It's Muffin Tin Monday again (part doux)

Here is my second effort with Muffin Tin Monday.  With the exception of making the jello earlier this morning, total time to put together lunch was 12 minutes.  *nice*!  Owen and Rylan are still eating (25 min. so far), and Colin is napping, so that gave me time to share it here.

I began by making the jello earlier this morning...

I have about 101 ideas for ways to use little plastic baby food containers.  Using them to make jello cups is one of them.  First I add the fruit - in this case, chopped pear, fresh from the can.  :)

Then I add the jello and put on the lids.

I have a pull-out shelf in the fridge that is nice for just this size of container.  I made it at 9:30 this morning, and it was ready to go by 12:30.

Here is our lunch today:



Clockwise from top: steamed broccoli (leftovers), watermelon jello with pears, clementine with a Hershey's Kiss, beef stroganoff (leftovers), sliced red bell pepper, and vanilla yogurt with sprinkles in the center.



Owen was very pleased with his lunch.  He ate everything but the stroganoff...which he didn't eat last night either.  :(

Here is an idea that helps speed-up the lunch-making process.  I **try** to get the grocery shopping done on Saturdays.  On Sunday, my goal is to do all of the food prep for the week: food prep like chopping, dicing and so forth.  So yesterday, Dean sliced up the red pepper because he uses it for lunch and snack during the week. (Dean takes all of his lunches and snacks into work with him on Monday, and keeps it in the fridge/freezer outside his work area.)  He put some slices in a separate container for us to have this week. (thank you honey!)

I, however, did not get any food prep done yesterday, because I cleaned out our hallway closet instead.  I am going to stock it with our daily ingredient boxes, since we have no pantry to speak of.  (Post is forth-coming...)

The rest of the items for lunch today were easy left-over items to reheat, or spoon out of a container.  I like looking at all of the fancy cutwork that some moms do to their vegetables, meats, cheeses and so-forth.  Most of the time I am just looking for the quick, easy-to-slap-together option.