There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves

John has his first First Grade field trip tomorrow to a pumpkin farm! He instantly knew what he wanted -- the last page from There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves which we have on the iPad thanks to the oh-so-awesome Storia app from Scholastic. He's read it twice now and I'm sure it'll be re-read many more times until he can do it without any help from me or the app itself (he can click on the word he's having trouble with and it'll read it for him).
It's a "snacky" lunch since I'm sure the kids will all be distracted by the excitement of eating at the farm. He has cheese cracker "sandwiches," the pumpkin scarecrow is cheddar on a toothpick pole, a couple of Brach's pumpkins and the alphabet cookies (only had to open two packs to get the right letters!) are sitting on Mini Slim Jims and some Indian Corn. He'll also get a frozen yogurt tube in his bag and his box of juice and an apple.

Red Dwarf Blog Hop - "Polymorph"

The British sci fi classic comedy Red Dwarf returns to television tonight and

to celebrate the beginning of the tenth season we've decided to do a hop of edible geekery!

In case you're unfamiliar with the episode or just need a refresher because it first aired in 1989, here's a clip:

The lunch, of course, is a tribute to Arnold J. Rimmer (played by the amazing Chris Barrie).
The large section of the EasyLunchbox has quiche topped with the quote from his shirt in cheese.
The top right has turkey sausages in the shape of the H on his forehead.
The top left has frosted brownies for no other reason except that I wanted brownies.

Now, don't be a Smeg Head and hop over to Oh!Bento to see what's in store there!
(and if that link isn't live yet, head over to Bento For Kidlet!!!)

The Super Hungry Dinosaur (Martin Waddell, Leonie Lord)

 This is Thursday's lunch:

 Based on this picture:

 From this amazing book:

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.

Angry Birds with CuteZCute

Another fun lunch thanks to the new CuteZCute cutter set! As soon as the package was opened John took one look at the pig cutter and thought of Angry Birds -- so here's his first Angry Birds lunch of the school year!

The pig is bologna and cheese. There are also Angry Bird Cheese Nips crackers and fruit snacks and an Angry Bird ring on his cheese stick. Yogurt raisins are representing the eggs and there are also grapes simply because John loves grapes!