2x2 Muffin



Chicken & mixed vegetable stuffed corn muffins, grapes, pineapple, oatmeal cookies



GoGo Squeeze, corn muffins stuffed with chicken and mixed vegetables, marshmallows, oatmeal & chocolate sprinkle cookie, and oatmeal raisin cookie

48th Day of School Lunch



48th Day of School Lunch

I decided that my goal this week is to make Halloween theme lunches, we'll see how it goes.

This lunch is all about the candy corn, corn beef sandwich with candy corn face, Chex, pretzels, and candy corn, grapes, and a Vanilla Cake muffin. 

22nd Day of School Lunch

22nd Day of School Lunch
"1st Pizza Lunch for Mani"

Mushroom, spinach, and ground beef pizza on rice crust, vanilla cake muffin, and cantaloupe.  This is the first time I sent pizza for lunch for him and I wasn't even going to send it this time but he asked for it.

The crust is one from Whole Foods.  I'm going to take a picture and post it so I will not forget what brand it is because it is definitely a keeper.

20th Day of School Lunch

20th Day of School Lunch

Bacon and lettuce on white rice bread, carrots, cantaloupe, and vanilla cake muffin.

Mani actually surprised me yesterday and asked could we bake something again for him like the past weeks.  I had an unofficial goal of trying to bake or make something special for him on the weekends.  But I didn't really expect him to notice (silly of me), so now I guess it's an official goal.  Which I haven't decided is a good thing or a bad thing. 

This weekend was busy, my little sister flew in town for her best friend's wedding and of course I wanted to spend as much time with her as possible. So the last thing I wanted to do last night after fighting the terrible traffic to the airport was bake something.  But we he compromised and we made the Chi Chi's corn cake mix.  It was the quickest and easiest thing and Mani was very happy and he enjoyed  helping me.

Once I made the mix I figured I would cook the fish for today's dinner.  I'm glad I did because the only thing on Mani's mind as we left out for school this morning was going to the skate park again after school.  Yesterday was his first time going and he felt very intimidated at first but he finally was able to go down one small ramp and he was happy, YAY.

19th Day of School Lunch

19th Day of School Lunch
"Doggie Woggie Theme"

Today's lunch has a dog theme, watermelon, dog bone shaped mango, and in the doggy container is corn spaghetti pasta with red sauce, ground beef, and zucchini.  I also included two of the "Wonder Balls" that I had frozen.  I didn't taste the Wonder Balls before I put them in, so I hope they didn't suffer any freezer damage. 

I didn't want the Ziploc container to get stained, so I used the top container to one of the very first bento boxes that I purchased for the pasta.  I had started to throw the container out on Tuesday. My son never used it because it was too complicated, and I lost the straps that attached on the side when we moved.  But I'm glad I didn't because it worked out perfectly in this lunch.

I decided to post this lunch for What's for Lunch Wednesday  week 16 because although I'm quite happy with Mani's first pizza lunch the picture sucks and its just not that cute.  Besides I'm happy I finally used this container so I don't have to feel bad about wasting money and I'm proud of my mango dog bones, its not easy to make dog bones from a very ripe mango.

17th Day of School Lunch

17th Day of School Lunch

I decided maybe I could sneak one in on Wednesdays.  We'll see what he says when he gets home today.  Today's lunch contains cantaloupe, watermelon, Vanilla Cake muffin, carrots, and soy nut butter and jelly sandwich.  And since I can't use cheese for quick decorations, I used deli turkey to make the airplane on top.

This will be my second post on  What's for Lunch Wednesday.

16th Day of School Lunch

Muffin from yesterday, apple, corn on cob, turkey and lettuce meat rollups.

Guilty replacement

To make up for the bad cookies last night, I made these muffins/cakes for Mani this morning. This is his first cake mix and still his favorite.  But this time we added two very ripe bananas, 3 "eggs", omitted  the oil and only added enough water to moisten the mix maybe 1/4 of cup. They turned out great and smell so good. They made quite a few muffins.  I will freeze some and see how they turn out.

This mix was also a 50% off table find from our last visit to Lil's.

Betty Crocker Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

In the oven now, and I already see our mistake. I used crisco instead of butter because I didn't have any of the normal dairy free butter I use to bake. My son thought the mix looked a little dry. So I thought I would add some water like the crisco website said. Big mistake the ones before the water was added turned out good.

The only reason I tried to make these with out the butter was because we went to a barbecue at his grandfather's house and normally he never has any dessert. But this time he had caramel cake and Mani was sad he couldn't have any. He said we were all lucky and that he was tried of not being able to eat things. His grandfather gave him a plum and he was sort of fine with that.

Mani really wants to like chocolate but he just doesn't care for the taste.  However, that doesn't stop him from begging for chocolate.  I always feel guilty and buy it, even though I know he won't like it.  The bag of chocolate chips above are the ones from the mix that he made me sift out.  

"Wonder Balls"

Cookies that turned out to be "Wonder Balls". I tried them two ways cinnamon sugar and plain drop cookies. The cinnamon sugar cookies turned out nice because I flattened them out, however, Mani preferred the taste and texture of the now famous "Wonder Balls". Daddy even liked them. I put a few in a Lock n Lock container and put them in the freezer, I will see how that turns out.

I made these from The Cravings Place Cake & Cookie Mix. I totally forgot how good their mix could be. When I first started this adventure with Mani, their mix was one of the only ones that you couldn't tell was gluten free. I remember one Thanksgiving, I made the brownie mix and everyone but Mani ate them. He still doesn't like chocolate.

The mix was actually 50% off because it was nearing the expiration date. I wish I would have grabbed the other one that was left.

Gluten, Egg, Dairy Free Banana Muffins

Note to Self: Whole Foods 365 gluten free muffin mix, egg replacer, soy milk and three bananas.