feeling a little gross Halloween lunch

I made fingers out of carrots and those nasty little canned viena sausages.  My girl LOVED it. Me? I don't think I'd be able to eat those things...finger shaped or not. I've got my lunch buddy over at Lunch With Eyeness to thank for the idea. She's made fingers a bunch of times and I was inspired. Thanks for the idea!

This lunch is simple to make.  I did the fingers with an exacto-knife and just threw in the rest. The wild child was annoyed that the tomatoes weren't finger shaped like everything else, but I had nothing else that would look like finger, so she will have to suffer through the tomatoes. Pickles, Snap Pea Crisps and ranch dressing in the Mini-Dipper complete the Finger Foods theme. 

What are your kids going as for Halloween?  The mini woman is going as Amy Pond from Doctor Who and the wild child gathered all the remaining odds and ends left at Target two days before Halloween...so she's going as "What they had left."  I will edit in a photo to this post tomorrow. We usually make our costumes from the wealth of ideas on Spoonful or the Family Fun Magazine ideas. They're awesome costumes and typically easy to make. Here's a few from the past:

Mini woman, age 9. Wild child age 7. 

Wild child, age 8. Mini woman, age 10. 

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feeling a little jacked up

Jacked up for Halloween!  Another one of my lunchy friends, Lunchbox Dad, made a Jack Skellington lunch (here) for his daughter the other day and I just had to try my hand at it. It's a rather simple character to draw and lended himself well to a slice of provolone cheese. I love to use Wilton gel coloring with a paintbrush...makes nice clean lines and stitches for Jack's mouth.

Lunchbox Dad

The turkey and cheese sandwich is open and after I took the photo, I put the top slice of swirled rye and pumpernickel right on his skull. My girl knows he is in there, so I'm sure she will sneak a peek before she bites in.  

Also included are some grape tomatoes with little candy eyes for fun and some apple cinnamon straws. I thought the straws looked a bit wormy, so it keeps with the theme.  Now to pull out our Nightmare Before Christmas DVD to get this season moving!

The more serious seventh grader has almost the same lunch...with some minor differences.  She doesn't like tomatoes or the straws, so she is getting applesauce and mini rice cakes. The lid to the EasyLunchboxes container does close properly over the applesauce cup. 

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feeling a little freaky {Pumpkin Spice Latte Bread Recipe}

It's that time of year again...Halloween!  Who doesn't love a bit of scary mixed with all you can eat candy?  It wouldn't be a holiday of the Bento Bloggers and Friends didn't do a blog hop...so here it is in all it's fearsome glory!  Click the button below to head on over to One Crafty Thing when you're done eyeballing my lunch.

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This lunch contains an awesome recipe for Crock Pot Pumpkin bread from Wanna Bite blog.   I found the recipe on Pinterest, of course. It's moist and delicious and I don't think I will ever make pumpkin bread any other way now. If you're feeling a little adventurous, try dumping in two packets of Starbucks VIA instant coffee for a Pumpkin Spice Latte Bread...I use Italian Roast.  It's delicious (and caffeinated to boot!)

Here's the recipe for the kids without the coffee:

Crockpot Pumpkin Bread 

PIN HERE: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/86483255315312813/

Ingredients

• ½ cup of oil
• ½ cup of sugar
• ½ cup of packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs (beaten)
• 1 15oz can of pumpkin
• 1½ cup of flour (sifted)
• ¼ tsp. of salt
• ½ tsp. of cinnamon
• ½ tsp. of nutmeg
• 1 tsp. of baking soda

Instructions

1. Blend the oil and both of the sugars into a large bowl.
2. Then, stir in the beaten eggs and canned pumpkin. Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
3. Pour the batter into a greased or oiled bread pan. (I used a canola oil spray that worked just fine.
4. Now add two cups of water to your crockpot and place the pan into a crock pot.
5. Cover the top of the crockpot with eight-ten paper towels. This is to trap condensation and keep the bread from becoming mushy.
6. Place the crock pot lid on top of the crockpot (I tried to make sure the paper towels were trapped around the lid so they didn’t slip) and bake on high 2½ to 3 hours.

Since I have two very different children at two different stages in life, I had to make a lunch without all the Halloween flair for the 7th grader. She gets the same lunch, no fun and not tomatoes because she doesn't like tomatoes. 

And here's some close ups of the fun lunch:  I got the skeleton flair at Publix and the witch and hand on Amazon. Check out the links below to get some of your own. 

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feeling a little spooky

A fun lunch doesn't have to be difficult!  Add in a little flair and POOF! It's fun. Taking a sharpie marker to a clementine orange can be an easy and playful way to make it special, too. This lunch was created in less than ten minutes...Sandwich rolls with turkey and cheese, Snap Pea Crisps, a candy fruit slice, Babybel cheese wheel and a clementine.

Making sandwich rolls is really easy. Simply cut the crusts off two slices of bread, lay them end to end and overlapping a little bit.  Then use a rolling pin or even your hands to flatten them out a bit making one long slice of bread. Place your filling on one end and then roll up. Using condiments like mustard or mayo will help seal the wrap together. 

Special thanks to iPackLunch for the spider muffin cups and flair.  I won them through her giveaway last year...even though it's over, you can enjoy her lunch HERE. 

Also to Organized Bites for some creative consulting and MOMables for the sandwich roll ideas.

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Halloween is Nigh...

It's a Halloween Hop now!  This is my second hop and I'm so glad to be a part of the Bento Bloggers and Friends!  These people are amazing!  Not just with their lunchscapades, but in reality, too.  Please leave me a comment below if you'd like and then head on over to Glory's Mischief to follow the hop and see all the fun and inspiring lunches we've all been working on!

(Click the pumpkin above to travel through the hop)

Every year, I want to start with the Halloween decorating around the first week of October.  The Hubs is the voice of reason, and lets it be known that decorating too early could water down the festivities.  I agree, but I still want to decorate!  Today, I am off from work again, and having successfully avoided the laundry yesterday until around 5pm, I have not much else to do today.  So I made a little Halloween lunchy for the natives.  We still have to get our costume ideas nailed down, but I think the Wild Child is trying to get me to make her into a box of french fries.  Last year, they were pizzas, and the year before that, we had one 50's waitress and one bubble bather, courtesy of Family Fun Magazine's extensive costume idea section.  They've won our little neighborhood costume contest for two years in a row. 

On with the lunch, then I will show off my mad costume making skillz.

I made tombstone apple swirl bread sandwiches with Trader Joes Pumpkin Butter (which is nowhere near the price it is on Amazon), Snap Pea Crisps for grass, ranch in the Mini Dipper, a Babybel pumpkin cut out with an Exacto-Knife, carrot chips, dried apricots and a Rice Krispie Treat cut to possibly resemble a candy corn.  Then, of course it's adorned with the little Halloween picks I bought like 3 years ago on clearance and still have a ton of.  Again, my Bento Bloggers and Friends have a ton of ideas, and I am in no way original in making this lunch...so I will credit all of them with the ideas!  Click HERE for a link to a bunch of Halloween themed lunches.

Now for our Halloween Costume Showcase!  I'm rather proud of the results from making their costumes...and honestly, they didn't take long at all to make!  And I LOVE carving pumpkins...even use power tools to get the desired results!

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