Girly Lunch

In Lily's Lunch:

Chicken and cheese sandwich on enriched white

Cheddar heart

White cheddar flowers

Gummy butterfly

Green grapes

Strawberries

The "Klip It"

We found a new lunch container!!

It's called the "Klip It" from Sistema,

and I found this one at Backyard & Veranda for $7.99

(And then of course found it at Stokes a week later for $6.99)

I LOVE This!!!

It compartmentalizes everything completely,

(not partially, like some others)

I'm finding that I can fit just enough food in there for Lily

if I add fluffing like cupcake cups and napkins,

but it'll pack in enough food for myself or even Craig,

(He'd love the pink, lol)

Important to note though, it's not liquid tight!

Wet foods are mostly ok,

liquids are not.

In Lily's Lunch:

Cheese whiz and sliced turkey breast on whole wheat

Jalapeno havarti flower

Teddy grahams

Chocolate chip granola bar

Apple slices

Green grapes

Flowers & Pizza Lunches

In Lily's Lunch:

Apple slice flowers

Green grape tulips

Cheese slice and chicken breast slice sandwich on white

Cheese slice heart flowers with

Cheesy pretzel stick stems

A note about Craig...

This summer, Craig underwent some testing 

to see if he had a gluten resistance.

As a precaution, we went gluten-free

for about a month and a half!

When I say we, I mean all of us!

(Myself, Lily and Craiggers)

It was just easier cooking one meal,

baking one kind of cookies, etc.

As it turned out, he's not resistant to gluten,

but we have some gluten-free lunches all the same :)

In Craig's Lunch:

Apple slices

Black grapes

Gluten free home made pizza,

 (dough & sauce from a box)

The Broken Camera :(

Sooo... my camera broke :(

These are the best shots I could get...

How sad is that?!?

The date on the lower picture isn't even near close,

but while trying to fix my broken camera,

it became stuck on this date :(

Needless to say, come next pay,

a new camera became a top priority!

In This (Top) Lunch:

Strawberries

Checkered red apple

Strawberry jam sandwich on whole wheat

Fruit leather tulips

Cheesy pretzel stick stems

Spinach leaves

In This Lunch:

Butterfly apple

Carrot sticks

Chocolate chip granola bar

Cheese whiz sandwich on whole wheat

Cheddar slice butterfly

Cookie Flower Lunch

In This Lunch:

Cheddar flowers

Truscuit crackers

Green grapes

Chocolate chip granola bar

Ham and cheddar sandwich on enriched white bread

Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Flower Lunch

In This Lunch:

1 Big strawberry

Carrot sticks

Strawberry jam sandwich on whole wheat

Sugar snaps

Raspberry fruit leather flowers

Cheesy pretzel stick stem

Snowy Tulip Lunch

Spring is sooo close,

and our garden is starting to come in,

and of course...

we'd get snow :(

Poor little tulips sure have some frosty tips this morning!

In This Lunch:

Green grape tulips

Apple slice snowflakes

Strawberry jam sandwich on brown bread

Mozzarella cheese slice snow

Gummy candy tulip (blue from the cold!)

Bunny Lunch

We have new picks!

I found them at Walmart as part of a peg game,

but they work great!

In This Lunch:

Cracker clouds

Sugar snap pea grass

Gummy flower with spinach leaves

White cheddar slice bunny

Strawberry jam sandwich on homestyle white bread

Strawberries

Carrot sticks

Spring Lunch

In This Lunch:

Strawberries

Green grapes

Strawberry jam sandwich on homestyle white bread

Sugar snap peas

Cheese string sun (plus leftover tucked beside fruit)

Gummy tulip on toothpick with spinach leaves

Bunny Lunch

Day 6 of the flu, and my fever finally broke!

I'm still not myself, but getting there at least :)

I picked up some adorable Easter accessories 

at the Bulk Barn the other week, 

and it's such a warm day out (+14c and rainy)

that I couldn't help but do some sort of springy theme :)

In This Lunch:

3 Bite brownie (baked by my sister Dee Dee)

Carrot sticks

Strawberry jam sandwich on whole wheat

Cheese slice bunny

Strawberry fruit leather tulip

Snow peas

Tulip Lunch

"You must be the change you want to see in the world"

-Mahatma Gandhi

One of my favorite quotes to live by :)

Right about now, I see snow, and freezing cold temperatures :(

I'd like to change that to beautiful greenery and flowers :)

While I don't think this is quite what he had in mind,

it's the quote that came to my mind

while I was making a little bit of Spring ♥

In This Lunch:

Green grape tulips

Strawberry tulips

Strawberry jam sandwich on whole wheat

Snow peas

Butterfly and tulip gummy candies

Simple Flower Lunch

Lunch

You'll notice a few adjustments to today's lunch :)

Less food, less elaborate, and the recess is isolated.

