Yummy Laptop Lunch

Cream cheese pancake sandwich

2006-11-09T20:03:00.000-08:00

Cream cheese pancake sandwich, chicken nuggets, cucumber chain (remove the core from cucumber and slice it into thin circles. To make the chain connect the cucumber slices by making a slit on every other slice.) and raisins.

Banana Dog

2006-11-08T20:01:00.000-08:00

Banana dog (hot dog bun with peanut butter and banana), fish sticks, broccoli and oreo.

Tabouleh

2006-11-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

Tuna salad, bread, tabouleh (parsley salad) and banana.

Baked Pita Chips

2006-11-06T07:01:00.000-08:00

Baked pita chips, carrots, hummus and grapes.

Sweet Potato Soup

2006-11-01T06:58:00.000-08:00

Sweet potato soup, garlic bread, grapes and kit kat bar.

Scary Halloween Lunch

2006-10-31T19:48:00.000-08:00

Frankenstein peanut butter and jelly sandwich, witch's fingers, marshmallow ghost and oreo spider. I used Frankenstein cookie cutter on bread to make the face. Nose and forehead wrinkle were molded from separate pieces of bread and glued to the face using cream cheese. The face was painted green with three drops of food coloring diluted in a tbsp of milk. I used marshmallow to make white portion of the eyes and used black icing (in tube) to make mouth, hair.
Witch's fingers are string cheese with red food coloring for nails. Spider is oreo cookies with pretzel stick legs. I used cream cheese to glue pretzel sticks to the cookie.

Bagel with cream cheese

2006-10-30T19:45:00.000-08:00

Bagel with cream cheese, fish sticks, hummus and carrot.

Pasta

2006-10-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

Pasta, pineapple, cauliflower and pumpkin apple muffin.

Whole Wheat Mini Pitas with Baba Ghannouj

2006-10-25T13:08:00.000-07:00

Whole wheat mini pitas with baba ghannouj (eggplant dip) filling, pear, radish and pretzel.

Harvest Pumpkin Apple Bread

2006-10-24T13:00:00.000-07:00

Harvest pumpkin apple bread (I used whole wheat flour instead of all purpose flour.), broccoli, graham cracker and plum.

No School , No Lunch

2006-10-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

Big bear did not have school today. So no lunch picture.

Indian Lunch

2006-10-19T06:54:00.000-07:00

Radish stuffed naan, cucumber raita, mango and pappadums.

Tomato Soup

2006-10-18T17:01:00.000-07:00

Tomato soup, croutons and cantaloupe balls.

Cream of Wheat Squares

2006-10-16T18:56:00.000-07:00

Cream of wheat squares, chicken, cauliflower and orange.

Carrot Pinwheels

2006-10-12T18:59:00.000-07:00

Carrot pinwheels, shredded carrot, pineapple and cracker with chilli.

Corn Flauta

2006-10-11T14:41:00.000-07:00

Corn flauta with chilli, star fruit and cucumber. Corn flautas are easy to make. Fry a corn tortilla for few seconds to make it soft. Pat it dry and spread chilli, refried beans or mashed potatoes and peas and roll it tightly and fold it at the bottom. Fry it again with the seam side down.

Sphagetti

2006-10-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

Sphagetti, meatballs, broccoli and orange

Chicken and Biscuit

2006-10-09T14:35:00.000-07:00

Chicken, biscuit, brussel sprout and banana.

Japanese Lunch

2006-10-05T06:28:00.000-07:00

Sushi inari, soy bean dumpling, edamame (soy bean) and a panda shaped mini cake with strawberry filling. Mamma bear went to a japanese store yesterday and bought the inari sushi, dumpling, edamame and panda cake from there. Big bear loves inari and dumpling. Sushi inari is a fried sweet tofu pouch that can be bought from any japanese grocery store. Pour hot water over the pouch to remove extra oil and then fill it with vegetables, tuna, rice or meat.

Crackers and Cheese

2006-10-04T20:41:00.000-07:00

Crackers, chicken, cheese and pear.

Crepe with Cream Cheese Filling

2006-10-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

Crepe with cream cheese filling, peas, apple and tea biscuit.

Pad Thai Noodles

2006-10-02T20:29:00.000-07:00

Pad thai noodles with shrimp, cauliflower, kiwi and a slice of banana cake with cream cheese frosting. On Sunday little bear and big bear helped daddy bear bake the banana cake. The cake was really yummy and big bear got the last slice for lunch.

Raisin Bran Muffin

2006-09-29T20:25:00.000-07:00

Raisin bran muffin, sweet potatoes and apple.

Breakfast for Lunch

2006-09-28T06:42:00.000-07:00

Cinnamon swirl, omlette, orange and rice krispies bar.

Cheese Quesadilla

2006-09-27T06:37:00.000-07:00

Cheese quesadilla, corn and tomato, pineapple and goldfish crackers.

Waffle

2006-09-26T08:39:00.000-07:00

Waffle with peanut butter and jelly, chicken and cheese roll, peas and orange.

