As we roll into April........where did March go?

Wow, I just can't believe how fast time is flying by, how is it April already?  I find myself having to brainstorm thoughts and ideas for year end teacher presents already and I am in shock!  Any good ideas for something cute, but not too expensive, but something they will actually use and not just throw to the side with all the other knick knacks?

Anyway, as the year continues on, so do the fun Bento lunches for little missy.  I haven't posted since Easter so here are quite a few to fill in that void.  Life just gets so crazy that I find I have limited computer time more and more, but I try to pop in when I can to update, and I ALWAYS take pics so I can post later at least....better late then never right?

Let's start out with St. Patrick's Day.....it landed on a weekend but we still had fun the day after at school :D She had a peanut butter clover sandwich (made using small heart cutters and then putting together, with a little green pepper in the middle), some cut up cold asparagus sprigs with a cute little green leaf in them, some chopped up cucumbers with skin on and a cute chocolate loonie for the pot of gold.  Then in her other box she got a couple red and green gummy lifesavers, some green cottage cheese and her favorite green grapes.

Today was just a goofy lunch for her:  strawberries thinly sliced with green grapes, oatmeal bear paws for her treat, a Babybel cheese with "Hi", a sealed peanut butter (nut free WowButter) sanwish with cute little face accessories and two bear paws for feet, then come diced red peppers and cucumbers

Today called for some more diced red peppers and cucumbers, with some cute kabob sandwiches (ham and cheese), some swiss cheese crackers, dried apricots, a container with some alphabits, and some strawberries and grapes.

The Giraffe is roaming in the long cucumber spears, a few cut up strawberries and some peak frean cookies. Then we have some oranges (and a hope that summer is coming with the ice cream cone pic), some Swiss Cheese crackers, some heart shaped cheese slices and leftover bbq'd ham steaks.

I got an ADORABLE new lunch container at Ikea for only $2.99!!! LOVE IT! I plan to use this on days she has a hot lunch served at school and only needs snacks packed.

Hot Lunch day at school, so we have a few diced cucumbers, diced strawberries and some cheese and crackers to finish off the bunch.  She is getting chicken boodle soup and a bun for hot lunch today.

Today we have some mandarin orange slices (tend to use those as backup if I haven't had time to get fresh fruit), real fruit fruit snacks, carrot and celery sticks with a little container of ranch dip.  Then for her lunch she has a sliced hard boiled egg, some goldfish on the side, cheese chunks and some crackers.

She wanted pancakes for her lunch today, so pancakes/breakfast it was!  I cut up some leftover ham, then cut up some chocolate chip pancakes into little squares to skewer onto swords, with a little container of syrup to dip into, and a mixed fruit cocktail to finish off the lunch portion.  The snack portion has celery and cucumber sticks, with a container of ranch dressing, some cottage cheese and a few bits n bites to finish everything off.

I started out with a flower Babybel, some bits n bites, and green grapes with a cute little grape couple in the middle.  My local grocery store made some fun rainbow bread!!! I HAD to snag a loaf to catch Lynden by surprise!  So I did a closed peanut butter sandwich with "LOVE" written on top with pics (she is really catching on to reading a lot of words), some real fruit fruit snacks, and some cucumbers and snap peas with a cute little monkey peeking through from the peas.

She had strawberry slices and purple grapes for her fruit today, a cute ham puzzle sandwich, some red peppers and cucumbers, a star Babybel and a chocolate chip cookie that her and dad made the night before for her lunch today!

The menu today consisted of some goldfish, red peppers, celery and snap pea sticks, heart shaped Babybel, then I had to use more rainbow bread with a cute little cupcake shaped sandwich, some real fruit fruit snacks and strawberries with grapes to round out the meal today

Hope some of these cute, easy, healthy options make it into your little one's lunch or at least gives you some inspiration to go that extra mile!  Only takes a bit of extra thought and its so east to do :D  Enjoy!