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 Tree Ravioli

We found a great new thing for a Christmas at Sam's Club.  It's Christmas Tree shaped ravioli by Nü-ó-vö pasta.  It's not only cute but it tastes great!

Our main entree is Nuovo Christmas Tree ravioli.  We added a little bit of light Italian dressing to them to add flavor and keep them from sticking.

Our vegetable side is red peppers and sugar snap peas.

Our fruit side is sliced apples and pears.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is Greek Gods Honey Greek yogurt.  This stuff is AMAZING!

We also added a little Lunchbox Love note.

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 Friday Christmas Lunch

We had a fun night tonight filled with traditions.  C. J. had open house at his preschool (which both of the girls attended when they were younger).  We had a great time looking at all of his crafts and meeting his little friends.  Afterward, as we do every year, we drove all around and looked at everyone's Christmas lights.  There were brightly colored twinkling lights and big blow up snowmen, Santas and Snoopys.  We saw some big beautiful displays and some simple displays.  It was awesome!

Our main entree is a salami and cheese sandwich.  We used a Christmas stocking cookie cutter to cut it out and then used our food safe markers to color them in.  I wrote their names on them but they are kind of hard to see.

Our vegetable side is....well corn, maybe.  We added Xochitl tortilla chips in their red and green Christmas variety.

Our fruit side is strawberries.

Finally, our Fun Friday treat is a Trader Joe's Pfeffernusse cookie and a few Christmas themed gummies.

There is also a little note from Lunch Box Love.  They have really cute sayings on the front and then fun trivia on the back.  Use the code: MOLLY to receive 15% off.

Christmas Pasta

Kraft makes a really fun Christmas Mac and Cheese.  We sometimes make it at mac and cheese but sometimes we just use the pasta to make pasta salad.

Our main entree is a Christmas pasta salad.  We used the pasta form Kraft Winter Shapes Mac and Cheese, added turkey pepperoni, red peppers, sugar snap peas and light Italian dressing.  We finished it off with cheese that we cut with some plunger cookie cutters then decorated them with our food safe markers.

Our vegetable is in our pasta salad.

Our fruit side is apples and clementines.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is vanilla yogurt with multi colored mini chocolate chips.

We added a cute little note from Lunchbox Love.  (Use code: MOLLY for 15% off)

All Request Lunch

Most of the time, I ask the girls if they want anything in particular and tonight was no different.  This time, they both chose different things so Daddy helped to get things started while I was at run club.  Team work!

Molly's main entree is pasta salad.  It's whole grain penne pasta with a little bit of salami, mozzarella cheese, red peppers and light Italian dressing.  

Bean's main entree is peanut butter and jelly.  Molly's vegetable side is in her pasta, Bean's is an orange pepper on the side.  We also added a cheese stick to Bean's.

Our fruit side is strawberries.  We added a little sunflower pick to this container.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is vanilla yogurt.  We added some mini chocolate chips that have fun colors on them.

Our little notes are from Lunchbox Love.  They went through a lot with Hurricane Sandy and they are doing a wonderful thing by donating to victims.  Here's their story.  http://bit.ly/W6YqfG  When you order, use the code MOLLY to save 15%.

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.

MOMables Week - GIVEAWAY and Lunch 4 and 5

Our MOMables week continues.  Our Thursday lunch is being posted with our Friday lunch because Mama was just plain too tired to blog last night.  Thursday's lunch is a Thermos Thursday lunch with soup.  Friday's lunch was not on the MOMables menu this week but it's a favorite from our MOMables collection.  If you liked this week's lunches and want to give it a try, you can have a free trial week and enter our giveaway for a three month subscription. (see below)

Our main entree is Italian vegetable soup for Molly and chicken and dumpling soup for Bean.

Our vegetable is a salad.  We have our dressing in the Easy Lunch Boxes Mini Dippers.

Our fruit side is strawberries and raspberries.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is Chobani Champions vanilla orange Greek yogurt.

This is a screenshot of Thursday's menu on MOMables.

Our Friday lunch is a favorite with a Fun Friday Treat!

Our main entree is a waffle sandwich with whipped cream cheese and sliced strawberries.

Our fruit side is a GoGo SqueeZ apple cinnamon applesauce on the go.  The girls say that it tastes just like Apple Pie.

Our dairy side is peach yogurt.

Finally, our Fun Friday treat is Lindor Vanilla White Chocolate Truffles and a couple of pretzels.  

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Butterfly Lunch

We were inspired by our friend Michelle at Creative Food.  She made an awesome butterfly lunch, two of them actually, and we realized that we had the same pasta that she used.  The wheels started turning and now we have a fun lunch for the girls.

Our main entree is a buggy pasta salad.  We cooked the pasta from a box of Back to Nature Crazy Bugs Macaroni and Cheese, drained it and cooled it.  (We are saving the cheese packet for our next movie night to jazz up our popcorn.)  Next, we added marinated mozzarella balls, tomatoes and some light Italian dressing.  YUM!

Our vegetable side is crinkle cut cucumbers.  (say that three times fast!)

Our fruit side is apple slices.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is Chobani Champions.  Molly chose Honey-Nana and Bean chose Vanilla Chocolate Chunk.

1st Day of School Lunch

WOW!  That was fast!  Didn't I just write the post about the last day of school a few hours ago?  Seriously though, we are so excited for the new school year.  Molly and Bean packed their back packs, picked out their outfits and settled into their beds perfectly.  I remember it being like the night before Christmas.  I never slept well because I was SO excited to start school again.

Without further ado....LUNCH!

Bean's Lunch

Molly's Lunch

Our main entree for Bean is a Nutella and Peanut Butter and Company peanut butter sandwich on Trader Joe's whole grain bread.  We used our mini apple, alphabet and number cookie cutters to make some back to school shapes and our food safe markers to bring the apples to life.

Our main entree for Molly is Trader Joe's Perline Pasta and Prosciutto salad with some light Italian dressing.

Our vegetable side is a rainbow of bell peppers.  A favorite of both girls.

Our fruit side is figs and raspberries.  We drizzled a little bit of honey on the figs per the girls' request.

Finally, our dairy side is vanilla yogurt with little school bus sprinkles on it.  

We also made a little something for Molly and Bean's teachers.  We figured that a little survival kit would be a nice gift to start the new school year.

Some instant coffee, pretzels, milk and dark chocolate, raisins, antacids, vitamin C, gum and the teacher's favorite tool...the red pen. ☺

Happy 1st Day of School Everyone!