Lunchbox look - Nov. 24 - 26, 2014

Another short week! It's a good thing my child got two days off school so she could be there to witness me cooking the turkey with the giblet bag still inside, a fact of which she likes to remind me daily.

Autumn! It's my least favorite season but I sure do like maple flavored sandwich cookies, so it can't be all bad! There's a leaf sandwich, carrots and celery, grapes, leftover chicken and one of those great cookies. To make the carrot flowers, slice off the ends of a baby carrot and carefully cut little V-shaped notches around the sides. Mess up the first three and eat the evidence. Gently slice into coins and scatter throughout the lunchbox.

Hand turkey! I made a version of this same turkey last year, but it didn't make an impression until this year. Evidently they no longer make these simple art projects in school because my daughter complimented me on my ingenuity. The turkey's features are made from sprinkles - a heart for his crest, chocolate-covered sunflower seed for the beak and part of a candy cane sprinkle for the wattle. This lunch also has a carved cucumber, sliced kiwi, pretzel sticks, grapes and a few more sunflower seeds.

Pilgrim girl! Her pale little cheeks make me happy (they're Easter egg sprinkles) as does her prudent, center-parted fruit leather hair. Grapes, clementine, salami and celery/carrots fill in the rest of this small lunch on the last day before Thanksgiving break.


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