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  Please contact me at LisaShanahan@gmail.com with your address and I'll get your bento book in the mail. Congrats!Thank you to everyone who entered the book giveaway. Maisie returns to school on August 16 so new bento pictures will start again.

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I was recently contacted by the Marketing and Social Media Coordinator for Quirk Books and she asked if I would be interested in receiving a review copy of Yum-Yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches, by Crystal Watanabe and Maki Ogawa. I quickly wrote back and let her know that I would love to receive the book BUT that I wanted to offer that book to one of my readers as I had already

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Today was Maisie's first day of regular gymnastics camp and since she'd be at the gym from 9am-3PM she needed not only her lunch but a snack too.  Her best buds K & A are attending camp this week with her so I had to include some extra treats for them too, thus the two extra marshmallow ice cream cones. Snack today consisted of raisins and Whales.  For lunch Maisie had cheese pizza

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Today was the final day of Elite Gymnastics Camp and snack consisted of peanut butter crackers & raisins.  Lunch was spinach quiche, a fig bar, jelly and grapes. Maisie ate everything but one quiche  & the raisins that she ended up eating in the car on the drive home.  

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Another day of Elite Gymnastics Camp so a snack and a bento.  Snack consisted of peanut butter crackers & raisins and lunch was a grilled cheese on wheat flower sandwich with a peanut butter, marshmallow and fairy sprinkle center as well as grapes and a jelly. Maisie finished everything but about half of the crackers and she said that she really didn't care for them.

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Today Maisie attended her gym's Elite Team Camp so I had to send in her lunch bento as well as a snack.  Her snack was the bag of Whales and the raisins.  Her lunch included cheese pizza, mango jelly and a marshmallow ice cream cone. Maisie finished every bit of her lunch and snack, she was one hungry little gymnast!

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Today was Maisie's final day of Kindergarten, I can't believe that my little girl is going to be a big first grader!! For her final kindergarten bento I packed one of her favorite meals, pasta with Bolognese & cheese, grapes and garlic bread. Maisie ate like a champ and finished everything in her bento.

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Spinach quiche, grapes and mango jelly. Maisie ate everything but two of the quiche which she finished on the drive home from school.

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Ham & cheese on a home baked croissant, grapes and jelly. Maisie ate half of the sandwich, all the grapes and the jelly.  On the drive home from school she finished off the other half of the sandwich.

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Peanut butter on wheat, fig bar, mango jelly and grapes. Maisie ate every last drop of this bento!

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Today was a two bento day, the first was for lunchtime at school and the second was for Maisie's gymnastics practice.  Her practices are now three hours long so they take a break for a snack and Maisie has said that she's been hungry and wants more than I was giving her and asked that I pack her a bento. Mac & cheese with a ham & cheese flower with a broccoli center, grapes, an I

Lisa~~http://www.blogger.com/profile/02632507779742615043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552531690506498013.post-26775611546930222072010-05-05T21:05:00.001-04:002010-06-15T21:09:57.138-04:00

Grilled cheese on wheat heart sandwich, grapes, jelly, carrot sticks and lite ranch dip in the sad looking Hello Kitty container. A couple of carrots returned home uneaten but overall Maisie did a good job.

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Chocolate peanut butter on wheat heart sandwich, mango jelly, grapes and a chocolate in the pink foil. Only a couple of grapes and about two bites of the sandwich returned home uneaten.

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Ham & cheese roll-ups with carrot centers, grapes, grape jelly and and I love you chocolate. Maisie enjoyed this bento, eating everything but one little carrot center.

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Ham & cheese roll-ups, carrots, grapes, apple jelly, milk chocolate candy and lite ranch dip in the Hello Kitty container. One of the roll-ups and half of the carrots came home uneaten.  Maisie did though totally love the chocolate and asked to have it in all her bentos.  Yep, she's my girl, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!

Lisa~~http://www.blogger.com/profile/02632507779742615043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552531690506498013.post-57057967884132880162010-04-27T16:17:00.013-04:002010-06-12T01:29:41.322-04:00

After a week of spring break followed by our wonderful two week transatlantic cruise, it was time to get back in the groove of packing bento for Maisie.  Unfortunately my good camera is back in the shop so I'm using my point & shoot but I'll make due. Today Maisie had chocolate peanut butter on wheat heart sandwiches, raisins, half of a clementine and a strawberry jelly. Maisie is

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Today Maisie's class celebrated Easter so I did a bit of an Easter themed bento with a bunny shaped grilled cheese on wheat sandwich, carrot sticks, broccoli, lite ranch dip in the Hello Kitty container and even a double helping of treats with a gummy bunny and chick.One piece of broccoli, a carrot stick and about two bites of her sandwich returned home uneaten but overall she ate well.And just

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Lo mein, carrot sticks, raisins, gummy squirrel and lite ranch dip in the Hello Kitty container.Maisie loves lo mein and ate every drop of her bento.

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Mac & cheese with a carrot coin and broccoli flower, raisins, gummy owl, lite ranch dip in the Hello Kitty container & a grape jelly.Only two little carrot coins remained uneaten. Maisie did ask for more gummy owls as she said it was delish!!

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Homemade chicken noodle soup, raisins, grape jelly and a light Laughing Cow cheese.A few stray noodles remained in the thermos when Maisie returned home.

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Imitation crab meat, broccoli, lite ranch dip in the Hello Kitty container, mango jelly & red grapes.This was a very successful bento as Maisie ate every last drop.

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Mac & cheese, grapes and a jelly.Oh so boring but Maisie enjoyed it. I did put way too much mac & cheese in as I was using up what I had, so when about 1/3 of it returned home uneaten, I wasn't too surprised.

Lisa~~http://www.blogger.com/profile/02632507779742615043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552531690506498013.post-87579217797039216882010-03-23T22:49:00.000-04:002010-04-02T22:34:41.227-04:00

Spinach and cheese quiche, grapes and a green marshmallow frog. The first thing that Maisie said to me when I picked her up from school was that I forgot to put a jelly in her bento. Funny little jelly loving girl. Maisie ate all but one quiche.

Lisa~~http://www.blogger.com/profile/02632507779742615043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552531690506498013.post-36368676918909474962010-03-22T22:25:00.000-04:002010-04-02T22:47:32.569-04:00

Red grapes, pineapple jelly, lite ranch dip in the Hello Kitty container, chicken & spinach pizza and broccoli.Maisie ate everything but two small pieces of broccoli and a bit of the pizza crust.

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Multi-grain chips, a kebab of ham & cheese roll-ups and grapes, extra grapes and a marshmallow pink cat. One lone red grape was all that Maisie left in her bento.

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