Last of the 2014 Halloween Lunches

I know Halloween has been and gone now, but I've been so snowed under recently I didn't manage to share all of my Halloween lunches, so this post is a mini round-up of the last few lunches from this year's Halloween season. They were all simple and quick to throw together, as I was very busy and very tired in the run-up to half term.

First up was a simple lunch in our Yumbox Classic bento box, which had a bit of an exclectic mix of Halloween themes! In this lunch I packed mini pumpkin shaped cheese sandwiches, made using a cutter from this plunger cutter set and popping into a red silicone cup, rolls of ham, held together with spider cupcake rings, raw red pepper and carrot sticks, topped with a toy black rat, strawberries and raspberries topped with an eyeball cupcake ring and strawberry yoghurt, topped with a skull made from frozen natural yoghurt (I used this silicone mould to shape the skull). I finished the lunch with a couple of dried apricots and a mini chocolate pumpkin, which I popped in the treat well.

The second lunch was made up of leftovers - my favourite kind of lunch! Small Child had some hot homemade root vegetable and bacon stew in his TUMTUM food flask (review of this flask to follow shortly), a piece of French baguette, cut into thin slices and decorated with Halloween cupcake picks, a cheese string, cut into pieces and popped in with the bread, and an apple, cored, sliced and dipped in orange juice to prevent browning.  I decorated the apple with a spiderweb cupcake ring, a plastic spider and a couple of mini chocolate eyeballs.  The sides were packed in TUMTUM Bugs snack boxes, and at Small Child's request I included a spoon from the TUMTUM Bugs range too.  Just like his mother, he loves things that match!

The last lunch was a simple one that I made with help from Small Child. He asked if I could recreate my recent spider web sandwich (see this post for details) with him drawing the web himself, so I made up a circle sandwich (filled with ham, houmous and lettuce), and topped it with a circle cut from a tortilla wrap, ready for him to draw on with an edible marker pen.  When it came to it, he changed his mind about the spider web and drew a ghost instead.  I thought it was really cute! As well as decorating the ghost sandwich, Small Child cut up some raw red pepper chunks and added them to his lunch along with a skeleton cupcake pick.  I separated the sandwich from the pepper with a lettuce shaped silicone divider.

For 'pudding' he had natural yoghurt, frozen in a silicone mould to make vampire teeth, strawberries and raspberries, decorated with a ghost pick, some raisins and a single jelly snake sweet. This lunch was packed in our Yumbox Panino.

Small Child thoroughly enjoyed his Halloween themed lunches and food this year.  You may be pleased to hear though that that's it from me on the subject of Halloween food... until next year...!

Grace