Alphabet Inspired Lunch Week F

This week we are celebrating the letter F and all the fun things mommy can think of that start with F. Some of these weeks are more challenging than I imagined when I started this.


Monday little S had left overs. It doesn't start with F but maybe we could consider left over's Fun? no.. um environmentally friendly? well that sort of works so we'll go with that.



Left overs:

Main: Mongolian left overs topping white rice - this is chicken, cabbage, egg, broccoli, green beans, and onion in a pineapple soy sort of sauce. sides: A Godiva chocolate covered strawberry (also a left over from when mommy spoiled the men) and diced cucumber and apples.



F= Flamingo and Flowers

Main: Pink Flamingo is a open faced ham sandwich cut with a flamingo cookie cutter and decorated with a candy eye. Sides: apple flowers cut from thick slices of apple using a flower cookie cutter I found in the Easter section. Sliced cucumber and yogurt covered raisins finish out the lunch.



F= Feet

Main: Two taco cheese quesadillas cut with a foot cookie cutter (just flip the cut piece to make the other foot) I used a  food color marker for the toe nail polish. Sides: A mango and peach fruit and veggie squeezie and buttered popcorn topped with a letter F cookie cutter.



F= Fish

Main: Mr. Fish the fish is a three slices of ham cut all at the same time with a fish cookie cutter. To make the fishes stripes I used the same cookie cutter on a slice of american cheese and then cut that cheese fish into strips using the different curved sides of the cookie cutter so the lines on the stripes would not be the same or too straight. I placed the stripes on like puzzle pieces where they went onto the ham fish and added a size appropriate candy eye. The seaweed and moss grassy bottom of his environment are all cut slices from a mini cucumber. I intentionally took the picture with the lid of the container under to give Mr. Fish blue water. Sides:  Fruit salad of diced kiwi and apple to look like fish food, and pretzel and stick mix because these are the hooks and worms the fishermen might use to try to catch Mr. Fish.




F= Frog

Main: I was going to use a new frog cookie cutter I have but noticed the pear and thought.. I wonder if I could make that into a frog instead. I sliced the sides off of the pear to make the back legs, a large piece for his body and the fourth side I took off and turned into his head. The pear happened to have a triangle mark on it so I used that to make his mouth and added two carrot disks and sliced dehydrated strawberries for his eyes. The two pieces for each eye are held in place by two toothpicks that I skewered through the head into the body so that the frog would remain in place until lunch. Little S is too small to remove these himself so I took them out prior to serving his lunch. The back feet are flow shapes cut using a veggie punch from a slice f the inside of the pear, and the front feet were cut from another slice of pear using a mini foot cutter. The feet would have been better in carrot to complete the tree frog look I just didn't have a carrot large enough on hand and thought cheese feet would get too soggy from all the cut fruit.  Sides: Buttered popcorn with the letter F magnet he earned at the end of his F week and chopped pizza from his dad's impromptu stop on his way home from work the night before.