Holy moly it's May! Bento supply giveaway, part 2

Good golly, it's May! Knock me over with a chopstick.

Continuing on my spring cleaning spree, I've got more bento goodies to give away. Yay!

Let's get this party started with some cute egg molds!

And keep it rolling with some fun mini silicone cups!

Every bento-maker needs some cute animal picks!

And how about some matching tiny sauce bottles? 

Mini cutters are my favorite and my best!

You certainly don't need these to bento (seriously don't have any idea where/why/how I have these - but they are cute! Mini erasers. Awwww.

But you certainly DO need a box to bento, and the winner of this giveaway will get to pick one of the following ornigiri boxes! These are little, fun for a snack. They have two sections. One sealed area nice for fruit and then I always thought the top section would be prefect for a granola bite or two. :)

Woo to the hoo for bento goodies!

Same dealio as before! To enter this giveaway you need to leave a comment. One comment per person. Please provide an email if your name isn't clickable so I can contact you! 

I'm not going to limit this to only US peeps because I just felt bad about that all last week. So any and all bento peeps can enter. :) 

This will run for a week, I'll end comments Wednesday evening, May 9, 2012. Unless I fall asleep early and then I'll close it Thursday morning. That is entirely possible. *yawn*

Good luck!

If you entered last week's bento giveaway and are a-wonderin' if you are the winner, go check out the post. I announced the winner at the bottom of that post. :)

If you are a-wonderin' where these cute bento things came from, I bought them from bento shops. And then hoarded them away like a crazy hoarder. Most items were purchased from this shop and this shop too. 

Disclaimer: I was not paid or perked to write this post or give away my stuff. Just cleaning house, folks. :)






**** THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU!****

Howdy! How about a giveaway of bento goodies?!!

Hi all!


I've been doing a lot of spring cleaning here. A big part of that process has been parting with stuff I have been hoarding. Some of the stuff I've been hoarding is bento and lunch making stuff. I'm planning to divvy it up into multiple lots to give away on the blog. :) 


Here's the first batch. Starting with my favorite bento picks of all time. They may be an oldie (old as in style, still brand spankin' new in the package!) - loooove those giraffe forks!





Then we've got some more picks. Admittedly, these are not my favorite. Some of them look a little x-rated, if you look at them the wrong way. Or maybe it's just me. I do love the tree trunk one though. :)





How about some cute sauce cups?





And the best bento dividers ever? These are silicone grass baran. They are another favorite.





This pack of amazing mini bento cutters are my favoritest ones. Do you sense a pattern here? Once I found a favorite I would buy extras and squirrel them away in case something happened to my originals. How hoarderish is that? Must. Stop. The. Insanity.





And finally, this really cute two-tier bento box. It has Russian nesting dolls on the top. And some lovely words in a secret language. At least I like to think they are lovely words. Being that it's in a secret language, I can't really tell. It's cute though and it also comes with a bento belt to secure it all together.







So that's the first batch of bento goodies for this giveaway popapalooza. I had wanted to do this for World Autism Awareness Day, which was April 2. But i couldn't get my act together. It *is* still April though, and that's Autism Awareness Month, so I didn't miss the boat completely. I got a leg in the canoe at the very least.





**TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY**:
leave a comment! That's all you have to do! Couldn't be simpler, really! :)


Just one comment per person, please!


Since I am footing the bill for shipping, this is only available to US peeps. Sorry to the rest of the bento peeps. I'm in a penny-pinching sort of way at the moment. Though if you are out of the US and still really want to enter you can if you pay for the shipping. That makes me sound like a miser, and I'm sorry. Four kids, one income. The math is scary.


This giveaway will run for one week, to end next Wednesday, May 2. Holy cow.  I can't believe it's going to be May so soon.


Note: These goodies were purchased by me, myself, and I. Mostly from this bento shop.


disclaimer: these items were bought by me. I was not paid to claim they are my favorite or endorsed to say they are cute. Promise.

****Note added 5/2/12 - comments are now closed. Thank you!****

Drumroll, please! The winner is.....

