A Tale of a Birthday Lunch

Today is my eldest daughters birthday, I wanted to something a little special for her so I made her a cupcake sandwich.

The sandwich has Nutella in it and the rest is very straight forward with apples and goldfish crackers. Simple, right?

At lunch I also took cookies and 8oz bottles of water to her class. Birthday girls' choice. 

It was a busy day but well worth it to see her smile. 

Happy 7th Birthday To my first born! 

Winter Painted Sandwiches and Lunch Themes 2012

The holidays got away from me, and I am ashamed to say it's nearly March and I have neglected the blog since the holiday break.

Here to make amends is my post of winter lunches. 

What you need to know. I paint sandwiches using a few water color brushes and food coloring. I use all sorts of lunch boxes and containers and my kids love peanut butter and everything. Here we go!

 "What's this? What's this? There's something in the air!" 

It's Jack Skellington as Sandyclaws. Along with Jack the girls were given snowflake shaped white chocolate dipped pretzels, crackers, cheese and grapes on snowflake skewers.  

Panda Holiday Lunch

Candy cane and star sandwiches. Apples peeled in stripes, cinnamon cereal, and a Hello Kitty marshmallow treat. 

Grinchmas Lunch with Cindy Lou Who
PB sandwich, raisins, whonu cookies

The making of the Grinchmas sandwich

Pair of Reindeer
PB triangles with candy noses and pretzel antlers, tangerines, gingerbread children and a yogurt drink. 

Rudolph the Red Nose Sandwich
chocolate covered pretzels, apples and pomegranates, granola bar. 

Close-up of Rudolph 

Sandwich pops, tree shaped shortbread cookies, grapes and granola drink.

Detail of Frosty

 

Frosty the Snowman
with granola bar, cheddar and chocolate bunny crackers, string cheese, gummy fruit, grapes and a marshmallow. 

Spongebob Holiday lunch
PB Sandwich, grapes, cheese fish, and a gummy krabby patty.

I'm FAT!

Since having my kids I I have struggled with my weight. I am sure that a part of this is because I waited until my late 30's to have kids and so my metabolism was starting to slow down anyway. In my mind I am 140 lbs. At 5'7" thats not skinny, but it's also not fat. Unfortunately, in this alternate reality I live in I am actually quite a bit heavier. I mean quite a bit.
Last summer I went on the Atkins diet and did well. Since then I have had loads of false starts and stress eating (work, kids, schedules, health of parents, finances, and just life in general) which have landed me in this situation.
Today we do the weekly grocery shopping and I will be picking up items for my diet which will start tomorrow. If I am not well prepared there is not way it will work. So. Wish me luck and check back in (ha! as if anyone is looking anyway!) for my progress.