May The Fourth Be With You!
May 3, 2012
We are at it again, its another blog hop and I am having so much fun with the Star Wars theme!
Princess Leia is a cheese sandwich (big surprise!) with almond butter sandwich buns on the side. I’m kinda regretting the jelly
rosy cheeks’. Maybe pink soy paper circles would have worked better…
The Ewok is a cucumber bear with soy paper hood. He is resting on a bed of hummus, standing on a carrot log and holding a pretzel spear.
Our light sabers are pretzel sticks dipped into a mixture of cream cheese, coconut oil (to keep it from cracking as it dries) and a touch of vanilla syrup. I made a lot of ‘mistakes’ on this one because it was sooooo yummy! The colors are from using natural food colors. I tried for a blue using cabbage water and baking soda but the color wasn’t concentrated enough so it ended up too soupy.
For a little extra fun, I decorated the PlanetBox with stickers and included two Lego Ewoks
Don’t forget to check out the rest of the hop, these gals are so creative and fun. The hop starts bright and early on Friday (those dang East Coasters!) Click on the image below to see Kristie’s amazing work!
To make this lunch I used:
Oscar The Grouch Lunch
April 27, 2012
Today I had an avocado to use so I wracked my brain for something fun and green and came up with Oscar The Grouch
I used an Elmo cookie cutter to cut out a piece of toast then spread it with mashed up avocado mixed with salt and natural preservative (essentially, powdered vitamin c). The can is just an avocado sandwich.
Oscar does look awfully happy. I think its because he has his string cheese and cheese curls worms (Slimey is the one with eyes), stinky smelly green fish (hard-boiled egg dyed with natural food dye and put in an egg mold) and a messy pile of fruit (pineapple and strawberries). Unfortunately, Cora did not carry the lunch flat so Oscar got mangled and she really didn’t want to eat the resultant mess. Note to self, no open-faced sandwiches for awhile!
To make this lunch I used:
Easter Egg Lunch
April 5, 2012
Aaaaand we have another Easter themed lunch! For more spring/Easter fun, please check out my other lunches from this week or hop through the Bunny Hop linked at the end of the post.
Cheese Easter egg sandwich with natural (dye and sugar free) fruit leather designs.
In the upper corner I placed a pink egg (dyed with beet powder) with cheese stars in mung bean noodles dyed green using natural food dyes. I finished the lunch with Veggie Stix and fruit flowers.
To make this lunch I used:
Don’t forget to do the Bunny Hop!
The full list of Bunny Hoppers:
Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus Lunch
March 24, 2012
Cora and I were reading the other night and it struck me this would be a fun lunch. While I waited (and waited and waited) for her to fall asleep, I plotted and planned and the next day it easily came together
Cream cheese and banana pigeon sandwich with cheese embellishment (dyed blue with natural food color), carrot beak and fruit leather letters
Pineapple bus with kiwi wheels and steering wheel
Hard boiled egg car (dyed green with natural food color)) and rainbow carrot stars
Finished off with a banana and strawberry hearts
To make this lunch I used:
