Muffin Tin Lunch For Kids

In this kids lunch served in a muffin tin: Peanut butter and banana sandwiches, green apples, persimmon slices, vanilla yogurt with pearl sprinkles, banana slices.

Banana and peanut butter is my daughter's new favorite sandwich. She's not a PB & J kind of kid - so I am pleasantly surprised that she like's this combo.  And persimmons were a first - for both her and me. I loved them! Her, not so much. She said they tasted to much like squash. ;-)

What new foods have your kids tried lately?

Muffin Tin Lunch

In this muffin tin lunch for kids, starting from the top left: red grapes, hawaiian roll, strawberries, carrots, pineapple slices, fish crackers, sausage, candy corn.

Muffin Tin Monday

Just because I'm not hosting Muffin TIn Monday anymore, doesn't mean we still don't do MTM's. In fact my 9 year old daughter still requests them often. Here's the muffin tin lunch we had today. For more muffin tin monday ideas for kids- visit Melissa at anotherlunch.com

chicken pieces, caeser salad, cookies, oranges, nectarines, and cheddar cheese slices.

Muffin Tin Monday has moved!!!

Muffin Tin Monday has officially moved to AnotherLunch.com. Melissa has even re-instituted THEMES!

Head over to Another Lunch to find out what this week's theme is and while you are at it, check out the all new Muffin Tin Meals/ Monday About page on her super awesome site!

The MTM link up at AnotherLunch.com will go live at 10am EST/ 7am PST.

To read about the move, you can click here.

Muffin Tin Monday: Another Lunch

It is with bittersweet joy that I tell you that this will be my last week hosting Muffin Tin Monday. I am joyfully handing over the reigns to Melissa of AnotherLunch.com. Melissa is a super creative and talented bento blogger and long time MTM’er who I have come to know in the kids food blogging community. Her photos are always gorgeous.  She is excited to take on Muffin Tin Monday and Muffin Tin Meals.

She will be hosting the Muffin Tin Monday Link Up every week  beginning next week and I know you will love her as much as I do!

I have been hosting Muffin Tin Monday for 4 ½ years and have made some long lasting forever friendships with many of you. Our kids have grown older together. Some of you are just joining us and discovering how muffin tin lunches can add fun to the lunch time routine. It has been an amazing experience. I've saved every email from you sharing your mealtime triumphs. They've kept me going. But it’s time for me to transition on to the next thing both personally and professionally.  I hope you understand.

The site will stay up indefinitely as a resource for you to get lunch time ideas and inspiration. And I will still be around, drooling over all your cute lunch ideas.

I already miss you,

Michelle

If you have an MTM button on your site or in your last couple of MTM posts, if you know how to change the web address in the HTML code to http://anotherlunch.com, Melissa and I would be so appreciative!

Don’t forget! Next week, head over to AnotherLunch.com forMuffin Tin Monday

For now, it would make my heart happy if you would share a Muffin tin meal with me, past or present.

Muffin Tin Monday: Heart Shaped Kids Lunch

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! If you are looking for cute Valentine's Day kids food ideas, then you might like this muffin tin meal from last year:

In this cute kids muffin tin lunch: heart shaped sandwiches, red grapes, mini heart shaped cantaloupe and honey dew, strawberries, babybel cheese with a heart cut out, vanilla cupcake dipped in melted chocolate chips.

Muffin Tin Monday - Easy Preschooler Lunches

Happy Muffin Tin Monday!

In this muffin tin lunch: carrot sticks honey dew melon, cantaloupe melon, carrot sticks, kings hawaiian rolls, strawberries, cutie tangerine, sliced cheese and hot dogs.

Muffin Tin Monday: Toddler and Preschooler Fun!

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! I had a long and glorious break. While on break, my sister was in town and I made my sweet 3 year old niece a muffin tin meal. It was a joy to watch her discover all the foods and decide what to eat first. Even though my niece is not "palate-challenged" so to speak, a muffin tin lunch is a great food presentation idea for "picky eaters". Did you know that recent research  says that young children eat with their eyes (don't we all?) and prefer to have color food and 6-7 different food choices.  Just more evidence that proves how muffin tin meals, lunches, and snacks are creating happy little tummies.

Here's the muffin tin lunch made for my niece in a mini muffin tin:

granola bar , cheese slices, cherry tomatoes, red grapes, snap peas, and fish crackers

Now it's your turn! Did you make a muffin tin meal? Won't you share it with us? Click the blue "add your link" button below:

Muffin Tin Monday and a break...

I didn't make a muffn tin meal for today. After Friday's horrific events in Connecticut  I have just been playing, crafting, and snuggling with my kids. I have been thinking long and hard about this little piece of the internet for some time. It remains a resource for you and you can still access past MTM posts and our popular 30 Days of Muffin Tin Meals posts. You are welcome to link up any past or current Muffin Tin Meal related  blog posts this week and into the new year.

