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Pancakes and dental week bentos
Posted on: February 6, 2013
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Extra flossing and brushing are what’s going on in our house for some extra dental education. Thank goodness Miss A’s teacher reminded me it’s Dental Week this week at her school and all month long is Dental Health Awareness. They’re talking tooth care in the classroom which means I get to break out the molar picks and drill deep for my creative side! Miss A just came back from a dental visit about a week ago with a clean bill of health and a new toothbrush. She is starting to enjoy her visits so I like to keep it all fun for her while she doesn’t have any stress attached to the visits.
I don’t own any tooth cookie cutters so I had to think of what I could make. I went the easy (and lazy route) for pancakes and used Bisquick pancake mix, which is vegan. I didn’t say healthy, but it was quick. I also added 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. I used EnerG egg replacer and unsweetened almond milk in the mix in place of eggs and cow’s milk & poured it into a pancake bottle like the one below. In the top compartments of her Easy LunchBoxes containers are organic plums, blueberries and a strawberry on a “tooth” pick. Get it? I hand drew a toothpaste bottle, a molar and a small toothbrush. I accented the tooth with 2 vegan (dairy free) chocolate chips and a fruit leather mouth. Next to her lunchbox is an Easy Lunchboxes Mini Dipper container with organic maple syrup in it.
Snacktime today will be loads of fruit. From the top left in her LunchBots Quad are sliced local strawberries, d’anjou pear pieces, pinapple chunks and sliced local Minneolas which are technically tangelos but look like a small orange.
Another flirtatious lunch for my husband today with I heart you pancakes. The big stack underneath are all heart shaped pancakes and 2 small organic plums propping up the I and the U. I also included a bunch of grape tomatoes and blueberries in his Easy LunchBoxes container today. Not shown is his Mini Dippers container with maple syrup.
My other preschooler has the same lunch as above with dental themed pancakes, plums, blueberries and a strawberry on top in her Easy Lunchboxes. Happy Lunch Packing!
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Is everyone getting in gear for the holidays? I’m still planning our Thanksgiving meal. It will be just the 4 of us this year so the pressure’s off. I am starting to get a bit jittery about the holidays. So much to do! It’s all good, family fun though.
Miss A doesn’t have school this week so I’m just packing for Miss G, 4, and her preschool lunch. I made some almond butter mini pocket sandwiches with Rudi’s brand Honey Sweet Whole Wheat bread. It helps to flatten the bread a bit before making these pockets so the filling is less likely to pop through the bread. To the right of her mini sandwiches are watermelon hearts surrounded by steamed edamame and dried apricot tulips. In the bottom tier from the left are black seedless grapes, a piece of cauliflower, 2 Hail Merry macaroons in between the cups, and a silicone flower cup of grape tomatoes on the right.
Miss G’s snack is 2 Crimson Gold organic apples, sliced plums, mango hearts and a dried apricot shape on a ring pop holder.
I will be posting my Thankful Giveaway on Wednesday of this week. Stay tuned and come back to enter to win some fun goodies! It will be a good one!
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Lunch for a princess
Posted on: November 13, 2012
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Mom’s had her hands in the Play Doh collection again. I found a mini Cinderella crown cutter in the Play Doh stash so I’ve scoured it off and I’m using it for lunches now. Miss G has a princess sandwich today cut with a LunchPunch sandwich cutter. She has yellow and red grape tomatoes surrounding the sandwich. At the top left are crown shaped cantaloupe pieces with a princess wand pick and at the top right are kiwi slices with a tiara on top packed in her Easy LunchBoxes container.
For her snack today, my 4 year old has a Happy Tiffin stainless bento filled with sliced mangos, a peeled clementine, 2 Crimson Gold tiny apples and whole cashews.
My 2 year old had leftovers from last night. She had plums, carambola (star fruit) spaghetti squash with marinara sauce topped with dairy free parmesan and pineapple chunks packed in her LunchBots Quad stainless lunch container.
Happy lunch packing!
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Go Vote!