Congratulations, FoodieChickie! I'll contact you to send you your bento loot! :)

roundup of St. Patrick's Day bento lunches

Hello all! Long time, no blog.  
We are flu-central here at Another Lunch headquarters. Boo to the flu.
Since a cute holiday for making themed lunches is fast approaching I thought I'd do a quick round-up of past St. Patrick's Day lunches. It helped get my juices flowing and rusty creative gears turning, maybe it will do the same for someone else too. :)


Clicking on the title of each bento will take you to the original post to read more details about the lunch.


A Little Luck o' the Irish Bento (with a bit o' gold for the lil lad)



A Colorful Spot for the Leprechaun Kind (my favorite St. Pat's bento)



The Ubiquitous Green Colored Bento



Over the Rainbow Bento


and a bonus... (or is it?)
Green Muffin Tin Lunch 

Honestly, this one makes me feel a little queasy looking at it. And I don't think that's just the flu talking.




The other week I was sorting through some bento supplies and found some really cute Pot of Gold Picks that I didn't know I had, so those are likely to make an appearance. I think St. Patrick's Day bentos are one of my very favorite themes to play with. :)

Valentine lunches - two times the love

Happy hearts day!


I have been feeling so uncreative lately and totally uninspired in the cute-food arena. Blah!  To be honest, I recently began scrapbooking again (after a 6+ year hiatus) and I am looooving it and it's pretty much all I'm obsessing thinking about these days. But I could not let another Valentine's Day go by without some lovey dovey lunches.  This morning Ethan opted for the school lunch - popcorn chicken, a delicacy to that 4th grade boy. So my little heartsy tartsy lunch eaters are Paige and Tyler today. 


First up, my Paigey Pie's lunch:



- peanut butter and jelly sandwich with fruit leather decoration (cut with mini cookie cutters)
- love knots (or pretzels, whatever)
- strawberries cut into crude hearts
- applesauce


The applesauce is a really cute trick I picked up from Lunches Fit for a Kid: Pour in your applesauce, nestle a cookie cutter into it, scoop out the applesauce from inside the cookie cutter, then fill with colored applesauce. 
In my case I used a straw and sucked up the applesauce from the middle (because I'm ever so classy). My food coloring squeezer had a clog and then spurted way too much coloring, I would have prefered a pinker hue over this Dexter-ized shade of crimson.  
Astrid at Lunches Fit for a Kid also made some really pretty swirly bread for Vday. Make sure to check it out!


Next up, Tyler's lunch:



Pretty much the same dealio as the first one, just different fruit leather shape atop the sandwich and I fumbled a strawberry into the applesauce which messed up the top side of it.


Paige and Tyler were thrilled to see the strawberries. It's been awhile since we've had any.


I hope you all have a lovely day! 


    

EasyLunchbox & Lunch Punch bento lunches - g'day mate! & beep beep!

My girl Paige was carrying on and on about neeeeding a bento for lunch today. "You haven't made me a bento in practicality forever and ever!" she whined. Poor thing. ;-)  But it was easy (and fun!) enough to dish up a couple cute lunches before preschool.


Paige's lunch:

Packed in an EasyLunchboxes container:
- peanut butter & blueberry preserve sandwich, cut with a Lunch Punch "Landwich" shape - Australia!
- whole grain Goldfish crackers (to fill the Great Barrier Reef area)
- a few koala cookies
- mixed fruit, speared with a couple cute bento picks, a mighty croc and a dingo ("the dingo got my grapey!") (from this set).
- I added a little fruit leather heart to send my love to Kiersten, the Lunch Punch creator. Mwah! 


Tyler's lunch:

Also packed in an EasyLunchboxes container:
- same peanut butter & blueberry preserve sandwich, but cut with the Lunch Punch "Vroom!" car shape
- some organic vanilla cookies, featuring electric cars (cute!) (from Whole Foods)
- whole wheat pretzel sticks 
- mixed fruit
- a hand-cut lightning bolt to mirror the cookies. That lightening bolt was trickier for me to cut out than I'd like to admit!


My little car lovin' boy was thrilled with his car sandwich. He said "honk honk!". So cute. :)




note: The Australia cutter is part of the not-released-yet "Landwiches" set of Lunch Punches. They are not available for sale, but this Aussie one was part of a promotion for Bega cheese that took place in Australia several months ago. I was lucky enough to get one of those ones.