Frozen lunch! Do you want to eat a snowman?

"Olaf!" Birdie exclaimed as soon as she opened her Yumbox. "He has a carrot nose!" Yes, as soon as I saw the bag of teeny tiny "petite" baby carrots* at the grocery, I knew they would be perfect for an Olaf the Snowman nose.

Birdie's preschool lunch is packed in Yumbox and contains:

• apple slices on a snowflake cupcake pick
• plain yogurt with a little blue sanding sugar swirled into it, topped with snowflake cupcake sprinkles
• honeydew melon balls 
• Kellogg's Disney Frozen fruit snacks in Anna & Elsa packet**
• Ritz crackers (the last of the limited winter snowflake shaped ones, specially saved for a Frozen lunch)
• stack of cheese slices & carrot styled as Olaf the snowman 

To make Olaf, I cut a slice of cheese into quarter-sized circles, stacked them, and skewered them on a pair of eyes bento pick. I cut a square of cheese for his tooth and wedged a tiny petite carrot between the tooth and the eyes. Birdie was easily able to pick up the whole stack of cheese by the eyes and pull the slices off the pick to top her crackers with them :)

Some of the stuff I used to make this lunch:

* Grimmway Farms Petite carrots are baby finger sized versions of peeled baby carrots. In case you've heard any not so nice things about bagged baby carrots, here's an informative post from Lisa of 100 Days of Real Food: The Truth About Baby Carrots

** The Kellogg's Disney Frozen fruit snacks had Anna & Elsa on the box but only 6 of the packets in the box of 10 had Anna & Elsa on them. 2 pictured Ariel, Snow White & Cinderella, and 2 pictured Rapunzel, Belle, & Aurora. The fruit snacks in the packets were a mixture of Frozen & other Disney Princess shapes. This has been the case with all the Disney Princess fruit snacks I've purchased, which you might want to keep in mind if buying fruit snacks for goody bags to match a party theme, for example.

Amazing Spider-Man Lunch!

Just so we're clear - the lunch was not amazing - but with help from some Marvel-ous accessories it became an "Amazing Spider-Man" themed lunch :)

Pickle hasn't wanted me to get creative with his sandwiches lately - he doesn't want any of the sandwich to be missing, not even the crust! So I've been making his plain lunches more fun with cupcake decorations, cookie stamps, Lunchbox Love notes, & other accessories:

For this lunch I used a Spider-Man cupcake liner (inside out so the comic side shows) so he uncovered the superhero when he ate his Oreos, topped his yogurt with star sprinkles, & stamped Spidey's face on his sandwich.

I stuck a Spider-Man cupcake pick in the end of the wrapped string cheese - I like how it looks like Spidey is crawling down it :) And finding a blue & red Lunchbox Love note that said "have an amazing day" was serendipitous!

Thanks to my friend Kendra for the Spidey spoon. With the Spider-Man ice pack, red BUILT bag, & blue lidded EasyLunchbox, everything matched.

I like when stuff is matchy :)  Here's some of the stuff I used for this lunch:

The BUILT bag isn't available in solid red anymore but we have several in different prints, love them - they are insulating, machine-washable, & fold flat. The Marvel cookie cutters are hard to find which is probably why they are priced so high... and the blue cup I packed the yogurt in is one of my favourites - aside from being just the right size for snacks & easy to open, it has a leak-proof seal & it fits perfectly in the EasyLunchbox!

Oh fishy, fishy, fishy, fish!

It was a lovely little lunch, and it went wherever we did go :)

The sproutlets had fishy lunches Friday!  Birdie's was in her Yumbox:

• greek yogurt with fishy sprinkles
• grapes & pluots
• goldfish & startfish crackers
• a fishy hard-cooked egg
• apples & baby carrots
• & a few gummy treats

Sprout's was in her Go Green Lunchbox:

• Lunch Punch fishy Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter sandwiches
• Goldfish puffs
• greek yogurt with fishy sprinkles
• grapes & apples
• & in the little blue cup, a few gummy treats

Bella also took her Go Green with pretty much the same lunch, & Pickle's PB sandwiches were cut with the same fishy (or whale, if you like) Lunch Punch.

