Coconut Curry Spaghetti Squash

I made this dish one day when DH called and asked if we'd pick him up and take him to McDonald's before he had to get back to school. So I threw this together in literally less than ten minutes. I had leftovers, so of course it was fast. But even if you make this from scratch it's soo worth it. I promise. Just that afternoon I was posting on Facebook about how yummy Coconut butter was and that I was brainstorming more ways to use it. So the opportunity rose when DH called, talk about no time to think either! This sauce is much like the Sunbutter Satay sauce I have posted here.
This will serve 2-4 people depending on how much you are serving, if it's all you are serving or if it's a side dish. I didn't make that much but even the serving I made was so much!
Make your Spaghetti Squash in the crock pot, recipe HERE, if you haven't prepared it in advance or don't have leftovers.

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2013 Lunches 330-347 Take it Tuesday

Welcome to another (late) Take It Tuesday on Give Peas a Chance!! Details on how to "play along" are at the bottom of this post. Click on the collages to enlarge the lunches. I hope you all are doing well.  I feel like I haven't been on top of things lately, maybe because it's getting dark sooner and I feel there's no time to get things done?

Perfect Pita- the recipe can be found here

Greek Chicken- the recipe can be found in the notes second on my phone because I haven't blogged it :)

Cucumber slices

Hummus or tzatziki

York pieces

Provolone cheese slices, I wrote on those with these markers here 

Mini Corn dogs (I didn't make these)

Peppers and carrots

Sunbutter (and dressing in two of the lunches)
Kiwi
Sunbutter Skillet Chocolate Chip cookie (also not blogged but the original recipe is here)

2011 Bento 101, 102

There's nothing like a Sunbutter and jelly sandwich on store bought white bread. YUM. I hope the girls eat this lunch. They do like Sunbutter and jelly sandwiches, we'll see.

Sunbutter and jelly sandwiches

2011 Bento 126, 127, 128

Goodbyn Bynto enter to win one HERE.

Sunbutter and Jelly sandwiches

Goldfish crackers

 Grapes

Pepperoni and cheese

Sunsweet Prune

Planetbox for Diva

Sunbutter and Jelly sandwiches

Goldfish crackers

 Grapes

Pepperoni and cheese

Sunsweet Prune

Pixie and I shared this lunch . Lock and Lock.

Sunbutter and Jelly sandwiches

Goldfish crackers

 Grapes

Pepperoni and cheese

Sunsweet Prune

Granola Bars (no bake)

Sweet Courtney, from Courtney Marie Jewelry sent me this recipe for Granola bars. Can I just say how it's awesome that I've met so many wonderful people through this blog? Thanks so much Courtney!

When she sent the recipe, I opened the email and scanned the ingredients.

 Peanut butter, ok sub almond or Sunbutter for Diva. I ended up using unsalted, no sugar added Sunbutter, just ground up sunflower seeds.

Rolled oats. I know I don't have rolled oats. What's a girl to do? I'll find something.

Honey, we've been sick so all the honey has been used up. I have maple syrup. Awesome.

Rice Krispy cereal- boy do I have that. I have like 5 boxes of the gluten free brown rice stuff. I stocked up when I had an awesome coupon.

Marshmallows, yes, I just bought those so I could use up the cereal.

Wheatgerm- in the fridge! (I didn't use this in the end)
YAY! Let's make these! I called Piglet to help me. My kitchen is so small, I only let one helper in there at a time if I can help it. I did make quite a few changes from the original recipe which I'll post below.

This recipe can easily be made gluten free with gluten free cereal, oats, marshmallows, chocolate chips, etc. It's free of tree-nuts too!
It is sweet, so it's a great treat. 

GPAC Satay Sauce- Peanut/nut free

This sauce ROCKS. It's so good. Perfect with chicken satay, lettuce wraps, as a dip for vegetables, and salads. Or try it over noodles. I use Sunbutter, you can use almond butter if you tolerate almonds.
Thai Kitchen makes a paleo/primal compliant curry paste.

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recipes here on Give Peas A Chance, or use the search function. 

2014 Lunches #152-164 Take It Tuesday

Goodness, I can't keep up with these lunch posts in spite of being in a total lunch packing RUT! So there will probably be less and less lunches to post until I get out of my rut. What are you favorite lunches to pack? I need inspiration!

2012 Bento 31

Mini Bagel (one with Sunbutter and honey, the other is with Sunbutter and mini chocolate chips)

Cucumbers

Oranges

String cheese

We're finally getting better around here so hopefully lunches will too!

