I’ve been waiting a long time to share this project with you and the day has finally arrived!  I’m *so excited to write this post! A dear friend of mine named Melissa Sharp started what quickly became a very successful blog {♥} about making healthy, waste-free bento style lunches for your kids (I must admit, I make them for my husband and myself sometimes too!). Melissa and I lived just down the street from each other growing up, I used to borrow her gorgeous clothes and we made lists of all the boys we liked and ate saltines on the bus to school (she also coincidentally introduced me to the new MINI SALTINES! {♥} Squeee! Aren’t they cute!?!) Melissa was and is one of my dearest friends. Her blog has been mentioned by the equally fabulous Jamie Oliver {♥} on his FB page. She is the #1 blog {♥} in the food & drink category over at {♥} Top Mommy Blogs and she has done many wonderful giveaways to benefit others {♥} She’s got a big heart and a lot of love.

Somehow Melissa and I got to talking one day and made a plan for a little makeover for her blog, of course I was happy to work with her, what better joy than to design for a dear friend!?  Over the next several months, we worked together getting together the new look Melissa wanted and then it was time to put it together.. dun, dun, duuuun… well, though Melissa knew a lot more than I about HTML, she made the wise decision to bring Shalon from Pretty Lovely Design {♥} onto our team! It was perfect! And now Melissa could do what she does best; writing & making adorable healthy lunches and Shalon, could do what she does best and bring everything we had worked on to life!  She did a great job as you can see and was such a pleasure to work with!  Thanks so much Shalon!

Go Check it out {♥}

Now, it’s possible that you have never heard about bento lunches, so I wanted to share a few of my favorites that Melissa has done with you to give you an idea about how wonderful, fun & healthy they are, not only for your kids, but for the planet too! No more plastic baggies, not more wasteful packaging! Yay!

Aren’t those gorgeous!? AND.. wouldn’t you want to have a lunch like that to eat each day?!? My favorite thing about Meilssas blog is that she makes lunches that are simple enough for the average mom to make.. and I dont know about you, but I NEED that! I have seen other bento blogs that make food so decorated and complicated that is scarcly resembles food anymore! Dont get me wronge, there are some truly amazing bento lunches out there artistically speaking.. but, while they might make the artist in me go, “wow!” they never look apetizing to me in the least. Melissa has the perfect balance. Some of her lunches are pretty fancy {♥} but they still look like FOOD, and like something that you’d actually WANT to eat!

Melissa also has a tab {♥} for a lot of great recipes on her new site too!  These {♥} look so delicious, and I am looking forward to making them for my little guy!

And check this out:

She has posts where she shows you the ‘Tools of the Trade’ {♥} as well as how to get started {♥} making Bento lunches!  Genius I tell you, and so, so sweet!

Did I mention that she does all of this while being a spectacular wife and mother to FOUR beautiful children!!?!! She’s so inspiring and it’s such a blessing to know her! I can honestly say that I’m a better person for having known her all these years. So, here’s to you Melissa, may your success & life continue to be blessed! I love you! xoxo

Eep! Also, you can ‘Like’ the Another Lunch’ FB page here {♥}
and tweet with her too! {♥}

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