Fall Flavors - Roasted Chicken, Kale, and Sweet Potato

I have a cabinet full of different bento boxes, which has become Senorcito's favorite place to play in the kitchen. However, I always end up going back to my Laptop Lunchboxes. I love the fact that they can be used in the microwave and be thrown in the dishwasher at the end of the day. The box is still perfect for my son to use for breakfast and lunch. I made some rice pumpkin zucchini bread the other day. It didn't turn out how I'd hoped, but the boy loves it anyway.

Baby Bento

• Breakfast: Pumpkin Zucchini Bread, Banana, Green Grapes and Blueberries
• Lunch: Kale w/ Onions, Plum, Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potato

Big Bento

• Roasted Chicken
• Apple
• Sweet Potato
• Kale w/ Onions

Also posted on What's for Lunch Wednesday

Baby Bento - Sweet Potato Animals

Sweet potatoes are consumed in mass quantities in our household. My son adores them. They are easy to cook and easy for little hands to grab, plus they're packed with nutrients. It's hard to go wrong with these guys.


This Bento Contains:

• Sweet Potato Animals (more under veggies)
• Roasted Zucchini, Yellow Squash, and Red Pepper
• Plum

Despite his dietary restrictions, it's easy to tell my Senorcito is still getting plenty to eat! He's too quickly grown from a sweet baby to a happy and curious (yet still sweet) toddler.

Breakfast Baby Bento

I made this bento awhile back, but it keeps catching my eye so I figured it was worth a post. This was breakfast for my sweet little Senorcito. He happily devoured everything.

The Bento contains:

• Banana Rice Pancakes
• Blueberries, Green Grapes, Nectarine Fleurs

Also posted for What's for Lunch Wednesday

Baby Bento - Homemade Pasta Sauce

Lately, I've been experimenting with making pasta sauces. Senorcito is no longer happy with plain noodles, and I can't blame him seeing as they pretty much taste like water. Since he can't do tomato sauce, I've been mixing all sorts of other vegetables together. I've found that pretty much anything that starts out with roasted red, orange, or yellow bell peppers and olive oil ends up great. Most recently, I made a sauce with roasted peppers and carrots. Yum!


This Baby Bento contains:

• Rice Pasta w/ Roasted Pepper and Carrot sauce
• Chicken-Apple Meatballs (with onion, too)
• Red Grapes cut in quarters
• Steamed Broccoli Slaw

Also posted at What's for Lunch at Our House

Animals and Confetti Bento

I've really been enjoying my extra time with the little man! We are lucky enough to live near a city park, so every morning, we walk over to the playground then come back home for a well earned morning nap. While Senorcito is asleep, I work on his lunch. We've been having success recently with a specialty rice bread from EnerG Foods. Honestly, I can't eat even a bite of the stuff, but the bambino loves it (I do enjoy their English Muffins, though)! Usually, I cut all of his food into bite size pieces, but he's been shoveling everything in so fast, I don't think he's learning to chew properly. I decided he could work on his chewing with some animal shaped bread. It worked!

Today's Lunch

• EnerG Rice Bread Animals (scraps are hidden under the meat)
• Cherries and Blueberries
• Confetti Veggies: Roasted Carrots, Red Bell Pepper, Cucumber
• Ground Chicken

Senorcito at the park!

At Home Bento

While I no longer need to pack meals for my son and I, I have already found myself missing our colorful boxed lunches. Senorcito was the happy recipient of this stay at home bento lunch. I admit, I had to cut the food into smaller bites for the actual consumption, but I thought it looked nice to have larger pieces of food for a change. Needless to say, the kid devoured his lunch without any issues. He even ate the kale and onions!

Lunch Contents

• Roasted Sweet Potatoes
• Sweet Cherries
• Homemade Chicken-Apple Meatballs
• Sauteed Kale and Onions

I'm happy to be able to participate this week in What's for Lunch Wednesday!

Change of Life Bento

It seems life has had a lot of extra challenges for us this year. Last Monday, I packed meals and snacks for my son and I as usual. However, I ended up being laid off that morning. Even though, some consider a packed lunch to be just food, when you take the extra time and thought into making it something special, there's a connection with everything packed. After packing my lunch with good intentions at home, it felt very odd to eat it back at home after what had happened. While I'm not sure exactly where life is going to take us from here, one thing that will not change is the fact that we still need to eat! Maybe, I will now find the time to actually post about all this food I make for my little guy. For now, Senorcito and I are enjoying all our extra time together. He's such a fantastic little man!

Senorcito's Food

• Breakfast - Green Grapes, Blueberries, Kix (trialing)
• Lunch - Chicken-Apple Meatballs, Okra, Pink & Purple Potatoes, Butternut Squash
• Snack - Enjoy Life Happy Apple Cookie, Plum
  
  
  
  My Lunch
• Pink and Purple Potatoes
• Plum
• Cucumber and Roasted Pepper Salad
• Chicken-Apple Meatballs, Butternut Squash