2013 Lunches 348-355 Take It Tuesday

Lunches, lunches, lunches :) Welcome to another Take It Tuesday on Give Peas a Chance!! Details on how to "play along" are at the bottom of this post. Click on the collages to enlarge the lunches.
The holiday's are fast approaching aren't they? This whole year is just flying by. I want to slow some parts of it way down. But I guess that's not possible :)
Let's move on to lunches. The first lunches are brought to you by the letter C-
Chicken
Carrots
Cucumber
Candy

The lunches above are packed in a Planetbox Shuttle (top two pictures), and the bottom two are just some bento boxes that I have, which I don't use often but I like them. 

Tamago

Broccoli

Clementines

Laughing Cow Cheese 

Sunflower Seeds

Carrots

 Candy

2013 Bento 258-292 Take It Tuesday

 I will be trying to consolidate pictures into collages so that these posts won't be so crazy long with tons and tons of pictures. With three kids in school now that's 15 lunches a week. Fifteen pictures, the thing is it's not like I make Chraraben bento or pretty bentos, I just pack lunches, so the need for fifty million pictures is silly. But it's fun for me, so I think the way I can streamline things a bit is put each day's pictures in a mini collage. I can't promise it will get done, but the other alternative is don't come on the blog on Tuesday's because that's when I post lunches :) 

Lunches #258-260

Harry Potter

I usually do not make menus, include notes in lunches. But this was a fun lunch to pack. I did forget to pack the Gillyweed (Green veggies). The menu is below.
Harry Potter Sunbutter Sandwich
Gringotts Gold
Scabber's Snack
Un-juiced Pumpkin Pieces
Sorting Hats
Chocolate Frog
Acid pops
Eye of Rabbit

Lunches 270-271 (I only packed two lunches this day because Pixie was home sick with me)
Dragon Fruit
Longan
Rambutan
Cucumber
Laughing Cow cheese
Crackers
Sunflower seeds
Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Lunches #272-274
Quinoa and Spiced Beef
Cucumber
Roasted Acorn Squash
Mushroom (Pixie)
Jello

Lunches #275-277
I only have two pictures of these but they were all the same.

Crackers
Laughing Cow Cheese
Mango
Cucumber
Pudding
Two mini cookies

Lunches #278-280
Mini Corndogs
Broccoli
Mandarin Oranges
Ketchup
Yogurt Stars

Lunches #290-292

Cucumber, Avocado, Tomato salad
Grilled chicken
Grapes
Jello

 *Lunches are packed in Planetboxes

*More Sunbutter recipes and posts HERE.

I wanted to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.
Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest  #peasblog #TakeitTuesday
Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.
Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

2014 Lunches 33-51

Oh my, I'm so back logged on lunches and all posts in general. I just am. I was already behind after the New Year, then I was away on a family emergency for a week last month. It has been so hard for me to get back into the swing of things. I do find I get into these ruts, but I don't know. This rut seems to be longer than most. The whole Facebook changes debacle doesn't make it any better either. I do miss interacting with you all on Facebook, but with all the changes less and less people see posts on there. I am not very active on google + either. Where do you all find you interact most with bloggers and readers of your blog? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Also did you know that I have a giveaway up right now? Please check it out, enter, and share. I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much. Here's the link.
Let's look at some lunches-

 #33-35

Chicken
Simple Cabbage Salad
Oranges
Chocolate Covered Pretzels

 #36-38

Sausage

Cheese
Crackers
Kiwi
Carrots

 #39-41

These little boxes are actually snack boxes. The girls have dance after school so I try to give them a snack in the car. Even though it's against the rule to eat in the car. Sigh.

 #42

This was my lunch. 

Salad with leftover pork

Lime wedge (which is what I use on salads)

Kiwi
Avocado

 #43

Meatballs
Mac and Cheese
Broccoli

Strawberries
Peppermint Kisses 

 #44-46

Waffles

Grapefruit
Boiled Egg

Celery

Sunbutter
Chocolate Chips

 #47-49

Make your own Sushi hand rolls.

Sushi Rice

Imitation Crab

Cucumber
Egg

Kiwi

Roe
Seaweed

Here's a close up-

 #50

This Yumbox was packed for a plane trip. Pixie and I took off for my uncles funeral, we were gone for a whole week.

Apples
Sunflouwer seeds

Bananas

Grapes
Goldfish
Peppermint Kisses

#51

Diva's lunch
Soup
Pretzels
Celery
Sunbutter

Most lunches are packed in Planetboxes

You can find Yumboxes HERE.

