Look! Lunches with Love for the week of 2/18 - 2/21

I normally don't post a weekly round up but this week has been so busy that I had no time to blog any of our lunches. So here they are - starting on Tuesday since Monday was a day off:

Tuesday:

Our Easylunchboxes were packed to the brim with left over red peppers, carrot slices, green grapes, strawberries, Pepperoni and salad sandwiches on honey wheat bread and a big slice of gluten free home made banana bread (left over from the long weekend).

Wednesday:

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A cute Peek-a-Boo preschool lunch - of course in our Easylunchboxes. We packed cheese crackers, all natural apple sauce, green grapes, a few strawberries, a cereal bar and three CuteZCute Animal Palz pocket sandwiches filled with chocolate spread.

Thursday:

Again in Easylunchboxes a cute Bear lunch filled with cheese crackers, a gluten free chocolate chip muffin, apple slices, three CuteZCute Bear pocket sandwiches filled with chocolate spread and a cereal bar.

Friday:

We packed a cute bento lunch to-go in our Fit&Fresh Sandwich Pod filled with two CuteZCute Lamb pocket sandwiches, orange quarters, carrots slices and ranch dip and Annie's Bunny Grahams.

We also packed our Goodbyn Bynto with a happy Onigiri, left over sweet & sour chicken, two different gluten free cereal bars, gluten free Annie's Bunnies and orange slices.

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Literary Lunches Round Up {2013}

In September of 2013 I started contributing to The Little Crooked Cottage as the official food caterer for their Mr. Pig LIVE! interviews. The Cottagers interview a character from a new book once a month and introduce the author and illustrator. Plus, the interviews are witty! and fun! I compiled all the fun book related lunches from 2013. Grab a book and make lunch!

We love Eric Carle and The Very Hungry Caterpillar and made a very special lunch in honor of his birthday!

Our first ever Literary Lunch was WARNING! DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK! from Adam Lehrhaupt.

We also celebrated Roald Dahl's 97th birthday with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lunch,..

...tried to catch the Gingerbread Man by Laura Murray who was loose in the school and trying to catch up to the kids at recess after they forgot him in the classroom.

We also helped but together a Tea Party for the bear cub in Ame Dyckman's book Tea Party Rules,

celebrated Susan Meddaugh's birthday the author and illustrator of the Martha Speaks books,...

...and laughed our way through Tom Angleberger's book Crankee Doodle! Crankee Doodle is the rewritten story of Yankee Doodle making this nonsensical and old song a comical, colorful and laugh out loud book for all ages.

We celebrated Crockett Johnson's birthday, author of Harold and The Purple Crayon,

and got to know Nugget and Fang a lovely children's book written by Tammi Sauer that explores the friendship of two unlikely friends: a fish and a shark.

We enjoyed the hilarious retelling of the original story of Little Red Riding Hood: Little Red Writing! by Joan Holub and Melissa Sweet,...

...and learned from Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds (and illustrated by Dan Santat) what happens when some of the world's best known carnivores - the lion, great white shark and wolf - share that their feelings get hurt when they are labeled as meanies.

We celebrated  Marc Brown's 67th birthday with an Arthur themed lunch and...

...tried having a fun day like Squirrel in Squirrel's Fun Day by Lisa Moser (and illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev) a funny and friendship filled book perfect for reading aloud!

Swing by The Little Crooked Cottage for fun interviews with book characters, authors introducing their favorite books from their childhood, book suggestions and a lot more!

My Favorite Posts of 2013

2013 was a great year for my blog! Thank you so much for all your support, comment love and input! I looked back at the lunches and recipes I made this year and compiled my favorites from each month to share with you.

January:

Whole Grain Pizza Pocket School Lunch in Easylunchboxes. This is not only a favorite post but a favorite lunch we pack a lot. For more info click on the picture!

February:

Valentine's School Lunch in Easylunchboxes packed with lots of love.

March:

Kiss me! I'm Irish! We love St. Paddy's Day and of course I had to pack one in our ECOlunchbox for school as well.

April:

My daughter loves her Din Din Platter from Innobaby and we both loved this Mouse lunch! 

May:

Instead of going through the Drive-thru we packed this breakfast to go in our Laptop Lunches bento box!

June:

We love Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and on his birthday we packed a special lunch in our Innobaby bento box!

July:

We love Mickey Mouse and after finding these adorable cutters on Ebay we packed a fun Mickey lunch in our yubo!

August:

The first day of school was filled with excitement and a Snoopy lunch in our Laptop Lunches bento box!

September:

Argh! International Talk Like A Pirate Day comes only once a year, Mateys! We loved celebrating it with a Jake and the Neverland Pirate Lunch in our Planetbox Shuttle!

October:

A spooky Halloween lunch in our Planetbox Shuttle!

November:

I started contributing to a fabulous new blog this year: The Little Crooked Cottage! This is my favorite Literary Lunch - again in Easylunchboxes - so far! A hilarious book that portraits what happens when some of the world's best known carnivores - the lion, great white shark and wolf - share that their feelings get hurt when they are labeled as meanies. 

December:

I love making Christmas lunches so it was hard to pick but I do love this Christmas bento in our Laptop Lunches!

Which one was your favorite? I would love to hear!

Have a very happy 2014 and may all your dreams for the new year come true!

The Best of 2012

It was a lot of fun looking back at the lunches of 2012! Especially since my 1 year blog-anniversary is yet to come. I started blogging in 2011 but only ever blogged 7 lunches until I made the blog public and started blogging more officially in January of 2012. Here are the lunches with the overall most views:

1. St. Patrick's Day Lunch

2. Hoppy Easter

3. Lunches with Chobani Review

3. Starwars Lunches

5. Bento Lunch

6. German Brunch

7. G is for Gorilla

8. Talk like a Pirate

9. Angry Birds

10. Fast & Easy Pizza Pockets

11.  Thanksgiving Lunch

12. The "No Peanut Butter" Challenge

Which lunch was your favorite?