspberries and a gummy eye. Takes less than 5 minutes to pack in a PlanetBox Rover Lunchbox. All the picks I get from All things for sale

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Frightful Fall Hop Zero the Ghost Dog Bento

It's a Frightful Fall Blog Hop! I bring to you, Zero the Ghost dog from The Nightmare before Christmas.

Zero is Jack Skellingtons Ghost Dog and has a glowing pumpkin nose.

Zero is made from a slice of Jicama with a tomato nose (realized afterwards I should have used an orange tomato).

He is on a sandwich of marbliscious rye swirl bread from the HEB bakery.

I just cut him out with a craft knife using a sketch on parchment.


The top left has Greek yogurt with honey and colored orange. On top sits a Ghoulie Gummy jack o lantern from Trader Joes.

Below this is a babybel cheese with a gummy eye (I got this from Target Monsters University Gummy Eyeballs)

Raspberries and cherry tomatoes fill two compartments

Then the inspiration for the lunch a marshmallow Jack Skellington face.

This was from a lollipop at Walgreens it had two heads and then gummy swirls so I just took it apart).

All in a PlanetBox Rover.


For more Frightful Fall Fun, hop on over to IpackLunch by clicking on the hop picture below.

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Talk like a Pirate day blog hop Captain Pugwash

Avast me Hearties and ye lolloping landlubbers it be a bento bloggers and friends blog hop and I be a member of the crew of Black Breads Revenge

Today be talk like a Pirate day and I Captain Horatio Pugwash is sailing the High Seas in search of bento fun!


Plundering porpoises what a ridiculous rumpus we be avin! What in in the name of Neptune is this I spy off the starboard bow.

Kipper me capstans! 
Why it be me made of victuals

I be made of tortilla and peppers and nori. And what be that I spy a shark in the pumpkin bread and my treasure trove of berries guarded by skull and crossbones!

All served up on pirate treasure a PlanetBox Rover

Before ye be off to the next lunch a treasure map ye'll be needin'

Past the black lagoon watch thee for sharks until ye find A sandwich where X marks the spot!


Now sail on over to Robot squirrel and the monkeys to see the next Pirate treasure by clicking the button below!

After ye've sailed 'round this hop, hang on to yer sea legs!

Click 'ere to board t'next ship fer another hop!

In these here lunches be links that earn me doubloons!

So ye don't be loosin ye lunchbox treasure label it with  Mabel's Labels

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Roald Dahl Day Blog Hop Esio Trot

It's Roald Dahl day today. To celebrate the great authors birthday I did a lunch about a cute little fellow named Alfie the tortoise. Who helps bring a couple together.

Esio Trot is a Wonderful little little book and I hope you are inspired today by our Blog hop to go read a Roald Dahl book to yourself or your kids. Or go visit Roalddahlday.info for more ideas.

I love the magic turtle language, my daughter spent the day talking backwards!

ESIO TROT, ESIO TROT, 
TEG REGGIB REGGIB!
EMOC NO, ESIO TROT,

WORG PU, FFUP PU, TOOHS PU!

GNIRPS PU, WOLB PU, LLEWS PU!

EGROG! ELZZUG! FFUTS! PLUG!

TUP NO TAF, ESIO TROT, TUP NO TAF!

TEG NO, TEG NO, ELBBOG DOOF!

Alfie (or is it one of his doppelgangers?) is made of three sorts of tortilla spinach, whole wheat and flour for the grabber. He is sitting on French toast sandwich.

The many, many tortoises that Mr Hoppy buys are cheese crackers ( Ok so they might be turtles, but I did sort them out from all the Shamu and friends crackers!)

ESIO TROT is spelled out in Scrabble cheese-it's  on top of lettuce and mini grapes. Then sweet bell peppers and a spinach leaf and some grapes for Alfie to munch on.

All served up in a PlanetBox Rover

Oh and if you haven't figured it out yet ESIO TROT is TORTOISE backwards!

Now go visit my bento friend at Bento Days by clicking on the Roald Dahl day button below for another Roald Dahl Day Lunch

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Pork Tenderloin and fried rice lunch

This was a Mommy lunch made mostly from leftovers.

A couple of slices of Panko breaded pork tenderloin. This was last nights dinner I just added herbs and seasoning and olive oil and stuck it to the pork, it keeps it nice and tender. My daughter also had some and agreed this was yummy cold.

Some leftover sushi rice which I added broccoli, onions, leeks and soy sauce.

