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Healthy Preschooler Lunches in 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Now that the holidays are over, it is time to focus on getting healthy and starting the new year right. My family has been on a weight loss journey since August 31 so we ended 2015 with success! We want to continue with losing weight, getting active and giving our preschooler healthy foods. One of the meals we always struggled with was lunch because she is so picky. It is a new year and a new us so I wanted to make her lunches more creative and nutritious with the help of my favorite brands.
Young children are visual little people so it helps to make their lunches fun and colorful. Instead of a boring sandwich I took the Pepperidge Farm® Swirl Bread and made little cream cheese roll ups with them. All you have to do is take a slice of bread and roll is flat with a rolling pin (or cup). Then you spread a thin layer of cream cheese and roll it up.
My daughter loves all kinds of fruit which I am pretty proud of but sometimes it is out of season and really expensive. I am glad I have the option of the high quality fruit cups from Del Monte. Now with the Del Monte® Fruit & Veggie Fusions not only is she getting nutrients from the fruits but she is getting nutrients from the vegetable juice. Since the vegetable juice is infused with the fruit juice she doesn't even know it. To decorate the top of the fruit cup I love to add a special little note attached with a sticker.
Frigo® CheeseHeads® Cheese Snacks are one of my daughter's all time favorite snacks. I love that they are packed with calcium and protein and in a single serving package. I like to wrap the napkin and utensil onto the cheese snack with a couple of pipe cleaners. After she is finished with her lunch she can entertain herself with the pipe cleaners.
What do you do to make your kid's lunch boxes fun?
Bring in the New Year with Lunch Box Resolutions
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Thank you Del Monte® for Sponsoring this post.
My husband and I have been well into our weight loss journey since August 31. A big part of us wanting to get healthy is to be better role models for our daughter. It makes it easier for us to succeed in our weight loss efforts because she is a great motivator. Since we are making healthier choices for ourselves we started making healthier choices for her too.
We still have a very picky three year old so it's hard to find healthy choices that she will actually eat. I have tried my best to disguise lots of food and sometimes it has actually worked and sometimes it has been epic fails. For now we just keep trying with different recipes and keep track of the nutrients she is consuming with the foods that she does like.
I went to Walmart to pick up her favorite lunch snacks, Del Monte® Fruit Cup® Snacks and Frigo® Cheeseheads® Cheese Snacks. I can't wait to see the new Del Monte® Fruit & Veggie Fusions coming out next month. I think it's cool that they added vegetable juice to the cup. During the month of January and February of 2016 there will be a “Better for You Lunchbox” booklet with $6.25 in instant coupon savings included with the Del Monte® Fruit Cup® Snacks. This booklet will help us make Lunch Box Resolutions and save money at the same time.
Now that the New Year is a couple of days away I wanted to make a goal of giving her healthier lunches. I thought this would also be helpful to all of you mommies who have kids going back to school after the holiday break. The holidays are full of eating parties and celebrations so what better way than to start the new year with healthier foods.
What New Year's Resolutions do you have with your kids?
New Year's Confetti Push-Up Popper
Monday, December 28, 2015
I wanted something fun and exciting that we could do once the New Year comes so I decided to make these New Year's Eve push-up poppers. Before I decided to make these, everything I found in stores to celebrate was too loud or too dangerous for a preschooler so these really fit the bill. I got these push up pop containers a couple of years ago and have been meaning to make some push up cakes with them but never got to it. What a perfect way to use them to pop out some confetti instead of cakes!
Supplies:
- Push-up containers
- confetti
- black glittery paper
- gold glittery paper
- white card stock
- gold ribbon
- black ribbon
- double sided tape
- paper punchers (I used: 1 1/4" circle, 1" scalloped square, 3/4" square)
- clear marbles (optional)
- vase (optional)
Step One: Fill eat push-up container full to the top with confetti. I wanted to use a mixture of different sizes, shapes and colors but my craft store only had the silver crinkle. Carefully close each push-up container.
Step Two: Take the black and gold ribbon and tie a bow around the top of the popper.
Step Three: I printed some text with "2016" onto white card stock and used the 3/4" square paper puncher to cut them out. Cut a 1 1/4" inch circle out of the black glittery paper. Cut a 1" inch scalloped square from the gold glittery paper. Use the double sided tape to stick the gold square on top of the black circle and the white label on top of the black square . Use the tape again to stick the completed label onto the front of the popper. Repeat for each popper. (If you don't have circle punchers you can trace a circle from a bottle and cut them out with scissors.)
Step Four (Optional): Place the marbles into the vase and stick the Confetti Push-Up poppers inside. (Instead of using the vase and marbles I decided to use the push-up poppers stand the poppers came with.)
Step Five: Push up the stick on the poppers all the way up to shoot the confetti out and ring the new year in!
What fun traditions do you do to ring in the new year?
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