Halloween Lunch -- Mini-Whovian Style!

Happy Halloween!!! Since we are far from being traditional, John's Halloween lunch is a bit ... well ... us.

It's a light lunch since he's going to be having LOTS of snacks at school for their party and then probably a pretty big dinner when we go trick or treating tonight at the mall. Ham & cheese TARDIS, colby jack words, provolone trick-or-treater, grapes and Halloween LifeSaver Gummies.

John decided months ago that he wanted to be the Doctor for Halloween but kept flip-flopping between wanting to be "Doctor Ten" or "Doctor Eleven."

He's going to be both.

In the picture above is his "Doctor Ten" (with Adipose) for trick-or-treating tonight and for his party and parade at school today he'll be "Doctor Eleven" :

The Spooky Wheels On The Bus (a @jemills1 book on @Storia_eBooks)

John reread J. Elizabeth Mills' The Spooky Wheels on the Bus on his Storia app last night for part of his nightly reading homework. I'm absolutely blown away with how much better he's getting at reading. He still needed help with a couple of words but not nearly as many as he did when we first got the book a few weeks back. My boy is back to being excited about every new book that comes into his possession and that thrills me beyond belief! (He's NOT a big fan of having to return library books, though. Once he gets one he loves he wants to keep it!)
For lunch he's got a ham & cheese spooky bus, pretzel sticks, grapes and fruit snacks. He's also getting a yogurt tube and juice.

But it's the pelvic thrust ...

Not actually my lunch for tonight (I'm eating what was posted yesterday), 

but this never got posted the first time so my lunch post is doing it's own little time warp ;)

Flax bread "pizza," yogurt raisins, Monster Trail Pack trail mix all in an Easy Lunchbox

Luther's Halloween

Luther's Halloween is a fun little book I grabbed at the library for John about a boy and his triceratops, Luther. Luther dresses up as a pirate for Halloween which makes it even more perfect for John. Dinosaurs AND pirates??? Can't get much better than that!

Luther is pb&j on wheat holding a sword pick. There are also grapes, all-natural fruit snacks, a Mini Slim Jim, and a colby jack "Roar." (John is very much a creature of habit. He could probably have this same exact combination of food every day and not get tired of it!)

Halloween Hop

Halloween is so close I can almost hear the ghosts howling in delight, can't you? We're celebrating a little early with a great Halloween Blog Hop so after you're done checking out what John and I are having, make you head over to Oh!Bento to see what treats (or tricks) are in-store next!

For John:

A break from our books for a special Jack Skellington lunch from The Nightmare Before Christmas!

Jack is pb&j on wheat. "Jack" is colby jack on top of SnapPea Crisps. There are also Halloween LifeSaver Gummies, yogurt raisins, and pieces of Mini Slim Jims in the main box. When John saw the small skull & crossbones Tupperware bowl he wanted something in that, too, and picked out the fruit salad.

For Mom:

 A tribute to the Psych episode "This Episode Sucks"

Some pineapple & ham pizza, dried pineapple and cranberries, vanilla yogurt, and V8 cocktail labelled "Type O Negative."

And the preview clip from the episode:

Now, don't forget to go check out the next stop on the hop!

(All hop posts should give live around 9am EST ... or so ...)

It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse!

John loves the If You Give ... series by Laura Numeroff. He has a field trip coming up to one of the local pumpkin farms so when I saw the book It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! at the drugstore, I knew that he had to have it. I was thinking that any lunch that would be made from it would be done for the field trip, but he insisted that he needed it for Wednesday instead and even picked out which pumpkin!

The pumpkin is a bologna and cheese sandwich on honey wheat bread and Mouse is drawn on to a piece of cheddar. "Surprised" is cut out of colby cheese. He also has a Mini Slim Jim, clementine segments, and some Halloween shaped LifeSaver Gummies.

Halloween Lunch - Spookley (and Boris!)

Spookley The Square Pumpkin is a favorite around here. As soon as it hits the tv it hits the dvr. John wanted Spookley for his last Halloween lunch for the year and asked for his friend Boris the Bat to tag along for the ride.

Spookley is turkey on sundried tomato tortilla bread. Boris is monterey cheese. Candy corn, yogurt with sprinkles & Create-a-Bug fruit snacks on the side. We're hoping for a spider so he can create Edgar, Allan or Poe ;)

Happy Halloween!

Spooky Spider & Web

John asked for a "spooky spider & web" for Friday's lunch. When I remembered I had silicone Wilton pan with spiders and webs I showed him & that was that! Instead of the usual sandwich he'll be getting blueberry muffins and turkey bites. Some Halloween fruit snacks and grapes and a juice box will round it out.

Haunted House

John asked for a haunted house with a spooky tree for tomorrow's Halloween lunch bag. At first I thought he was crazy, but I think he'll be happy with it!

The house and lawn are SunButter & Jelly sandwiches. The tree is a Slim Jim with Monterey cheese branches. There's also a full moon with a bat flying by, also out of cheese.

Sides will be applesauce, FunSize Mini Oreos, Halloween fruit snacks, and a juice box.

Only a few more Halloween lunches to go & John is already talking about what I'll make him for Christmas lunches! Yikes!

Vampires!!!

Well, a Vampire and a Vampire Bat, anyway :)



The sandwiches are roast beef and surrounding them are Twizzler Nibs and Candy Corn. He'll also get a cherry gelatin cup ("blood jello") and an apple.

 

Trick-or-Treat!

I brought home from work some coloring pages. One of them had 4 kids trick or treating on it & John asked me to turn it into lunch. Whoops! Hopefully these 2 will be sufficient. I tried with the others but ended up wanting to pull my hair out when I couldn't get them to transfer well.

I used Wilton's Boy & Girl cookie cutters for the sandwiches but only pressed down part way for the girl so I could cut out her witches hat as well. The Mummy & Witch are bologna sandwiches and the add-ons are vanilla pudding with pumpkin shaped sprinkles and raisins.

Five Little Pumpkins

John asked for a Five Little Pumpkins lunch for Monday. He's really getting into the Halloween spirit this year so I wouldn't be at all shocked to see a week full of Halloween lunches!
The ghost is a pumpkin cream cheese sandwich, the pumpkins are Nilla Wafers & the gate they sit on is made from mini Slim Jims. Also added are Halloween fruit snacks and a juice box. An apple will probably find it's way into the bag, too.

Clifford's Halloween Howl

I knew I wanted to do a lunch based on one of John's favorite books - one of his very first Scholastic Book Club orders back when he was in preschool. Of course, when I went to go find the book it wasn't on his bookshelf. It was in his bed! Some kids can't go to sleep at night without a favorite teddy... MY boy can't go to sleep at night without a book :)

Emily Elizabeth is a cheese sandwich. Clifford is a turkey sandwich. The jack o'lantern is a Nilla wafer & there are a few more of those with some Twizzler Nibs in the small container. Add a Clifford juice box and fruit (which I have to run to the store for now), and we have lunch!