Family Picnic Lunch

We went to cut down our Christmas tree today and we packed a picnic lunch (and hot chocolate of course) Fun fun!

More Rollups

S's snack of peanut butter and apples on the left. E's snack of apples and cheese sticks on the right.
Lunch today was blackberries and pear on top and rollups (turkey and cheese for E and creme cheese and jelly for S) and chocolate chips on the bottom.

Pasta

Snack today was crackers, cheese and grapes.
For lunch there was pasta int the Thermos and veggies, salad dressing dip in the green container, blackberries and sugar coated almonds. S rejected the sugar coated almonds. I guess I'll have to give up on getting him to eat almonds if he doesn't even like them coated with sugar!!!
A and I juoined the boys for lunch tpoday and used our new blue dragonfly containers - woo hoo! My lunch is above. I had nuts, apples and cheese in the top container and veggies, turkey and crackers in the bottom.

A had blackberries, carrots and peanuts (he rejected the almonds too and insisted I pack peanuts instead) and pesto pasta in the bottom container.

Deli Skewers

E's snack on top - cheese sticks and orange slices. S's snack on the bottom - nuts and dried fruit and oranges.
Lunch was apple slices, half of a pumpkin pie granola bar, tortilla chips, cheese and deli meat skewers and some hummus (for S) or guacamole (for E). S has never been a fan of deli meat but I'm finding that he will eat it occasionally on a skewer.

Chicken Salad and Stuff

Cheese, cracker and pears for snack today. S left two of the crackers - but hey, he ate two!
A smorgasbord for lunch today! Pasta, oranges and chicken salad on top and beans, cheese crackers and a no bake oatmeal cookie below. I go back and forth about offering a lot of choices or just a few. I think a lot is good as long as they don't have to open many containers...

Looky what I won!

I won all these goodies from Eileen at the Sublurbs! You can see some of the cute little food picks in the beans in the post above. I'm thinking I might make the boxes mine instead of letting the boys use them.... :)

Thanks Eileen! Oh and check out Eileen's latest post of the time lapse photos of her family decorating the Christmas tree - too fun!

Pizza and cinnamon apple sause

E LOVES guacamole so today he had carrot sticks and some guacamole. S had hummus and carrot sticks (a lot this time..) Not much in the protein department but they are making up for it by eating a lot of veggies which they never eat enough of - nor do I for that matter...
Here is lunch. Yes, pizza again. The two pieces of pizza are packed this time with some very cinnamon-y apple sauce, half of a banana nut muffin and some grapes.

MTM- Christmas Breakfast

I had thought that making a Muffin Tin Monday breakfast on a Monday morning would not exactly work for me but I woke up eary so decided to give it a shot. Here is A's Christmas-y breakfast. Top row = "fairy" bread tree (toast with cream cheese and sprinkles, scrambled eggs, and very cinnamon-y apple sauce. Bottom row = grapes, a star shaped piece of ham and more eggs. We actually usually have cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning breakfast (when we are home at least) but I didn't make any. I figured the applesauce and fairy bread would suffice as something "treat like".

A liked his breakfast a lot. His big brothers liked it also since of course I had to make them a special breakfast too. They were ok with just eating it off a plate. :)

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