Holidays
Recycle What’s In Your Lunchbox!
Plastic cups, juice boxes, baggies, lids.. You could recycle these items OR you could save yourself a money at the craft store and make things with it!
Food & Home
Basketball Bento Lunches to Celebrate the NBA Finals (Warriors vs. Cavaliers)
Calling all NBA fans! We’ve got a fun food craft for school lunch or just a NBA Finals viewing party. Lots of fun ideas to celebrate the Golden State Warriors, the Cleveland Cavaliers or just basketball.
Holidays
A Love Letter Lunch for your Child on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is an exciting day for young kids so we created this fun (and healthy) lunch including a “love letter” sandwich and “heart” berries! Learn how to make one too.
Food & Home
A Magical Unicorn Bento Box Kids Lunch
Learn how to make the most adorable lunch in the world! A lunch filled with unicorns, rainbows, sprinkles and nutrition, too!
Food & Home
Why I Make My Kids Pack Their Own Lunches (And One Thing That Makes It Even Easier)
Teach your kids how to make their own crustless sandwiches and get one step closer to crossing making school lunches off your daily to-do list.
Holidays
A Spooky Ghost Bento Box for Halloween Lunch
Halloween falls on a school day this year, so here’s an idea for a Halloween bento lunch to take to school. Also, if you’re hosting a Halloween party, you can deconstruct these lunch components and serve them.
Food & Home
A Baseball-Themed Lunch for Little League Season
Have a kid or kids crazy for baseball? Tis the season. We’ve got a cute baseball-themed lunch box idea perfect for school or for noshing in the stands during practice.
Food & Home
Citrus Sweet Potato Pinwheels for the Lunchbox (Cooking For & With Kids)
Amalah shows you how to make the of leftovers from her popular kids’ recipe of citrus mashed sweet potatoes.
Food & Home
A Not-Too-Cutesy St. Patrick’s Day Lunch for Bigger Kids
A “green” and healthy lunch idea to celebrate St. Patricks’s Day for older kids who are not into the cutesy of the holiday.
Food & Home
5 Minute Microwave Quiche for the Lunch Box
My kids enjoy taking hot lunches to school in thermal jars, but sometimes I get into a rut packing the same things over and over. Enter the 5-minute Microwave Quiche for the Lunch Box! It’s super fast to throw together and I almost always have the ingredients for it in the fridge.
Food & Home
4 Flowery Ideas for Kids’ Lunches
Celebrate spring with four fun, flowery foods kids will love. These are perfect for a spring bento box lunch, or kids can eat them at breakfast or snack time.
Big Kid
Independence For Lunch, One Way Or Another
Challenging my teenager to manage her own school lunches is giving me palpitations, but it’s time and—one way or another—she can handle it.
Food & Home
A Special Lunch for the 100th Day of School
The hundredth day of school (also known as the “100 Days of School”) is coming up for kids across the country! Especially students in younger grades will celebrate when they reach the 100th day. Here’s how to make a special lunch for your student.
Crafts
Talk Like A Pirate Day School Lunch Stickers!
These pirate stickers help transform packed school lunch into a festive affair, great for celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day and or any school day.
Food & Home
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bento Box Lunch
Have a child at home who loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Here’s a tutorial for a great and fun TMNT sandwich design for your bento box or parties.
Family Fun
Transformers Bento Box Lunch for the Rising Kindergartner
To celebrate a preschooler moving up to Kindergarten we used Transformers to help him understand the process. Here’s how to make a Transformers Bento Box lunch.
Crafts
Everyday Bento Box Party of One!
Bento Boxes are great to get picky eaters to try new and fun foods. Now, there’s a book to help you plan and create fun lunch and snack bentos.
Big Kid
Lunch Boxes Of The Teen And Quirky
Worried that your teen is the only one whose lunch isn’t Pinterest-worthy? Allow me to make you feel a lot better about your life (and lunch) choices.
Crafts
Printable Lunch Box Jokes
These printable (and FREE) lunch box jokes are a great way to add some fun to your child’s day!
Products & Services
Star Wars Sandwich Cutters
Yet another reason to look forward to back-to-school… Star Wars sandwich cutters. Lunch can be fun AND nutritious.