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<\/a><\/p>\nIn this meal, I served caramel corn, apples with caramel dip, cinnamon applesauce, deconstructed s\u2019mores, and hot dogs with a pumpkin pick.\u00a0 The s\u2019mores were my favorite and I was kind of proud of this idea!\u00a0 It was very spur-of-the-moment when I realized I needed another food to fill the tin.\u00a0 The s\u2019mores included chocolate chips, mini marshmallows and mini graham cookies.\u00a0 I LOVE chocolate and eat it almost every day in some form.\u00a0 I\u2019ve passed this love on to my kids, so they were pretty excited about this addition as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we have also been looking for ways to remember things we\u2019re thankful for and to talk about all the blessings in our lives.\u00a0 I decided to let my kids have two lunches where they each picked out their favorite foods that they were thankful to have, and that would be what I served for lunch.<\/p>\n
The foods my kids chose for the first lunch were M&Ms (remember the love of chocolate?), veggie straws, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, popcorn, grapes and candy corn.\u00a0 Obviously not the healthiest lunch, but they were happy and they did eat the sandwich and grapes before the candy.<\/p>\n
For the second lunch, they chose foods that ended up coming together to be a slightly more well-balanced meal than the last.\u00a0 This tin included Jell-O, corn, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches, a brownie and veggie straws.<\/p>\n These meals could be done as simply or as complicated as you want.\u00a0 I only let the boys pick from foods I had on hand and that could be served quickly, so we didn\u2019t have anything that needed to be baked or prepared ahead of time.\u00a0 You could easily ask them for the menu the night before, or on grocery day, and plan ahead if the requested foods were more elaborate.\u00a0<\/p>\n I hope these meals will give you some ideas of ways to celebrate the fall season with your family.\u00a0 Remember, it doesn\u2019t take much to make your meals memorable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our family loves fall \u2013 the sights, the smells, the tastes.\u00a0 As a result, we seek out activities that will allow us to experience these as often as possible.\u00a0 A tradition that David and I started when we were first Continue reading Making Meals Memorable – Giving Thanks for the Flavors of Fall<\/span>![\"\"](\"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_1.jpg\")
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