I’m totally impressed with this fun food over at another lunch. It’s a blog showing the daily creations of lunch packing enthusiast and and mom of four, Melissa. These aren’t just any lunches, but totally out of the box [pardon the pun] and waste free. I especially love the way she’s giving back and completely dedicated to wonderful causes like this one. Wow.
What little person could turn down these marvelous minnie meals?
Lovin’ this stainless steel number. So eco friendly, orderly and mod.
A slice of cheese in the shape of a chicken? Why, of course.
Inspired by Melissa’s tasty creations, I tried to get a little imaginative with our brood at lunchtime on Sunday. Don’t laugh too hard.
THEIR LUNCH: heated whole grain tortilla wraps with organic cheese and nitrate free ham, organic carrots, whole grain goldfish, sliced olives for eyes, and an oreo as a peace offering from my healthy food obsession I project onto my children daily.
Apparently they liked their lunches so much that the girls brought in their dolls to join the picnic…a true testiment to their meal satisfaction. Here is our eight year old pretending to feed her doll.
We busted out our tent for extra picnic fun. The ancient calculator is a hoot…they found it in a box of old office items and deemed it their pretend laptop.
P.S. this tent was a Christmas gift four years ago and the offspring have played countless hours in it. I like how it folds up into nothing and can be neatly tucked away in a closet in mere seconds. Great idea for a kiddie present and only costs 10 bucks. The picture is linked.
For other lunch inspiration, I always get a kick out of funky lunches. Brings out the kid in you.
I‘m Seleta, a city girl living the beach life with my husband, fabulous four offspring, happy horses and frisky fur babies. A former TV personality turned Designer, I love to share the sparkly side of life. Read more 
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awesome post!! always love seeing healthy ideas for kid’s lunch!
Such fun ideas!! LOVE your shoes too!!
what a precious idea! I wish I could that for my husband every day for his lunch. He would LOVE it!
Oh…to only have enough time in my day to make a cheese chicken. ;)
Our 1st grader uses a Laptop Lunches – http://www.laptoplunches.com/LaptopLunchPhotos.html
Now getting nice inspiring food inside of it is another story… great inspiration on this post!
Thanks for the tips on lunches! Luke starts preschool in the fall & I have to start packing lunches.
These are really impressive, although they do make me feel a bit like a bad mother for not making enough effort with the lunch box.
Talk about a great way to get kids to teach kids to “eat with their eyes first” and to eat healthy food and love it! :) Very impressed with those lunches – the detail, oh my! Not sure if that would happen for me (daily anyway), but lovin how those gorgeous lunch boxes (especially the stainless steel one!) show off the beautiful food. Your lunch is adorable, I don’t blame them for loving it. And LOVE your shoes!!
I love, love, love the creative lunch ideas! Maybe something like that will inspire my picky guy to eat something other than PB&J without causing a scene.
I need to find one of those boxes for the boys. They are so bored with my hummus & yogurt & grapes. Love the pretty & practical post!
Hey, I got my pictures big now :)
Seleta I put that website in my favs, this will be a fun thing to do for my grandkids. Thank you so much for the website and the heads up!!
KATHYSUE
I agree with Lydia…I love your shoes? Do you want to share where you got them? I’m going to use these lunch ideas when my grandkids visit.
Hey friends, thanks for all the great comments! Glad you like these fun lunches.
A few of you have asked about my shoes in the picnic picture…I picked them up on the clearance rack at Marshall’s. And absolutely love them. Believe it or not, they are super comfy! I’ll do a post on them if I can locate some more for you all.
xo
Seleta
great Egyptian sandals!
I’m not surprised that people asked about your shoes – they are fabulous!
I am always buying my lunch (or on the Special K diet) so these appealed to me greatly. I don’t have kids, but if I do then I will certainly hope to be this creative.
I LOVE this post! Thanks for sharing……maybe my daughter would eat a little better if I made it fun like this:)
lol…Great job! I bet they loved them.
if only taylor’s lunches looked that cute….and if only her mama had those fabulous shoes :)
aww you’re so cute! i’m glad the kids loved it so much haha :] bento boxes are crazy. i wish i was talented enough to make a cheese chicken! that sounds good…
I feel like I need to spice up lunch for my boys! These are adorable!!
How fun! I don’t have any kids but I’d kind of like to make these lunches for myself!
I really wish I knew where to find those tiny shaped cut-outs; do any of you know? Love this post and all the places it led me.
oh my gosh. okay i’m seriously impressed. (haha I literally just spoke outloud to myself. “Wow. Wow. Wow.” hahaha i love those little bunny cheeses!!!