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<\/a><\/p>\nI started thinking about how I could make it feel Christmas-y around here, even with minimal decorations up.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I came up with the ideas for these snowman themed meals!\u00a0 The first one came about because of our decorated window.\u00a0 For a Saturday morning breakfast, I pulled some pancakes out of the freezer (whenever my hubby makes pancakes, he makes extra so we can have them ready in the freezer for a quick, filling breakfast).\u00a0 Each boy got a plate with three pancakes on it, plus a muffin tin full of decorating supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Included in the tin was coconut, raisins, mini marshmallows, a mix of peanut butter and butterscotch chips, syrup, bananas and two orange M&Ms. Each snowman ended up looking really different, and they didn\u2019t use nearly as many of the toppings as I thought they would.\u00a0 Jonah asked me for help, so his looks like a very traditional version.\u00a0 We used slices of bananas for arms, raisins for the buttons, chocolate chips for eyes, peanut butter chips for the mouth and an M&M for the carrot nose.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jacob went a different route, as he often tends to do.\u00a0 His snowman has an M&M nose, but nothing else on the face.\u00a0 He did use the banana arms and put mini marshmallows on just so he could eat them.\u00a0 My favorite part was that he used the coconut as snow and sprinkled it onto the plate from several inches above!\u00a0<\/p>\n They really had a lot of fun with this hands-on breakfast!\u00a0 We used a lot of candy on our snowmen, but it was the weekend and I knew I wouldn\u2019t be sending the boys off to school all sugared up.\u00a0 This could also be done with different types of fruit \u2013 blueberries, strawberries, bananas and coconut would be a great combination!<\/p>\n The second meal was one that I made and served for Jonah.\u00a0 He is only in preschool in the mornings, so he\u2019s home at lunchtime.\u00a0 Sticking with the snowman theme, Jonah has a homemade Uncrustable sandwich decorated with raisins for the mouth, peanut butter for the nose, and candy eyes.\u00a0 I used three banana slices for another snowman, with pretzel sticks for the arms and candy sprinkles for the buttons and face.\u00a0 The third snowman is made of three marshmallows stuck together with peanut butter.\u00a0 Again, I used pretzel sticks for the arms.\u00a0 I stuck mini chocolate chips into the marshmallows for the face and buttons.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to see in the photo, but I used an orange jimmie sprinkle for the carrot nose.<\/p>\n Having winter-themed meals really has helped us forget that our house doesn\u2019t look like Christmas this year.\u00a0 They were all really easy to put together and just used things that we always have on hand.\u00a0 Remember, it doesn\u2019t take much to make your meals memorable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is your house all decorated for Christmas yet?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to be traveling for much of December and at my in-laws\u2019 house over Christmas, so we went really light on the d\u00e9cor this year.\u00a0 We actually don\u2019t even have a Continue reading Making Meals Memorable: Using Themed Meals to Keep the Holiday Spirit Alive<\/span>![\"\"](\"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowman_supplies.jpg\" "\\"snowman_supplies\\"")
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