Fun in Five!

Yesterday in the store I stumbled upon some banana bread bagels and knew I had to get them for John. He was super excited about them and wanted one for lunch today with peanut butter and strawberry jam. He also said he wanted to Angry Birds ... and that it should be "super fast" ... so out came the iPad timer! Works great for me since he doesn't have school on Friday and I wanted something fun for this week's 15 Minute Friday at Bentos On The Bayou ;)

In his Easy Lunchbox he has the bagel sandwich he requested, grapes, Original Tings, yogurt in a Mini Dipper (already prepared and in the freezer), and his Omega 3 Gummies with a couple of Angry Bird gummy pigs tossed in to go along with the cupcake rings to fit his chosen theme.

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Wall-E's Boot

We all love Disney here ... and Disney-Pixar even more! Friday night John and I snuggled up and watched Finding Nemo and then Sunday afternoon the three of us (well, five if you count the cat & dog) watched Wall-E for the umpteenth-million time. Last year John had a pretty pathetic Wall-E lunch that he took to school one day (I'm almost embarrassed to link to it). This time he took Wall-E's boot (with plant):

The boot was drawn onto a peanut butter & jelly wheat sandwich and the plant was cut from an AirHead. There were also grapes, veggie sticks, his Omega 3 gummies, and he had a frozen yogurt tube also in his bag. All in all this lunch took just under 10 minutes to make -- including the time it took to figure out where I put the stash of AirHeads and cut the plant! Not too shabby!

First Day of Spring in Under 15 Minutes!

On Friday a good friend of mine is starting an exciting new linky: 15 Minute Fridays!
We've seen time and time again people say "there's no way I would have time to do that for lunch" and "you must have too much time on your hands." Now on Fridays you'll be able to go and see that cute, fun and healthy lunches can easily be done in 15 minutes ... or less!

John had requested a "snacky lunch" to help celebrate today being the first day of Spring and I thought that it would be the perfect opportunity to share my excitement over 15 Minute Fridays ... a couple of days early.

This is the lunch that John is taking to school today:

And this is the proof that it could be done in under 15 minutes:

1. I installed a stop watch app onto my iPad mini and started out with that being the only thing on the counter with the Easy Lunchbox John had picked out and the knife that is always there ... and a lot of unrelated clutter because, well, I wasn't going to take the time to clean.

2. In just over ten minutes I was able to get the lunch completed and grab the polka dot towel I use for my shot backgrounds from time to time. I even had to run to the pantry and fight with a bag of veggie chips that didn't want to open... and slice the cheese several times because my first (and second) slices didn't give me as much "cute" as I wanted... and pick out which flavor of yogurt he would want... and remember where in the world I put the last pack of Annie's bunnies! So, finally, in his lunch he has salami (pre-sliced), veggie chips, grapes, Ritz Toasted Chips, Empire Jack cheese cut into flowers and chicks, peach yogurt in a Mini Dipper, Annie's Organic Bunny fruit snacks, his Omega 3 gummies and a little chocolate carrot.

3. I then took several pictures until I got "a decent shot" for the blog before taking the lunch apart since the yogurt had to go into the freezer and the crackers, chips and gummies really don't do too well in the refrigerator overnight. I put those in a container on the counter, put the ELB in the fridge, and wiped things down in time for:

4. The final shot showing that I still 43 seconds left to my 15 minutes! Maybe I should have cut another cheese chick ....


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