Bento #24

Uncrustables peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich with cheddar cheese leaves as decorations, cucumber flowers, baby carrots, grape tomatoes, and a clementine. Snack: green seedless grapes and a mini raisin bran muffin. Dessert: homemade oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookie (she'd made these with Grandma the day before).

Bento #22

This marked the arrival of two important additions to my repertoire: a new, smaller bento box (I realized I had been giving her WAY more food than she could handle!) and Uncrustables frozen PB&J sandwiches from your friends at Smuckers. Both items would frequent lunches for quite some time to come . . .

Uncrustables sandwich with cheddar and Monterey Jack leaves as decoration, Babybel cheese, baby carrots, celery sticks, grape tomatoes, and red seedless grapes. Snack: clementine, strawberries and mini raisin bran muffin. Dessert: mini chocolate cupcake.

Bento #17

Vegetarian turkey, cheddar and lettuce sandwich on mini hamburger bun, Babybel cheese, strawberry, clementine, cucumber flowers, grape tomatoes, baby carrots and snow peas. Snack: celery sticks, apple slices and peanut butter for dipping.

Bento #15

Black temptation seedless grapes, white bean rollups (my own recipe - canned white beans smashed up with some sundried tomato & basil cream cheese, a little olive oil and lemon juice, grated parmesan, garlic salt and white pepper - yum!), baby carrots, grape tomatoes and cucumber flowers with carrot flower decorations. Snack: gala apple (with checkerboard pattern) and Babybel cheese.

Bento #8

Peanut butter and honey sandwich with cheese flowers, Babybel cheese, black temptation seedless grapes, snowpeas, and bell pepper flowers and butterfly. Snack: clementine and mini blueberry muffin.

Bento #5

Peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich on whole wheat (in heart, fish, bird and tulip shapes thanks to one nifty cutting tool), Babybel cheese, baby yellow and red bell peppers stuffed with garden vegetable cream cheese, green seedless grapes. Snack: mini blueberry muffin, carrot and celery sticks with a little side of ranch dressing (not pictured) for dipping.

Bento #4

Clementine, fresh strawberries, snow peas with carrot flowers, Babybel cheese, vegetarian bologna & garden vegetable cream cheese rollups on spinach and garden vegetable tortilla. Snack: green seedless grapes and mini apple slices with peanut butter for dipping.