Muffin Tin Monday: Shapes
Muffin Tin Monday, hosted at Sycamore Stirrings, is the easy response to the bento box lunch craze – serve your kids lunch in a muffin tin, putting different yummy foods in each cup. We have been enjoying the idea of Muffin Tin Monday for several weeks, but I hadn’t snapped a picture of our snack yet! This week they were having a themed Muffin Tin Monday: Shapes. Head over there to see all the deliciousness; here’s ours.
We had: candy corn (triangle), banana slices (circle), cheddar cubes (square), starfruit slices (star), the O’s from Heart to Heart cereal (circle), celery slices (crescent), green pepper slices (circle and crescent), the hearts from Heart to Heart cereal (heart), ham slices cut with a cookie cutter (star), TLC crackers (rectangle), chick peas (circle), Laughing Cow Swiss cheese (triangle).
BabyGirl is a big eater who loves to sample many things and graze throughout the day. Muffin tin meals are perfect for her, and we usually set ours out mid-morning. My carnivore kids plow through meats and cheeses first and then start on the fruits and other foods. I was surprised that the candy corn wasn’t the biggest draw, since we don’t usually include candy or sweets in these – but the kids were fighting over the ham and Swiss cheese!
September 29th, 2008 at 11:13 am
That’s a cool idea. We actually did something similar very often when the kids were small, but not in an actual muffin tin. We used several of the divided plates left on our low table. I called them grazing days.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I love the candy corn and cheese,2 great ideas I hadn’t thought of!! Thanks for sharing.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Yum! I am getting hungry just looking at it. This is such a fun idea for the kids. I have seen it on several other blogs. I have really got to try it sometime for the boys. They would love it.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
You found star fruit! I looked all over for some, couldn’t find any. Lucky! Like your tin.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
star fruit! of course – how could I forget! Great muffin tin. I’m so glad you joined in!
xo
Katy