Earth Day lunch

Tomorrow is Earth Day. I've already started picking up my Earth Day freebies. Target was giving out shopping bags this morning with some tiny samples and a big book of coupons. Tomorrow I will be picking up another reusable shopping bag from the Disney Store when I bring in 5 plastic bags. I'm going to check out Origins to see if they will indeed be giving a free moisturizer when you bring in an empty make-up container. Any other deals out there?

Here are the Earth Day and day after Earth Day lunches.

Earth sandwich colored with food coloring, cheese leaves, pretzels, celery. "Every day is Earth Day" cut-out to jazz up the lid.

I added a jar of plain yogurt with yellow and blue sprinkles that will turn green as she stirs.

I had a circle of bread that broke in half as I was trying to free it from the cup I used as a cutter. I decided the half moon shape would work for a bologna smile and I used a little red food coloring for the inside of the mouth. I used two silicone cups to hold the cheese eyes (Nilla wafers behind to hold up the eyes) and filled the middle with a celery mustache.

I tried my hand at the bread maker again today. Not a total success yet... I remembered too late that I forgot the last cup of flour and when I added it I couldn't figure out how to get it to keep kneading. I unplugged and started over and that thing seemed to knead forEVER! I'm sure that compromised the texture of the bread. It never completely filled the pan and looked a little goofy.

Check out that shape!

It was at least edible, unlike the last loaf that made some very tasty croutons. I added flax meal and really liked the flavor of it. Hubby and Uncle D thought it was pretty good and devoured about half in a few minutes. Not a complete disaster. We'll get it figured out.

Anyone proficient with a bread maker? Any way to know what the whole process is supposed to be like? Should I just wait for it to do it's thing instead of panicking that it won't knead all the stuff I scraped down from the sides once it has stopped? Confusing...