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Lunch Ideas With LEGO

June 6, 2014 By Deirdre

Fun Ideas- LEGO

Lunch Ideas with a kid friendly theme like LEGO are lots of fun. Kids love to help create and/or enjoy meals that feature their interests and hobbies. Right now JDaniel loves building with Duplos and LEGO so, I created a simple lunch for him featuring Duplo blocks. It didn’t take very long to put together and it featured foods he really enjoys. Along with sharing my LEGO lunch idea with you I will be sharing several amazing lunch ideas from awesome Bento bloggers. Their lunch ideas took more time than mine did in many cases but, they would be so cool to make.

Here is the LEGO themed lunch I made for JDaniel:

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It features salami and cheese Duplos on crackers. There are cucumbers with Duplo Cucumber on top. The fruit dessert is blueberries with Duplo apples dipped in orange juice. It isn’t fancy, but it is fun.

Lunch Ideas from Other Bloggers:

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Biting the Hand That Feeds You has a really cool LEGO lunch in a LEGO bento box.

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I love all the LEGO containers in this cool post from A Boy and His Lunch.

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The LEGO sandwich in the post from BentOn Better Lunches. It is filled with lunch ideas you will love.

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Using Club crackers is just one of the lunch ideas in this post from Becoming a Bentoholic.

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The Lucky Lunchbox has several cute lunch ideas! I love the LEGO cheese man.

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I love how The Lunchbox Dad has worked broccoli into this fun LEGO Lunch.

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Eclectic Lamb has gone LEGO wild on her blog. She has several wonderful LEGO lunches one features frozen yogurt LEGOS, one with french bread LEGOS, a LEGO pirate lunch, and one with all the foods in LEGO shapes.

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Have you seen the LEGO Movie?Lunchbox Dad has an amazing bento lunch based on the movie.

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Keeley McGuire shares allergy friendly lunches and a review of some LEGO bento container.

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Keitha’s Chaos has LEGO party food and a super fun LEGO lunch.

Each of these lunch ideas is really special. I am so thankful for friends in the bento and lunch creation community were willing to let me share them with you.

If you are looking for more LEGO Activities please check out my LEGO Board on Pinterest. If you are looking for more lunch ideas, please check my Serving JDaniel With Lunch board on Pinterest.

Here are links to some of the LEGO containers featured in these lunch ideas:

These are affiliate links.

Room Copenhagen LEGO Lunch Box, Blue

Room Copenhagen LEGO Mini Box, Brick 4, Blue

Room Copenhagen Lego Iconic Ice Cube Tray, Blue, One Size

Do you have a LEGO fan at your house?

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{Bento Lunch} Cracker Sandwiches

August 12, 2013 By Deirdre

JDaniel recently discovered premade lunches in plastic containers while we were at the grocery store. He pointed out that they were filled with foods he likes. “Look! Cracker sandwiches are in them,” he pointed out. “I can make one at home for you,” I pointed out. I really could!This week I set out of make one I knew he would enjoy. Yes, I have made some like this before, but he doesn’t seem to remember them. The theme was cracker sandwiches just as he said he wanted. He ate every bit of it. These are going to be a big part of our school lunches this year.

I think part of what he liked was that the ham and cheese were in muffin cups. For some reason the muffin cups make lunches appear fancy. (A number of the lunches I shared in the {Back to School} Lunches Without Sandwiches had them.) Ours were about $2.50 from World Market.

The crackers for the sandwiches are divided into two groups for no other reason than they seemed to look nice that way. The grapes were added to give the top compartment a side dish. I think they look pretty there.

JDaniel was given a cucumber by his speech teacher. The speech center set up a garden just outside their front door. He has loved having this special cucumber cut up and served with dip. He hasn’t been as into non-speech center cucumbers. Maybe we need to try to grow some Outside Our Front Door Cucumbers.

Cracker sandwiches as I mentioned were a hit with my son. We will have to them for lunch again.

If you like this cracker sandwich lunch, you will love these lunches too:

Apple Chicken Salad Bento Lunch

Lunch Ideas with LEGO

Minion Lunch with Blueberry Overalls

What is your favorite cracker sandwich combination?

Kids Meals – Summer Sunshine Bento

July 8, 2013 By Deirdre

We have had glimpses of summer sunshine here in South Carolina. Most morning have been warm and sunny. The afternoons have been filled with summer storms that dump buckets of rain and then pass on. Sometimes there are more than one of these storms that pass through in a day. While JDaniel loves to get outside and play in the rain, it is the sunshine he longs to see. I decided to give a bento lunch to my kid with a summer sunshine theme.

The bento box is filled with fresh spinach leaves with bright yellow flower shaped silicone cups. The contrast of the yellow cups on the green leaves radiated summertime to me. JDaniel loved that the cups contained foods that he loves along with fresh spinach. He really enjoys fresh spinach.

