We moved across the country after the last year of pumpkin carving and have been living in a condo for two Halloween seasons. Soon, we will get a house again and resume the madness of carving the most pumpkins in our neighborhood. I included a picture below the lunches if you are interested.
Plated lunch:
- Whole wheat cheese quesadilla cut out with a pumpkin cookie cutter
- Cup of whip cream and crushed up Oreos (we call this "dirt") with some gummy worms
- Celery filled with cream cheese, pretzel legs and two craisins for eyes
- Pepperoni slices with white cheddar and a half of kalamata olive
- Apple "jaws" slice with a piece notched out and almonds as teeth
- Roasted butternut squash that I cut out with a pumpkin cookie cutter. The flesh was pretty thick, so when I got the big piece, I sliced it down the middle and ended up with pieces that were about 1/4 inch thick.
Bento version:
- A prepackaged cup of mandarin oranges with a jack-o-lantern face drawn on there. I found this on pinterest!
- Pumpkin cookie cutter on a cheese quesadilla. I tried to do the eyes with the knife, but it was just messy (because it's time to sharpen my knives) and an apple slice mouth with almond slivers as teeth
- Cup of Halloween pasta (I found this at World Market, but also have seen at TJ Maxx)
- Roasted butternut squash cut out with a bat shaped cookie cutter
- Celery bug - filled with cream cheese, pretzels for legs and craisin eyes.
Here's that picture of our old house with most of the pumpkins in the picture. Some of them were cut out because of my lack of a wide angle lens. *sigh - still on my Christmas list.