I am also taking a break from blogging and Muffin Tin Monday until January 7th. The link up will remain open in this post until then.

Muffin Tin Monday

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! We are enjoyng the Holiday season and while this is not a themed MTM, I do want to wish a Happy Chanukah to all my friends and family who are celebrating the Festival of Lights! 

Did you make a muffin tin meal for Muffin Tin Monday? Share it, by clicking the blue "add your link" button below:

Muffin Tin Monday: Gingerbread Houses

Happy Muffin Tin Monday! My mom gave us a gingerbread house kit to make with the kids. Thanks Mom! It was the perfect Sunday afternoon family activity. But instead of 6 bowls taking up space on the table, I thought a muffin tin might work to corral all the candies.

 I have to give major credit to Muffin Tin Dad for helping construct the house and keep it together. We used  cream cheese frosting for decorating the project and I wasn't sure how well the house would hold up. But he did a great job making sure it all stayed together.

We passed the muffin tin around the table and let the kids decorate to their hearts content.

Now it's your turn! What did you make for Muffin Tin Monday?

Muffin Tin Monday

Welcome to the Muffin Tin Monday link up! I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving! Add your link by clicking the blue button below. I'm off shopping Cyber Monday today although I was a little sidetracked by these cute Bento Accessories
How about you? Are you shopping Cyber Monday?

Muffin Tin Monday!

Hello Monday! And Hello MTM! Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday. This is the weekly blog link up that celebrates the muffin tin meal. I've been hosting this link up for quite some time and the muffin tin meal you see picture here below is from 2009 (Back when my kids were still preschoolers). A little of this, a little of that and ta-da!

In this tin: cutie tangerine slices, banana slices, carrot sticks, sun chips, turkey slices, star shaped cheese and chocolate chips.

Muffin tin meals for kids are a great way to make little bits and pieces of food into a meal. You can see that I didn't have a ton of anything, but I made the little I had look like fun!

Now, it's your turn!

Muffin Tin Monday

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday. No MTM for me today. More on that later.  You can add your link to the link up below. For more info on Muffin Tin Monday, visit the FAQ page.

Red, White, and Blue Muffin Tin Snack

To all my American friends, don't forget to vote today!

For the details on this red,white, and blue muffin cup snack, click here.

Muffin Tin Monday

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday. The weekly blog link up that celebrates the muffin tin meal (which for our purposes is a lunch, snack, dessert or meal served in a muffin tin for kids). Below is a Rainbow themed muffin tin snack I made for the kids last January. To find out more about Muffin Tin Meals, click here.

In this muffin tin snack: carrot sticks, broccoli, blueberries, raspberries, celery and ranch dressing in the bear shaped cup in the center.

The paper cups are from the dollar aisle at Michael's.

What did you make for Muffin Tin Monday?

Muffin Tin Monday

Happy Muffin Tin Monday! It's the last Monday before Halloween. The kids have their costumes and I am looking forward to closing out the Halloween festivities. We had our first muffin tin meal in over 10 days. The kids and I have been sick on and off for 2 weeks. I am ready to be in healing mode. 

In this muffin tin meal for kids: apple slices, peanut butter, carrot sticks, cinnamon bread and red grapes.


What did you make for Muffin Tin Monday? Share in the link up below!

Muffin Tin Monday: Breakfast

Happy Muffin Tin Monday! This is one of my favorite muffin tin meals ever. I think this was from 2011. It's not much to look at. But the raisin bread dipped in the vanilla yogurt? Pure Awesomeness.

In this muffin tin breakfast for kids: cinnamon raisin bread, vanilla yogurt, orange slices, red grapes and carrot sticks. 

Now it's your turn! What did you make for Muffin Tin Monday?Share your photo by clicking the "add your link" button below!

Muffin Tin Monday: Halloween Revisited

For the next few weeks, I will be sharing MTM's of the past. Did you know there are over 200 muffin tin meals in the Muffin Tin Mom archives? Yep. And this is one of them. Halloween Muffin Tin Lunch 2010  (Also see that post for even more Halloween MTM links).

In this tin: Orange Slice and fruit leather Jack-o-lanterns, vanilla yogurt and sprinkles, cantaloupe, cookie bites, cheezits (I know not exactly healthy), dried chow mein noodle "worms" and treats under the foam pumpkin shapes on the right.

I used a circle shaped fondant cutter, a knife and fruit leather to make the jack-o-lantern faces by hand.

Now it's your turn!

Muffin Tin Lunch Revisited

Today's Muffin Tin Meal is a reprise from 2011. I remember trying to get the kids to eat kiwi fruit. This was actually a muffin tin fruit and veggie platter for a snack. I wanted to expose the kids to kiwi fruit a little more.

In this muffin tin: Carrot sticks, kiwi fruit, apricots, plums and

 strawberries and banana on skewers