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Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Monday, October 31, 2011
First off: found this super cool container yesterday while out running errands. And only $5.99! The Stay-Fit Lunch 2 Go container has an icepack in the lid, 3 compartments & a tray on top for small snacks or cutlery. It is much smaller than our Goodbyn boxes. (This actually fits in M's lunchbox.) I also like the larger compartment for a sandwich. (The Goodbyn boxes are hard to fit a full size sandwich. For example for this lunch I would have had to split the sandwiches up between the top compartment & the lower square.) The box does not have a space for a water container however.
Second: Halloween is finally here! The last of our fun Halloween lunches until next year. We still have some snow left on the ground from the freak snowstorm over the weekend, so it's hard to feel like we are still in October. Trick-or-treating is going to be super quick tonight!
Second: Halloween is finally here! The last of our fun Halloween lunches until next year. We still have some snow left on the ground from the freak snowstorm over the weekend, so it's hard to feel like we are still in October. Trick-or-treating is going to be super quick tonight!
M's Lunch Today:
* jam/soynut butter mummy sandwiches
(provolone cheese, nori & icing eyes for decoration)
* red & green grape kabobs
* cat pasta salad
* strawberry slices
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I pre-made T some hot dog mummies while making M's lunch, so putting together his lunch this afternoon was a cinch. I always love it when that works out!
T's Lunch Today:
* nitrate-free chicken hotdogs
(wrapped in croissant dough & icing eyes)
* ketchup for dipping
* cat mac & cheese
* pumpkin cookies
* strawberries with a pumpkin pick
My idea for yesterday's lunch came to fruition today. I didn't have any croissant dough yesterday (and just did not have the time or will to make from fresh). J stopped at the grocery last night and picked up some for me so that I could make some mummies!
M's Lunch Today:
* nitrate-free chicken hot dog "mummies"
(wrapped in croissant dough & icing eyes)
(container hold mustard for dipping)
* pumpkin cookies
* cat pasta salad with tomatoes
* strawberries with pumpkin pick
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Last night I was sitting at the kitchen table after dinner thinking about what to do for lunches today. Requirements were that it had to have a Halloween theme and involve noodles as that is what M asked for. I came up with the perfect idea and then realized that I didn't have all the ingredients needed. So, I'll just hold off on that idea until I can get to the grocery later today. J came up with idea of making a witch. And I just ran with it from there. Hope it makes M smile as much as it made me.
M's Lunch Today:
* quesadilla witch with dyed ramen noodles "hair"
(face is colored with food markers)
cheese for the face and moon & raisin wart
* pumpkin gummies
* cheese stick "fingers"
("nails" colored with food marker)
* "eyeballs" (banana slices & grapes)
* raisins with a skeleton cheese face
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Last week for the under the sea bentos I bought ramen noodles for the "water". The grocery didn't have the noodles for sale in a single pack, so I had to buy a six pack. And today M found them hiding in the pantry and practically begged to eat them for lunch. Since it's the weekend I thought I would be a super nice mom and allow it (and just close my eyes and ignore how much sodium is in each serving). Note to self: find a new hiding place for the ramen noodles.
Tools Used:
(Last week when I dyed the ramen noodles I added the food coloring to the water while they were boiling and they came out with a really nice even color. This time because I knew I was going to need two different colors ("grass" and "sky") I cooked the noodles, drained them, and then added in the food coloring. The color didn't turn out as even this time, but M didn't seem to mind.)
blue & green dyed ramen noodles
cheese sticked halved, sliced and dyed brown for the trunk
fruit leather leaves
apple clouds
dyed provolone cheese & fruit leather face
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea
Today's lunches took on an underwater theme. I've been wanting to make these octopus hot dogs ever since I saw them on the Biting The Hand That Feeds You blog, but wanted to wait until M's Goodbyn boxes came.
M's lunch today
ramen noodles dyed blue
with some colby cheese fish swimming around
apple "star fish"
octopus nitrate-free chicken hot dogs
and ketchup for dipping
carrot "star fish"
And a few little goldfish crackers in the compartment next to her drink bottle. There isn't really any room to put in an ice pack to keep everything cool (unless I want to give up one of the food compartments, so I filled her drink bottle up with ice cubes that should be melted in time for lunch. Hopefully that works.
T's lunch today:
ramen noodles dyed blue
& provolone cheese fish swimming around
strawberry jam fish sandwich
cheddar cheese for the stripes & an icing eye
green grape "fish eggs"
& a provolone fish
cantaloupe "star fish"
half of a nitrate-free chicken hot dog "octopus"
gold fish crackers
what was left over:
cheese fish & 2 stripes
& about half of the ramen noodles
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