Happy Little Lunches for Your Happy Halloweeners

These lunches:

packed in jack-o-lantern containers

pumpkin sandwich with fruit leather face

Halloween theme Goldfish crackers

cucumbers cut into mini leaves in rectangle silicone liner

diced cheese stick

raisins

melt-in-your-mouth pumpkin candies in silicone mini-muffin liner

Oh, melt-in-your-mouth pumpkins!  You are my kryptonite!  ;)

Tell me this jack-o-lantern container isn't just darling, right??  It's from an independently owned dollar store in my area.  I love the Dollar Tree chain but if you have an independently owned dollar store near you I recommend checking it out frequently.  First, you're supporting a local business which is so vitally important and, second, you'll often find the more unique items in their kitchen and cookware sections.  We have two locally owned dollar stores in my area and I have found silicone food liners (heart shaped!!), more unique cupcake picks, and containers like these in various themes.  I think it's because in these stores, while everything is still only $1, some of their stock comes from Dollar Store Supply places and some comes from remainder distributers (like things that maybe didn't sell at regular stores.)  So be sure not to write off the "little guy"!  They might have something unique!

A word about fruit leather.  I've tried many different brands (including making my own--there are recipes on Pinterest) but my favorite is the Archer Farms brand from Target.  It seems softer and easier to cut through than other brands I've tried.  I'll use Aldi brand in a pinch but Archer Farms is my favorite.  These shapes were just cut free hand with kitchen scissors and "glued" on with a dab of peanut butter.

These lunches:

packed in EasyLunchboxes

apple slices w jack-o-lantern ring

lentil pasta salad in small plastic food cup

Ritz crackers

clementine

turkey meat sticks

melt-in-your-mouth pumpkins

Babybel cheese round

spork

Actually...I got the little food cups from an independent dollar store too!  They 

came 4 in a pack with tiny spoons and are the perfect height to fit in the ELB's.

As a reminder or for new readers, I get a very small percentage of anything purchased through these links and I will donate 100% of this to charities related to foster care.  You can click on the links to purchase those items.  If you click my links here and search around and find other things to buy I (ahem, kiddos in foster care) will receive the percentage on anything you buy that day and not just the items in the link!  So thanks!!!