Friday, August 17, 2012

Easy Apple & Bear Bento School Lunches AND Easy Lunchboxes Giveaway!



We have made a ton of fun lunches in the past years, but this is the first time we have made Bento themed lunches.  We tried out Easy Lunchboxes containers and we absolutely LOVE them!  I make my kids lunches every day and have always used what seems to be a billion baggies.  I never realized how many baggies I go through until trying these out!  My boys love these containers and you can make so many cute themed school lunches that will brighten up their day at school! 

I do not have time to make fun lunches every day so I plan on using these for homemade lunchable type of lunches...using crackers, cheese, and turkey (without all of that processed junk). Also the pizza style lunchables that they have as well (my boys always beg for those and I never want to get them not knowing what is really in it).  This is what the Easy Lunchboxes look like and you can also choose from lots of colors for the cooler pack!


We wanted to make super easy bento lunches and came up with these Apple Bento & Bear Bento themed lunches....


We came up with this A is for Apple Lunch last year and thought that would be cute to make the apple sandwich for a back to school lunch.  To make this Apple Bento we cut out a circle from our bread (use a round cookie cutter or kitchen scissors) and then snipped off a bit from the top to make a apple shape.  Spread peanut butter in the middle.  We poked a hole on top and added a gummy worm. Spread strawberry jam/jelly on the outside under and around the worm.  We cut off our crust scraps to make a stem. We cut a green grape in half to make a leaf.  My boys love apple sauce so I wrote a sweet note making a apple heart on the top. We also added pretzel sticks (apple stems). Serve with apple juice and you have a complete apple themed lunch!  You can also add apple slices in place of the apple sauce.  


We made this simple Bear Bento by cutting our bread in a circle. Use the circle as a guide to cut your other piece.  Take the crust scraps and roll them up for the ears.  You can make any type of sandwich with this. We also used the bread scraps to make the mouth. We cut a dark grape in half to make the nose and cut a raisin in half to make the eyes (use what you have). We also made a bear out of a clementine.  Cut two half small circles using a knife on the top sides.  flip them out to look like ears.  Cut off a small slice from the back side.  Cut a small circle from that using kitchen scissors to make his nose.  We drew the face on with edible black marker. You could use any black marker...they are not going to eat the peel.  We also added teddy grahams to complete our Teddy Bear Bento!


This Giveaway is over...The winner is #75!  Congrats to Wendi!!!

We are so excited to be giving away 4 Easy Lunchboxes and Cooler Bag to one of our lucky followers! 
(a retail value of $21.50) 

You can enter by leaving a comment telling me what is your favorite item from EasyLunchboxes.com (like your favorite colors, products, etc...) This is a mandatory entry!

Extra entries (you must leave separate comments on this post letting us know each entry you choose to do) ...

1.  Like Easy Lunchboxes on Facebook

2.  Follow Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons by Email (enter on the top right corner of our blog)

3.  Follow Easy Lunchboxes on Twitter

4.  Follow Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons on Facebook

5.  Follow Easy Lunchboxes on Pinterest

6.  Follow Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons on RSS Feed 

7. Follow Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons (jillm3) on Pinterest

2 Entries...Share this Giveaway on Facebook, Twitter, or on your Blog!

This giveaway closes August 24 at 11:59pm EST.  The winner will be randomly drawn through random.org and announced that same weekend. This giveaway is for US residents only. Please do not enter this giveaway if you have won or recieved free product from EasyLunchBoxes within the past 3 months

 I am sure you will love these Easy Lunchboxes as much as we do...Good Luck!

This Giveaway is over...The winner is #75!  Congrats to Wendi!!!

If you like our silly food we would love for you to follow along on our RSS feed , Facebook , & Twitter!




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  8. I love the green cooler box! So many lunch sets have horrible, glaring greens, theirs is actually very nice.

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  9. I follow your blog through Blogger.

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  10. My favorite product from the website is their aqua cooler bag. It's such a pretty color!

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  11. My favorite item from the website is their aqua cooler bag. I love that color blue!

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  15. I already follow you by email.

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  17. I like the pink lunch box on easylunchboxes.com.

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  19. My favorite color easy lunch box is green!
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  22. I like the green cooler box

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  23. and I'm following you on pinterest

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  24. I have one boy that would love the red cooler bag, one that would love the blue one and one that would love the green one! It would be hard to choose! lori at lawrencemonsters dot com

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  25. I love the containers - I am so tired of all those baggies we go through.

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  26. I like the lunch cooler in blue

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  29. I love the size of their cooler bags! The lunchbox my son had last year strained at the seams if I tried to put a bento-style lunch together, so I used way more baggies than I'd like to admit! Their color choices are great, too... very modern!

