Quick Lunches and A Panda Box

This is the sky as the kids were leaving for school today - beautiful.

I am looking forward to Daylight Savings however and a little more day light :)

We woke up late this morning - it has been a long week - and we did not have as much time to pack lunch.

So we packed hummus and pita chips, a ham and spinach sandwich with a star cut out and some chocolate covered raisins from the Halloween loot :) As always they also have water and yogurt.

My second grader has a very similiar lunch with hummus, pita bread and fairy bread and a mini chocolate tucked in his lunch box, too.

I was a little more creative with my first garder since he has not been eating a lot and I wanted to make lunch fun for him. We packed a triple CuteZCute chocolate spread sandwich, some dye-free chocolate animal crackers and a peanut butter and yogurt bar. I also packed him a juice instead of water today since I felt he needed it. 

Happy Panda Lunch, Love!

Somersaults Review and Giveaway

The Somersault Snack Co. generously sent me a box of their amazing snacks. We are already big fans of Somersaults but we had not been able to try all the different varieties and were therefore so excited to be able to do a review and a GIVEAWAY! 

Look at this beautiful box! If you would like to win a box of your own enter my giveaway at the bottom of this post!

We already love our Pacific Sea Salt Somersaults but were amazed by the variety! There really is a flavor for every taste: 

Savory ~ Salty Pepper, Pacific Sea Salt and Santa Fe Salsa and 

Sweet ~ Dutch Cocoa and Cinnamon Crunch

I love these individual packs and will make sure to stock up on those before our next longer car trip, picnic or museum outing. Handy and Healthy!

So why do you ask do I love these snacks so much? Well first of all I love that these snacks are all natural and made with sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds have 50 % more protein then many other nuts like almonds, walnuts or pecans but only half the fat and six times more Vitamin E. They are also high in folate and even have more fiber than an apple. What does all this mean for you? 

Somersaults snacks have 6g of Protein per serving, no cholesterol, are a great source of fiber and vitamin E and are nut free and delicious! 

As you can see we love Somersaults and use them nearly every day in our snack boxes, lunch boxes and even on the go!

And how do these amazing Sunflower seed snacks taste? In one word: yummy!

We already love the Pacific Salt ones for their nutty and slightly salty taste and the ability to stop your snacking urge with just 14 pieces and under 150 calories!

So we were eager to try all the other varieties as well and we love them all! Salty Pepper has spice and taste great by themselves or with cheese, yum! Sante Fe Salsa has that zing I crave on those cold rainy fall afternoons and a have great salsa flavor! My kids' favorite Dutch Cocoa and Cinnamon Crunch are slightly sweet but still have the nutty goodness of a healthy snack. Hands down our savory favorite is the Pacific Sea Salt and our sweet favorite was Dutch Cocoa, mhm, mhm, good!

I even shared some with my neighbors who were instant fans of the Somersaults Dutch Cocoa and Cinnamon Crunch - just in case you did not believe me ;)

Want to try these amazing snacks for yourself? You can win one of these delicous snack boxes here: 

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Good Luck Everyone!

Please leave me your email address so I can contact you if you win!

You have to respond within 48 h or I will have to re-draw a winner :)

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Schools are opening today again after Hurricane Sandy with a delay but they are opening and so we packed lunch - one more Halloween lunch for everybody :)

We packed popcorn, applesauce, a German dye-free candy, a cereal bar, Somersaults Cinnamon Crunch Crackers in our Mini Dippers and two peanut butter sandwiches decorated with seaweed and grape jelly - I was still working from my hurricane stash and had not been able to go to the store for any fresh food :)

I just used my nori punches to punch the shapes of the eyes and mouth and glued them to the bread with grape jelly. The cheeks on the bat sandwich are dots of grape jelly as well - I also added a spider ring and a Frankenstein Pop Up from the Party Store.

Everybody got the same lunch but I personlized them with the spider rings, Pop Ups and some Cupckake picks I had.

The kids loved seeing all the different fun things in their lunch today :)

Boo!

Same lunch as above. I was surprised that I was even able to put together a Haloween Lunch with the limited choice of food we had but since we had a 2h delay everyone helped :)

My youngest son even picked two different spiders to make it extra creepy ;)

EEK!

Despite the storm my First Grader has a little Halloween Part at school today and I packed him a special snack box with all dye-free foods so he can participate in the celebration.

He chose more popcorn, Italian Cocoa Cookies, Organic chocolate chip cookies and a special German Hazelnut wafer. he loved putting more ghosts, spiders and of course a monster in his special lunch box.

Happy Halloween!

Be Safe tonight and Have Fun!

Halloween Lunch Round Up

Boo! Tomorrow is Halloween!

If you still need some ideas, here is my Halloween School Lunch Round Up:

1. Halloween Blog Hop Lunch

2. Spooky Lunch

3. Boo Lunch

4. Pumpkin Lunch

5. Pumpkin Lunch

6. Ghost Lunch

7. Snack Jack O' Lanterns

8. Storm Lunches

9. Halloween Parfait

And if you want to see more Halloween lunches 

click HERE to see Bento Blogger's And Friends Halloween Linky Party!

Chobani Champions Blog Feature

I am so excited! I am featured on the Chobani Champions Blog today!

Please head over there to find my quick and easy Halloween Fruit Parfait Recipe and Tutorial :)

Pardon my Light - there is a storm coming...

So there is a storm in the air - literally. While preparing and hoping it will not hit too hard we still have eat - so we are packing lunches even though schools are closed :) However, it was omnious and dark this morning - so please pardon the picture quality. Last year, we had no power for 11 days. Let's hope that will not happen this year >.<

Lunch was simple but still in the spirit of Halloween today. Chocolate spread bat sandwiches with little liquorice bats, a cereal bar and apples as well as honey crackers and an Italian cookie, Goldfish crackers and a chocolate spread Pumpkin. 

I also used our new lunchboxes today but due to the poor lighting I will do my review next week :)

Packed in our Go Green Lunchbox are cheese and crackers, Chobani Champions Banana Honey yogurt, a pretzel roll with cold cuts, a cereal bar and apples and red oranges.

Boo!

♬♩ Storm, storm, go away, come again another day....♬♩

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Snack and Lunch

My kids loved the fairy bread idea so much that they have been taking it every day this week so far. I could not stir them into a different direction, so I am posting snack today first :)

For snack I packed some Enjoy Life Mountain Mambo Trail Mix , a cream cheese stuffed mini pepper carved into a Jack o' lantern, half an apple with a Jack o' lantern face and some whole wheat crackers. The snack is packed in our Lunchbot Trio.

Lunch is packed in Easylunchboxes and packed by my 6 year old :) He choose Goldfish crackers, Honey crackers, a squeezable applesauce and four mini chocolate spread fairy breads. I cut the shape of the car with one of my mini bento cutters and filled it with vegan sprinkles :)

Happy Lunch!