Grammar

Happy National Grammar Day! 

Yes, I am not always the best writer ever, although I do enjoy expressing myself through writing at times. I still at times get confused with some rules, but grateful for some great websites out there! 

Today, we have a semi-colon, a comma, and a colon for your grammar day needs. 

Rice balls with nori, made with a regular hole punch and the eye of one of my face punches. Side of red peppers, carrots, kiwi, and some salami. 

Sesame Street

Sesame Street premiered on PBS November 10, 1969.

Here's to Elmo and all of our friends, that we grew up with, new and old. 

Tomato sauce and rice, corn tortilla and nori eyes, mustard nose and a nori mouth. 

Spiderman

My spidey senses are tingling!

I printed off a spiderman face and realized how much crazy work that would be to try to do it all with the lines and everything, so I just went with the eye lines. I feel like he is still definitely recognizable.

National Comic Book Day

Our favorite character of all~ Batman!

An interesting little quote for you:

"In his editorial, “A National Disgrace,” the literary critic publically assaulted the medium and accused parents of being “guilty of criminal negligence” for allowing their children to read comic books." ~Sterling North.

Read more cool comic book facts here. 

Today's lunch is rice with a nori cut out of the Batman emblem.

Sides of fresh raspberries, baby carrots, some leftover peanuts and cashews, and some gluten free cookies that was a super special treat! 

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Me sprogs love pirates and this has been such a fun day for us t' celebrate!

 I love writin' li'l love notes  t'em. 

This lunch be made with a rice ball, nori, and rice cheese. 

Ahoy, matey! 

Some piratey smoothie for breaksmartly: 

Rosh Hashanah

Shanah Tovah! 

Rice with nori star and shofar, sliced carrots, raisins, apples ~ no honey, too messy! 

Frolicking Fall Faces

I love Portland in the fall! I am use to cold, windy Septembers, bundling up our homes and preparing for a long winter. And here we are enjoying the beautiful warm sun! We have been riding bikes to school in this lovely weather! I feel so great and the kids love it.

Rice smiley faces made with rice molds, and nori with the nori face punches. Included in the lunch are peanuts in the shell, cashews, dried mango and cut apples. 

To market, to market...

To buy a fat pig...

Beet juice to make the rice piggies pink, turkey bacon for the ears and noses, I used a hole punch for the noses, and nori for the eyes and mouths. 

Last Day of School!

Hooray!

School buses from rice and nori.

Sunset

Since we are doing the beach and ocean theme, my son decided he wanted a night time/sunset scene for lunch, so this is what I came up with for that. I still had some blue rice so we were good to go. 

Nori for the dark ocean, rice cheese sun and stars, mustard reflection and sky. 

Dreaming of the beach

Such lovely warm days are upon us... and I had a couple of friends that took their young ones and escaped to the beach for the afternoon!

Natural locally made food dye for the blue, slivered almond and nori for the flip-flops, nori for the birds, and a carrot sun. Sides of mango, carrots and apples. 

Pandas

Panda bears sleeping.

Pirates

Aaarg! Me ship is sinking!

Apple boat with pirate sushi. My son then decided he wanted the pirates in their ship and added the end of the sushi roll as a shark!

May the 4th Be With You

Happy Star Wars Day!

In preparation for today's lunch, I tried to find a good Yoda image that I could make into a silhouette that would still look like Yoda. Well, I don't think I did a very good job at that...

Last night I printed out the Yoda and cut the image and the nori out with scissors, and cut some details out with the exacto knife. My son came downstairs for a bed time snack and he wondered why I was making Yoda for lunch. I said "you know how today is May the 3rd?" he said yes. I said, "well, tomorrow is May the 4th". I waited to see if he would get it on his own and I saw the little light bulb turn on. He laughed and laughed and thought that was the best thing ever. "May the 4th! May the 4th!". It was pretty funny. 

This morning I made some white rice and wanted to keep it white, so I just added coconut oil and garlic salt. I placed my nori Yoda on the warm rice and it kind of shriveled up but I liked the look and that the wrinkles in his head were showing. Carrot for the light saber. 

So, he doesn't really look like Yoda at all. He's a little too tall, dark and has an orange light saber. 

I downloaded a Star Wars font for this note. 

I guess he does look a little evil for Yoda. So really... wait, it's not Yoda at all. I'm calling this a Sith Lord. Yes, that's what I'll do. 

 And as my son told me this morning "Yoda is much wiser than you think he is, Mom". 

Bzzz...

Yesterday was such a beautiful spring day we left the door open and in flew a lost bee!

Rice bumble bee with raisin eyes, goji berry nose, rice noodle and raisin antennae, spring roll wrappers for the wings, nori for the stripes, all on a fresh comfy bed of lettuce. 

Lamb

No, they don't get lamb for lunch... but there is a rice shaped lamb for lunch!

Shaped rice into balls, cut the turkey ham into the shapes, and the nori faces last night before bed, and put it all together this morning in their lunch boxes. Such a cute little lamb!

Bunny

Simple rice bunny I made from rice and turkey ham. The rice ball head has a piece of hidden turkey ham in it!

Pilgrim Girl

Pilgrim girl.

Rice ball, nori for hair and face, rice cheese for bonnet, in a bed of corn.

Airbender

My son wanted to make his own lunch today, and he called this one "Airbender".

Leftover pumpkin rice, apple peels, and nori.

Jack

Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas