Lunch: Hearts, Lady Bug, Tiger

Heart Pancakes:

For valentine's day, I made heart shaped pancakes - used some red to dye the pancake batter and then poured into a heart shape.  I overbrowned the first side so that when I flipped it, they were basically cooked all the way through.  This way, the second side stayed nice and pink (see the middle pancake).  

Vanilla yogurt with chocolate frosting shaped hearts (they just look like little turds to me...) and some colored sprinkles. 

and red grapes.

Lady Bug:

Circle cut sandwich with a slice of white american cheese for the "wings".  i freehand cut out little hearts.  The antennae are toothpicks with a raisin stuck on them.  

The red heart silicone muffin liner has fruit loops and a few sweet tart hearts I found in leftover halloween candy.

I free hand cut a heart out an apple half (a small cookie cutter would work too, but I don't have one!)

Tiger:

After the San Diego Zoo visit, the Little One was all about Lions and Tigers so I got this AWESOME sandwich cutter from amazon.  I used the cutter on fruit leather for the face and free cut the stripes for the body.  The tiger is sleeping in a bed of lettuce leaves (which my child will NEVER eat)

I peeled the clementine and just place it over the fruit, so that I could have tiger stripes :)

I also got some letters for spelling TIGER with her hummus, carrots and crackers.

This is BY FAR one of my favorite lunches and I'm really loving this sandwich cutter.  It's easy to use and has 4 different faces.  There is another face set that you can get to go with the body too....so many uses.  LOVE :)

I'm still not sure how good her lunches look when she actually sits down to eat them.  I walk her into class on Fridays for Lunchbox Club, so I know the sandwich stays up right for that part.  We have a lunch bag that allows her Easy Lunchbox to stay upright, but I still wonder...

Happy Creating!