Here are the lunches for this week! I even have a bonus grown-up lunch to share today and a story about lunch from when I was a little girl. Read on:
Monday
Zach (my husband) took off for a business trip on Monday, so I packed him a snack/lunch for the plane. (Would you call that a “snunch”? I dunno…not sure that works.) Airplane bentos are always a little tricky for me because I’m never sure what counts as a “liquid” and I don’t want to inadvertently cause Zach to be delayed when he’s checking in. (Did you know that hummus counts as a liquid? One of my friends had to throw hers out because the TSA spotted it in her luggage! Don’t get me started…) Anyway, I stuck with stuff that seemed solidly solid for this lunch and that would be safe without an ice pack, so it’s a little plain (plane? Har har har!): bread and butter, cheddar cheese, carrot and celery sticks and tomatoes from our garden. This was all packed up in a Glad Entree container* because I also didn’t want him to worry about bringing the box home later if it was a pain to do so.
Wyatt had school lunch, and Augie and I ate meatballs at IKEA:
Mmmmmmmm…meatballs! And lingonberry juice!
This is the face Augie makes when he eats at IKEA. Cutie!
Tuesday
I made mummy dogs for dinner on Monday night, so the boys had the leftovers in their lunches on Tuesday. Augie also had tomatoes, celery sticks and kiwi chunks. This was packed in a single layer of our monbento box
Wyatt had Halloween chips (Snak King brand), a tiny chocolate cupcake that his aunt gave him, a mummy dog, ketchup, apple slices and strawberries. This was packed in one of our Easy Lunchbox
Wednesday
On Wednesday, Augie’s lunch was packed in the Yubo
Wyatt’s lunch also had meatballs and a silicone suitcase full of ketchup, peaches with bone sprinkles, Cheez-its (do you see how I spelled out “cat” and “boo”? I wonder if that lasted until lunch time.), grapes and a cookie.
Thursday
I don’t have a photo for Augie’s Thursday lunch. Sorry!
Wyatt’s lunch was packed in our LunchBots Trio
Friday
Today Augie had a pretty simple lunch. I’ve noticed that the fancier I make his lunch lately, the less he’s been eating, so I’m going to scale back the cute stuff a bit for a while to see if that helps. I packed orange wedges, a PB&J that I decorated with the frog plate in the Cutezcute Animal Friends set
This morning Wyatt asked for bagels with lox and cream cheese again before we’d even stepped into the kitchen and I had just enough left to put a couple in his lunch box for today. All these lunches with bagels and lox have been reminding me of my own childhood. Bagels were pretty rare in Iowa in the early 80’s, but my parents bought them frequently and made a salmon cream cheese spread to put on them. I normally ate hot lunch at school, but occasionally I got to bring a packed lunch to school and I always asked for my favorite treats when that happened. I loved to bring a bagel with salmon spread on it, but no one in the cafeteria had ever seen such a thing and I was teased mercilessly about it. I distinctly remember one mean kid practically shouting “Why are you eating a donut with fish on it???” It even carried over to the playground and kids would yell, “Wendy likes donuts and fish! Ha ha ha!” Now I hope those same kids remember that and feel like idiots every time they shell out $10.95 for a lox and bagel plate at brunch!
Anyway! The rest of Wyatt’s lunch was pretzel sticks, a fruit leather, Laughing Cow cheese, oranges, and apple chunks. I carved a smiley face on the apple with a tool I got at Daiso a few months ago and sprinkled it with Fruit Fresh
* I’m currently being compensated by Glad as a member of the Glad Mom Made panel. I’ll be sharing more tips about using Glad products in the coming months!
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