Fun Lunches

I don't know about in your house, but in my house lunches can get kind of boring! They tend to be more of the same boring old thing. So I decided to get intentional about providing fun, creative, memorable lunches to surprise my kids with.

Fun Lunch #1
Blue Jello ocean, fruit island, potato boat with bacon people & cheese sail.

Fun Lunch #2
The kids & I were talking about bugs in our homeschool preschool this day. So I made a buggy lunch. We've got ants on a log (raisins on peanut buttered celery), black olive half cockroaches, snails (apple quarter with peanut butter & walnut antennae), and strawberry with chocolate sauce ladybugs.

Both lunches were a huge hit! The kids were very appreciative and enjoyed the fun lunch. The lunches themselves were healthy too!

What are you having for lunch?
Beth

Fun Lunches

I don't know about in your house, but in my house lunches can get kind of boring! They tend to be more of the same boring old thing. So I decided to get intentional about providing fun, creative, memorable lunches to surprise my kids with.

Fun Lunch #1
Blue Jello ocean, fruit island, potato boat with bacon people & cheese sail.

Fun Lunch #2
The kids & I were talking about bugs in our homeschool preschool this day. So I made a buggy lunch. We've got ants on a log (raisins on peanut buttered celery), black olive half cockroaches, snails (apple quarter with peanut butter & walnut antennae), and strawberry with chocolate sauce ladybugs.

Both lunches were a huge hit! The kids were very appreciative and enjoyed the fun lunch. The lunches themselves were healthy too!

What are you having for lunch?
Beth

Fun Lunches

I don't know about in your house, but in my house lunches can get kind of boring! They tend to be more of the same boring old thing. So I decided to get intentional about providing fun, creative, memorable lunches to surprise my kids with.

Fun Lunch #1
Blue Jello ocean, fruit island, potato boat with bacon people & cheese sail.

Fun Lunch #2
The kids & I were talking about bugs in our homeschool preschool this day. So I made a buggy lunch. We've got ants on a log (raisins on peanut buttered celery), black olive half cockroaches, snails (apple quarter with peanut butter & walnut antennae), and strawberry with chocolate sauce ladybugs.

Both lunches were a huge hit! The kids were very appreciative and enjoyed the fun lunch. The lunches themselves were healthy too!

What are you having for lunch?
Beth

April Fool's Day Food Fun

I love cooking! So it should not come as a huge surprise that I decided to thrown an April Fool's Joke on my family using food!

Cake for Lunch!
The cake was actually meatloaf baked in round baking pans. The frosting was actually mashed potatoes that I used to hold the meatloaf together & then to pipe onto cake to give it the appearance of a decorated cake. I finished it off by plucking on peas & carrots as a garnish. Not only did it look awesome, it was actually delicious! My husband thinks it's the best meatloaf he'd ever had. I think the masked potatoes helped keep moisture in the meatloaf.

Spaghetti & Meatball Dinner

This was actually a completely dessert entree! In the middle of the plate I put a slice of pound cake. I then piped vanilla frosting criss-crossing the pound cake to give the appearance of noodles. I topped the icing noodles with Strawberry Sunday Topping 'Tomato Sauce'. Then I used a knife to dull Whopper candy and plopped these 'meatballs' on top of the 'spaghetti'. On he side I served ladyfingers, iced, with green sprinkles to look like garlic bread.

To say the food was a huge, fun surprise would be an understatement. The kids enjoyed it immensely. I am so glad I was intentional about doing something fun, creative, and memorable.

Beth

April Fool's Day Food Fun

I love cooking! So it should not come as a huge surprise that I decided to thrown an April Fool's Joke on my family using food!

Cake for Lunch!
The cake was actually meatloaf baked in round baking pans. The frosting was actually mashed potatoes that I used to hold the meatloaf together & then to pipe onto cake to give it the appearance of a decorated cake. I finished it off by plucking on peas & carrots as a garnish. Not only did it look awesome, it was actually delicious! My husband thinks it's the best meatloaf he'd ever had. I think the masked potatoes helped keep moisture in the meatloaf.

Spaghetti & Meatball Dinner

This was actually a completely dessert entree! In the middle of the plate I put a slice of pound cake. I then piped vanilla frosting criss-crossing the pound cake to give the appearance of noodles. I topped the icing noodles with Strawberry Sunday Topping 'Tomato Sauce'. Then I used a knife to dull Whopper candy and plopped these 'meatballs' on top of the 'spaghetti'. On he side I served ladyfingers, iced, with green sprinkles to look like garlic bread.

To say the food was a huge, fun surprise would be an understatement. The kids enjoyed it immensely. I am so glad I was intentional about doing something fun, creative, and memorable.

Beth

April Fool's Day Food Fun

I love cooking! So it should not come as a huge surprise that I decided to thrown an April Fool's Joke on my family using food!

Cake for Lunch!
The cake was actually meatloaf baked in round baking pans. The frosting was actually mashed potatoes that I used to hold the meatloaf together & then to pipe onto cake to give it the appearance of a decorated cake. I finished it off by plucking on peas & carrots as a garnish. Not only did it look awesome, it was actually delicious! My husband thinks it's the best meatloaf he'd ever had. I think the masked potatoes helped keep moisture in the meatloaf.

Spaghetti & Meatball Dinner

This was actually a completely dessert entree! In the middle of the plate I put a slice of pound cake. I then piped vanilla frosting criss-crossing the pound cake to give the appearance of noodles. I topped the icing noodles with Strawberry Sunday Topping 'Tomato Sauce'. Then I used a knife to dull Whopper candy and plopped these 'meatballs' on top of the 'spaghetti'. On he side I served ladyfingers, iced, with green sprinkles to look like garlic bread.

To say the food was a huge, fun surprise would be an understatement. The kids enjoyed it immensely. I am so glad I was intentional about doing something fun, creative, and memorable.

Beth