{Christmas Countdown} Advent Lunches 2014: Week 1

This week kicked off our yearly holiday tradition of #AdventLunches! Each year, I make Little Miss holiday theme lunches with a Christmas Countdown. I include the countdown number somewhere in the lunch, either written on a Lunchbox Love Note or made into a cute food item within the lunch itself. She looks forward to it every year! 
Here's what we packed for week one of 2014: 

Lunch Made Easy: {Gluten & Nut Free} School Lunch Box Ideas

Happy March! I am sooo ready for Spring, aren't you??
It was another fun filled week of school lunches here for my Little Miss, which means another great round up of ideas for you! 
{Gluten Free & Nut Free} and More: 

Lunch Made Easy: Frosty the {Gluten Free} Bagel!

♪♫ Frosty the {gluten free} bagel, was a jolly happy soul! ♪♫

 

One of Little Miss' favorite Advent Christmas Countdown Lunches last year was "Frosty the Bagel".

 

This year, I made a simplified version (mostly because Mama got home late last night and was tiiirrrrred) and of course it's also {gluten free}.  

Lunch Made Easy: MOMables Monday - Christmas Pizza Bagel Wreath

Today is our first school lunch for the month of December ~ That means it's time to start our Advent Lunches, Christmas Countdown for 2012!! WOO!! Get excited people! lol

Only 22 days left until Christmas!

For MOMables Monday, I decided to have some fun with the Kids Pizza Bagel menu item and turn it into a festive wreath for the holidays:

Lunch Made Easy: {Allergy Friendly} Udi's Butterfly Bagel

Packing your favorite {Allergy Friendly} foods for lunch doesn't have to be complicated or time consuming to be fun!

 

Lunch Made Easy: Lovely Lunchbox

I {heart} lunchboxes filled with love! ;)

Lunch Made Easy: Peace, Love, & Happiness

It's a groovy kind of lunch for Wednesday:

Lunch Made Easy: MOMables Monday!

It's not only MOMables Monday, we kinda had a MOMables weekend around here! LOL
Click through to read more and see what I mean. ;)

Lunch Made Easy: Flower Bagel Bites

Well, I only got home about 45 minutes ago from a long day of travel for work. In that time managed to make two lunches, nibble on some leftover dinner, and put on my pajamas. Now here I sit blogging and then to button up some loose ends for work..that 3am alarm is going to be here before I blink! Good thing I operate well on very little sleep. :)  

Lunch Made Easy: Lunch by Little Miss

Little Miss requested she pick out all her foods for lunch again tomorrow. :) I happy obliged, of course! I'm always intrigued to see what she'll pick out and what she's got planned, lol... She gave me her list pretty quickly, as if she'd been contemplating it all afternoon! Love it.

Lunch Made Easy: LunchBots Lunching

Oh Monday, how you alwasy come so quickly! :)

How was the weather by every one else? Record highs here for this time of year - uppers 70's, with a few rain showers, but for most part sunny and delightful!! Loved it.

Lunch Made Easy: March into Spring

Ahh, it was a simply gorgeous, spring like day today! Little Miss and I went for a long scooter ride this afternoon - well, she scooted I walked ;-) Just gorgeous and it had me so excited for warm weather again and sunshine!

Lunch Made Easy: Weekend Bento

We spent Saturday evening at a friends house for dinner so I figured I'd post the bento I packed for Little Miss to eat. (Our friends are so great about her peanut allergy, but knew that dinner wouldn't be gluten free so that's why it was easy enough to pack hers.)

Lunch Made Easy: GF Bagel with Flowers & Starfruit

That's a mouthful of a title, I know, lol... But there's a lot goin' on here. :)

Peanut Free, Gluten Free

Lunch Made Easy: Bagels & Stars, Oh my!

Wednesday's lunch is kind of a hodge podge of goodies :) but she was excited about it when I asked her if it was okay (lol).

Lunch Made Easy: Frosty the Bagel

Wednesday marks 18 days left on our Advent Lunches countdown!

Lunch Made Easy: Back to the grind...

Hello friends! :) After getting a week off from lunches and taking a long weekend getaway with my hunny, it's back to the grind! (Even though I was draaaaaaaagging this morning... we didn't get home until late last night.)

Lunch Made Easy: A Well "Rounded" Meal

Today's lunch is pretty simple but I thought it'd be fun if everything was round or circular in shape. :)

Lunch Made Easy: Monday's Basic Bento

I don't know about you but I stayed up waaaaay to late watching the Falcons/Eagles NFL game last night! lol
Very little sleep means very little creativity. ;)

Lunch Made Easy: Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday: I am truly thankful for my wonderful family. Without them, I would be lost! I am thankful for my beautiful daughter (Little Miss) and my supportive boyfriend. I am thankful I have a wonderful job with people that I not only call co-workers but friends. I am thankful for my daughter's amazing new school and all the opportunities she is going to have there. AND of course I am thankful for my very special blog readers and fellow blog buddies who take the time to enjoy my posts and inspire me as well. :)