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Spooky-licious Muffin Tin Lunch

Happy Halloween! Mwah-ah-ha-ha!

 

Halloween is just way to much fun to limit ourselves to only one spooky-licious muffin tin meal.   For added ambiance, we have our creepy spider web table runner, and our super scary jack-o-lantern teddy.  

 

 For the monstrous meal I made :

 

Frankenstein pizza (food marker drawing on back crust),

pumpkin spice cookie, 

carrot fingers with Frito fingernails (the fingernails were the first to be eaten),

eye ball pizza, 

grape eye balls,  

apple sauce with Halloween sprinkles  

and candy corn garnish.   

My youngest is outgrowing board books but I love this one so much that I just have to feature it.

    This Is Not a Pumpkin by Bob Staake is one of my favorite fall kid books. The story starts out by showing the picture above and saying "This is not a pumpkin" Staakes uses descriptive words like round and big but still says "This is not a pumpkin" Preschoolers can get the feel for reading because they figure out when you're going to say "but this is not a pumpkin". My second grader apparently forgot this story and started arguing with it out loud . Once he got to the end he went "OOHH!" and began laughing. I love the magic of books!

Halloween Muffin Tin Lunch

One week and counting to my favorite Holiday. I bought a new fall muffin tin recently that I've been eager to use.

A lot of this lunch came from my favorite Trader Joes.

Maple leaf cookie(TJ), mandarin orange/grape jack-o-lantern, spider yogurt,  goblin fingers (TJ pea pod crisps) , scary salad (grape eyeballs with Halloween themed fruit snacks)  , Pumpkin granola (TJ) 

We recently had the author, Constance McGeorge, come in to the kids school to autograph her books which the librarian spent the month featuring. Since I volunteer at the library, I got to hear and see all McGeorge's amazing work.

Waltz of the Scarecrows is a very sweet fall themed story about a young girl"s visit to her grandparent's farm. For added fun, there is a scarecrow hidden into the beautiful illustrations on every page.

Muffin Tin Lunch China Town Style

My daughter loves Chinese food. At first it was just steamed pork dumplings but she is constantly broadening her tastes. So today's lunch is a mishmash of leftovers from our local Chinese takeout.

 

I used one of the place-mats that I brought back from China along with a little Chinese puppet and kid chopsticks for the table setting.

To eat L had a fortune cookie (not actually chinese but oh well), fried noodles, steamed pork dumplings, chicken lo mein, shrimp fried rice and mandarin oranges.

And since I haven't paired a lunch with books lately, here are a couple of our foody favorites:

Dim Sum for Everyone by Grace Lin                                  Round is a Mooncake by Roseanne Thong

Muffin Tin Monday-Sort Of

Oh my goodness! It feels like forever since I've made a Muffin Tin Meal. And guess what? You're still not getting one today. I think I have been going through a nesting phase lately, which is weird because I am 110% sure there are no more babies coming into this house, at least not to stay.

I thought maybe if I organized my food crafting supplies, I would feel more motivated. And I have this strange disease where I can't possibly start to organize anything without first going shopping for the essentials that my husband says we absolutely do NOT need! What does he know?

  
My daughter L modeling our new purchase. We started by just throwing everything into it's new drawer and then went back and organized the drawers.

 

 
This drawer in my cupboard was the home to half of my supplies. Every time I opened it stuff would spill out and I could never find what I was looking for. Now it is lovely and clean! Yeah Me!

 

 

 

 The top drawer contains muffin liners, treat bags, food writers, fancy straws, and food picks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second drawer has all my cookie cutters organized in Ziploc baggies by theme, Easter, Fall, Halloween, Christmas, etc...

 

 

 

 

 

The third drawer holds the most important part of the muffin tin meal, THE MUFFIN TINS. I used to have these shoved in all different cupboards and would have to search for the exact one I wanted. Not any more! It's hard to tell but there are 5 muffin tins in this drawer plus two sets of muffin cups.

 

  
 

 

 

I keep this in the corner of my blue dining room and hope it just sort of fades into the background. And if you are wondering if this little adventure into Organization Land helped to motivate me, you'll just have to stop back next Monday to see what I came up with.

 

 

 

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100th Post-aversary!!!

Wow I can't believe this is my 10oth post! Who knew there was so much in my head that needed to be released? Although I am sure some of it might have been better kept to myself . I thought it would be fun to do a little look back.

I have found it so interesting to see what readers like or respond to the most. For example, my most read post is definitely the Snickers Salad. I am starting to learn that simplicity is key to a successful post but what fun is life if you can't complicate it a little?

 

My first post had kind of a lot going on with a President's Day Muffin Tin Meal and both children's book reviews and an adult book review. I was really proud of it even thought I think less than ten people have read that post. So if you missed it, here is a link to my first ever post!

 

My favorite post has to be Nature Color Art. It got a lot of good responses and was totally spontaneous. Have you ever seen the cartoon Phineas and Pherb? This was my Phineas and Pherb moment where I said "Boys! I know what we're gonna do today!" I also realized the need for more activities related to boys and that lead me to start my Scout Mom Bog. 

 
 
Thank you so much to all my readers and all the fabulous blogs that have featured me! I started this journey because I felt like something was missing from my life. I love my children and my husband more that words can say  but I have always been a creative soul with a love for words. This has provided me with the opportunity to be a better wife and mother by challenging me to use my God given talents in a new way. I hope you are still reading when I hit my 200th post.

I would love to hear what your favorite post has been. Leave me a comment!

Becky @ Fakin It