A banana bread chocolate chip muffin.  I added a cup of chocolate chips to this Banana Bread Recipe but put it into muffin pans and cooked it for around 30 minutes. It was a success with everyone thanks to Keitha at Keithas Chaos for introducing me to the recipe.

Raspberries and Blackberries.

This was a very filling lunch.

All in a PlanetBox Rover

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Salmon roll ups lunch

Today is an adult lunch for me in the PlanetBox Rover Lunchbox. It's really great for portion control and trying to remember to get your different food groups represented.

In this lunch is:

Salmon roll ups (see how to below)
Kale with garlic and shallots (how to below)
Banana bread (recipe link)
Greek yogurt in the PlanetBox tall dipper and raspberries

The Salmon roll ups:

1 egg
1/2 cup flour
90ml milk
Salt
Olive oil
Butter
Cream cheese
Smoked salmon

Mix egg add flour slowly whisking in add a little of the milk. Once all the flour is mixed in, add the rest of the milk, 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch of salt. Leave alone for an hour before using. Heat a non stick frying pan and add a little butter and melt.

Pour in a 1/4 cup of mixture at a time and swirl round leave a minute then flip and cook a further minute. Place on parchment paper between creeps and cool.

Once cool spread with cream cheese (I used Philadelphia with chives)

Add a layer of smoked salmon Roll up sushi style and place in fridge for an hour. Cut into 1/2 inch slices

Kale

Curly Kale About 10g remove stems and rip up into small pieces.
Add 1 tablespoon olive oil and some salt and pepper toss
Chop a clove of garlic and A few small shallots and fry in olive oil.
Toss in kale and 1/2 cup water cover and cook for 5 minutes until kale is soft.

Serve straight away or cool for next day lunch.


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4th of July Bento Lunch (& more) Linky Party!

Its Americas Birthday on Thursday and to celebrate I am joining the Bento Bloggers & Friends 4th of July Bento Lunch (& more) Linky Party!

So here is my lunch A Red, White and Blue Extravaganza in a PlanetBox Rover!

The Red White and Blue Star Four Cheese Ravioli has been sitting in my freezer waiting for July! I had to keep telling the kids no you can't have it yet. Tried some last night it was yummy. It came from Costco.

The ravioli is sprinkled with Parmesan. In the veggie section is red bell pepper strips and Jicama strips for dipping in the cream cheese served in a Monbento pot.

The fruit section has blueberries, raspberries and watermelon cut into stars. In the Planetbox tall dipper is some blue Greek yoghurt. All served in a PlanetBox Rover.

To see lots more independence day inspiration and patriotic ideas for food head on over to the linky party hosted by bentonbetterlunches.com by clicking the picture below.

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The Clangers Bento Lunch

The Clangers was one of my favorite programs growing up in the UK it was originally shown  1969 -1972 and repeated throughout the 70s. Its a classic stop motion series with knitted pink moon mice who communicate by whistling.

The Clangers family consist of Major Clanger, Mother Clanger, Small Clanger and Tiny Clanger (and a couple of un-named Clangers)

Also on their little blue moon are other creatures such as the soup dragon who provides the Clangers with green soup and the Froglets who live in a top hat.

So when deciding what to try in my PlanetBox Rover Lunchbox. These little space creatures seemed perfect

So here is the lunch with a couple of friends the Soup dragon (makes the gurgling sounds) and Mother Clanger (she whistles)

Here are some close ups of the details.

The Show Title in cheese on a bed of blackberries and Blueberries.

Mother Clanger made from Ham with red pepper clothes and bow. Standing on the Blue Moon Clanger planet. This is made from a Cheese Quesadilla colored with blue food coloring. Note the trapdoor they used to come to the planets surface. The sky is made from black Forbidden Rice.

The soup dragon is made from Cucumber and Arugula.

The Froglets are made from Carrot and cucumber eyes with nori held on with spaghetti on a bed of spinach.

All served in a PlanetBox Rover Lunchbox.  On the side is a serving of Guacamole in a small planet box container.

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Lovecraftian Cthulhu Lunch

This Cthulhu lunch is for me as I don't think my kids would get it quite yet! Although they think Cthulhu is cute.

From H. P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu mythos. We have Yog-sothoth the great cosmic entity made of asparagus and stuffed olives.

Then a rather cute Cthulhu quesadilla, made of spinach tortilla and cheese on a bed of forbidden rice.

Then devils reefs at Innsmoth from greens and grapes and blueberries.

Finally a chocolate creature from the deeps made from Party People ice cube tray and Wilton candy melts.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (In his House at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming) Well actually he is just waiting in this PlanetBox for me to eat him.

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