Posts Tagged ‘Easter’
Easter past
Posted April 5, 2012
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I already know that tomorrow’s going to be an insanely busy day so I’m posting 2 lunches I did long ago before my blogging universe began. I started blogging about 11 months ago, and this was one of my first lunches that I made for little Miss G from my original cookie cutters. Please keep in mind that these are NOT vegan lunches, just ideas that can be replaced with other ideas. Also, I had a much worse camera then too!
The two sandwiches were cookie cutters, and I’ll be were turkey & mozzarella if I had to guess. The flower is a piece of fruit leather cut with a fondant flower cutter. The mushrooms are biscuits with chocolate tops that I found at our local asian market. To the far right is a pick of edamame, cashews, strawberry flowers, carrots at the bottom, and in the middle is a BabyBel cheese with part of the wax removed to make a toadstool.
The lunch below was a whole wheat sandwich thin cut into an egg shape with colby jack cheese on top in a bunny shape nested in whole wheat pasta. The face was made of noir (seaweed paper) which my kids did NOT like. To the left are alfalfa sprouts, mini carrots. On the right are grape tomatoes, blueberries, an apple cut into a tulip shape and a piece of lettuce below that.
The last lunch is another bunny sandwich on whole wheat with a provolone cheese face. To the left are halved mini carrots, broccoli at the bottom, and on the right is a colby jack cheese carrot with alfalfa sprout top, cinnamon almonds, raspberries and a sliced kiwi. All 3 lunches were packed in a LunchBots stainless container.
Eggstrordinary Lunch
Posted April 2, 2012
on:Well, not really, but this is the closest to eggs my kids are getting this year! It’s Easter week! Be sure to check out my post this Wednesday too. My blogger friends and I are doing a Bunny Hop so you can get dozens of ideas no matter what holiday you’re celebrating.
Today’s lunch is egg themed. Miss G has a whole grain sandwich with almond butter & strawberry jam. On top is a strip of soy cheese with a few colored sprinkles. Above that is a pink plastic egg filled with dried cherries. At the top right are egg shaped mango pieces with a bunny pick and at the bottom right are small purple and orange tomatoes.
Miss A has the same sandwich as Gabby today with a soy cheese strip. Her dots are made from fruit leather and dried apricots. Above that in the pink bunny are dried cherries. At the top right are blueberries and an egg shaped dried apricot. And in the pink flower are egg shaped honeydew melon pieces with a bunny pick. Both girls have ice water with their lunch.
Butterflies and flowers at home
Posted March 14, 2012
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It’s spring break week here in Florida so the girls are eating at home. It’s incredibly warm here again too so it feels like spring too. Miss G is definitely in a girly girl phase. Everything must be princesses, pink, flowery and fancy. I went with butterflies for today’s theme. In the yellow butterfly cup is leftover cannellini bruschetta with rice vinegar, fresh basil from the garden, mini heirloom and grape tomatoes from the local market mixed with salt & pepper. It’s great on bread but awesome without it too. At top right on the plate are heart-shaped strawberries, below that is a small black plum cut into a butterfly shape with pick antennae. Her sandwich is a whole grain bread butterfly with almond butter and agave nectar. On top are peeled plum slices on the wings and another slice of black plum for the body and more colored picks for antennae.
Little A had a flower themed lunch today. Since she turned 2 it’s pretty much anyone’s guess as to whether she’ll devour the whole lunch or smile and chuck it all on the floor. Today she went with option C which was to push the food around on her plate a bit, make a pattern in the applesauce and then proclaim that she’s “all done”. I try. Her sandwich is a whole grain flower with almond butter and agave with a blueberry on top and a snap pea crisp for the stem. The yellow flower cup has cinnamon applesauce and a grape in it. Below that are sections of black plum in a flower shape and next to that are a couple of strawberry flowers.
R is for Rabbit
Posted March 6, 2012
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I know it’s WAY too early to be bringing out Easter already, but the kids found my Easter cookie cutter stash last night. It’s “R” week at school so rabbits it is.
Miss G has a big earred rabbit with Veggy brand “cheese” for eyes and nose and the whiskers are fruit leather. The sandwich is almond butter & jam on whole grain bread. At the top right in the squished yellow bunny are cashews, below that are fresh plum slices topped with a prune that she didn’t finish for breakfast. At the top left are watermelon rabbits and below that a few mini carrots.
Today little A gets her own mini version of the R theme. The round rabbit sandwich and the letter R are both almond butter. One has fruit & the other a bit of agave nectar. In the top left star are mandarin oranges, in the green rabbit cup are pineapple chunks and watermelon rabbits and in the orange rabbit container are cashews. Both girls have ice water with their lunches.
Spring lunch in a hurry
Posted February 24, 2012
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The girls are off to play this morning so mommy can get a few things accomplished this morning. I decided last minute to have them stay through lunch. Miss G gets a flower LunchPunch cut sandwich with almond butter & jam. She has red grapefuit in the purple cup and a peeled & sliced kiwi in the pink cup. The flower cutout has agave nectar in it and inside the heart container are Craisins all packed in her Easy Lunch Box.
Little Miss A has a smaller version. Her is an almond butter & jam in whole grain bread made from the new LunchPunch set. She got a little ice cream cone, agave nectar to stick sprinkles and fruit leather for the cone details which are SURE to fall off from all the shaking she does. She insists on wearing her “pack pack” and RUNS with it on so I’m sure it doesn’t look cute by the time she eats hers. On the right are dried apricots, sliced strawberries and Craisins in the heart container packed in her LunchBots stainess Duo. Both girls have ice water in kids CamelBak bottles with their lunch.