Happy Halloweenie!!!

We LOVE Halloween at our house.  Molly usually starts thinking up her costumes for the next year as soon as she gets home from Trick or Treating.  

We always have fun with our food too.  We've made the hot dog mummies before but we found a new version on Pinterest and tried it out. 

Our main entree is a crescent roll wrapped hot dog in the shape of a mummy.

Our vegetable side is a mini orange pepper with a jack o lantern face cut out of it.

Our fruit side is a monster mouth.  It's an apple with a little bit of peanut butter and some mini marshmallow teeth.

Finally, our special treat we have Franken Fingers, pretzel rods dipped in green chocolate with a pumpkin seed finger nail and dark chocolate decorations.  Also, a little Rice Krispie treat.  We added some pieces of pretzel plus some chocolate chips and decorated with chocolate chip spiders.

Happy Halloween!!!!

It's The Great Pumpkin Lunch!

Our Trick or Treat has been changed to Saturday because of the storm earlier this week.  This means that we get one more fun Halloween lunch, even if it is after Halloween.

Our main entree is a turkey and cheese sandwich.  We put an extra piece of cheese on top with our rendering of Snoopy (with food safe markers) on a pumpkin in honor of our favorite Halloween movie, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.  We have a Lucy pick on the side of our sandwich.

Our fruit side is strawberries and a clementine with a little face drawn on it to look like a jack-o-lantern.  We added a Charlie Brown pick to the top of it.

Our dairy side is Chobani Champions Vanilla Chocolate Chunk Greek yogurt.  We added a Snoopy ring to the top of it.

Finally, our Fun Friday treat is Snoopy gummy snacks.  We found these in the Halloween section of Target about a month ago and held on to them for this special lunch.

We also added a cute little Lunchbox Love note.  They have some wonderfully fun notes available at sayplease.com.  Use the code MOLLY to receive 15% off your order.

Spooky Lunch for Halloween

After having today off due to Super Storm Sandy, we're ready for a fun and spooky lunch for Halloween tomorrow.  I had this great idea to do a lunch that was all body parts.  Sometimes things sound better on paper.  Still, I'm pleased with the result.

Our main entree is brains.  Well, at least that was the original thought.  I mixed up some Heart Healthy Bisquick with milk, added a decent amount of shredded cheese and shaped the brains.  Then, I put them in the oven with great excitement about my creation.  The timer went off, I opened the oven door and BLAH!  These look nothing like brains.  Even using a red food safe marker to try and recreate the brain didn't work.  Oh well, that's what fun picks and rings are for.

Our vegetable side is baby carrot fingers.  We used whipped cream cheese to put the sliced almond finger nails on them.

Our fruit side is eyeballs.  We used canned pear halves (in pear juice) and cut them into a more circular shape.  Then, we added a maraschino cherry with a chocolate chip in the middle for the pupil.

Our dairy is green slime.  We added a few drops of green food coloring to vanilla yogurt.

Finally, our dessert for Halloween is a homemade chocolate chip cookie with some fall sprinkles in it.  Our Trick or Treat is postponed until Saturday so we figured that a mid-week treat would be fun.

*We found a great idea on Pinterest for a healthy Halloween treat to give out at school.  C.J. is handing this out to his friends at preschool tomorrow.  Just clementines and a Sharpie marker for a great treat.

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Our main entree is a Halloween pasta salad.  We used Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Halloween pasta
(saved the cheese packet for popcorn) and added a little bit of food coloring to the water when cooking.  We added some light Italian dressing, orange peppers, black olives and a cheesy provolone ghosts to the top.

Our vegetable side is golden beets cut into pumpkin shapes with a mini cookie cutter.  (yes, the girls like beets...Mama too!)

Our fruit side is a clementine that has been peeled and embellished with our food safe markers to make it look like a jack-o-lantern.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is vanilla yogurt...made into a scary spider eyeball with a chocolate ball and some strawberry pieces.  We also added a few pieces of candy corn and 2 mini candy pumpkins to the fruit compartment as a special Halloween inspired treat.

ps - we used the orange lids on our Easy Lunch Boxes to make it even more Halloweenie!

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Happy Halloweenie!

I have found some great ideas for Halloween on the internet.  I found some incredible costume ideas and other ideas of how to use the things that I already have to embellish the costumes.  I also found some very unique snack and food ideas.  A few weeks ago, I posted about the fun snacks that I created for the PTA meeting in A little Spooky.  I've used a few more of these ideas for Molly's lunch tomorrow.

Our main entrée is mummy dogs.  We wrapped slices of refrigerated crescent roll dough around a mini beef hot dog and a few pieces of shredded cheddar.  We also poked holes for eyes and we would dot mustard on them at home but it won't last for lunch so we'll have to leave it up to Molly's imagination.

Our vegetable side is edamame.  We can pretend that its mummy brains to go along with our theme.

Our fruit side is a piece of apple with a little bit of peanut butter and a couple of mini marshmallows.  It kind of reminds us of the Muppet, Dr. Teeth.

Finally, we have a skeleton for dessert.  We made regular Rice Krispie treats and put orange food coloring in it.  We spread the "batter" on a wax paper lined cookie sheet so that it would be a thinner treat.  After the Rice Krispie treats cooled, we used a gingerbread boy cookie cutter to cut the bodies out.  Then, we melted some white chocolate and created the bones.

ps - we REALLY like Halloween at our house.