I see ghosts!

As I am trying to be super creative this last week of October I am realizing just how many tools I don't have yet.  I hope that I will be able to pick up a few new items in the clearance bins once Halloween is over to prepare for next year.

For example, I don't have a coffin cookie cutter.  What?!?!?  How can you not have a coffin cookie cutter!  I know.  Seriously lacking.  So I tried to make due.

2 stacked Coffin sandwiches (ham & cheese for Max, just ham for Maya)

Bacon "arms" sticking out

RIP in fruit leather

Blackberries are "dirt"

A few black grapes on ghost picks

Cucumbers on ghost pick

Thanks for reading!

Deb

Candy Corn and Pumpkins

I tried to make Candy Corn out of peppers but Becoming a Bentoholic  did it a whole lot better!  Take a look.

Maya had a Banana with 2 days (left til Halloween) etched in it

Candy Corn

4 types of roasted potatoes cut with pumpkin cutters - sweet, red, yellow and blue!

Cucumber slices cut with pumpkin cutters

Candy Corn made with yellow and orange sweet pepper and a cucumber tip

Tricolor grapes on pumpkin picks - red, black and green

Max's lunch is slightly different.  He doesn't like potatoes.  Who doesn't like potatoes?!?!  He is now tolerating sweet potatoes but only when they are smothered in butter and brown sugar.  So he got a sandwich!

Pumpkin shaped sandwich - peanut butter and apple butter

Candy Corn

Tricolor grapes on pumpkin picks

Banana - 2 days left!

Pumpkin shaped cucumber

Candy corn pepper with string cheese as the tip and the rest of the string cheese cut up

I thought I would share my lunch today too!  It's packed in our new Shuttle lunchbox from Planetbox.  

Cucumber slices

Red grapes

Max's sandwich looked so good I made myself the same! 

Peanut butter and apple butter - two halves stacked

Maya put in the pumpkin pick!

Yogurt and string cheese

I also bought the Rover lunch box.  Here's the picture of that from last Thursday.  This was one of the rare days that I could sit at a table to eat lunch during a meeting rather than in my car driving between appointments.

Apple chunks

Ham roll ups, grape tomatoes, cheddar cheese slices

Cucumber slices

Greek yogurt

2 of the little cookies I made in this post

Thanks for reading!

Deb

Bats and Vampires!

It's Monday of Halloween week!  I'm loving all the Halloween Bentos I've been seeing.  I decided that I am going to make fun Halloween Bentos every day until Halloween!

Today is Bats and Vampires!

Orange Bat pasta

(ok, it's actually veggie bowtie pasta but let's use our imaginations here people!)

Apple with cheese fangs

Dracula pick on carrots and rest of cheese stick

Pumpkin spice muffin with bat ring

"Bloody" pasta sauce

Bat Bread

Maya's is basically the same but she has pink plastic vampire teeth in the apple and she didn't want sauce.  I drew the closed eyes on both kids' apples but took Max's picture before I drew them. 

Today was also Max's day to bring snack for his class.  I try to always send fruit for the class.  Seeing as it's Halloween week I sent red, green and black grapes and I also made a treat!

Pumpkin spice muffins with spider web frosting

Of course Maya needed one in her lunch too!

Unfortunately this is not the one that made it into her lunch.  It must have still been a little warm or something when I packed it in her container last night.  In the morning the frosting had all melted and made a huge mess.  So the one in her lunchbox is just plain.  

Thanks for reading!

Deb

Witches!!

The other night I was teasing the kids about making them into Witches Stew.  As we were joking around ideas started forming in my head.  It's kinda crazy how a stray comment is now turned into a lunch idea.

I'm loving the Halloween Bentos!

Spaghetti hair

Homemade meatball for face

Candy eyes (totally forgot a mouth!)

Toast for a hat

Cucumber dress with Carrot arms

Asparagus broom

Apple slices

Chunky Veggie pasta sauce

5 Halloween jelly beans

Thanks for reading!

Deb

Floods and Pumpkins!!!

Not much happened today.  Just a minor emergency.  We came home to a horribly foul stench only to find that the hose to the water heater burst and the sump pump didn't go on so the basement floor was covered in water and it was like a sauna down there so all the pipes were dripping water.  Thankfully the flooded area is primarily concrete so we didn't have to rip up carpet or anything.  But we do have quite a mess.

My wonderful hubby cleaned up the basement, went to the hardware store three times, ran around to friends' houses to pick up fans and a wet/dry vac (Thank you friends!), and finally fixed the hose.

All in A Day in the Life....   

As for lunch:
Today was a Halloweeny Bento!

Pumpkin shaped sandwiches

A bed of greenery (cucumber rind) with mini cucumber pumpkins sprouting

grapes on pumpkin picks

Pumpkin Oatmeal muffins with flax seed (shhh!)

Thanks for reading!

Deb

Fun Bites Review

I am so excited to share this review with you!

Bobbie from FunBites was kind enough to send me a FunBites Cube It to review!

What is FunBites?  It is an amazingly versatile cutter that cuts your food into fun, bite sized squares.  The company also has Hearts and Triangles cutters.

FunBites is a company that was started by a mom, dad and their kids.  They appeal to picky eaters everywhere!  To make parents happy they are BPA free, made in the USA, and dishwasher safe!


Instructions:
Step 1: Place cutter on top of food.  Remove popper top and set to the side.

Step 2: Grab cutter handles on both sides, press down firmly and rock 5-6 times to cut through the food.

Step 3: Lift the cutter up, insert popper top and pop out the bite-sized pieces!

Yummy bite-sized sandwiches:

I wanted to try something a little different with my FunBites cutter.

Bite-sized COOKIES!!!

Maya using the cutter like a pro!

Nice big handles for gripping!

Pop out perfectly!

Separate and decorate!  The kids loved this part!

Perfect bite-sized cookies for a small treat in a nice rainbow of colors!  

How do they stack up?

Four cookies fit perfectly in the smallest Laptop Lunches container for a sweet treat.  

Overall I really like this cutter.  It's fun and easy to use, sturdy, versatile, easy to clean.  I might just have to get the triangles and hearts!  It took a few trials to get the hang of it, but maybe that's because I'm, ahem, old.  Maya figured it out on the first try!  

The biggest drawback is that I now have a million bite-sized sugar cookies in my house!  

Thanks for reading!

Deb

Want one?  Use the link on the right side margin to go to the FunBites website.

Disclosure: I am a FunBites affiliate and may receive a commission on any items purchased via this link.  All opinions expressed are my own.

What's for lunch Mummy?

I think the kiddos have made it clear - they don't like the heirloom tomatoes.  Yesterday they came home with a few left and I figured they just ran out of time.  Today they came home with not one tomato eaten.  I tried one and it was pretty bitter.  Guess I won't be buying them again!  Too bad because I love the colors.  

Here is a great Halloween lunch!

Mummy dogs

grapes

heirloom tomatoes & carrots

Max got a string cheese

Maya got ketchup

I tried to draw a Jack-O'-Lantern face on the orange tomatoes but my food safe marker didn't show up very well and wiped off too easily.  So I left them as is and added the fun picks.   

The mummy's eyes are candy from the cupcake decorations at the grocery store stuck on with a little ketchup.  The kids said "Eww!  ketchup on candy?!" but they ate them.  ;)

Thanks for reading!