Today's lunch was for the last day of term before Easter, so I wanted to make it 'egg-stra' special. I've been dying to try out something that I've seen all over Pinterest recently; plastic eggs in an egg carton, filled with food. I found extra large plastic eggs in the pound shop but they were too big for the egg cartons I had to hand, so I decided to go with normal sized plastic eggs and just use them for Small Child's dessert. There were rather a lot more treats than normal in there, just because it's nearly Easter. I kept the main part of his lunch pretty simple, as I'd spent a little extra time on his dessert.
In this lunch Small Child had a couple of cheese sandwiches, cut into chick shapes. On the side he had some raw red pepper rings, carrot flowers and a bunny rabbit boiled egg. I will be posting a tutorial on how to make the bunny egg shortly - it's a lot easier than it looks!
As mentioned before, I served his dessert up in a recycled egg box. I decorated it quickly the night before with a little stamped image of a bunny, and a note inside saying 'Happy Easter!'
Inside the plastic eggs he had a variety of treats; some mini organic alphabet biscuits, yoghurt covered strawberry fruit flakes, chocolate flavoured cereal, raisins, blueberries & some tiny mini chocolate eggs.
I also packed a frozen organic yoghurt tube (not shown). Rather unsurprisingly, almost all of this lunch got eaten, with just one sandwich and a few raisins left at the end of the day (they were polished off as a snack when he got home). Small Child was absolutely delighted that apparently one of his teachers 'thought' he had a carton of real eggs for lunch, so thank you lovely teacher whoever you were for playing along!
Grace
Jenn says
So cute!! That little bunny egg is so adorable! Thanks for linking up to Meatless Monday 😀
Grace says
Thanks Jenn 🙂