Tuesday, 10/23/12 - a fun Fall-themed lunch in an EasyLunchbox.
I used a gingerbread man cookie cutter on some bread for the body, minus the head. I used the same cutter on some ham to go inside, and cheese slices for the shirt and pants. I cropped the "hands" and "feet" off to make them more clothing-like. Instead of a bread head, I used a cupcake pick a friend found for me at a cakery supply shop. Some sell picks in singles, which is great for a bento-er!
I broke apart a piece of pumpkin "brickle" for dessert. We'd gotten a bag on our pumpkin patch field trip at the gift shop. It's like peanut brittle, except with pumpkin seeds (husks removed) and pie spices mixed in. It is crazy delicious.
I chose a yellow silicone flower cup and arranged some red grapes inside to look like a sunflower. Kind of.
I had made oven-baked corn on the cob the night before, and had some left over, so I used a knife to scrape down the sides to make little sheets of corn nibblets. And added a scarecrow cupcake pick to guard the corn. A white spork was included to (hopefully) help eat the corn. (It was a no-go. She didn't like it. Baby ended up eating it all later.)
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| Ham and cheese sandwich,, "pumpkin brickle," grapes, corn |
I broke apart a piece of pumpkin "brickle" for dessert. We'd gotten a bag on our pumpkin patch field trip at the gift shop. It's like peanut brittle, except with pumpkin seeds (husks removed) and pie spices mixed in. It is crazy delicious.
I chose a yellow silicone flower cup and arranged some red grapes inside to look like a sunflower. Kind of.
I had made oven-baked corn on the cob the night before, and had some left over, so I used a knife to scrape down the sides to make little sheets of corn nibblets. And added a scarecrow cupcake pick to guard the corn. A white spork was included to (hopefully) help eat the corn. (It was a no-go. She didn't like it. Baby ended up eating it all later.)
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This may be your shortest post ever! What is pumpkin brickle? I think i might want some!
ReplyDeleteHaha! I hadn't meant to post this yet! I mush have set a date and then hit publish instead of save, so it was lying in wait!
DeleteWe got the Pumpkin Brickle at a local pumpkin patch. It's like peanut brittle, but with pumpkin seeds instead of nuts, and pumpkin pie spices mixed in. It was actually called Pumpkin Brittle, but Z started calling it "brickle" for some reason. I'd heard it called that before, so we went with it. :)
It is *really* good. I had to ration it out so I wouldn't eat the whole bag in one sitting!
Looking at the title, this must have been done in a 3am stupor. I don't even remember putting any of this together...
DeleteCute cheese outfit for the scarecrow sandwich!
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