Posted on: November 6, 2012
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Today is an important day. Not the day to be apathetic & say that your voice doesn’t make a difference. It does. As Americans, we have the great privilege of living in a country that allows us freedoms and rights that were fought for and earned. Regardless of who you will vote for, please go today and exercise your rights!
GO VOTE!
I made Miss G a patriotic bento today. She has grilled non-dairy grilled cheese (Daiya brand) sandwiches on whole grain and pumpernickel with 2 tiny crimson gold apples and a Liberty Bell pick, dried apricots and an Easy LunchBoxes mini dippers container with cashews. In the top left compartment are yellow and red grape tomatoes and at the top right is vegan pesto pasta with an American flag pick packed in her Easy LunchBoxes container.
Miss G’s snack from the top left are carambola/star fruit slices, a peeled clementine, star shaped watermelon pieces and plum slices in her LunchBots Uno.
Miss A has her scaled down version of the same lunch. From the top left she has sliced strawberries, vegan pesto pasta, watermelon stars and Daiya grilled (dairy free) cheese sandwiches.
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It’s Meatless Monday! I’ll post my variation of the recipe below for those interested. Miss G has forbidden (black) rice topped with stir-fryed veggies and a small sauce container of soy. At the top left are dried cranberries, goji berries and dried edamame. At the top right is a pumpkin clementine all packed in her Easy LunchBoxes container.
Meatless Monday Stir Fry with rice:
Choose any kind of rice that you have handy and cook. While rice is cooking, cut up the vegetables that you’d like in your stir fry. I had broccoli, onions and carrots. I saute them in water and cook until tender. I also made a first attempt at brown sauce. I used 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup vegetable broth, 1/3 cup of molasses, 1 teaspoon of grated ginger and 3 teaspoons of minced garlic. Next time I will add 1 tsp of cornstarch at a time until it thickens a bit. This sauce is definitely something you make to suit your taste. My kids won’t eat a lot of ginger so I minimize it. Cook ingredients in a sauce pot over medium heat for about 5 minutes and pour over rice and veggies. Dinner is served!
Miss G’s Happy Tiffin container is filled with plum sections and a half of an apple. The round container is filled with peach flavored almond milk yogurt.
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That’s a wrap!
Posted on: October 4, 2012
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Today was a leftover day. Come on! I can’t pull out spectacular on a daily basis 😉 I had some Rudi’s brand spelt tortillas and rice with black eyed peas just calling my name from the fridge. So I rolled them up and made them lunch.
Miss G is reading now (at 4.5) which means I can’t spell out the things I don’t want her to hear any more. BUT it does mean I can start small with lunchbox notes. I wrote on her clementine today in marker and made a weird looking heart out of it to tell her “I Love You!”. The Goodbyn bynto box fits the water bottle in the middle, and at the bottom are chunks of watermelon and pineapple.
Miss G’s snack is a Happy Tiffin with a half an apple surrounded by pieces of plum. I added a leaf sticker for fun. The round container has apricot mango soy yogurt in it.
For her afternoon snack she has a pickle with black and kalamata olives on top and the top container is full of mini carrots.
Miss A has a simple lunch today. From the top left are a pink flower of plain hummus, organic corn chips, strawberry soy yogurt and pineapple and watermelon pieces packed in her LunchBots container. Not shown are organic gala apples for little Miss A’s class snack.
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For last night’s dinner we had quinoa pasta. I love that I can find healthy, fun pasta for my kids in great shapes. The Quinoa Corporation makes these garden pagodas that I cooked with Lightlife brand vegan italian sausages and marinara sauce and grape tomatoes. The thing I really like about the quinoa pasta is that it’s organic, non-GMO (not genetically modified), gluten-free and use plant based colors. Better than that they don’t get mushy and my kids love them. I decorated with vegan (non-dairy) cheese butterflies. At the bottom are two small apple slices with a butterfly and a G for Miss G with the opposite color plugged into the cutout packed in her Goodbyn bynto lunchbox.
