Chewbacca has always been one of my family's favorite Star Wars characters. This was also the first Star Wars school lunch that I ever made my daughter, and it happens to be one of the most popular on my blog. After making it the first time, and making it again for Steve Harvey when I appeared on his show, I finally decided to recreate it for you with a video tutorial. Hopefully this can show you that it is actually really easy to make and perfect for a school lunch, or even for May the 4th Star Wars Day! I hope you watch the video below and have fun with it. Be sure to share with your Star Wars loving friends!

Fall Themed Squirrel Lunch Tutorial Video

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post in conjunction with Hewlett Packard for their Sprout by HP machine. I received compensation for participating in this campaign but all opinions expressed are solely my own.

I always love trying new ideas and apps that make life easier. A really great app that my daughter has been using is the free Sprout Stop Motion on our Sprout by HP computer. I watched her get really excited and easily figure out how to make a video with her own toys from start to finish. I got to thinking, if she can do this with her toys why don't I try it with my fun school lunches?

I played around with it a bit this weekend and created my first lunch tutorial video using Sprout Stop Motion. You can watch the video above! I started with the basic features for this video, but I it was so fun I can't wait to make another one using some of the more in depth options that the app offers. 

What makes it amazing is that you can scan in your own physical objects (like food) using any one of the three cameras. From there you can add other digital objects, personal pictures, artwork, etc. Then you can also insert a background for your video. I just used white for my first video but you can insert any background picture you like. From there, it is as easy as pushing a button to start the stop motion fun. You can also set a timer with delay so your only job is to move the physical and digital objects around the mat.

As far as the lunch recipe, you will have to watch the video above to see how I made it, but here are the ingredients I used: Long grain rice, ham, sweet peppers, hard boiled egg, dried apples, trail mix, fruit leather, pretzel sticks, and chocolate sprinkles. I made it all in an Easy Lunch Boxes container. Make sure and follow me on all of my social media channels and check out the Sprout website for more details on this awesome machine.

Christmas Lunch Replay: Winter Snowman

Christmas Lunch Replay: Winter Snowman.  This is a fun Holiday lunch from last year.  My Daughter is on Christmas break so we didn't do a new lunch today.  This could be a great lunch to make together with your kids over break because you might have everything in your cupboards already!  

This was also one that we did on TV last Christmas season so below you will find instructions and a video tutorial of it.  Have a great Christmas!

Here is the recipe for this simple lunch. Use cookie cutters or two different size cups to cut out bread in circles. Put peanut butter on one side and jelly on the other and make two small circular sandwiches. Use your lunchbox container and put down lettuce for the background and then use shredded cheese for snow on the ground. After that, put your two sandwiches on top to shape the snowman. I used dried blueberries for the buttons and eyes with raspberries for the scarf. I cut out a little wedge of carrot for the nose. Attach them all on with cream cheese. Cut out some fruit leather or fruit rollup for the hat and your snowman is done! Then, dip a little broccoli in cream cheese for some snow covered bushes and use half a mandarin orange for the sun. Just like that you are finished!

Despicable Me 2 Lunch Video Tutorial

Hey Everyone!  I obviously didn't post a recipe this Monday because my daughter and I were on TV.  If you missed it, here is our Despicable Me lunch tutorial video.  Just click on the image and it will open a new tab to take you to the Good Day Sacramento website to view it.  I hope to post the written recipe with more pics later.  Thanks for watching and be sure and enter our yubo lunchbox giveaway!

Click on the image above to watch the video tutorial!