I had hoped we could get out to the store this weekend to pick up a watch,

but we didn't end up having the time :(

We'll get one in a day or so, and let you know how it goes :)

In This Lunch:

Marble cheddar and ham sandwich on enriched whole wheat bread

Marble cheddar flower

Apple flowers

Napkin

Recess

In This Recess:

Green Grapes

Whole Enchilada

Flower Garden 2

So I said I planned to give the flower garden another shot... 

Here's how it turned out :)

I also went nuts and in a moment of insanity turned the lunch container longways...GASP!

(Yay for trying different things!)

Sadly though, I'm afraid this lunch will probably still be being picked at up till supper,

since I completely forgot that today is a pizza day at school :(

Oh well, it still makes for a great recess and after school snack!

Here's What's In This Lunch:

Apple flowers with food marker centers and a paper leaf pick

Cucumber foliage (Lily thought they looked like leaves)

Snow peas

Ham and cheese slice sandwich on whole wheat bread

Pretzel flower pots

Cheesy pretzel stick flower stems

Snow pea leaves

Strawberry fruit leather flowers

Sugar icing flower

Remembrance Day Lunch

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Wake up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

-John McCrae, May 1915

Today is the day before Remembrance day, and there will be a ceremony at school to honor those who have given their lives for our country, and those who risk their lives for us still.

I wanted to honor in our own way, our family members who have fought in the past, and those who still do today.

Today's lunch is dedicated to Lily's great-grandfather Carman, cousin Jason, and uncle Charlie.

You're truly heros to us all

In This Lunch:

Strawberry jam sandwich on whole wheat (wrapped in plastic wrap)

Green fruit roll-up

Apple fruit leather camouflage

Strawberry fruit leather poppy

Cheese slice poppy center colored with food marker

Triscuit ground

Yoghurt covered raisin headstones

Snow pea grass

Plastic swords

Carrot sticks (to represent our troops who stand on guard for us all)

Follow-Up

Plastic wrap is perfect for preventing the invasion of the goo!

The only thing not eaten in this lunch were the yoghurt covered raisins

(apparently, the combo freaks her out)

Flower Garden Lunch

This lunch took more time than I expected!  

I wanted to try to make some flowers on stems, and didn't really research it first.  For future reference, fruit leather, is not the best for this!  If you like how it turned out, go for it, but Lily didn't even know what they were supposed to be.  She asked if they were brooms :/

All told, this lunch took 30 minutes, and almost made us late for school :(

I do plan on trying it again though.  

Just using different materials, and with less detail!

In This Lunch:

Large apple flowers with food marker centers

Triscuit flower beds

Cheese slice flowers with food marker centres

Small apple flowers with food marker centers

Carrot flowers

Turkey and cheese whiz sandwich on enriched white bread

Fruit leather petals tied with purple colored twist ties

Cheesy pretzel sticks

Cheese slice leaves colored with food marker

Apple cereal bar flower bed

Lily's Favorites

Lily-themed lunch:
(These are a few of her favorite things)

Carrot sticks
Herbed havarti flowers
Chocolate chip cookie made by Lily and Kelly
Fishy crackers
Ham and cheese slice sandwich on homemade whole wheat bread
Personalized fruit leather letters

Snack Lunch #2

Introducing... the Ziplock easy lunch! These are great, and I love the one and only one I have, but they no longer make them :( Mine is old and about to break any day now. I've found ones just like it, (http://www.easylunchboxes.com/?AFFID=30973) but they're out of stock :( 

Boo urns

Still out of bread = Yet another improvised mish mosh

What's for lunch:
Moon cheese scraps (waste not!)
Chocolate chip granola bars
Fruit leather flower and moon outline
Raspberry cereal bars
Mixed fruit snacks
Red seedless grapes
Carrot sticks
Vanilla yoghurt with rainbow sprinkles, which Lily did not eat, because as I later found out, the sprinkles freaked her out :(

Side note, this is TOO MUCH FOOD for a 5 year old girl!! Half of it came home :(

It's been such a delicate balance learning how much she will and won't eat when I'm not there to make her :/

First try at Flowers

In this lunch:
Red and green grapes
Organic blueberries from Oxford NS
Raspberry cereal bar
Fruit leather flowers
Ham and cheese slice sandwich on whole wheat

Lunch container found at Winners by Lily's dad Tom! Great find, and is almost perfect, (even has an ice pack built in to the lid), but lacks one element: The interior walls must meet the ceiling. Lily did not eat all of her lunch because the blueberries had escaped, and squished on her sandwich and cereal bars, and in the world of Lily, these items should never meet :( 

The search continues...