For her snack today, Miss G has black seedless grapes, honeydew melon and the red butterfly cutout from her apple in the middle packed in her Happy Tiffin stainless bento box.
Little Miss 2 year old has the mini version of the same lunch of quinoa garden pagoda pasta, vegan italian sausage pieces, vegan cheese butterflies and a yellow flower cup of red and green apple butterfly pieces with raspberries at the top packed in her LunchBots Duo.
My husband’s lunch is the third more adult version with vegan cheese hearts, a plum at the top left and a d’anjou pear sliced at the top right packed in his Easy LunchBoxes container.
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W is for Wednesday
Posted on: September 6, 2012
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Miss G’s preschool is reviewing day in English this week, next week in Spanish. Wednesday’s lunch is leftover dinner. We had homemade fusilli pasta from Peperonata Pasta, a local company here in Sarasota that makes delicious homemade vegan pasta. I mixed in butter beans and edamame, vegan pesto and organic cherry tomatoes in the shape of a W for Wednesday. I used a cookie cutter to stamp a messy W in a large apple piece at the top left and the top right are seedless organic black grapes packed in her Easy Lunchbox container.
For her snack today, Miss G had circles of honeydew melon and watermelon with raspberry flavored So Delicious coconut milk yogurt in the small stainless container packed in her Happy Tiffin stainless bento.
And Miss A (2) had the same smaller portions of the vegan pesto fusilli pasta too packed in her LunchBots Quad. She also had honeydew circles, pineapple and plum pieces and watermelon circles in her lunch.
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Back on the school train this week for a 4 day week. Today I used the Lunch Punch train cutter for Miss G’s sandwich. The wheels are fruit leather, and the cat is the train driver. She has watermelon pieces, strawberry hearts and small honeydew melon trains below packed in her LunchBots Uno.
Miss A had her first day back to mom’s morning out. She has a fruit heavy lunch with plums, pineapple, watermelon and raspberries and blueberries clockwise with an apple shaped sandwich for lunch packed in her sistema bento.
I also spent some quality time at the community pool over the weekend with the family. We had a chance to try out our new picnic sized bento box from BentoUSA. It was great for family sized snacks without the runny mess! Hope everyone had some quality downtime to recharge over the weekend.
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Oui! Oui! Lunch in Paris!
Posted on: August 9, 2012
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Anyone who knows me well knows I’ve been obsessed with everything French since high school. I’ve never been to Paris or anywhere in France so at this point it’s a romantic dream and a bucket list item of mine to visit Paris and spend time roaming the countryside in Provence. We read a lot of Madeline books too so my girls are familiar with the Eiffel Tower and many things French.
I decided to make my Parisian obsession into lunches for the girls. I used an Eiffel Tower cookie cutter for the sandwich and pastry cutters for the LOVE hearts for the “City of Love”. I also made croissants (crescent rolls) that I stuffed with a few vegan chocolate chips for a special treat today which I rarely do. The PARIS letters are cut with mini alphabet cutters in Stretch Island grape fruit leather. At the top left are sugar snap peas cut in half and cashews with a French poodle pick. At the top right are kiwi pieces and cloud shaped cantaloupe since it rains in Paris a lot with a black Eiffel Tower pick. Lunch is packed in our good ol’ reliable Easy Lunch Boxes.
Little Miss 2 year old had a French poodle today. The eyes and nose are Stretch Island Fruit Leather as well as the BONJOUR letters. The poodles ear, tail & legs have mini vegan marshmallows stuck on with a dab of agave. She had the same croissant as big. At the top left is a half of a plum and at the top right are kiwi pieces and cantaloupe clouds packed in her Easy Lunchbox.
For my husband’s lunch, I got most of the salad ingredients at the local farmer’s market here in Sarasota, FL. Baby spinach leaves, organic sprouts, raw walnuts, seasoned pumpkin seeds and orange heirloom tomatoes. In addition are sugar snap peas and plums packed in an Easy Lunchbox.
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STILL TIME TO ENTER MY GIVEAWAY!
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