Kieran has Indiana Jones fever so when they screened the 3rd movie on TV a week or so ago we had an 'Indy dinner'. We drank beer (of the ginger variety) and opened our meal with a eyeballs brains, and fingers dip entree
And the main was suitably decorated 'Indy Burgers'
For dessert we had sundaes with boulders (rocky road mallow puffs) lava ice cream (jelly tip) and gold bars (giant pineapple lumps) complemented by spiders, snakes and crocodiles.
We were going to have a treasure hunt with mini crunchie bars as the prize but it didn't happen.
Also on the food front we have instituted a new system so the kids get some treats and variety. Muffin Monday, Try-something-new Tuesday, Go nuts Wednesday, Little Ripper Thursday and Fruity Friday. In the past we got some of these foods and the kids either ate a fortnights worth in a couple of days or didn't eat them at all because they generally finished making their lunches before I got up so couldn't ask permission. Ideally in the not too distant future I will make the Muffins and the Fruity Friday Fruit in jelly in the meantime we just buy them. Little Rippers are small salami sticks and for nuts K has cashews and M Pistachios unfortunately the can't take them to school as there are a couple of kids with severe nut allergies.
Try something new Tuesday is the best because it means they are willing to try new stuff (and old stuff with new names) like 'Japanese squash' which Kieran likes as opposed to Kumara which he maintains that he doesn't like even though they are 100% the same in every way.
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