Ham croissantwich

Well, we are still in the deep freeze here. When it's this cold, I find it difficult to even leave my house. A cup of coffee and my warm, toasty heated blanket just calls my name. But, I did manage to throw on my parka and boots and do a little shopping at Costco with my mom yesterday. I love shopping at Costco with my mom. Most of the things we buy, we split....fruit, veggies, cheese, and meat especially. Yesterday, we bought and split these ginormous croissants. These things are HUGE! They were four inches thick. Z loves croissants, so today's lunch is a ham croissantwich. I actually cut the middle of the croissant out to make the sandwich smaller. It's still huge, and I fully expect that he won't eat all of it. Mom and I also bought the Costco chicken salad to split, and it is yummo on the croissants. Good eatin' yall!!

This lunch is packed in Easy Lunch Boxes.

• Natural Selects ham and Monterrey Jack cheese croissantwich
• Rold Gold honey wheat pretzel sticks
• Cuties clementine and red seedless grapes
• baby carrots and red seedless grapes with Ranch dressing for dipping

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Baby, it's cold outside!!

Well, the title of this post says it all....Baby, it's COLD outside. The high this morning was 8* with a windchill of -10*. Yes, I know that there a lots of places with colder weather than this, but for the M-town, this is fridged. You know it's cold when my cold loving Spoo refuses to be outside for more than 5 minutes...even with his sweater on. (What!! Your dog doesn't have a winter sweater? Ok...I admit. He's pretty pampered.) The weather man is predicting some frozen precip on Sunday, so you bet I have some happy kids. Snow is a rarity around here, so I myself wouldn't be too disappointed by the fluffy white stuff. So, winter is the theme for today's lunch in our Goodbyn Bynto.

This lunch is packed in the Goodbyn Bynto.

• Natural Selects nitrate free hotdog and black olive mini skewers
• Honeycrisp apple wedges
• four bean salad with mittens pick
• Yoplait lemon yogurt with snowman shaped cupcake icing decoration 
• small square of brownie brittle
• Rold Gold cheddar cheese pretzels

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Welcome 2015

Hi friends!! Welcome to 2015!! Seems like it's been forever since I made a blog post. The kiddos winter break sneaked up on me, and we were super duper busy from the first day they got out of school....no time for blogging. Today is their first day back to school, and it was HARD!! The little guy was up and raring to go....so ready to see his friends again. The 15 year old....not so much! Me....ummm, let's just say after 2 cups of coffee, I still had major "no homework, sleeping late, love having my babies home" back-to-school blues. (Insert frowny face here.) Lunch with my bestie cured that, though. (Insert smiley face here.) I hope you all had a great winter break and enjoyed lots of time with your kiddos. I'm looking forward to a great 2015 with lots more fun lunches, and I hope you will continue to tune in.

This lunch is packed in Easy Lunch Boxes.

• Natural Selects nitrate free hotdog slices
• baby carrots with Ranch dressing for dipping in the green cup
• Yoplait Trix yogurt- We love Trix yogurt! It has no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners.
• whale shaped cheese crackers
• strawberry slices
• cheddar cheese wedge

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PB&J bread rollups and a few snowmen...

If you tuned in to the last post, then you know that we were super duper excited over the prospect of snow. Well, we didn't wake up to the winter wonderland like we had hoped. Nope! Nada! None! I guess I really should be glad that we don't live in a place where a foot of snow every week is the norm. But, a nice healthy snowfall here in the M-town sure would be welcome. My little guy has never even had the chance to build a snowman. Now ice....that's a different story! We get several good icings every winter. Doesn't really garner the same amount of excitement from the kiddos, though. So, there's a few snowmen in the lunch today to perhaps help Mother Nature along.

I love these cute bread rollups. They are super simple to do. I cut the crusts off a slice of bread. (Don't throw them out. Turn them into bread crumbs and use them to make meatballs or meatloaf.) Then, using the heel of your hand, flatten the bread as much as possible. Yep, pound the dippidy doo out of the bread. Spread the peanut butter (or nut butter of choice) from edge to edge, and then spread the jelly (or fruit spread of choice) leaving about a half inch on one edge free of the jelly. Then roll the bread toward the jelly free edge. Easy peasy lemon squeezey!!

This lunch is packed in Easy Lunch Boxes.

• Peanut butter and strawberry all-fruit spread bread rollups
• Ritz Bitz cheese crackers
• Babybel cheese- I cut a snowman shape from the cheese wax with a small snowman shaped cutter.
• baby carrots with Ranch dressing in the green cup
• strawberries
• 3 holiday yogurt covered pretzels

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We want some snow....

Well, I am a happy, happy girl!! Looks like we might be getting some snow here in the M-town tomorrow. My family LOVES snow. We will bundle up in 5 layers of clothes if it means we get to build a snowman and have snowball fights. And you can't have snow without hot cocoa, right? Memphis is not a place that gets a great deal of snowfall, so when we do get snow, it's a big deal. A big snowfall here amounts to 2 or 3 inches, and of course, the entire city shuts down and schools close. Tomorrow's prediction is only about an inch. But, weathermen can be wrong, right?  So, tonight we're going to flush 3 ice cubes down the toilet, wear our pajamas inside out, and sleep with spoons under our pillows. All in hopes that we will wake up to a winter wonderland. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!

This lunch is packed in Easy Lunch Boxes.

• peanut butter and strawberry all-fruit spread sandwich cut into the shape of a snowflake
• Pirate's Booty cheese puffs
• baby carrots
• strawberries
• Yoplait yogurt
• 2 candy snowflakes for decoration

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Welcome December...

Hi Friends! Welcome to December. I hope you all were able to spend some special time with your loved ones last week. The kidlets are back in school today. We enjoyed our Thanksgiving break very much. Now, we are ready to start that downhill slide to the end of the year and winter break. WooHoo!! We can't wait for winter break. December is the month that I like to make winter themed lunches, too. The cold weather has set in, and it's time for some fun snowman lunches. Today's lunch, though, is pretty simple. This lunch took me less than 15 minutes to make. Coming off the long holiday weekend, my lunch making mojo was pretty defunct, so simple was the name of the game last night. Look at these fun scalloped silicone cups. I bought them at TJ Maxx over the weekend, and I love them. They are really thick and sturdy and super cute, too. The same ones are available at Amazon, so I placed a link to them below. Have a great week everybody!!

This lunch is packed in Easy Lunch Boxes.

• Natural Selects turkey hotdog slices
• Monterrey Jack cheese cubes
• Pirate's Booty puffed cheese snacks
• sliced peaches and blueberries
• baby carrots and Ranch dressing for dipping in the green cup

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