Beanstalk took his PlanetBox Rover with:

• green grapes
• Goldfish crackers & string cheese
• Granny Smith apples
• a peanut butter Clif Crunch granola bar
• & a few gummy treats

Some stuff used to pack these lunches:

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Marvelous Things Will Happen!

It's Roald Dahl's birthday! We're big fans of the author's splendiferous works at our house. Sprout even wants to be Matilda for Hallowe'en this year :) But since I made Matilda book sandwiches last Roald Dahl Day, I decided to base this year's Dahl-icious lunches on other favourites...

In Sprout's James and the Giant Peach lunch:

• a little peach cup of sliced cheddar, secured by Miss Spider
• an EasyLunchboxes Mini Dipper* filled with magical glowing green "Crocodile Tongues" (chopped up gummi fruit snacks)
• an Odwalla Kids bar (no significance other than she wanted one)
• a stack of baby carrots held together by Mrs. Ladybug
• a giant peach cup of strawberries & raspberries with the Earthworm being "buggy for books"
• a blank Lunchbox Love note on which I've written a reminder: Marvelous Things Will Happen

*You can use dry erase markers to label or decorate both the EasyLunchboxes containers & the Mini Dippers!

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Does this lunch look right to you? Or left?

In Bella's lunch, inspired by The BFG:

• whizpopped caramel corn rice snacks 
• sleeping pill raisins (from Danny the Champion of the World)
• a chunk of snozzcumber
• giant's ears flatbread cheese sandwiches
• a Lunchbox Love note with a little ear fact 

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Have you made any scrumdiddlyumptious lunches or treats, today or any other day, that were inspired by Roald Dahl's books? 

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Find out more about the whoppsy-wiffling world of Roald Dahl : 

Roald Dahl ~ The Official Website  

Some stuff used to make my sproutlets' lunches:

 

Books featured & mentioned:

   

Orange you looking forward to lunch?

Bella asked for her GoGreen LunchBox today. The orange theme was unintentional at first, but when I realized all the food that was going into it was orange, I chose orange picks & cups to match :)

Bella's orange lunch contains:

• Turkey & cheddar flatbread sandwich. 
• Cheetos puffed corn snacks.
  Yes, junk food. I allow it sometimes :)
• Mozzarella cheese stick cut in thirds. 
• Cantaloupe chunks.
• Organic baby carrots.
  Their healthiness cancels out the Cheetos, right?
• An orange sweet pepper.
• Iced tea in her GoGreen bottle.

Some stuff used to make this lunch:

Fun Fuel! Lightning McQueen & Mater Cars Lunch

I'm back in the race!  I made these lunches while on my brief blogging hiatus, so if you follow me on Facebook you've probably seen them already - but hey, now you can get the detailed description :)

I love this Cars themed PlanetBox I made for Beanstalk!  I found NASCAR Ritz at our base commissary - and this is how a theme starts sometimes, with one little thing - and remembered I'd saved a Mater cupcake ring from a birthday party (I stuck half a fruit leather roll through it) and had a Lightning McQueen snack box kicking around somewhere (I filled it with spiced almonds) and a car cookie cutter (for the PB sandwich). On the way home I stopped by the Party Store, thinking if they had NASCAR crackers maybe it was a racing time of year or something and they'd have stuff in that theme, and sweet, they had checkered flag food picks (that I stuck through rolled honey ham). A checkered flag apple was the perfect finishing touch...  Sadly, my big boy took one look and asked "Can I buy lunch and have that after school?" I should have known it was too cute for middle school :(

Beanstalk suggested maybe Pickle would like a Cars lunch; I could give the Mater fruit roll-up and Lightning McQueen snack box to his little brother. Pickle doesn't eat nuts so I swapped those out for some gummy fruit snacks, added some sugar sprinkles and chocoladehagel to his yogurts (one for lunch, one for snack) and a couple of peanut butter sandwich cars,  in his yubo lunchbox. And he did like it, of course he did, he loved it!

Some stuff used to make these lunches: