DD is cutting up a slice of cheese

[Wisconsin Beth]

My kids would probably eat the broccoli.  Adn the carrots.  Not so sure about the lima beans/edamame though.  And they'd pick though the sandwich stuff or ignore it. 

[thyme4change]

My kids would eat the broccoli, and the carrots and the edamane.  My daughter would eat the red pepper - but probably not the bread.  I doubt anyone would eat the water chestnut, or whatever the whites of the eyes are.

[Waffle]

Maybe you could use a white cheese for the whites  of the eyes - or thin slices from a hard boiled egg.  (says the non-cook - don't shoot if those are terrible ideas)

[Wisconsin Beth]

I assumed it was white cheese for the eyes. 

[thyme4change]

White cheese would work, except I would have to cut it perfectly round.

I will say last year we made easter eggs with faces on them, and I found it more fun than my kids did.

These were my favorites, but we also made a mouse, a pig and a girl:

[taz157]

Mar 22, 2013 9:05:29 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Gwen likes to pick up things with her toes and eat them.  I feel like I should stop her but what harm is it really doing?

It's pretty impressive, I wish I could use my toes like a second set of hands.

[973beachbum]

Mar 22, 2013 10:46:20 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

But is the kid going to actually EAT all of that?  And how old are we talking about? 

My older sister gave Cabe a dinosaur sandwich cutter thing for Christmas.  I've used it a few times and the kids will scarf down twice as much pb&j when I make dinosaurs as opposed to 1/2s or 1/4s.  They're losing a bit of crust but not really any bread either. 

I have one of those too.  My 9 year old still loves to see his sandwich cut with it but since he is in 4th grade we save it for when he eats them at home now.

[swamp]

Mar 22, 2013 3:59:56 GMT -5 @rockit said:

I think the problem is that you are feeding your kids that bendy processed cheese.

If you were feeding them real cheese, cut from a brick, there wouldn't be any of this deviant scissoring activity . . . 

No processed cheese food!!!!!  It's Land o Lakes sliced deli cheese. 

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Mar 22, 2013 17:41:11 GMT -5 swamp said:

Mar 22, 2013 3:59:56 GMT -5 @rockit said:

I think the problem is that you are feeding your kids that bendy processed cheese.

If you were feeding them real cheese, cut from a brick, there wouldn't be any of this deviant scissoring activity . . . 

No processed cheese "food"!!!!!  It's Land o Lakes sliced deli cheese. 

Fixed.

[tallguy]

(Unless she's grumbling about how...she's going to have to learn how to cut cheese on her own if she is to survive.)

Damn, I hope I'm reading this wrong....  

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Mar 22, 2013 11:05:19 GMT -5 imawino said:

Mar 22, 2013 9:55:00 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

This is the best lunch ever.  Why aren't I this good of a mom?

Because neither is she except when she's planning to post the picture on facebook/pinterest in an effort to make everyone else feel inadequate. 

And let's lay odds on whether that broccoli is going to get eaten.  I say they're pretty slim.

My kids would eat all of that except for the red bell pepper. Now if the veggies were cooked then my boys wouldn't eat it. They will eat raw carrots and broccoli, but not cooked carrots and broccoli. That is fine with me.
However, I don't have time or the skills to make lunches like that.  Plus I just am not awake enough in the morning.  I would cut my fingers off.

[Formerly SK]

Mar 22, 2013 9:55:00 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

This is the best lunch ever.  Why aren't I this good of a mom?

Yeah, but by the time the lunch box has bounced around a ton in the backpack, and then been thrown around in the classroom lunch bin, that lunch would look like a tossed mess with dressing all over the bread. 

My kids get something like 12 minutes to eat their lunch (elementary school).  They can barely get down a Clif bar in that time (their standard lunch).  After volunteering at the schools for a week and seeing the vast majority of food thrown away by the kids, I don't feel any guilt about not making food art.  Or maybe I'm just a shitty mom. 

[Queen of Interesting Nuts]

That is so funny, you do, you think you should stop it but you don't quite no why.

[taz157]

SK - 12 minutes to eat lunch??        I hope they get recess afterwards?