Tuesday Oct. 12th

Alaysia's

Smaller portions for Z =)

Whew...What a long day I had today! Well anyhow, this morning the kiddos had pizza on the mind this morning so thats what they had. I attempted to make a monster and think it came out looking pretty spooky or gross at least:) So they had half and english muffin pizza with homemade sauce, pineapple, ham, and mozzarella cheese. Some strawberry, pineapple, carrot, sugar snap peas, mini Oreo's, and  Alaysia had some kiwi.

Friday October 8th

Happy Friday everyone! My kiddos didn't go to school this morning because they were feeling sick=( But that doesn't mean they don't get an awesome lunch! Since they were home with me I had them make it themselves. I normally don't use store bought doughs for anything but I did this time. We used Pillsbury croissants to wrap up some turkey weenies to look like mummies. They had fun with this and it wasn't at all difficult or messy. I also got to use some new boxes that I just bought. They aren't very cute but are perfectly sized and come with and ice pack under the lid I absolutely love them! Just in case you're interested hey are called Fit and fresh and I got them at Ross it came as a two pack. Well anyways on to the pictures...

So today we have a some cucumber slices, baby carrots, some ketchup, mandarin oranges, a jack o'lantern apple from grandpa's tree, a strawberry and the mummy dog.

This is the same box just a different view=)

Thursday Oct. 7th

   This morning after being woken up way too early by my little guy, I had plenty of time for lunches so I decided to make some chicken enchiladas for lunch. Surprisingly they were very quick and easy! I always have shredded cheese on hand, I had left over chicken in my little Tupperware tub, and I saved some sauce from last night so all I did was roll them up and stuck them in my little toaster oven until they were warmed through and the cheese was melted. I originally wanted them to look like mummies but the kids said they were monsters so thats what we'll call them=)  Here's the pictures of our little monsters...

On the left is Alaysia's she has her monster chicken enchilada, a tiny jell-o cup, broccoli and cauliflower, cheese stick fingers with olive nails, and a plum. Z has pretzels instead of the cheese fingers.

Wednesday Oct. 6th

  I'm always thinking about way to re-use left overs and this is one that my kids really like. This morning I had some rice and pork  leftover from last nights dinner so  I decided to make the kids some fried rice for lunch.  They were going to have eggs this morning so I saved a few bits of them to add to the rice alog with some frozen mixed veggies and diced left over pork. And this is what they had...

This is Alaysia's lunch, she's having a shocked turkey octopus over the fried rice I made, a little bottle with soy sauce, a strawberry, mango kabobs, and for a treat some M&M's. 

Z's lunch is the same with a different expression on the octopus. I also added a container with ketchup to his after the picture.

And here's both of the lunches!

    This whole idea kind of stared off by me creating fun ways to serve the kids their dinner. My kids weren't very interested in, and could never finish our usual family dinner so I would by them cute plates with pictures on the bottom, or divider plates with little compartments to make it fun for them. I made our usual dinner and the kids would have a variation of what we would eat. I'd make them smaller potions, add fruit or yogurt, and make the food into fun shapes and faces. I'm sure that if you're a parent you've tricked your kids into eating their broccoli by calling it a tiny "tree" well this is the same thing only better! I mean why not make the broccoli into a whole forest along with mountains and animals? It's also a great way to "trick" your kids into trying different fruits and vegetables. I took a picture of what they had for dinner last night, nothing fancy just in a cute plate since my little guy wanted to be carried by me while I was cooking:)

This was Alaysia's dinner grilled pork and bbq sauce to dip, white rice, steamed broccoli and cauliflower with shaped cheese on top, and some fruit.

 

Tuesday Oct. 5th

  Well today was something! I helped out for my son's kindy class and went to visit Alaysia at her lunch time and there were a bunch of yard duties all around her. They were taking pictures of her lunch!!  It was so funny I tried to wiggle my way through to say hi and they wouldn't let me through until she said "Oh, Hi Mom!" Then they were all surprised to see me and were complementing me and asking me a bunch of question. It was really nice to say the least. Well on to their lunches that got so many complements...

This was Alaysia's it has 3 peanut-butter and marshmallow fluff sand"witches", 3 meat kabobs, baby carrots and a strawberry.

Z has 2 sand"witches", 2 meat kabobs, carrots, strawberry, red tiny jell-o cup, and a cheese stick fingers.
 Here's a picture of them both.

 The witches have ham for hair, one has carrot but I didn't like the way it came out. Their eyes are candy, nose is bread and mouths are cucumber and carrot. Z's finger also has cucumber for the nail.

Monday October 4th

Good morning everyone! This morning I decided to try something new with the kids lunches. I saw these cute little mice on a picture online and decided to give them a try and I am very pleased with the results...

The kids are having some spooky quesadillas, baby carrots and cucumber, pineapple chunks, the cute little sausage mice with candy eyes and chocolate sprinkles for whiskers, a blue container with ketchup under the mice, and a few pumpkin peeps.

Here's both of their boxes together.
Hope I have enough ideas for spooky Halloween-ish lunches all this month!! If you have any ideas let me know!

Friday October 1st

I love October, the trees are changing ,the weather is cooler, and all the holidays and my kiddos birthdays are just around the corner! It's so much fun to decorate the house, and I have a bunch of craft ideas piled up for the kids to do!  We started of the month with a cute Halloween inspired lunch...

Alaysia is having half a homemade blueberry muffin, baby carrots and cherry tomatoes, a fishy shapes boiled egg, some diced cantaloupe and jack o' lantern one on top, mandarin oranges, and a sandwich topped off with cheese ghost!

Z has half a sandwich, mandarin oranges, blueberry muffin and cantaloupe. 

 Oh, I almost forgot about the egg molds I ordered. I got the fish and car shaped ones and the eggs came out pretty good for my first try:)

Car and fish, next time I'll order some cuter girly ones for Alaysia.