eek a mouse!!!

Thursday Oct. 21st


  Today I had a bunch of mac and cheese left over from the kids dinner yesterday and I wanted to reuse it for their snack lunch today. And Alaysia felt a little left out because she didn't have any mini sausages in her lunch yesterday so that was a perfect start to todays lunch. I just had to figure out how to combine the two... hmm... mice like cheese so they should also like mac and cheese too right?? Well thats the idea I went with today so they had a few sausage mice over their mac and cheese for lunch along with a mix of different fruits. I added a tutorial for my little mice too!

Z's lunch.

Alaysia's lunch.



Sausage Mouse Tutorial:

So first you need you mini sausage and a sharp knife:)
Then slice off the tip and two slices the same thickness.

Next make a slit down the top of the round end making sure it's not go down too far.
Then insert the two little rounds in the slit to make the ears.
And that's it! You're done!

Or you can add cute little details or faces to them. I used these sprinkles I found at Target for the nose and whiskers along with candy eyes:)

Witches and spiders...

Wednesday Oct. 20th


  This morning my kiddos wanted two different themed lunches and since I was in a good mood I actually did it:) Alaysia really liked the witches they had a while ago and Z wanted spiders in in Spiderman lunch box. So I made them both and was surprised at how easy it really was, it only took a few extra minutes for two different themes so I may do this for them again. So I pleased them both and impressed myself and this is what they had...

Here's Z's lunch with a little sausage spider on a web of cheese, some pineapple, a strawberry, and sliced cucumber.

Alaysia's has two little witches that are peanut butter with marshmallow fluff  in a slice of wheat bread with green colored carrot hair, candy eyes, olive smile and one of Z's sausage pieces for the nose. Behind the witches is cucumber slices, a strawberry and two broom sticks made from a cheese stick and some ham.

Cheese ham and crackers...

Tuesday Oct. 19th


  This post was for yesterday. And my oh my was yesterday a hectic day! First of all I couldn't find my camera that morning hence the crummy pictures:) then my son forgot his folder, then I was off to an appointment, then off to pick up the kids from school only to come back an hour later for parent conferences and then had to come home and rush dinner. And while making dinner my son's new bff from school that lives down the street came over for their play date. Whew what a day!! So I still wanted to share their lunches that they had and here they are...

This was Z's simple snack lunch of cheese, ham and crackers, cantaloupe and strawberries.

And Alaysia's has the same:)

Animals...

   This week the kiddos have minimum days so I will have to pack snack sized lunches for both of them. It's actually more difficult for me for some reason:) So today was the perfect day to use their smaller sized boxes that I got for them a while ago at the dollar store. They are cute little round containers with animal faces as lids and I've never used them for some reason, but today they make their debut.. 

Z's has a panda face lid and in it he has two pb&j sandwiches, some carrots and sugar snap peas,mandarin oranges and raspberries with a panda pick:)

Alaysia's has a giraffe lid and she has the same as Z's with her giraffe pick in the oranges. 

Look, My Lunch Is Looking Back At Me!!

Friday Oct. 15th


 Good morning everyone! This morning the kids said they really wanted dumplings and I was soo worried that I had run out of the ones we made a few weeks ago. Luckily I had six lone little dumpling stored away in my freezer!! I wasn't even sure what to do with them to make them spooky looking but then I saw one of my son's vampire fangs on the kitchen table and....Viola! a perfect addition to boring looking dumplings. They turned out really cute! I couldn't find the other teeth we had for the other lunch box, but of course that just sparked another idea:o) I stuffed a slice of ham in a little slit I made to make a silly little tongue sticking out. This is how they look...

Z has the two silly faced dumplings with a ham tongue and cheese eyes secured with a spaghetti noodle. Two ham and cheese kabobs and some wheat thins, carrot "confetti", half a tiny apple and a few raspberries. This looks like a little bit of food but he's going to end up eating when he gets home anyways so I'm not too worried:)

And this is Alaysia's she has four dumplings with the vampire teeth and cheese eyes, some carrot "confetti" the other half of the apple, peanut butter filled pretzels, raspberries, pineapple, and banana chips.

A Creepy Crawly Lunch

Thursday Oct. 14th


So today I have another lunch that I was planning to use as a Halloween-ish lunch. I saw these cute little bug shaped pasta in different colors and wasn't too sure how I would use it so I ended up putting it in the very back of my pantry until today! Today they had some left over chicken and I made the pasta as a cute little side along with a few creepy crawly little bugs to tie it all together. And this is what they had...

Isn't this cute..or would it be creepy?
So Miss Alaysia's lunch from left to right has: some baby carrot flowers, sugar snap peas, pineapple chunks, a BBQ chicken drumstick, sliced cucumbers, the buggy shaped pasta with herbs and butter and Parmesan cheese, and some raspberries. 

And Z has a smaller portion of the same thing without the cucumbers because they didn't fit but he ate them right after his breakfast:)

Wednesday Oct. 13th

  I just love this month! It's so fun to think of new ideas for my kiddos lunches everyday, but there's just something about making Halloween inspired lunches that I extra fun. I have so many cute ideas in my head that when it comes to making their lunches I get a little overwhelmed:) I decided to make a list of things that I want to try out for this month and today was one of them...

Z's lunch has homemade whole wheat pasta, homemade meatballs and homemade sauce sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Some cheese stick fingers with olive nails. Bottom has jicama ghosts, mini nutter butters,  raspberries, and a jack o' lantern made out of sliced mandarin orange slices.

I have to remember that he is only in kindergarten and has a shorter lunch break. It also doesn't help that he eats like a birdy, so I try to make his portions smaller and try to include a lot of finger foods. I was going to make him some meatball kabobs with sauce to dip but today he insisted on having pasta too.

Alaysia's is the same with more pasta, and she also has a small tub of yogurt in the far left corner.