Brady is not a huge fan of the bread on the sangies.
I’d make them for him but he always just strips off the meat and eats it plain.
He loves roll ups so I came up with a new way to serve him lunch…
Voila, the Totem Pole…
WHAT YOU NEED:
8 slices deli turkey
8 slices deli ham or salami
12 1 inch cubes cheese (any variety)
8 whole yellow cherry tomatoes
1 apple cubed
4 chopsticks
WHAT TO DO:
Lay out your turkey and ham in two piles on a cutting board. Cut each pile into 4 even long slices. Lay out the rest of your ingredients around your cutting board so you can build your totem poles in a little assembly line. You have 1 set of strips of turkey and ham to work with for each totem pole.
Take your first chopstick and push a tomato down over one end. Slide it all the way down leaving about 1 ½ inches from the bottom. Then slide down an apple followed by a piece of cheese. Take the first set of turkey strips, roll them into a pinwheel shape and push the chopstick through the meat. Then add another apple, a piece of cheese, etc. Do the same pinwheel process with the first set of ham and add it to the chopstick followed by a piece of cheese, apple, and finally top it off with a tomato. Repeat process for other totem poles.
Serve these with veggie chips or some couscous cooked up quick with chicken stock…Yummy!
Noteworthy Nugget: You can get creative with these totem poles and give them faces by adding peppercorns for eyes or even using condiments like mustard to draw on faces. Your kids will get a huge kick out of them.
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What a fun lunch idea! I would love that myself. Hope you have a great weekend!
What a cute idea!! I’m with Candace.. I’d love to eat that myself!!!
My daughter would absolutely love these. Simple and right on my cooking level! And the cheese keeps the meat from sliding off. I’m totally doing this.
These look great! By the way, when I saw the thumbnail in my ‘dashboard,’ I thought it was a pic of two kids in sleeping bags. Now I KNOW I need to get new glasses!! LOL Have a great weekend, Alex!
I have one child who will LOVE these!! Now I just have to figure out a way to package them so that they look cool to everyone else at the middle school table.
What a great idea. My kids would love these.
It’s funny you said that because my son is exactly the same way! He’d rather I just plop a pile of meat on his plate than eat it surrounded by bread. Great idea!
I am so uncreative when it comes to the lunch box. Seriously, my kids are lucky I remember to pack them anything!
I have one more year till I have to make lunch box, so I’m collecting all the good lunch ideas – thanks for this post!!
I like those better than sandwiches!
Great idea! I will be looking to you for lunch box ideas a whole lot this year. So far, I’ve packed the same thing for my son three days in a row.
NO BREAD?? How healthy is that?!! I gotta try it! I live for bread, but this is a great way to cut down on my carbs…lord knows I need it. Thanks for the idea!
This is genius!! I would love these for lunch! My kids would so adore me. Thanks!!