Halloween Wrap Up

Well, I’m finally getting around to posting our last few lunches. Life got hectic really fast, and thought I’ve still been making lunches, it’s been hard to find the time to blog about them. :)
So, here we go!

Tiny princess A’s lunch 10/29/12

Here’s what she had…

• Halloween shaped pretzels with decorative ghost candy. (My girls don’t like to eat these so they are included solely as a decoration)
• Cream cheese for pretzel dipping and bagel spreading
• Half of a bagel
• Mott’s Medleys fruit snacks
• A few Skittles candies…. taste the rainbow!
• Vanilla yogurt with Halloween sprinkles
• Carrots and ranch

Tiny princess K’s lunch 10/29/12

Here’s what she had…

• Halloween shaped pretzels
• Half a bagel
• Cream cheese for pretzel dipping and bagel spreading
• Applesauce with vampire teeth and sprinkles
• Vanilla yogurt with sprinkles
• Veggie chips

Tiny princess A’s lunch 10/31/12

Here’s what she had…

• Carrots with spider ring. Container to the right of the silicone spider cup holds ranch for dipping.
• Silicone spider cup with string cheese worms
• Creepy vampire cream cheese bagel. Complete with candy eyes and taffy tongue.
• 1 lone chocolate eye
• Mott’s Medleys peach applesauce
• Ritz crackers
• Half of a granola bar
• Vanilla Yogurt with Halloween sprinkles

Tiny princess K’s lunch with inner container lids on 10/31/12 (here lunch contained the same items as A’s.

Both packed in our Easylunchboxes. I love these lunchboxes! They are really just perfect, but one of the main things I love about them is that even with the lid on them you can get a glimpse of the lunch. Check out this awesome picture with the top lid on of tiny princess K’s lunch! ((LOVE IT))

I also made my sweet husband a Halloween lunch in an Easylunchbox!

Here’s what he had…

• One bat and two cat peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches
• Oyster crackers in dollar store coffin container. (3 for a dollar. each contained candy to start)
• Small silicone cup with spreadable butter for crackers
• Lots of chocolate eyes
• A few cheese puffs
• Granola bar halved
• Applesauce

Spooky things are in the air… er, I mean lunch boxes!

Halloween is almost here! Only 4 more school days left to add a little scary flare to the lunch boxes! (actually only 3 since I’m sure I won’t get away with packing cold lunch on chicken sandwich day 2 weeks in a row.)
I took a trip to the dollar tree today and picked up some fun spooky hard candies. (Bones & Skulls) and some chocolate eye balls. Some of the bones came in cute little lidded coffin containers which I thought would be just perfect used in some Halloween lunches.
Both lunches are the same again today, except for the sandwich fillings.

Tiny princess K’s lunch inner container lids off 10/26/12

Tiny princess A’s lunch inner container lids on 10/26/12

Here’s what they had…

• Dollar tree coffin container with Gerber Graduates fruit puffs and bloody bone candies. The candies that came inside the containers were white bones. I decided to make them bloody by adding a bit of food safe marker to each one.
• One lone chocolate eyeball
• Veggie straws
• Applesauce with Halloween sprinkles in the PlanetBox Little Dipper
• A few regular old non healthy fruit snacks
• Mozzarella cheese chunks and oyster crackers complete with creepy crawly centipede and spooky spider ring
• Scaredy  cat Fairy Bread.(idea found HERE) A’s filling is honey butter. K’s filling is PB&J

Packed in our favorite PlanetBox lunch boxes! Also included in these lunches are the ever fabulous Lunch Box Love Notes!! Have I mentioned how much my girls adore finding these in their lunch each day?

On a side note, totally un-lunch related…. I need to get busy on my tiny princesses costumes! What are your little ones going to be for Halloween this year?

Some things (or similair) I used to make these lunches

Lots of “confetti” everywhere!