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  32. I'm already a follower on FB! :) (sarayates at gmail dot com)

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  36. Longtime follower of your RSS feed... love all the great ideas!! (sarayates at gmail dot com)

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  37. I like the purple cooler.

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  42. Love all the great lunch ideas they have!natbelinsky@verizon.net

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  44. I like the set of 4 containers and the Pink lunch bag
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  52. I tweeted this giveaway https://twitter.com/keshakeke/status/236933622937055232
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  53. These are great containers. My youngest loves anything green. I have wanted to try bento style lunches, but always felt intimidated. I will definitely make the bear themed one this year.

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  54. My favorite item is the purple lunch box!!!

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  55. My favorite item is the different colored cooler options - especially the purple!

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  66. I'm guessing my son's favorite cooler would be the olive!

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  67. Love the orange covered easy lunchbox (matches all my daughter's bright orange accessories!)

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  68. Love the color options because they work for all sorts of kids, on all sorts of days. And, I like that the lids are easy on easy off! I want to win!

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  69. I love the pink Bento boxes :)

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  76. I love these boxes, my favorite color is the orange!

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  77. Love those cooler boxes! I want one for myself and I'm a stay at home mom! Trying to go more green this year for my (4 of them) kids' lunches as we pack every day for school so this entire system would be perfect for us!

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  78. Following Easy Lunch Boxes for sure on Pinterest. have my own little board on there strictly just for kids lunches!

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  79. Following you on Pinterest as that is where I first found you. So glad I did as I made the bear sandwich for my 1st grader's lunch. Thank you for the idea!

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  82. My favorite product? The easy lunchbox of course! :) I like that you get 4 in a set and that the lids are different colors.

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  84. My favorite product is the easy lunchbox! These look awesome! I will definitely have to order these soon!

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  86. I like the pink cooler bag, and the orange one and the purple one and...:-)

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  94. I shared this giveaway on Facebook.

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  96. I like the size of these lunch boxes.

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  97. I'm so excited to use my EasyLunch boxes for my daughter. I love the size of the dividers, and I plan to use cupcake liners to divide the large square if need be. I was just making a list yesterday of possible lunch ideas so I'm organized and ready to go for school next week!

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  99. I like the olive ncooler.

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  100. I really like the cooler boxes-my daughter would love ANY of the colors!

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  105. I would love a lunch box set. My son just started 1st grade and I don't want to use all of the plastic bags and wrappers that comes with a kids lunch.

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  106. I love the container sets, but the green is my favorite lid color. :) These would be great for my daughter who hates for food to touch.

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  107. I like their 4-Container Set and the bright bags

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  108. I like the green lid color as my son is obsessed with green! He gets so excited when I present something new in "his" color!

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  117. I love all of the bright colors they are available in!

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  118. I'm loving the green bento boxes! I love bento boxes in general though because they are an awesome way to pack lunches!

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  120. I'm following Easy Lunchboxes on Pinterest too!

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  121. I liked Easy Lunchboxes on FB!

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  123. This is too much fun what a good way to get kids to eat healthy, all color's are fun

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  124. The Aqua Cooler Bag is pretty!
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  125. I love the colors of the bags! The orange is great!

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  132. I absolutely love the purple lunchbox .. purple is one of my favorite colors! Of course my boys would prefer either the green or the black! lol.

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  133. I 'liked' Easy Lunchboxes on Facebook! :)

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  134. I'm following your blog by email :)

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  135. I already follow Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons on Facebook . :)

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  136. I shared this blog post on Facebook

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  137. I shared this blog post on my blog as well. :)

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  138. I love the divided containers and all the pics of easy lunches! ;)

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  139. I love the divided containers and all the easy lunches pics! kariandy123@hotmail.com

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  140. I left a comment on here, just anonymous because I didn't have any of the other accounts...also did extra entries 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7!!! Also shared the link on Facebook....Thanks so much!!! Good Luck Everyone!!!

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  141. Love! My boys would adore these :)

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  148. I love the food decorator pens. Those look like lots of fun!

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  149. I have 3 sons that have always loved to help me on the kitchen! These would be great for packing school lunches and picnics. Love your blog and all creative ideas!

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  150. Love the compartment containers. So simple, so awesome.

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  153. #1, #7 and have been following your blog by email!

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  154. I like the aqua color bag and what an awesome idea about using it for "lunchables" I love that! My boys love lunchables but I don't like the sides that are included that contain sweeteners. Making my own with these wonderful compartments that fit amazingly well into a cooler bag would be awesome! Thanks for sharing!!

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  155. I love the aqua color bag! What an awesome idea to making my own "lunchables" especially since I don't like the sides that come with the brand especially the ones that include sweeteners. Thanks so much for sharing! Also love that the compartments fit into the bag! My son would love using this at school.

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  157. Black cooler bag is my favorite product.

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