Peanut butter, honey and cashew

Today I made a rather funky sandwich that I anticipate will taste great with th Pacific Foods soup (carrot cashew ginger bisque) that I'm making for lunch.

I started out with graham crackers as the bread and smeared them with peanut butter. I topped the peanut butter with ground roasted, unsalted cashews and drizzled with local raw honey before putting a graham cracker lid on.

Dirt and worm pie

My husband and daughter, when they went to the store Monday night after my accident, bought lots of instant pudding (and no milk!). They picked out chocolate, butterscotch, and Oreo creme. Oh, and vanilla, since I'm a vanilla girl. Except they accidentally bought sugar-free, fat fat free.

My husband LOVES chocolate pudding, especially the kind that comes in a can. He does not share my gourmet tendencies.

My daughter likes to go to a certain franchise restaurant not because she likes the food, but because they have a "dirt and worms" dessert. She finds the food at this chain mediocre and never eats the pudding, but crush some Oreos and add gummy worms and she's thrilled.

So my husband made her a pie with a store-bought Graham cracker crust (which he lamented was nowhere near as tasty as his own), instant chocolate pudding, crushed berry Oreos (the ones I bought for $2 at Target), and gummy worms (from someone's Easter basket).

Celery kid lunch

Today's kid feature:

• 4 "ants on a log": celery, peanut butter with raisins on top
• one graham cracker
• baby carrots
• fruit cocktail
• one gummy worm
• apple juice
  

Another yogurt mix-ins platter

I am so disappointed that I got yogurt products with artificial sweeteners. I think they taste nasty and I don't approve of putting those chemicals into my daughter's body. I try not to make foods that have preservatives, so why I earth would I approve of artificial sweetener?

My daughter is calling this trail yogurt, because I compared it to trail mix. Since we had eggs and sausage an hour ago, I had to find a hearty snack that would tide my daughter through kindergarten.

So, I made a yogurt platter. Which she mixed everything into her vanilla yogurt:

• blueberries, from the freezer, and the juice
• rainbow sprinkles
• raisins
• chopped dates
• graham cracker
• one oreo cookie

Breakfast

Yesterday for breakfast my husband made these little sandwiches. Today for breakfast, we're having fresh pineapple and gingerbread cookies... It looks like lunch will be commercial spinach asiago artichoke dip with crackers. I am very excited to report that my good friend Jessica gave me an adorable round cheese board and some cheese utensils for Christmas. This will be the family single cheese board, since my new slate cheese board is cumbersome and difficult to wash.

Oh, and my mother-in-law thanked me yesterday for Thanksgiving and commented on how nice it was. My sister-in-law mentioned that she's a tad disappointed no one is making pancakes for the family Christmas morning. I said I would gladly make her pancakes if she came to my house. My mother-in-law interpreted this to mean I would make breakfast for anyone who wanted it. So, we'll see...

Bizarre little breakfast

I already have some multigrain bread (unbleached white, whole wheat and rye flour) rising... My daughter and husband had a special lunch out yesterday to commemorate the end of the semester and the end of "lunch with Daddy" days while Mommy is in class. My daughter ordered a white Sicilian with broccoli and sausage from Pizza Doro. We'll probably have that for lunch (and I'm thinking I'll let her have ice cream after, her kindergarten teacher will love me for that.)

For breakfast I served my daughter a clementine, some cashews and graham crackers. Not standard, but good stuff.

Crazy breakfast

I thought I posted these, but I can't find the entry. My husband made these "sandwiches" for my daughter for breakfast...

From left: Graham cracker, nutella, count chocula;
Graham cracker, peanut butter, count chocula;
Graham cracker, peanut butter, raisins...

Midday recount

For breakfast this morning... Oh, wait, I didn't have breakfast. Well, maybe I did if you count the graham crackers at 8:30. My daughter had watermelon at 7:30 and graham crackers and chocolate soy milk with me.

I'm concerned with her getting enough liquids in this hot weather, so I "made" her drink one of my bubbly cherry lemonades at 10. That's when I made myself the rest of the Dole salad from last night, though we ate all the good toppings so I just poured a bunch of grated asiago over it and then added the remaining ginger dressing. It was fabulous.

At 11, my husband and daughter had a real picnic on the college quad, with crackers and leftover lebanon bologna and port salute cheese, a banana and a 100% juice box. Then they played some quad golf.

When I got home from class at noon, I brewed some green tea to ice later. I then packed a glass bottle (20 ounces?) with ice cubes and water for the little one. AND I gave her the rest of the watermelon.

Now, I'm finally sitting down to eat some homemade bread and port salute cheese, with a glass of diluted lemonade.

Odds and Ends, including French bread broccoli melts

Breakfast #1: 7 a.m.
Daughters eats most of a can of Dole Tropical Fruit (3.5 servings in the entire can) and one whole sheet of graham crackers.

Mommy's breakfast, 8:45 a.m.
One sheet graham crackers with peanut butter

Breakfast #2: 9 a.m.
Daughter eats one significant bowl of the homemade ham-spinach-white bean soup

Lunch with Daddy: 11:30 a.m.
Homemade bread with broccoli, ranch dressing and melted New York sharp cheddar and chocolate milk

Mommy's Lunch: 12:30 p.m.
Homemade French bread with cheddar

Yogurt with Bananas and Graham Crackers

Ten a.m. around here usually means a morning snack. Today I suddenly remembered that I had purchased Stonyfield Farms Lowfat Vanilla Yogurt at the store.

So, we mixed 

in crumbled graham crackers and sliced bananas. Good stuff. And the four-year-old loves to stir it up.