Howdy! We are settling back into our school routine and I’ve found that it’s getting easier to pack the lunches in the mornings. (Last week was tough.) How is your back to school transition going? Smoothly? Like an earthquake? Somewhere in the middle?
Here’s what I put in the lunch boxes this week.
Monday
On Monday, I packed Wyatt’s lunch in our Laptop Lunches box: green grapes, raisins in a star shaped silicone cup, Sun Chips, blueberries, raspberries and two small turkey sandwiches cut into “W” shapes.
Tuesday
Augie started back to school for the week on Tuesday and I packed his lunch in our LunchBots Trio
Wyatt’s lunch was packed in our PlanetBox
Wednesday
Wednesday, I broke out a new set of decorative picks that have been sitting in my supply basket for a few months. This set of picks is fun because they’re designed to make food look like something else — tomatoes become balloons, asparagus tips become umbrellas, etc. I used the “bone” picks to make one of Augie’s meatball chunks look like…well…meat on a bone. In addition to the meatballs this lunch had alphabet Cheez-its with Augie’s initials highlighted, grapes, blueberries and cucumber spears.
Normally Augie eats most or all of his lunch but on this day his lunch box came home remarkably full.
I threw away the meatballs and cukes because of safety concerns, but I decided the rest was OK to eat so he had the crackers and fruit for an after school snack.
Wyatt’s lunches have been coming home half-full most days since school started, so I packed him a smaller lunch this day. He had a mini bagel with cream cheese, meatballs (also on bone picks) and blueberries. I also let him take a small bag of chips he bought with his allowance money.
And looky here….
His lunch box was empty after school!
Thursday
Thursday, Augie had strawberries, cucumber slices, a mixture of pretzel and space-themed goldfish crackers, blueberries and soy cheese sandwiches cut to look like a hedgehog and a squirrel. I added the cheese eyes but looking at this photo now, I think it makes the animals look a little creepy. But maybe that’s just me?
Wyatt had school lunch today, so no photo.
Friday
Today is Augie’s birthday! Yay! He is a big 4 year old now! I was planning to make him a special lunch with some sort of birthday design, but he told me he wanted tuna and then proceeded to direct me to put every other item you see here in his lunch box as well. He had carrots, blueberries, pretzel goldfish crackers, tuna, strawberries and whole grain Ritz crackers. I guess choosing everything in your lunch is pretty special, right? This was packed in our Yubo Lunchbox
Wyatt had school lunch again.
BONUS: Grown-up Bento Lunch!
My husband, who normally works from home and doesn’t need a packed lunch, has been helping to care for a relative with an illness the past few weeks. While he’s been running around to doctor appointments, buying groceries, making meals and whatnot, he hasn’t been taking great care of himself, so I packed him this lunch one day when I knew he’d be gone for hours to make sure he had good stuff to eat. I gave him a turkey and harvarti cheese sandwich, grapes, low salt “fancy” nuts and some reduced sodium olives.
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