Muffin Tin Monday: Valentine's Day



Today's theme is Valentine's Day

Heart toast with strawberry jam, cream of wheat with pink sprinkles, pink scrambled eggs (which turned out looking pretty unappetizing, but Buzz and Boo ate them anyway) and heart(ish) shaped bananas

Happy Muffin Tin Monday AND Happy Valentine's Day!

Muffin Tin Monday



There's no theme for this week, just a regular ol' lunch served in muffin liners

Buzz and Boo both had the same:

Hard boild egg, pretzels, peach applesauce, cantelope and ice cream

Buzz ate everything except the pretzels and Boo ate everything except a few bites of applesauce.

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Muffin Tin Monday: Favorite Foods



Today's theme is favorite foods. Usually Buzz and Boo eat identical lunches, but since they have different favorites and since I only have one muffin tin, they each got their own plate with muffin cups filled with their faves.

Buzz had pizza, broccoli, animal crackers, pears and a cookie

Boo had pizza, pineapple, goldfish, carrots and a cookie

Buzz ate all of his and then reminded me that we have cheesecake left over in the fridge and since that's another one of his favorites, he thought he should have a piece of that as well :)

Muffin Tin Monday: Big and Little, Short and Tall



Twice a month we go to baby storytime at the library for Bean (Buzz and Boo have a great time too) and afterward we head over to my friend Meghan's house for lunch and some play time. I packed a light lunch for Buzz and Boo to eat there and once we got home they ate their muffin tin (minus the tin) snack.

I decided to focus on the little part of the theme, little foods for a little snack

Top row: little star shaped peanut butter sandwiches, little bites of pear

Bottom row: mini chocolate chips and a (regular size) cookie, little pieces of string cheese

Happy Muffin Tin Monday!

Muffin Tin Monday

There was no theme this week, here's what Buzz and Boo had:

Top row: cheese quesadilla, white grapes

Middle row: pretzel sticks, peanut butter (for dipping)

Bottom row: goldfish, no-bake cookie

Bean had carrots :)

Muffin Tin Monday: Food Picks, Skewers and Kebabs

Or the theme at our house: Mommy was sick all weekend and didn't even bother to check what the theme is supposed to be and wanted to skip this week until Buzz realized that today is Monday and he and Boo insisted on eating their lunch in a muffin tin so Mommy let them choose whatever they wanted and they were happy :)

Bottom row: PB sandwiches (heart for Boo and cross for Buzz) and peas (plus cross shaped fruit leather for Buzz because he loves it)

Middle row: Peanut butter balls and pretzels

Top row: Ice cream with sprinkles and applesauce

Happy Mufffin Tin Monday!

Muffin Tin Monday: A Cowboy Christmas

This is week two of the holiday theme, I based our tin on a book from this week's book basket: A Cowboy Christmas by Audrey Wood.

Top row: Christmas tree brownie with powdered sugar snow and bananas with cowboy pick (Buzz made all the picks)
Middle row: mixed veggies with horse pick and mozzarella cheese cowboy boots
Bottom row: peanut butter sandwich cowboy hats and pretzel stick fire wood

Happy Muffin Tin Monday!

Muffin Tin Monday: Christmas Traditions

The theme for the next three weeks of Muffin Tin Monday is holidays, any variation. We usually do muffin tin lunches, but we had a lunch time playdate to go to today, so I made a breakfast tin. I decided to focus on some of our family's Christmas traditions:

Top row: cookies (we bake cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve) and milk

Middle row: pears, train shaped toast with Nutella (we always watch The Polar Express on Christmas Eve)

Bottom row: cinnamon rolls (our traditional Christmas morning breakfast) and bananas

Obviously this breakfast is in no way a healthy, balanced meal, but the kids enjoyed it. And I threw in some fruit so that's got to count for something, right?

Happy Muffin Tin Monday!

Muffin Tin Monday

There was no theme for Muffin Tin Monday this week and I'm not in a particularly creative mood today, so I didn't make up my own:

Top row: turkey, brown rice (x2)

Middle row: string cheese, pineapple (x2)

Bottom row: pretzel sticks, pumpkin roll (x2)

They ate everything except for a few pieces of turkey, and of course Boo needed lots of ketchup for her rice :)

Happy Muffin Tin Monday!

Muffin Tin Monday: Healthy Eating/Food Pyramid

This week's theme was healthy eating/food pyramid. This one wasn't difficult because I try to make healthy eating the "theme" of every meal I serve. Buzz wanted everything arranged in a pyramid shape, so I used disposible liners set on a plastic cutting board. I made two separate pyramids so that Buzz and Boo could each have their own.

Treat: white chocolate chips

Meat and Dairy: turkey rolls, string cheese

Fruits and Veggies: apple slices, carrots, bananas

Grains: whole wheat pasta, wheat toast with peanut butter (x2)

Muffin Tin Monday: Leaves, Trees and Harvest

This week's theme was a bit tough for me:

We had Halloween candy (it was the day after trick-or-treat of course), provolone cheese harvest moons, apple "leaves", string cheese with raisins (my attempt at corn stalks with indian corn, it didn't turn out as I imagined it would), broccoli "trees", and leaf pb & j's

Muffin Tin Monday

I've known about muffin tin monday for quite a while now. I always thought it looked like fun, but never seemed to get around to it. So today I decided why not? I threw something together and the kids were thrilled! I'll definitely have to try to make this a weekly thing. This week's theme was Halloween. Here's what I came up with:

PB & J pumpkin, banana ghost (with mini chocolate chip eyes and raisin mouth), apple jack o lantern, swamp creature (green beans with googly eyes), dragon eggs (grapes and grape tomatoes), cookie

I only had a twelve muffin tin on hand, so Buzz and Boo shared, which is why there's two of each item :)