101015 Friday

Left: salad with dressing in Winnie th' Pooh's head, cheese bits with lime green frog toothpick, Melba toast rounds

Right: maraschino cherries with toothpicks Gretta selected:  the letter 'G' and two hats, raisins, basmati rice with duck sauce in another Winnie th' Pooh head, basil leaves

Bottom:  various animal-shaped pieces of cantaloupe with black sesame-seed eyes

101014 Thursday, parshat Lech Lecha

Left: pretzels, yellow raisins with dried cranberries and cherries, fortune cookie

Right:  salad with dressing in the monkey's head

Bottom: (cheese letters spelling this weeks' parsha name, which go on top of the pretzels (see below) when packed, angel hair spaghetti with tomato sauce and basil leaves

101008 Friday, rosh chodesh Cheshvan, parshat Noach

Left: rice with rainbow sprinkles and a packet of duck sauce, cherry tomatoes, dates

Right: carrots, flower-shaped pepper pieces, pretzels

Bottom: pita bread, soy "bologna", green pepper flower, cheese message

101007 Thursday: Parshat Noach - Migdal Bavel - Tower of Babel

Left:  Mandarin orange slices with blue elephant pick, dried cranberries, angel hair pasta with tomato sauce and flowering sprig of basil from one of our plants

Right:  bear-shaped silicone cup with Irish oatmeal sprinkled with colored sugar to make a rainbow, cheddar cheese cut into cubes with yellow flower pick, Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal

Bottom:  (supposed to look like Migdal Bavel/The Tower of Babel, reaching into the clouds from the ground) tea cracker tower with marshmallow fluff clouds (protected by a bit of cling wrap), green pepper "grass" and yellow, red, and orange pepper flowers, with "windows" made from bits of cheese attached by a smudge of fluff

101006 Wednesday, parshat Noach ("parshat keshet")

Left: carrots and salad dressing in Hello Kitty container, dates, red grapes

Right: pizza and a cheese stick

Bottom: salad "flood waters" with bread cut into an ark shape, pepper rainbow, cheese "dove" with basil as the olive branch and a black sesame seed eye (held together with cream cheese) and pairs of animal crackers (still munching our way through the yom kippur break-the-fast cookie avalanche)

Here are some more Noah-themed menu items.

100929 Wednesday, erev Shmini Atzeret

Left: carrots, fortune cookie, salad with dressing in the plastic monkey-head container

Right: whole wheat waffles, maple syrup

Bottom: soy "baloney" and cheese, supposed to be in the shape of a torah scroll, in honor of the upcoming simchat torah holiday (We were in a rush this morning, so I didn't have time to fiddle with it much. My offer to write "beraishit" in ketchup was declined and declared unappetizing.)

100922 Wednesday, erev Sukkot

Left: sweet potato latke, cheese stick, red grapes, chopped peppers with pink plastic giraffe pick

Right: bunny-shaped hard boiled egg, raisins with four giraffe-shaped pieces of yellow pepper, pretzels

Bottom: Graham cracker base of "sukkah" with basil and Kashi Cinnamon Harvest Cereal "scach", writing says "chag sameach" (happy holiday) written with melted dark chocolate, person made of cheese, with orange pepper hair and veggie/soy "salami" dress, holding an etrog (yellow raisin) and lulav (rosemary twig, lemon basil sprig, green pepper slice, held together with a dot of dark chocolate.)