Here are this week’s lunches:
Monday
Monday, I sent Wyatt to school with a squirrely lunch: salami, apple, grapes, Scrabble Cheez-its, garlic naan cut into squirrel shapes and a couple of cheese acorns — one for each squirrel. This lunch was packed in our Laptop Lunch Box
While I was packing his lunch, Wyatt asked me to please be sure to pack the red container next to the hinge on the outer box. When I asked him why he told me he likes to take the lid off and tuck it between the red container and the wall of the bigger box and that keeps the lid from closing on his lunch while he’s eating. Clever boy! I never even thought about that.
Augie doesn’t attend preschool on Mondays so I often try to do something fun with him in the morning. This particular day, he decided that we should go to a park and have a picnic lunch. He even picked the containers we would use — kitty and panda — out of the big basket of bento boxes. Since Augie is a big eater and I’m doing Weight Watchers right now, I packed us identical lunches: tomatoes, grapes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and goldfish crackers. The sandwiches were slightly too big to fit in the panda
Tuesday
On Tuesday, Augie’s lunch was pineapple, apple slices, mini-sausages, garlic naan cut into circles and a few grapes.
I don’t often send apples in the boys’ lunches because if they get even a little brown they won’t usually eat them, but I had some juice leftover from the pineapple can so I dipped the apple pieces in that to keep them from oxidizing. Augie didn’t eat one of his pieces, so I took a quick picture to show how well it help up. Not too shabby!
Wyatt’s lunch was basically the same: garlic naan circles, apple chunks (also dipped in pineapple juice), mini-sausages, pineapple and goldfish crackers.
Wednesday
Stripey bento! Augie’s lunch was packed in a hinged lid box (similar to this one). I arranged the contents — sausages, strips of naan, grapes, and goldfish crackers — in long strips.
Wyatt’s lunch was raisins, goldfish crackers, a couple of cat cookies, grapes, clementine wedges, a squirrel naan and mini-sausages.
Thursday
On Thursday, Augie had meatballs, edamame, raisins, fish crackers, cat cookies and a teeny, tiny, lady apple. This is the first time I’ve tried the lady apples on Augie and he seemed to like it pretty well. When I tried sending them in Wyatt’s lunch a few years ago, they didn’t go over so well.
Wyatt had school lunch, so no bento box for him.
Friday
Today, Augie had yellow bell pepper chunks, leftover chicken from dinner, blueberries and some Triscuits.
Wyatt had a donut hole, potato chips, blueberries, a Laughing Cow cheese wedge, chicken and clementine wedges.
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