Sunday, August 15, 2010

Lunch for Everyone (Except Me)

Three lunches to show you today. Nothing fancy in them, except for some colored eggs. To color the eggs, peel them, rinse them off, then add them to a bowl of colored water (10 drops to 2 cups of water for brilliant colors). You can also color them naturally with tea, spinach water, and beet water...but they will impart a bit of flavor as well, so make sure the recipient likes those flavors. I let my eggs sit in the colored water for 10 minutes while I assembled the lunches, then I drained them and patted them dry before placing them in their lunchbox spots.

For the Army Man (aka Husband): Low-Carb Ants on a Log (Peanuts on Peanut Butter on Celery); Turkey Pastrami & Cheese on a Low-Carb Tortilla; Salted Peanuts, 2 Bright Pink Hard-Boiled Eggs; Crystal Light to drink.


For Bayberry: Peanut Butter & Guava Preserves on a Plain Bagel; Green Grapes; 2 Vanilla Cookies; a Bright Pink Hard-Boiled Egg; Cut up Cantaloupe. Nu-Vim Strawberry-Vanilla Smoothie to drink.



For Picky Eater: Peanut Butter & Guava Preserves on a Cinnamon-Raisin Bagel; salted Peanuts; a Vanilla Cookie; Cut up Cantaloupe; Green & Purple Grapes. Berry Punch to drink.

12 comments:

  1. where do you find the bento box trays?

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  2. I would love to know where you purchased your bento boxes too! Everything looks yummy!

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  3. Army Man's is an Easy LunchBox (easylunchboxes.com).

    Picky Eater's is a Hello Kitty 2-layer bento box I bought at Amazon.com.

    Bayberry's is a Laptop Lunch System I bought at Earth Fare but they're available at laptoplunches.com

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  4. Love that you send Army man pink eggs. Does he know yet? :)
    I gave you a wii bit of a shout out on my other blog! http://justwannabeabloggy.blogspot.com/2010/08/dishing-it.html

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  5. LOL Angie he asked for fancier lunches. I think he felt left out. This is a Big Bad Mean Army man we're talking about. ;) Army Strong...fueled by cutesy bento lunches. lol

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  6. Now I want to try the egg-infusion thing.

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  7. When you color the eggs, does it come off on their hands (or teeth) when they eat it?

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  8. Nope. Not even on the towel I blotted them with. It's a small amount of coloring, even though it looks very bright. It doesn't stain. It's just like coloring Easter eggs. If you've done that, you've seen how the dye sometimes gets on the egg itself, not just the shell, but it doesn't stain your mouth when you eat it.

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  9. love the coloring egg thing! will have to try that

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  10. I'm looking forward to reading this and getting some new ideas for lunches. I just got my children new bento boxes for this year, so need more ideas!

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  11. Awesome! Thanks for stopping in! :)

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