Showing posts with label Marinated Mozzarella Balls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marinated Mozzarella Balls. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2012

MOMables Week!

I've talked about MOMables (the meal planning website) before and I have the ad for it on the left side of the screen.  MOMables makes an entire week of menus for you to follow for lunches and includes recipes, shopping lists and plans.  The beauty of it is, you can follow it to a T or switch things out so that to use things that you know your kids will like.  You can get 3 months of menus for $18 ($6 a month) and that way you don't have to worry about not having an answer to "Mom, what's for lunch?"

This week starts with MOMables Monday Italian Swords.


Our main entree is Italian Swords.  For Bean, it is marinated mozzarella balls, salami and grape tomatoes.  Since Molly isn't a big fan of tomatoes, her is pepper jack cheese, pastrami and cucumbers.  We used long picks but MOMables suggested that if you can't find picks, try the stirrers at Starbucks.

Our vegetable side is carrot stick and the vegetables on the skewers themselves.

Our fruit side is sliced strawberries.  California is having a great season because these are really sweet.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is Chobani Champions Vanilla Chocolate Chunk Greek Yogurt.

Stay tuned through the week for more MOMables inspired lunches.  There will be a fun giveaway at the end of the week.  

Monday, September 17, 2012

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.