What do the cups hold?

The main compartment has buttery round crackers and American cheese cut into rounds. I left it up to JDaniel to decide if these would be used to make cheese cracker sandwiches with spinach or be eaten on their own.

The upper compartments contain red grapes. They have been super sweet this summer. Biting into them has been liking biting into sunshine. The compartment on the right is filled with Vidalia onion salad dressing. JDaniel ended up dipping his crackers, some spinach a couple of his grapes into it.

We are crossing our fingers and sending prayers for a few completely dry days in a row. Oh! We are hoping that they not only come, but they come without scorching temperatures. It can get really hot here in the summer. Until then I think I will be making more kids meals and bento lunches that display summer sunshine. My kid sure does enjoy them.

What kids meals to your children ask for? How do you serve them?

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Healthy Snack for Kids : Butterfly Bento

April 8, 2013 By Deirdre

Healthy Snack for Kids - Butterflies in a Bento

We visited the Tennessee Aquarium while we were away for Spring Break. At the top of the new aquarium building was a butterfly garden. JDaniel had a wonderful time chasing them around. He also enjoyed seeking them out under leaves and behind trees. It was amazing to see the wide variety of butter flies they had living there. In honor of our visit with butterflies I made JDaniel a healthy snack for kids butterflies in a Bento.

The butterfly was cut out of a flour tortilla free hand. It might have looked better if it had been cut using a cookie cutter, but we didn’t have one large enough for a sandwich.

The butterfly’s wing design was made using pepperoni and tomatoes layered. JDaniel really isn’t into lunch meat right now. I do still include it in lunches just encase he decides he likes it again. The body of the butterfly is made of a slice of cheese cut into the body of the butterfly. Small pieces of cheese are the butterflies antennas.

There is also a small butterfly created using a clementine orange and a blueberries. If you follow this blog regularly, you know that JDaniel hasn’t been big on carrots. I do keep trying to put them in snacks and lunches. This time the carrot was paired with a slice of cucumber.

This snack Bento isn’t filled to the brim with food and I did that on purpose. A small snack seems to leave JDaniel hungry for lunch or dinner later. If this snack had included a whole clementine with 12 blueberries, carrots with dip and a fully decorated butterfly, JDaniel would have been full at mealtime.

If JDaniel is full at meal time, he tends to want to take tiny bites of food and then flutter around the room. I would rather that he eat his meal and nibble on a snack.

Here some more healthy snack for kids ideas:

Star Wars Food Creations for Kids

Bento Lunch with Cracker Sandwiches

Summer Sunshine Bento Lunch

You will find more wonderful healthy snack for kids ideas on my Food Creations Pinterest board.

Under the Sea: Outdoor Play Lunch

August 13, 2012 By Deirdre

After spending several weeks celebrating the Olympics I thought, I would take you under the sea to watch some of the animals participate in outdoor play.Did you not know that starfish jump with seaweed ropes? I think this strawberry jello salad starfish does. He must have dreams of performing in a circus or theater. He has stars in his eyes.

The fish in the top left compartment is such a ham and he will stand on his fins and say, “Cheese!” Maybe he just watched a lot of gymnastics during the Olympics.

The other fish just like to hang out with others in the school and play tag. This must be a version of tag that requires you tag another fish with you eyeball or mouth. These Vanilla Cupcake Goldfish seem to like playing it.

If you have a post on your children playing their favorite outdoor game, please come by on Wednesday and link it up to my Outside Play: Games link festival.

Olympics for Kids- Olympic Symbols Bento Snack

July 23, 2012 By Deirdre

I am so excited about the Olympics in London! I guess you have been able to figure that out. Last Monday I featured Fruit Filled Olympic Rings for a breakfast meal and this week I have created an Olympic themed snack Bento.JDaniel and I have been talking about the Olympic symbols and what they mean. He was so excited to see some of the symbols in this snack Bento. The fact that the symbols were made of some of his favorite foods might have added to the excitement.The Olive Wreath or kotinos is made of fresh green spinach. JDaniel loves fresh spinach so much that he asked for full-size leaves after eating the smaller ones.

The ham and cheese creation on the right is supposed to a torch with a flame. I think if I had narrowed the handle of the torch it would have looked more torch like. If you imagine the end of the torch as being a little long, it might help too.The Olympic rings are round crackers with wonderful toppings. There is grape jelly, black olives, rhubarb jelly from Two Bears Farm, bananas, and pear applesauce on one of each of the crackers. If these are not your children’s favorite foods, you can always substitute other foods in the Olympic colors. They are blue, yellow, black, red, and green.JDaniel completely cleared out this Bento so, I guess you could say this snack won a gold medal in my Olympics for Kids food challenge. I just love it when that happens.