CUPPOW info found HERE.

I want to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.
Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest  #peasblog #TakeitTuesday
Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.
Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

Also I would love if you used my affiliate links for purchases on these sites. It doesn't cost you extra, doesn't change your price, but it does help me out.

Here are some of my links 

 LINK for Pick Your Plum ( http://tracking.pickyourplum.com/SH58 )

 LINK for YUMBOX (http://www.yumboxlunch.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=11 )

LINK for Zulily ( http://www.zulily.com/invite/kd489)
LINK for Planetbox ( http://planetbox.com/#oid=1017_1 )

2013 Bento 146-156 #TakeitTuesday

I wanted to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.
Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest  #peasblog #TakeitTuesday
Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.
Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

And don't forget to scroll down to see our lunches!
Lunches packed in Planetboxes

2013 Bento 188-201 #TakeitTuesday

 I'm so sorry these pictures are just shot. My camera, I think I mentioned it. Needs to be replaced or sent in. The sensor is so off. Manual or auto focus, it doesn't matter. Anyway. The first three lunches for this Take It Tuesday post here on Give Peas A Chance have all the same foods, except Pixie got cheese, and her sister's got turkey.
Quinoa- with lime, cumin, other spices, and cilantro.
Lime wedge
Cucumber

Turkey/Cheese
Mandarin oranges
Olives
Tzatziki sauce
York Pieces

The next three lunches are exactly the same.

I baked Blueberry Cobbler right into the Planetbox container.

Cheese and Turkey (I used the cheese that I had cut hearts out of in Pixie's lunch above)

Cucumber

Salt

Watermelon

(The heart in the middle of the lunches is a piece of cheese that I painted on with food markers)

A lunch post! 2015-1, 2, and 3

Yes, I know. It's already April and I'm just posting the first lunch post of the year. Sadly these aren't the first lunches I've made. They are just the first to make them onto Give Peas a Chance! So much has happened and we've just been busy like everyone else. We finally moved and are surrounded by boxes, and I'm posting from my phone. That's a whole other post though. I apologize for the long absence I want to jump right back in sms start blogging again but we'll see how things fall into place. 

How's everyone been? Keeping up with blogging? Any big changes, leave a comment I'd love to hear from you. You can also still find me on Facebook and Instagram via the buttons to the right of this blog. 

So, lunches... Simple and quick for this Monday morning.

 

2014 Lunches #52-71

Could it be? It's Tuesday, and I am actually posting. I even posted last Tuesday? I'm BACK IN THE GAME friends! Or I hope so.
The above lunches:

#52-54

Steak salad

Grapes
Sunflower seeds

Dressing
And in the Planetboxes are Biscuits

2015 lunches 9-11

 Yesterday's lunches in our Planetbox containers (link buy their site is at the bottom of this post). Like I said were on a Sunbutter kick.

Sunbutter and jelly sandwiches

Cucumbers with dressing

Kiwi

Pumpkin bread

the far right lunch brings to my oldest who wanted Ramen in a Thermos.

How's lunch packing going for everyone?

Below are pictures of dinner last night.

Caprese sandwiches

Corn on the cob

Veggies hummus

Fruit

 Find my version of the Best Caprese salad here.

Most lunches on Give Peas A Chance are packed in Planetboxes

and Yumboxes, found HERE.

CUPPOW info found HERE.

I want to invite you all to share your lunches on my Facebook wall, Instagram (see hashtags below), Twitter, and in comments below.

Share your latest lunches- if you have a photo to upload, an Instagram post, a blog post. 

HASHTAGS- for Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest #peasblog #TakeitTuesday

Or come and share you favorite lunch box recipe.

Please make sure you link to all recipes and credit sources. I will delete any recipes that have been cut and pasted. Please leave links only.

Also I would love if you used my affiliate links for purchases on these sites. It doesn't cost you extra, doesn't change your price, but it does help me out.

Here are some of my links 

LINK for Pick Your Plum ( http://tracking.pickyourplum.com/SH58 )

LINK for YUMBOX (http://www.yumboxlunch.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=11 )

LINK for Zulily ( http://www.zulily.com/invite/kd489)

LINK for Planetbox ( http://planetbox.com/#oid=1017_1 )

2011 Bento 121

This little lunch was for Pixie.

Sunbutter and jelly sandwich

Sunbutter and celery

Cherries

It's packed in a Goodbyn Bynto. I have a giveaway going on sponsored by Goodbyn, the link is on the left side of my blog.