Day 3!

Bean requested mac and cheese for tomorrow's lunch so we are breaking out our Thermos containers and Lunch Bots.  Links below.

Our main entree is Annie's White Cheddar Shells.  Our method is to microwave the pasta in a separate container in the morning, fill the Thermos with hot water from our Keurig to warm it up, dump the water and fill the Thermos with the hot pasta.  The girls say that their lunches are piping hot at school.

Our fruit side is a Chambersburg peach and some prune plum segments.

Our vegetable side is baby carrots, cucumbers and pepper rings.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is a Chobani Champions tube.

Here Comes Santa Claus

We were inspired by Keeley McGuire's Santa coming down the chimney and decided to use a couple of tools to create our own.

Our main entree is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that was cut with the FunBites square cutter and then stacked it to look like a chimney.  We added a cute little Santa pick to the top.

Our vegetable side is orange and yellow pepper rings.

Our fruit side is a clementine and raspberries.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is a Dannon Light and Fit yogurt that we covered with a Christmas themed cupcake wrapper.

Our Lunchbox Love note today says it all.  We are so in love with our kids that no other gift is necessary.

 

Christmas Lights Lunch

One of our favorite things about the Christmas season is all of the lights.  We love to hang them on the tree, on the front porch and ride around and look at all of them around the neighborhood.

Our main entree is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut with our Christmas bulb cookie cutter.  We cut a piece of Havarti cheese with the cutter and used our food safe markers to decorate it.  Then, we set it on top of the sandwich.  We added Christmas Goldfish for a little extra treat.

Our vegetable side is sugar snap peas and red and yellow mini peppers.

Our fruit side is blackberries and raspberries.

We put a little Lunchbox Love note with a little interesting fact about Christmas lights.  Use code : MOLLY to receive 15% off of your order.

Fun Fall Lunch

We had a very full weekend with lots of fall traditions.  We did our annual trek up to McConnell's Mill State Park and had a blast running around and piling up leaves, then jumping in the leaves.  We got some great photos for our memory book.  Then, we went to Brown's Country Kitchen (a little hole in the wall joint with awesome food) for some lunch and homemade pie.  Finally, we stopped at Baldinger's Candy store on the way home.  We let the kids each pick out 10 pieces of candy since Halloween is right around the corner.  If you are interested in checking these places out, I have more details about them in this post.

Our main entree is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that has been cut into leaf shapes to reminisce about our fun weekend.

Our vegetable side is cucumbers and carrots.

Our fruit side is strawberries and pomegranate arils.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is Very Berry Chobani Champions Greek yogurt.

All Request Lunch

Usually when I suggest something the girls are quick to agree with a "sure, sounds good Mom" but tonight they both wanted different things.  Luckily, their requests were an easy fix or Mama might have tried to sway their choices.

Bean's lunch is leftover pasta with a little bit of butter and Parmesan.  We will heat it up in the morning before school.
Her veggies are cucumber slices, pepper rings and shredded carrots.  Her fruits are strawberries, fresh figs, kiwi and pomegranate arils. These are in a Lunchbots Duo.
Finally, her dairy/dessert is Chobani Champions Vanilla Chocolate Chunk Greek yogurt. (we love their new design!)

Molly's main entree is a super cinnamon raisin sandwich.  Trader Joe's makes this amazing cinnamon roll bread and we spread Peanut Butter and Company Cinnamon Raisin Swirl peanut butter.
Her veggies and fruit are the same as Bean's.We also put Chobani Champions Vanilla Chocolate Chunk in Molly's lunch.