Just one lunch for wednesday

Lunch punch egg salad sandwich, crown Swiss cheese, yogurt raisins, cheez-its, crown watermelon pieces, and a piece of chocolate.

Lunches for Tuesday

My oldest forgot her lunch box at school so I had to go back to the ziploc container just for tomorrow.

Lunch punch egg salad sandwich, flower cheese, flower strawberries and watermelon and cheez- it snack mix

Jelly sandwich, cheese, heart hard boiled egg, strawberries and watermelon and cheez-it snack mix

Monday's Lunches

lunch punch sandwich, crown cheese, star hard boiled egg, baby grapes, raspberries and blueberries and crackers

 

 

 

 

 

Egg salad sandwichs, butterfly cheese, apples and baby grapes and cheese its

Friday's lunch

2 lunches to make this evening.  I'm ready for the weekend and my time off from lunch making :)

Ham rolls, cheese flowers, yogurt raisins, heart hard boiled egg, cottage cheese and berries

 

 

Star hard boiled egg, yogurt raisins, ham pieces, flower cheese, cottage cheese and raspberries and baby grapes

Giveaway on another site

For all you just starting out there is a giveaway for a laptop lunch box set on www.weelicious.com.  So head on over there and enter to win a great set.

Thursday's lunch

Just one lunch to make again tonight.

cream cheese and jelly star sandwichs, cheese its, yogurt raisins, star shaped hard boiled egg and peaches

Wednesday's lunch

One of my daughters is buying lunch tomorrow so I only had one lunch to make tonight. 

Ants on a log, red bell peppers, ham roll ups, Swiss cheese hearts, heart shaped hard boiled egg, apples, baby grapes and a fruit roll up

Lunch box ice packs

A lot of people have been asking me what type of ice pack I use with my kids lunches.  Well here it is.

I got them at www.greenfeet.com.  They are $1.99 per ice pack and I put 2 in each lunchbox.  They are made from non toxic biodegradable gel.  When the kids get home from school the ice packs are still partially frozen so needless to say I am very happy with them.

New lunch box

I'm so happy to finally have a second laptop lunch box.  Now I can retire my ziploc containers or use them if one of my girls leaves her lunch box at school.  I got this whole set totally free by using amazon gift cards I earned from swagbucks.  If you aren't already using swagbucks you should start.  There is a button on the left side of the page you can click on to sign up.  For every 450 swagbucks you get you can turn them in for a $5 amazon card.  Amazon has lots of good lunch making supplies.  Here is a picture of the new box.  It was $43.95 plus $4.95 shipping.

Tuesday's lunches

"high 5" cucumber and cream cheese sandwich, cucumber tulips, snack mix, clementines, baby grapes and big grapes

"high 5" sandwich(jelly and cream cheese) cheese tulips, blueberry muffin and clementines, big grapes and baby grapes

 

 

Fruit Leather

So I came across a recipe for fruit leather in Parents magazine and decided to give it a try.  The recipe is very simple.

4 cups of berries(I used raspberries and blueberries)
2 Tbs. of honey
Puree in a blender then evenly spread on a baking pan lined with parchment paper.   The directions were to bake it at 200 degrees for 3 to 4 hours.  It took closer to 6 hours and the outside was overdone and the middle was still wet.  I used a cookie sheet and I think I needed a bigger pan to make a thinner layer.

 I will definitely try this recipe again and use a bigger pan and try a different variety of berries and other fruits.

lunches for Monday

Here are my kids lunches for Tomorrow

My oldest has cucumber and cream cheese sandwich's with cucumber shapes, apples and baby grapes and some home made snack mix

 my 6 year old has cream cheese and guava jelly sandwichs, cheese shapes, apples and baby grapes and home made snack mix

snacks

I've been trying this weekend to make some homemade snacks.  So far I have made a simple snack mix and bought what I need to make some raspberry fruit leather.  Next on my list is blueberry muffins so I can use up the blueberries I have before they go bad.  Recipe and pictures for the muffins and fruit leather to follow as long as they turn out ok. :)  Here is my recipe for snack mix:

~2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios
~2 cups regular Cheerios
~1/2 cup dried cherries
~1/2 cup raisins
~1/2 cup mini marshmallows
~1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
I wanted to include soy nuts as well but couldn't find them at Walmart.  I'm going to check Sprouts and
maybe add them tomorrow.

Update:  Just made the muffins and the batter was so tasty I'm sure the muffins will be as well.  I found the recipe online and its called Ann's Awesome Blueberry Muffins

I used half the recipe because 12 muffins are enough for my family.

4 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups sour cream
2 cups blueberries
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 24 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
2) In a large bowl, beat eggs. Gradually add sugar while beating. Continue beating while slowly pouring in oil. Stir in vanilla. In separate bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking soda.
3) Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with sour cream. Gently fold in blueberries. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
4) Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.
Makes 24-30 muffins.

some basic supplies

~cookie cutters or lunch punch for shaped sandwichs
~decorative picks for fruit skewers, lunch meat roll-ups, etc.
~small shape cutters for fresh fruit, cheese or fruit leather(fondant cutters work for this)
~silicon baking cups for separating food
~hard boiled egg molds
~a sectioned lunch box ex. laptop lunch box, planetbox, ziploc container

Samples of lunches I have made in the past

Just starting out

Welcome.  I enjoy making fun creative lunches for my kids.  I hope this blog will inspire you to make lunch fun for yourself or your kids.