This week for Muffin Tin Monday, we read Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon. This is a story from WWI about soliders in the trenches celebrating Christmas. For a few short hours, there was peace between the two groups of men and everyone forgot that they were at war. It implies how tragic war is that soldiers are forced to kill people that they would be friends with if it was not wartime. I was raised as a Quaker, so of course raised on this story.
I thought it would be fun to make them a kid friendly M.R.E. (Meal Ready to Eat). I wish I had had a real M.R.E. to show them. If you have never seen or eaten one, they are filled with sodium and the taste is passable if you are really hungry. They are very well thought out and packed very efficiently. My children get very little processed food, so this was a very popular muffin tin. LOL
In each muffin tin was raisins, juice bag, two hershey kisses, cheese crackers, Scooby Doo gummies and raspberry yogurt. I also served this for breakfast because of our schedule that day. They were in heaven!
I love your Muffin Tin MRE! My kiddos would go crazy over that, too. I tried to find a copy of Christmas in the Trenches but couldn't get it through our library. I'll keep looking and hopefully will have a copy by next Christmas. As always, thanks for the inspiration!
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This looks like a great book! Fun way to incorporate your schooling along with Christmas too. I've been slack. *sigh* LOL
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FYI, one of Christopher's friends brought an MRE over one day and shared sone with our boys. They thought is was really neat. :-)
Merry Christmas!
Leslie
I love your Muffin Tin MRE! My kiddos would go crazy over that, too. I tried to find a copy of Christmas in the Trenches but couldn't get it through our library. I'll keep looking and hopefully will have a copy by next Christmas. As always, thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds wonderful. I have heard the story, but never seen it in a book.
ReplyDeleteThe meal looks yummy! JDaniel would love this.
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MRE meals are so nice every now and then! Looks like a good book.
ReplyDeleteWhat a treat!! My boys are fascinated with the Christmas truce story after we visited the sites of many WW1 battles in France and Belgium.
ReplyDeleteThat book sounds like a great story! I would love to share that with my babes.
ReplyDeleteI'm always amazed at how creative everyone is MRE...SO CLEVER! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI love this tin. What a great idea to present your own MRE. Happy Muffin Tin Monday!
ReplyDeleteLove the book tie-in!
ReplyDeleteOK friend - share!!! How did you get your blog moved AND the comments? I would love to do that too! You can email me if it is easier. lnelsen@nc.rr.com
ReplyDeleteThank you!!!
Leslie