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I promised to do a giveaway when I got to 1000 likes on Facebook. I didn’t forget! This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for many things, family, friends, a wonderful house and neighborhood, my group of bento bloggers who have been so supportive, and I’m also grateful for you. Yes, YOU! I started this blog as a way of helping a handful of friends with creative ideas, and now there are almost 1100 people on Facebook alone that follow bentoriffic, over 600 on twitter (bentoriffic) , over 600 on Instagram (bentoriffic), over 500 on Pinterest and the list goes on. I really am grateful that you care, comment, read and offer suggestions. I’ve gone from carnivore to vegan, inspired and creative to some days just throwing it together like we moms do some days. I appreciate you sticking with me through it all. THANK YOU!!!
These are the only turkeys my kids are eating this year. I used pie crust cutters I had from last year as sandwich cutters.
My 4 year old’s lunch is a flock of turkeys on Rudi’s Whole Grain bread stuffed with almond butter. Above the turkeys are a sliced kiwi and cashews. In the top compartments are pineapple, honeydew and cantaloupe pieces packed in her Easy LunchBoxes container.
My 2 year old from the top left has raspberries, 2 of the same turkey shaped sandwiches on almond butter, maple leaf shaped watermelon pieces and dried cherries, Marcona almonds with maple leaf dried apricots on top packed in her LunchBots Quad.
DETAILS OF THE LOOT!
I decided on 2 separate prizes for the giveaway.
The first person will win the following:
1 complete set of Easy Lunchboxes
1 CuteZCute cutter kit
2 sets of cookie cutter shapes and 3 sets of bento picks
The first drawing is open to residents of North America only.
The second prize will be a $35 credit to spend at Bento USA by All Things For Sale and is open to readers worldwide.
All you have to do to enter to win is leave me a comment telling me what you are grateful for this year and in which country you live. Please make sure you leave me a way to contact you, please!
Both winners will be chosen when the contest ends on Wednesday, November 28th at 11:59pm by random.org. You will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
Tortilla roll ups
Posted June 14, 2012
on:- In: bento | casein free | eating local | Foods | kids | lunchbox | plant based | Spring | Summer | Vegan | Vegetarian
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I ran out of creative steam last night so I decided to sleep on it. I woke up a bit fresher this morning, and thought Pinwheels! I haven’t done those in a long time. I usually do a sloppy job of making them. This time I didn’t put as much filling in them and loaded the girls up with other yummy things in their lunch.
Both of them have almond butter & jam on whole grain tortillas. Miss G’s version has musical note picks in them to hold them together. Below on the left are cashews and raisins, and on the bottom right are blueberry stuffed raspberries. In the top compartments are a mini homemade vegan oatmeal muffin with a tree pick and carrot and celery sticks.
Make sure to ask schools or play places if they are peanut or nut-free before your bring your lunches there. It could save a child’s life! As a rule in our family, we don’t take peanut butter out in public just as a precaution. We only eat it at home now. We pack SunButter, almond butter and sometimes even a soy based butter. There are lots of great options out there to explore that won’t endanger someone’s health.
Miss A’s version has the food she likes and will eat. She has the same mini tortilla roll ups with flower picks. Below that to the left she has picks of pineapple and blueberries and underneath those are sliced green grapes, at bottom right are cashews and a dried apricot flower. In the top left compartment is a mini oatmeal muffin with a bee pick and at the top right are raspberries. Both lunches are packed in Easy Lunch Boxes.
One lucky winner will win a boatload of lunch making goodies from my 1 year giveaway.
click the link below to see all the fun stuff and enter.
New FunBites Winner
Posted May 13, 2012
on:- In: bento | Foods | Mother's Day
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So…my original winner did NOT respond in time and left me no way to contact her. I redrew the winner this morning, and guess who won???
Here’s what Random.org chose:
That’s you,
1 | Mowie Ocampo-Hui
May 7, 2012 at 11:34 am |
I always like FUNBITES on FB
Happy Mother’s Day, Mowie! Please email me your mailing address: bentoriffic@gmail.com with your choice of FunBites cutter.
Hope everyone has a great day today!
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What better way to say you love your mother than to win a fun kitchen tool? Or one that will help kids to make their own meals! I was introduced to FunBites a few months back when they were kind enough to include me in doing a review for the Luv It cutter.
FunBites wants to celebrate Mother’s Day with my readers by giving away one of their cutters. The winner may choose which cutter they want. Please read the end of this post to find out how to win one of these!
I must admit that the first time I got the FunBites Luv It cutter, I played with it for a few minutes. Then my creative brain took over. My kids didn’t need any time to decide to play. They still think it’s a fun toy. Luckily, it is also seriously durable and washes clean quickly. I am not afraid to let them have the FunBites cutters to experiment. Yes, it’s been chucked across the table, accidentally dropped and well used by my 2 and 4 year old, and both cutters still look like new. NOT that I recommend trying it, but with toddlers anything can happen. The best part is that once you show them, even the littlest kids can use it to help make their own snacks. Mine LOVE creating shapes and playing with the pieces of bread, fruit, pitas or anything cut out of these fun food cutters.
One of the most important parts of the piece for me when spending money on my family is the kind of business I support. If you don’t think about who you’re buying from, you should. FunBites is a family-owned business started by a mom just like you and me. Their products are made of safe, BPA-free, non-leaching plastics, and are made in the USA supporting families here. Please check out their brief story here: FunBites-Our Story.
Here is one of the FunBites lunches I recently did:
For Mother’s Day, I thought it would be great to think of all the things we do. Without mom’s a house is just a house, but with love and care it becomes the place your heart and home are. The cantaloupe at the top left was cut with the Cube It FunBites cutter. At the top right is guacamole in the yellow flower cup. In the green clover cup are small, square tortilla chips I made with the Cube It FunBites cutter (see how below!) The sandwich is Justin’s almond butter & strawberry jam on Ezekiel bread all cut with the FunBites Luv It cutter shapes. The sun’s rays are soy cheese cut with the same cutter, and the hearts are fruit leather cut from the FunBites Luv It cutter too.
So for the homemade tortilla chips, I cut a whole grain tortilla (also pita bread or flatbread is easy for these too) with the Cube It FunBites cutter. I placed them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Then I lightly misted grapeseed oil (or any oil, just go easy with it) over the pieces and lightly sprinkled garlic powder over them. I placed them in the oven on my low broiler setting and placed in the middle of the oven. As long as you’re watching them, you can do this at 300-350 too. They take about 5-7 minutes depending on your oven. Again, just make sure to watch them. Because they’re small pieces, they brown quickly. My kids like the garlic chips with guacamole and hummus. You can do the same thing and use cinnamon instead of the garlic powder.
Here’s how they turned out:
And then I arranged them into a fun flowery snack with some hummus:
Don’t forget to do something special for yourself this weekend if you’re a mom!
Here’s how to win your choice of a Luv It or Cube It cutter from FunBites. You must submit separate entries for each one of these items to receive separate chances to win.
1. YOU MUST “LIKE” FunBites on Facebook
2. YOU MUST “LIKE” Bentoriffic on Facebook
Optional entries:
3. “SHARE” this post on Facebook
4. Blog about this giveaway and leave me the link to your blog in my comments
5. Follow me on my blog by subscribing to my wordpress posts.
GOOD LUCK!
This contest will go through midnight on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 10pm. I will choose a winner by random.org and contact you. You will have 48 hours to respond, or I will choose a new winner.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend!