Kudos to my mom - Lunch Faces

When I was a kid, my mom used to do little things to entertain us. Sometimes they involved food. Since some of you have young children, you might find this entertaining as well.

I remember how I couldn't wait to do this with my own kids someday. Surely they would think I was as cool as I thought my mom was.

They didn't. Not even close. But here goes anyway.

Start with some lunch meat. We always had bologna (I seriously have to sing the Oscar Mayer song to be able to spell that correctly...b-o-l-o-g-n-a...). Now that I'm a grown up, I use turkey, because that's actually a real live animal. I've never seen a bologna running around...

Cut the lunch meat into quarters so it's easy for little fingers to pick it up. Now take a slice of cheese. Any kind will do. We always used Kraft. (There's another jingle... k-r...a-f...t).

From the slice of cheese, make parts of a face and place them on the lunch meat. See this nice smile? The trick is to use ALL the cheese but have enough to make cool stuff on the face...keep watching.

Look at that...How cute are those Spock ears? Now, I originally made those the eyes until I noticed I had not yet used all the cheese, so I went back and worked on the art a little and they ended up eyebrows. Brilliant.

When you're a professional meat & cheese face maker like myself, you can ration out the cheese enough to make a cute little hat with a flower sticking out...and maybe the top of a shirt.

If we hadn't yet eaten all the chips that week, sometimes she would use them for hair. It was always best when it was Fritos (no song for that) because they were curly and it looked more like my hair did when I was younger.

See how great my mom was? Thirty years later I still remember eating a bologna and cheese face (as we affectionately named it) off of a white paper plate for lunch. The first time I made this for my boys they both looked at me and said, "Mom, really, what is this?" Then they admitted it they thought it was stupid. I've never made it again...until today when those ungrateful, unappreciative, no-eye-for-art kids were at school and Kid Three was napping.

Kudos to my mom. She was awesome.

What are some unique things your mom did for you?