JDaniel and I recently had friends over for lunch. It was great to get together with friends. Since school got out, JDaniel has missed seeing some of this favorite people. I thought they would enjoy having a Fourth of July themed lunch.
While I put together muffin tin meal for the kids, JDaniel set the table with placemats and napkins. He wanted the table to look just right for his friend.
Even though the Fourth of July was still a few weeks away, I went with a Fourth of July theme. The tins were filled with turkey hot dogs wrapped in bread stick dough (I thought they looked liked the stripes in the flag.), frozen yogurt smoothie stars, sliced tomatoes, catsup for dipping, blue corn chips, and blueberries.
JDaniel ate all of this lunch. His friend inhaled the berries and chips. I guess they weren’t really into the other foods. While they are not a picky eater, they really seemed to know what they like.
While they are great friends, I guess they like to eat different things. I will have to check with his mom and see what his favorite foods are so I can serv them next time.
If you like this lunch idea, here are several more you are going to love:
Kid’s Lunch – Apple Chicken Salad Bento
I wanted to mention that the theme is Friendship on the MemeTales Readathon 2012 this week too. If you are interested in downloading onto an electronic device free books on friendship for the week, please visit MeMeTales for more information.
Disclaimer: I will be receiving this week’s collection of MemeTales books to download for JDaniel for free in exchange for mentioning them in this post.
This post is linked to Muffin Tin Monday!
How fun that he got to host some friends. Pierce’s friends often don’t care for the same foods that we eat either.
My daughter’s friend eats nothing but healthy foods. It’s funny how she influences my kid with green bell peppers for a snack instead of a cookie! 🙂
HAHA yes she always munches her veggies when she is here :O) we got through a bell pepper a day!
love the hotdog idea! I so have to get back into MTM!
Love that he had friends to share it with. I think the hot dog idea is cute!
What a cute idea! Very festive.
i love these muffin tin ideas! I really need to get some
I love the hot dog idea. So much cuter (and cleaner) than using a bun! I think my little one would have inhaled everything in that tray! 😉
I love the muffin tin ideas too! I just like the thought of keeping food separate and stuff. Might do this for myself ^.^
That is so cute and creative!
This is a great one! I love the hot dog and the smoothie star!
I love how well-rounded your muffin tin monday meals are! I am going to make the smoothie stars for my boys.
This is a cute idea. What a great way to get lots of creative uses for meals. Thank you for sharing.
I love this idea. So creative, and my son Mika would love this hot dog!
Oh this is a really cute idea! I love it! I may have to use this in the upcoming week!
I always say that your food is more exciting than most!
=)
Great theme! Your lunch has inspired me to do a Canada Day lunch coming up!
I can’t wait to start Muffin Tin Lunches with my son! He still doesn’t get the concept of serveware, haha – he throws all the food off of it onto the floor for the dogs.
Why do I never think of all of the fun things you can do to cook a hot dog?! You always inspire me to do some more fun things with my girls’ food. Btw, they loved freezing their own yogurt into the shaped ice cube trays we have. They stuck little lollipop sticks in them and turned them into popsicles.
Your food looks like fun! <3
Kids always seem to like different things. Even my two girls will not eat the same foods when I make lunch or dinner.
Sounds like J Daniel is less picky than his friend, and you’re lucky that way!
Oooh frozen yoghurt smoothie stars?! That sounds amazing. Heading to the kitchen right after reading this!!
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This is wonderful – I’m going to start muffin tin meals with J soon as I think it may help his pickiness and try new things.
Thank you for linking up to Tuesday Tots this week and just wanted to let you know that I will be featuring this this week 🙂
great idea 🙂
broxton would have inhaled his as well 🙂