Today is my Birthday! Happy Birthday to me! :) I thought I would make my tiny princesses a fun and colorful Birthday lunch so that they could celebrate in spirit with me while they were at school!
Yes, this lunch contains much more sprinkles confetti than usual, but that’s okay! There is after all, reason to celebrate!!
Both lunches are exactly the same today with the exception of the sandwich! I’ve decided to stop getting so excited about that now, since it does happen more often than not. No real vegetables in this lunch today or fruit for that matter. We had a carrot incident, but I’ll save that for another blog post….

Tiny princess A’s lunch 10/25/12

Tiny princess K’s lunch 10/25/12

Here’s what they had…

• Veggie straws
• Plain animal crackers with 3 chocolate sprinkle confetti covered ones on top
• Mozzarella cheese bites and turkey pepperoni with cute dog pick
• Mott’s Medleys all natural fruit snacks
• Granola bar broke in thirds
• Organic French vanilla yogurt with sprinkles confetti colored and flavored with strawberry syrup
• Birthday cake sandwich with, you guessed it…. more sprinkles confetti made using my trusty Lunch Punch! A got honey butter. K got PB&J
  
  Packed in our PlanetBox lunch systems! 

And just cause we are totally addicted to them…. I had to add in some Lunchbox Love Notes!! (((LOVE)))

Some things I used to make these lunches

What is is Wednesday? And how I avoided the dreaded school chicken sandwich hot lunch!

This fools my girls every time! They always think it’s ranch. I sure looks like it, but it’s not! So, what do you think it is? Keep reading to find out!

Today was chicken sandwich day at school. If you have been following along with this blog at all, you know that chicken sandwich day is a staple to my girls’ weeks. I have been trying to get them to “Just say no” to all school hot lunches, but I can never get them to say no to this….. Until today!!! Last night I decided to make some breaded baked chicken for dinner. Nothing fancy here…You know, the kind that you shake, then bake? ;) Anyway, my tiny princesses decided that it would be so much yummier that the school chicken sandwich so they wanted to take that for lunch instead. Okay, so the real kicker was that if they took a packed lunch they would get a surprise Lunch Box Love Note from sayplease.com inside. ;)
Both lunches were pretty much the same with only minor details changed.

Tiny princess K’s lunch with inner container lids off 10/24/12

 

Here’s what she had…

• Spooky Shake-N-Bake chicken with bone food pick/fork in a spooky spider silicone cup.
• Ketchup for dipping
• Chobani Champions Chocolate Chunk Yogurt (did you guess correctly?)
• Carrots (no ranch)
• S’mores trail mix. A bit more than usual. (Another “bribe” to guide them away from school lunch.) ;)
• Pineapple in small blue container
• Granola bar halved

The only differences between K & A’s lunches are…. Added ranch and Mott’s Medleys fruit snacks. Omitted pineapple.

Tiny princess A’s lunch with inner container lids on 10/24/12

Some things I used to make these lunches

Still recovering from the weekend lunch.

We had a pretty busy weekend here filled with excitement and fun and lots of cheerleading. It was blast, but for some reason I am having the hardest time recovering. :) Hence the reason there were no lunches yesterday. In fact, my oldest stayed home to cuddle with mom and my youngest had to be convinced to purchase hot lunch at school!
Today, I was a little more with it, but still not 100% Tuesday’s lunches definitely show my lack of motivation. It’s a good thing we are using our ever so adorable Yubo lunch boxes to help me out with the cute factor!

Tiny princess A’s lunch 10/23/12

Here’s what she had…

• Cheese and crackers
• Salami
• Organic french vanilla yogurt with sprinkles
• Animal crackers
• Mott’s Medleys fruit snacks
• Carrots and and ranch dip

Packed in a Yubo lunch box

Tiny princess K’s lunch 10/23/12

Here’s what she had…

• Crackers and cheese
• Salami
• French vanilla yogurt
• Animal crackers
• Carrots (no ranch)
• Pineapple

Packed in a Yubo lunch box

Some things I used to make these lunches