This went together quickly this morning. I made the soy sauce sesame oil marinated soba noodles and boiled the quail eggs last night so it was just a matter of putting it all together this morning. The top has the soba noodles with a spinach quail egg flower. The bottom has pistachios, raisins, nori snacks, and a bit of chocolate. Annie's also has two figs. Can't get Nissa to eat them, they're too fuzzy she says. Oh well!

Lots of rows of different things and some pistachios. There's a row of mini summer sausages, carrots, and kamaboko (pressed fish, surimi) in the bottom. In the top there's a row of pickles and nori snacks and finally, a container of the only non row thing, pistachios!

No, there aren't any peaches in these lunches they're just peachy colored. It's really just leftover rice hot dish with potato ears and carrot decorations on the top. On the bottom is melon with a container of yogurt and melon hearts. Really easy!

The second entirely too hot for me summer in a row is coming to an end. I am not looking forward to summers if this is what global warming means. We'll need a summer place in the North Pole soon! But alas, cooler weather is here and the green of summer is turning into the brown of fall, hence the green and brown bentos. The top tier has alternating slices of apples and kiwis with a few picks and grass for decorations. The bottom tier has, in Nissa's, three mini corn dogs leftover from grandpa's birthday dinner last night and in Annie's, two corn dogs and two fish sticks. Both girls also have containers of garlic mashed potatoes decorated with cooked carrots. In the covers of both, I snuck in some pieces of chocolate too.  And that's all folks!

So this has the same ingredients as Nissa's with the addition of mini super flavorful tomatoes. It's arranged completely differently (obviously!) which always amazes me in how different the lunches look. Oh, the bread. I snuck it under the lid of this bento. It was just big enough for one small piece.

If a butterfly lands in Nissa's lunch, will it stop a hurricane from happening? Sorry, nerd girl coming through. The butterfly is a piece of sour dough bread with seaweed decorations. In the three containers are fresh mozzarella and basil, melon and grapes, and finally Annie's taco cheese shell turkey carrot hotdish decorated with more fresh basil too. She's already approved it all, yay!

Last night I made Spanish rice with beans and chicken (super easy in the rice cooker with salsa, chicken stock, canned beans, and chopped chicken). Everyone ate it AND loved it. That doesn't happen all the time but when it does, it makes lunches for the next day nice and easy! The bottom tiers are the rice decorated with Thyme flowers and cheese. The tops are grapes and kiwi. Can't get much simpler than that.