Lunchbox look - Dec. 15-18, 2014 Twelve Days of Christmas week 3

The last week of school before winter break is kind of like ... well, conjure up your own analogy involving walking to school uphill both ways.  Here's the last of the Twelve Days of Christmas lunches before I put away my lunch-making hat for 2014. Over the break, I'm not ashamed to say there will be frozen pizza for lunch, or playing all morning in PJs until finally eating breakfast for lunch, and leftovers. But we'll be back in 2015!

Lady dancing! I had this vision in my head for months and my plans were nearly foiled by this new fad of "tattoos" on fruit roll-ups. But after searching two grocery stores, I finally found some blissfully plain Fruit by the Foot, which  makes a lovely dress for this little lady that I sketched on the back of a notecard. The sandwich is cooled grilled cheese. There's also dried cherries, tomatoes, carrots and snap peas.

Lord-a-leaping! Here we have another dancer, cut from fruit leather with a tiny green crown. Produce is a little boring this time of year, so there's the ubiquitous tomatoes, celery and carrots plus a string cheese, carved cucumber and star cookies.

Piping piper! I was so pleased with this happy little guy that I sent a picture to my brother, who smugly informed me the song refers to bagpipers. If he's right, I guess I'll be spending the next 11 months figuring out how to carve a bagpipe from cheese and sandwich bread. The sandwich is cut using a giant cookie cutter, and the rest is filled in with mini breadsticks, a grape, clementine, checkered cucumber and tomatoes.

Drummers drumming! I assure you that each painstakingly cut piece of nori will be removed before my daughter eats the cheese on top of the bread. I used a biscuit cutter to cut the cheese and freehanded the cucumber carvings. there's also a checkered apple, grapes, carrots and tomatoes. The drumsticks are from a dip-in-fake-cheese snack pack.


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