Muffin Tin Monday, Bentos and Sushi

Today is Muffin Tin Monday, and the theme is orange. We've got carrots with orange tinted Caesar dressing, fruit salad topped with tangerines, foccacia, chick peas, and goldfish crackers. The kids are loving eating out of the muffin tins, but it's hard not to fill them with more food than they can eat! (The tin above is bigger than a regular muffin tin. It makes 4" muffins.)

Bento #1! I am so excited about Bento. This one contains grapes & blueberries, chickpeas, homemade (!) smoked salmon sushi, an onigiri stuffed with more smoked salmon, and a jello jiggler topped with a shamrock-shaped kiwi slice. I made them for all four of us to eat on Saturday when we went to Charleston. I wasn't sure how the kids would like the sushi or onigiri, but they loved it (once Benjamin got past the fact that it contains seaweed EEEWWWW!!!) They ate everything I packed, plus some trail mix that isn't in the picture.

In other news, today is Robin's birthday. He's old enough to drive! Bill asked if I was going to take him to get his license today, but I said, "No, he's too blind to see where he's going, and besides his paws don't reach the brake.