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 This simple meal served in a muffin tin is perfect for the little toddler in your life or anyone who wants to nibble on little bites. Muffin Tin Meals are a great way to get toddlers, preschoolers, and children to try new foods in a  fun and engaging way. To learn more, visit the Muffin Tin Meal FAQ page



In this Muffin Tin Meal for a toddler: 

• Puzzle piece mini ham sandwiches
• Sliced green grape pieces
• Mini orange slices
• Slices string cheese circles 
• Fresh spinach leaves (A stretch I know, but my kids love them)

Creating little-ish foods was fun!

I love The Lunch Punch brand sandwich cutters. They are easy to use and come in a variety of fun and engaging shapes for toddlers, preschoolers, and children.

For today's muffin tin lunch, I used the puzzle piece cutter. It's part of a 4 pack. The cutters are also dishwasher safe, which is a huge bonus for me. Find out more at TheLunchPunch.com



Disclosure: I was not compensated by The Lunch Punch to write about them. 


I would love to know what your toddler's favorite food is!

We are nursing some serious sickness over here in the Muffin Tin Household. Definitely on the mend, but the last week has been crazy.

As St. Patrick’s Day and spring approaches, I though it would be fun to celebrate with a rainbow fruits and veggies themed Muffin Tin Snack. Oh how we love fresh fruit!




In this muffin tin snack: Red Strawberries, Orange Carrot sticks, Yellow Banana slices, Green Cucumbers, Blue Blueberries, and Purple Plums


I used Martha Stewart’s delightful rainbow colored paper treat wrappers from Michael’s.




Get your Rainbow on with these fun activities and products:
-Inspire kids to eat from the Rainbow every day with fun Today I Ate The Rainbow Chart
-Play the Crunch-a-Color game
-Make a finger print rainbow
-Paint a water color rainbow craft with Make and Takes

• Cat in The Hat Red and White Strawberry Banana Skewers
• Kitty Cat Sandwich
• “The Cat’s Hat" filled with organic milk
• Whole Grain Gold Fish Crackers
• Yogurt with red pearl sprinkles
• Thing 1 and Thing 2 marshmallow treats 

I had fun thinking this up. There’s almost too much going on, which is why I didn’t include any tutorials.

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I hope you will join with me in celebrating Muffin Tin Monday!

Hi Muffin Tin Meal 'ers! It's Monday and around here, that means it's Muffin Tin Monday. This year will mark the 4th Valentine's Muffin Tin Monday Blog Link Up!. Wow!


From the first year....





In this muffin tin meal: bananas, carrots, pesto chicken, red peppers, chex cereal, and cucumber slices.

This week, we also made super easy cupcake liner Valentines



Now it's your turn!

In This Tin: Grilled Chicken, Cucumbers, Bananas, Carrot Sticks, Strawberry Yogurt with a wee bit of sprinkles and diced strawberries. A Puppy PB and J Sandwich, and Cheese Hearts


A fun puppy inspired craft: Recycled Yogurt Cup Felt Animals




Also from our friends at No Time For Flashcards: Pretend Pet Clinic

Now it's your turn! Did you make a Muffin Tin Meal? I would love to see it!

 In this heart valentines themed muffin tin lunch (from the top left): Heart mini sandwiches, red grapes, heart shaped melon, red strawberries, heart stamped Babybel cheese wheel, chocolate dipped cupcake with heart sprinkles.


For a fun preschool toddler friendly craft to go along with today's muffin tin meal, try my conversation heart tracing craft from Blissfully Domestic

Now it's your turn.

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! This is the official blog link up for Muffin Tin Meals and the link up that started the "muffin tin meal" craze that you see all over Pinterest, other blogs and such. There are over 150 Creative Food and Muffin Tin Meal ideas on the Muffin Tin Mom site!


I used a plate full of reversed muffin liners to make up this week's muffin tin lunch snack and included broccoli, blueberries, raspberries, celery, carrots and hummus in the center.

After sampling the delightful sweetness of last weeks homemade donuts, I knew it was time for a fresh fruit and vegetable platter. The kids added a new taste to their pallette this week. Hummus! I was so excited. It's a healthy alternative to ranch dressing and other dips and sauces.

We made a fingerprint rainbow craft to go along with our rainbow collection of fruits and veggies in a muffin tin this week. Simple and straightforward stamping fingerprints with paint in rainbow colors. And it seemed  perfect to cheer up this rainy weather we are having.

 In this tin: organic puffed corn (from Fresh and Easy), organic tangelos, broccoli, a wee bit of ranch dressing, raspberries, and apple slices


Next week I will be starting to share crafts to go with your MTM's. For now, I will share this
***Muffin Cup Alert!*** Michaels has these cuties on sale for $1.50 per pack.


Now it's your turn!

Nitrate-free deli meat, tangelos from a friends yard, vanilla yogurt with sprinkles, cheese squares, raw broccoli, pears, hard boiled eggs and apple slices.

It's amazing how 19 sprinkles can jazz up yogurt!



Thank you for being part on an amazing year for this site. I am excited about some of the wonderful things on the horizon for MTM. Stay tuned for more interactive site features in 2012. I want to make MTM more of a resource for you and will be sharing crafts to go along with MTMs in the coming year.

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! No Muffin Tin Meal for us this week, but I thought I would host the link up anyway for those of you that want to connect and showcase this week. In between Christmas preparations and me throwing my back out, we still managed to get a little crafty earlier this week, and made some sweet little Muffin Tin Liner Paper Doll Angels.


I loved them so much, I made a little "Muffin Cup Cutie". Muffin Tin Girl loved them and so do I.

 Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! The weekly Muffin Tin Meals blog link up. We did  a "dipping" theme. Everthing in our tin could be dipped in chocolate sauce! IT was a major hit.

 They each had their own tin with the  choco sauce in the middle on the plate in the middle

*Muffin Tin Monday is partnering with Linky Here, a new linky/blog hop directory where you can find information about all of the fun weekly blog link ups around. Check it out!

Now it's your turn!

I used a food writer pen to make the tree. Let me just say, not a fan of food writers on bread. While it turned out pretty cute, I probably will try and find something (more healthy) other than food coloring to use -maybe cinnamon?  I bought these at the Dollar Tree. Pretty fun.

Welcome to Muffin Tin Monday! Christmas is fast approaching. Providing healthy lunch for toddlers, preschoolers and kids can be a challenge during the holidays. Hopefully, Muffin Tin Meals are helping you feed those little tummies.

Ours is a not-so-Christmasy Christmas Muffin Tin Meal this week. But I couldn't help myself! We just recieved these cutie patootie sandwich punches from the wonderful folks at The Lunch Punch. If you are thinking about a fun gift for yourself or for that little chef in your life, then this is it! We tried their new Sweet line. It has ice cream cone, birthday cake and cupcake sandwich punches.