Monday:
Monday’s snack had a mini blueberry muffin, multi-grain crackers and a mandarin orange.
Tuesday:
I sent a combined lunch and snack in the Laptop Lunchbox for Wyatt today (which now seems to be a habit). It contained, a mini blueberry muffin, tortilla strips that I toasted, buttered and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, fresh pineapple chunks, peas, rice, leftover carne asada from dinner the night before and a few cherry tomatoes to fill the gaps.
Augie’s lunch had turkey meatballs that I cut into eighths, tomatoes, fresh pineapple, a rice ball and peas.
The rice balls were pulled from the freezer and I left them in the boy’s lunch boxes overnight to defrost. Usually, I defrost them in the morning by covering them with a damp paper towel and microwaving them for a couple of minutes. They come out great this way — moist and nice to eat. Simply letting them thaw in the boxes was not a good move on my part because they ended up with a dry, unappetizing crust on them. I won’t be doing that again.
Wednesday:
On Wednesday, Wyatt’s lunch had mini muffins again, a mandarin orange, more fresh pineapple, leftover roasted chicken from dinner, green beans and some pretzel sticks.
When I opened his lunch box after school, I found a disaster. When Wyatt ate his snack in the morning, he opened his lunch box instead of his snack box and then promptly lost the band that holds it closed. So when he opened the lunch box at lunch time, everything had spilled all over the place and was all jumbled together. He decided it was too gross to eat and just left it all in the lunch box.
I packed him a mandarin and some crackers for his snack, but that was also rejected because the cracker crumbs got all over the orange. He was pretty hungry after school.
Augie’s lunch worked out much better. It had chopped mango, a quarter of an avocado (wrapped in plastic to prevent browning), Israeli couscous, chicken and green beans.
Thursday:
In contrast to Wednesday’s lunch, Thursday’s lunch was a total success. I sent a jelly sandwich, pineapple chunks, leftover shrimp from dinner and pasta with some red pepper bits sprinkled in. This lunch was so sucessful, in fact, that Wyatt ate every bite of it at lunch time and didn’t have anything leftover to eat for his afternoon snack. He complained bitterly about this in the car on the way home. “Luckily my teacher had a banana for me!” he said. “Otherwise, I would have starved to death.”
Yes, I’m raising a drama queen.
Friday:
Today’s snack was deli hap roll-ups, more pineapple and another mandarin orange.
