Last night as I was surfing around the mommy blogosphere, I came across a link for something called Muffin Tin Mom. I admit, it caught my interest and I had to check it out. I was pleasantly impressed. 

I mean, what could be wrong with a meal in a muffin tin!? Isn't this cute?

The basic premise is that once a week (on Muffin Tin Monday!), you make a meal in a muffin tin for your kids. Usually the meals have themes - colours, a book, the alphabet and so on.

 Of course, I happened to stumble onto the game the night before, and don't have near as cute a muffin tin as the one shown here, AND they have a "no theme" week this week, leaving me wondering what to do!

But I decided to give it a try. I went with the previous week's meal idea - Colour: Orange. Here's what I did:

I dug through the pantry and found some orange Jell-o and whipped it up using the "quick set" method (because it was 10am when I finally decided to go orange!) The boys LOVE Jell-o, so it was the perfect excuse.

I have several unused mini-loaf pan and muffin wrappers, so I used them in a bigger empty container to seperate all the foods. I will go on the hunt for a cuter, more kid-friendly-sized set of tins this week. 

Here's what today's lunch included:

• diced peaches
• grated cheddar cheese
• Jell-O
• Ritz cheese sandwich crackers
• carrots (except for the older son who is the pickiest ever… he had a processed cheese square)
• and mango juice (not shown)

I'm pretty excited about this website find. I think it will make us think about food more and gives me some creativity around lunch time. Next Monday's theme is the colour yellow and I'm already deep in thought about how to make that happen.

Now, I just need to find some tins!