Lunchbox look - Nov. 10 - 14, 2014

Another short week! The beginning of the school year goes so fast and it feels like there are holidays all the time. Remind me of this feeling during the torturous slog that is April. We were busy this week so I took it pretty easy in the lunch-packing department.

Lunch on a stick! When in doubt, kids will always eat food on a stick. Except a corn dog, which my children wouldn't eat if you paid them in lollipops. Here we have ham and cheese on a stick, plus Goldfish, checkered apple chunks, tomatoes, strawberries and a few prized mini Pocky treats. I find that placing long sticks on an angle makes the rest of the lunchbox a lot easier to fill than a rigid horizontal line.

Birthday! We had a family birthday this week, so I kept the festivities going. This lunchbox is very deep, which makes it easy to pack a small apple, ham on picks, carrot sticks, strawberry and leftover pasta with Parmesan.

Rainbow! I used concentric circle cookie cutters to mark the outline for the rainbow, filled it with peanut butter and pressed on sprinkles. The clouds are popcorn kernels. There's also baby carrots, a kiwi, tomatoes, a waxy cheese and rainbow box holding rainbow chocolate-covered sunflower seeds. 

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