Alphabet Inspired Lunch week D

This week we're continuing our alphabet lunches focusing on the letter D..

Day 1 D= Dolphin

Main - A pod of dolphins created by cutting crepes with a cookie cutter. I made basic crepes and dusted them with sugar and butter then stacked them and cut them into dolphin shapes. I added candy eyes to make them stand out more.

Sides - red grapes, baby carrots and pretzel sticks.

Day 2 D= Dog

Main - Cheese slice cut into a dog shape with a cookie cutter, dalmatian like spots added of free hand cut ham, and a candy eye to bring him to life. The word DOG was spelled out using zucchini, carrot ginger cookies.

Sides - red grapes, half a slice of meat loaf (left over) and a mommy and son made mini apple pie with crumble topping with a puppy pick.

Day 3 D= Duck and Dragonfly

Main- There is a broccoli pond with red grape reeds made by stacking grapes onto toothpicks or a dragonfly pick and a peanut butter tortilla cut into a duck shape using a modeling clay cutter. I added a food coloring dot blue of course to make the duck's eye. I really liked the 3D effect of the duck and pond.

Sides - the remaining tortilla sandwich, this is a 6 inch tortilla folded in half with peanut butter in the center, baby carrots in a mini silicone cup, and duck spelled out in Orange Beet Chocolate cookies. Having tasted both the carrot zucchini ginger cookie and now the orange beet chocolate cookie I'm with little S and prefer the ginger cookie. The orange beet ones are not bad they taste like those chocolate oranges that you whack on the table to get pieces off of the ginger ones were in our opinion better. (as evident by the ginger ones being gone and the chocolate ones still around days later)

Day 4 D=  Dinosaur

Main- three dinosaur buddy nuggets playing in a salad field with broccoli bushes.

Sides of disks of baby carrot, cucumber slices, and RAWR (dinosaur for I love you) spelled in orange beet chocolate cookie. The RAWR came out looking more like wrap because I didn't have another R in the package. The cookies come with random letters some of which are broken and I made due with a P and a extra piece to form that last R. Luckily little S doesn't read yet so I can still get away with things like that.



We do not have a fifth D lunch although I had one planned as I realized it was Chinese New Year and quickly switched gears to make a inspired lunch for that.