Slightly more successful penguin lunch...

Somehow more pleased with this one - wish I'd done the egg as a beak instead of a smile, though...

Space Boy Dream

Space theme today. Ham and cheese sandwiches with cheese decorations, plus a boiled egg, jelly in a silicone cup, and some tomatoes, cucumber and grapes.

Penguin lunch!

I was quite pleased with this, even if the penguins on the sandwiches somehow look a bit like little monsters.

This is:

Cream cheese & salami sandwiches, with some cucumber to pretend they're healthy, decorated with little salami & cucumber penguins/monsters and a little panda pick;

Tomatoes, carrots and cucumber for dipping in the taziki and hummus;

And finally some grapes & raspberries set in raspberry jelly for pudding.

I wish I'd made one for me as well!

Tomorrow's lunch

Not that yummy looking for some reason - some tomato, mackerel and cannellini beans (tastes much better than it looks!), with some carrot and cucumber sticks to eat with the wasabi and pea dip. Fruit (strawberries, grapes and blueberries in a little silicon cup) for pudding.

Cute little snack box

A little snack box for my husband to supplement tomorrow's lunch, as it's going to be a long day for him.

The left half contains a few blueberries, strawberries, grapes and carrot sticks in colour-matched silicon cupcake cases. The right has some oatcakes (snapped in half to make them fit in the box) and some cupcake cases containing hummus and cream cheese to go with the oatcakes - as well as a sneaky chocolate treat to (slightly) make up for the long hours.

Today's lunch accidentally got left in the fridge by my husband in his morning sleepiness - so I ate it and can report that it was delicious!

Today's bento lunch

Pretty pleased with this - sweet little sandwiches (cream cheese and salami) made to look like sushi rolls, along with a pot of pea and wasabi dip and some oatcakes, cherry tomatoes and cucumber sticks for dipping. I made some tiny blueberry skewers to go with the grapes and strawberries for pudding. There's also an Aussie Apple (http://www.anotherlunch.com/2010/09/snack-idea-how-to-make-aussie-apple.html?m=1) for a healthy snack. Quite jealous that my husband gets to eat this for his lunch!

First bento box

My first bento box for my husband's lunch tomorrow - do you think he might get teased by his colleagues!?

The box is a Lock & Lock compartmentalised box.

The sandwich is just cheese & (homemade) fruit chutney, with little cheese hearts on top (cut by hand as my cutters were all too big, hence the wonkiness).

The apple is dipped in lime juice to stop it browning - hope it works or it won't look very appealing by lunchtime tomorrow... hopefully the carrots won't dry out too much either. A little pot of hummus would have been nice for them - next time.

The hard boiled eggs are accompanied by a little egg cup of Cornish sea salt, and the cherry tomatoes and (homegrown) cucumber are sitting on a bed of salad leaves.

Hopefully he'll enjoy it and not get teased too much...