2 Princess Bride Party

I'm continuing with the pirate theme today, since yesterday was the 25th anniversary of my all-time favourite movie, The Princess Bride!  This party happened a couple of weeks ago, hosted by my good friend R, and it was so much fun she wants to make it an annual thing.  All guests were encouraged to dress in character, (my friend E as The Abino, above) and bring a themed food item.  I have to say, we have some amazingly imaginative friends!

First of all, my own offering.  I made Skewered R.O.U.S. Meatballs, which were Aidell's teriyaki pineapple chicken.

Next was R.O.U.S. Thighs and [pretzel] Turds

And what Princess Bride party would be complete without MLTs?? That is, Mutton [ham] Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches!

We also had Count Rugen Six-Finger Tuna Rolls

Fire-Swamp Chili and Screeching Eel Cutlets (bacon-wrapped mini sausages with a brown sugar glaze!)

We had a wide array of themed desserts.

And of course quenched our thirst with sparkling punch (with or without Iocaine Powder)

Ella won her very own copy of The Princess Bride book.

We made our own t-shirts for the party, check out Ella's!

Hubs'

The Westleys.

My friend S as our very own Inigo Montoya!

The whole fam!  My shirt says "Keep Calm and Carry Iocaine" (I had to buy a white maternity shirt to fit my 6 month belly.)

Such a fun evening!  We watched the movie, quoted lines, had some yummy food, and great company!
 

2 Bento #128 - Princess PB&J

Today we have some of the super yummy bread I made the other night in the shape of a Lunch Punch princess which is slathered with organic peanut butter and organic strawberry preserves.  The eyes and mouth are jumbo non-pareils.  We have an all-day conference today, so I packed some extra in her bag for snacks too, some yogurt, mini peanut butter crackers and ducky cheese crackers.  Hopefully that'll hold her over until the end of the day.

Bento #128 - Organic princess PB&J, strawberry slices, macadamia nuts, celery sticks and cheese cubes.

7 Bento #99 - Peanut Butter & Honey Lunch Punch Princess

First of all, Kiersten at The Lunch Punch totally rocks!  She sent me some absolutely adorable Lunch Punches!  A set of the brand new ultra-girly Sand*wishes* as well as the all around kid-pleasing Critter Cutters.  I am so ordering the Match & Munch set next, I can totally envision doing a big puzzle class snack like this.

I have also gone way beyond my alloted ration of Nutella sandwiches since these arrived.  I mean, just look at this fairy bread (fairy bread is an Australian kid favorite, which is where Lunch Punch originated!  It's lightly toasted or un-toasted bread, buttered, and then topped with 'hundreds and thousands' aka sprinkles.)

(Photo courtesy of Lunch Punch)

These are so cute, you really need to get some of these!  Thank you, Lunch Punch!!

Second, my 99th published bento??  Really?  I'm going to have to think up something special for #100.

Bento #99 - Peanut butter & honey Lunch Punch princess sandwich with jumbo nonpareils for "eyes" and "jewels", strawberry slices, sugar snap peas, mozzarella cheese and salad cream in the monkey sauce case.

8 Bento #97 - Princess Ham & Cheese

Today's is the first school bento of the year!  E specially asked for ham and cheese, and so that is what she got, but with a cute twist.  The "jewels" are jumbo nonpareils affixed with a tiny bit of cream cheese.

Bento #97 - Princess ham & cheese on 12 grain bread, cucumber flowers, organic green grapes and mini peanut butter crackers.

Here it is all packed up!

To illustrate how awesome the Sanrio HK lunchbag is - containers are stored and carried upright, so no spillage!  And plenty of room, too.

0 Princess Ballerina Party

Whew!  Yesterday my daughter and I hosted a princess ballerina GIRLY party for her friends.  We had decorations, favors, food and a cake!  I did tortilla rollups, guacamole, white chocolate berry and macadamia nut cookies and snack mix (this is just a shot before everyone else showed up with their goodies.)

Flower basket cake from Publix

Punch I made with V8 Splash (Tropical) and gingerale

The girls were adorable, we all had a blast!