Corn Muffin

2006-09-25T10:47:00.000-07:00

Corn muffin, chicken, carrot and plum

'Butterfly' Pizza

2006-09-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

English muffin pizza with pretzel topping and apple.

Pond

2006-09-21T06:33:00.000-07:00

Duck shaped pineapple cream cheese sandwich ( I cut the bread with a duck shaped cookie cutter and painted it yellow with a drop of yellow food color diluted in milk. Eye is cream cheese with raisin.), blueberry yogurt with goldfish cracker, broccoli bush, fish shaped boiled egg with nori.

Cinnamon Apple Burrito

2006-09-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

Cinnamon apple burrito, apple bread pudding and a juice box.

Stegosaurus and Fish Out of Water

2006-09-19T06:34:00.000-07:00

Today's lunch - fish shaped chicken with cream cheese scales, stegosaurus (bagel with cream cheese and apple spikes), green beans and pineapple volcano. I was running out of time and the picture did not come out right. I will have to take a better picture next time I make the stegosaurus bagel.

Sandwich Art

2006-09-18T07:28:00.000-07:00

Today's lunch is painted sandwich (with ham, cheese, cucumber and tomato), shredded carrot, graham cracker and a cored apple filled with peanut butter and raisin. Last night big bear and little bear had fun painting their sandwiches. Big bear's master piece is called 'Tulip Garden'. I forgot to take a picture of little bear's painting. In other news, on Sunday the bear family visited an apple orchard and had lot of fun. Now, mama bear has to find a way to get rid of a bag full of apples. So, there will be a lot of apple items in this week's lunch box.

English Muffin Pizza

2006-09-15T06:36:00.000-07:00

In the summer we signed up for pizza lunch at big bear's school. So, on Friday she gets one slice cheese pizza and chocolate ice-cream. Today morning I asked big bear if she wants to sign up for pizza lunch next semester and she said she likes the lunches I make better. That's the greatest compliment I could ever get. So, till January it's just little bear lunches on Fridays.

Little bear's lunch - grumpy and happy face english muffin pizza with apple slices.

The Garden

2006-09-14T08:17:00.000-07:00

I got the creative bug yesterday and got a bit crafty with big bear's lunch. 'The Garden' as big bear called it is the end result. Flower is carrot stick petals with peanut butter and raisin center and green pepper stem and leaves (I asked big bear not to eat the pepper). Tree stumps are whole wheat tortilla wraps with banana, peanut butter and raisin. No garden is complete without a guard dog and a fence. So, we have a cucumber dog watching for tresspassers from inside a fish sticks fence. Big bear thinks cheerios looks like rock and dirt. The big bear was so excited that she didnot want to mess up the carrot flower and held her lunch box flat on the way to school. No fancy lunch for little bear. Poor little bear got a regular whole wheat tortilla wrap with banana, raisin and sunbutter (tastes like peanut butter but made with roasted sunflower seeds. His school is peanut butter free), fish sticks and horse, cow and sheep shaped cucumber.

Idiyappam (Rice noodles)

2006-09-13T09:09:00.000-07:00

Idiyappam (rice noodles) with grated coconut, milk and sugar, car shaped boiled egg, peas and peaches.

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

2006-09-12T20:55:00.000-07:00

Grilled cheese sandwich, applesauce, sweet potato coated with brown sugar and sweet banana chips.

Mini Pancake Cream Cheese Sandwich

2006-09-11T20:55:00.000-07:00

Mini pancakes with cream cheese sandwich, scrambled egg, corn and pear slices.

Idli (Rice Cake)

2006-09-08T20:55:00.000-07:00

Idli (Rice cake) with sugar, octopus shaped hotdog sitting on broccoli, orange, graham crackers with peanut butter

Crackers, Ham and Cheese

2006-09-07T20:54:00.000-07:00

Crackers, ham and cheese, cucumber slices and banana. Big bear even got to assemble her cracker ham and cheese sandwich. Little bear did not go to school today because of the face swelling from the bug bites he got.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

2006-09-06T20:54:00.000-07:00

I forgot to take the picture today. So, you have to take my word for it. Today's lunch was star shaped PB&J sandwich, meatballs, broccoli and apple slices.

Banana Loaf Bread and Chicken

2006-09-05T20:53:00.000-07:00

Here's big bear and little bear's first lunch on the first day of second grade and preschool. Lunch today was home-made banana loaf bread, chicken, carrot and grapes.

At last, the lunch boxes are here

2006-08-31T11:31:00.000-07:00

I placed the order for two laptop lunch boxes a week ago and they arrived in today's mail. Big bear and little bear were so excited and wanted to try it out. They love their new lunch boxes and can't wait to take it to school. We went to Bed Bath and Beyond in the evening and got red and blue lunch bags (red for big bear and blue for little bear) along with red and blue Built NY bottle totes.

Today's menu : Bird and candy cane shape chicken nugget, steamed broccoli, raisin bran muffin and yogurt with banana.