Healthy Fast Food Bento

My wife wanted chicken nuggets and fries for lunch, and since we don't eat fast food I made a healthier bento instead.
I know you are wondering how I could make Fries and Chicken nuggets healthy... well check it out!

Fries and Chicken Nuggets Bento

• Sweet Potato Waffle Fries (Baked in the oven)
• Gluten Free Chicken Nuggets (Nitrate Free, Antibiotic Free, Baked Chicken Nuggets)
• Lettuce

I bought Applegate Farms Gluten Free Chicken Nuggets, and Alexandria Sweet Potato Fries and I baked them at home, I filled the bottom of the small bento box with lettuce leaves then I added the crisp fries and crunchy nuggets. She didn't want any dipping sauce, so I didn't get to add a cute sauce container. Oh well.

Chocolate Fluffinutter Popcorn

Peanut Butter, Marshmallow Fluff, Chocolate, and Popcorn could only mean one thing...
Chocolate Fluffinutter Popcorn!

This is a simple recipe that I didn't use any measurements with. So use as much or as little of any ingredient you'd like.

• Air Popped Popcorn (Can use Microwave popcorn if you don't have an air popper)
• Peanut Butter (I used unsweetened natural peanut butter)
• Dark Chocolate Chips
• Marshmallow Fluff
• Sea Salt (Optional)
• Pam Spray

Directions

1. Pop popcorn and salt it if desired. you can use Pam spray to get the salt to stick.
2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and spray it with Pam. Spread out the popcorn in a single layer.
3. In a microwave safe dish, melt the chocolate chips stirring occasionally to prevent burning.
4. Using a spoon drizzle the melted chocolate over the popcorn.
5. In a microwave safe dish warm the peanut butter stirring occasionally until smooth.
6. Drizzle the peanut butter over the popcorn.
7. In a microwave safe dish warm the fluff for about 10-15 seconds. stir vigorously until smooth.
8. Drizzle thew fluff quickly because it'll clump up fast.
9. Place the pan of popcorn into the refrigerator for about 5 minutes until it hardens.
10. Break up into chunks and serve in a large bowl.

 Enjoy!

Cute Z Cute Cutter

Look at these super cute food cutters by Cute Z Cute... This can only mean one thing...

I won the Cute Z Cute Cutter Giveaway and my package finally arrived in the mail!!!!
How exciting!! :)

 When I came home to find this package I jumped for joy!

 Inside I found my very own set of Cute Z Cute cutters. It came with 4 animal face cutter/stamps and one outline cutter, as well as a tool to help loosen the food you cut from the cutter.

 My Favorite, not surprisingly, in the Cute Pig.

 Next we have the Winking Cat

 The Smiling Frog,

 And the Happy Panda.

 Here is the outline cutter that fits on all of the faces.

And the Cute Z Cute tool to help loosen the food from the cutters.

I am looking forward to making cute sandwiches with my new cutters soon! :)

Cloudy Night Snack Bento

• Night Sky (Cocoa Pebbles)
• Stars (Brown Rice Krispies)
• Clouds (Marshmallows... they are actually ghosts that I turned on the side)
• Moon (Marshmallow)

Pig Pen Bento

Oink Oink, Here is another Pig themed bento. I found some Pig shaped gummy candies and I couldn't resist buying a couple so I could make a Pig Bento.

I used a Garden Lites Souffle and carrots to make the Pig Face.

• Pig Face (Pizza Souffle and Carrot Slices)
• Pig Pen Mud (Cocoa Pebbles)
• 2 Gummy Pigs
• 1 Chocolate Pig (GF Cookie)
• 1 Vanilla Pig (GF Cookie)

This Pig Pen snack consists of Unsweetened Applesauce and Pig Sprinkles. Aren't they cute?

Aquarium Dessert Bento

I had a few gummy lobsters and a gummy shark so I was planning on making an under the sea bento, but then my work got in some chocolate caramel turtles, and I found a mutant gummy worm that looked like an octopus so I got the idea to make this Aquarium Bento.

• Water (Gluten Free Brown Rice Krispies)
• Gravel (Cocoa Pebbles)
• Seaweed (Cabbage)
• Octopus (Gummy Worms stuck together and rolled up)
• Lobsters (Gummy Lobsters)
• Shark (Gummy Shark)
• Turtles (Chocolate Covered Caramel)

I know the cabbage isn't really a dessert, but I wanted to add at least one healthy thing to this bento to help break up all the sugar.

Mouse Bento

Eek! A Mouse crept into my bento box....

I found a sweet potato that had a tail and looked a little like a mouse so I knew what I wanted to make for this bento.

• Vegetable Medley (Sauteed Zucchini. Summer Squash. Carrots, and Mushrooms)
• Nutrition Heart Healthy Nut Mix
• Raisins Mini Box (with the corner 'nibbled' from the mouse)
• Mouse (Sweet Potato body, Apple ears, Raisin eyes, Toothpick whiskers)

I  made a sweet potato pig before, and I had fun making this mouse, I think I'll keep an eye out for more sweet potatoes that I can turn into animals. :)