For lunch today I put carrot and celery sticks, strawberries, grape tomatoes, salami roll-ups, and cheese crackers in Cam’s Goodbyn Bynto box.
I have to say that we are both loving the bynto. The stickers arrived in the mail yesterday and us girls spent a good part of the afternoon decorating the bynto and her Spencer bento box from PBK. That one definitely needed to be spruced up.
Do your kids come home from school starving?
Mine do. And it’s not pretty.
For my kids, hungry = grouchy. So I try to have something ready for my oldest when he gets off the bus so he can eat right away. For my daughter, I usually pack up a snack or smoothie and have it waiting in the car when I pick her up.
I made some chocolatey chip mini-muffins for them yesterday but swapped out the cow’s milk for almond milk. My kids can never tell the difference and it’s a lot better for them so why not? I had a lot of muffins leftover so I put some in Cam’s lunch today. I thought she might be getting tired of sandwiches so this should be a nice treat.
She also has clementines and strawberries in the top section, chicken and mozzarella cheese rolls ups and Annie’s bunny crackers in the middle section.
Chocolatey Chip Muffins:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup sour cream or yogurt – Use whatever you have in the fridge. Both are equally good.
1/2 cup milk – Cow, almond, soy – whatever.
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 egg
handful of chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350.
Grease a mini muffin tin or drop in liners.
Whisk together all dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, salt) in large bowl.
In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining wet ingredients until combined and pour into dry ingredients.
Stir just until combined then fold in chocolate chips. Be careful not to over-mix.
Fill cups in a mini muffin tin 2/3 full and bake for approximately 10 minutes. The tops should spring back when you press them lightly.
*I used vanilla almond milk this time but if I use regular milk, I like to add 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
Cam has two heart shaped sandwiches in the top section of her Bynto, strawberries and carrots in the middle section, grapes and tomatoes in the bottom section.
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