We Should Be Folding Laundry

It’s Monday which always means that I have to pack lunch and snack.

I went with our Laptop Lunches container today because it’s roomy enough to fit both.

Last night Cam made herself a few pizza pita pockets. We got the idea from Wendy of Wendolonia.com‘s new book which we both just love and highly recommend. Cam looks through it almost every day and she has several things marked in the book that she wants me to make for her.

Wendy’s idea is actually for make your own pizzas which Cam loves to do but she takes forever to make each one and since she only gets about 15 minutes to eat her lunch, it’s better if I let her make them up the night before and put them in her lunchbox so they’re ready to go.

Her pita pizza pockets are just pita bread cut into triangles and filled with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and bite-sized pepperoni.

She also has a fruit salad that contains grapes, strawberries, pineapple, and orange segments, some vanilla yogurt with clear sprinkles on top, granola for sprinkling over the yogurt, and sweet pepper rings.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

You would not believe how gloomy it is here today. We’re expecting severe thunderstorms all day so it looks like night-time outside but that’s okay because Cam has lots of rainbows in her lunch and snack!

For snack today, Cam has carrot and cheese ‘gold coins’ (you guys will just have to use your imaginations), and a Leprechaun’s snack mix of pretzel sticks, a few green chocolate-covered candies, and a small handful of Lucky Charms.

She never gets marshmallowy cereals but I just couldn’t resist.

For lunch, she has a rainbow of veggies (tomatoes, carrots, corn, and peas) with rice, three spinach shamrocks, and the word ‘lucky’ stamped out of cheddar cheese. She also has salami and cheddar roll-ups, a dye free green cupcake topped with vanilla frosting (more on that in a bit), and just a few more green chocolate candies in the clover box.

It’s hard to see but that cupcake is green. Very green. To make it green without the help of artificial dyes I used … spinach!

Sounds crazy but it totally works and no, you don’t taste it.

Just blend 4 cups of fresh spinach with the liquid ingredients of your favorite cake mix and then mix and bake as usual. You’ll end up with bright green and slightly healthier cupcakes. 😉

Camryn literally cried herself to sleep last night because I wouldn’t let her stay up late and eat pea pesto with kale/spinach tortilla chips.

Not to worry though, she had two helpings for breakfast and she’s eating it again for lunch so she’s as happy as a little clam now.

Along with her pea pesto and her chips, she has some salami roll-ups, grape tomatoes, a flapjack from our Graze box, and some dark chocolate covered almonds for lunch in her Easy Lunchbox Brights container.

For lunch/snack today, Cam has salami roll-ups, chocolate almonds, kale & spinach chips, broccoli, tomatoes, and baby carrots.

She sat on the counter last night and helped me put the food into her ELB. She also chose the picks. I’m not sure if that guy in the salami is an octopus or a hot dog or whatever, but he sure is cute.

Lunch today is salami wrapped around mozzarella cheese and skewered with tiny tomatoes on each end. Tortilla chips, baby carrots, and a couple of strawberries complete this bento.

Happy Friday! ♥

I made a big batch of blueberry muffins last night for the kids to have for breakfast this morning.

Camryn still doesn’t care much for sandwiches but she likes muffins. So I tossed a couple into today’s lunch container along with an apple that I soaked in diluted pineapple juice for a few minutes to keep from turning brown, a few veggie chips, and a piece of string cheese.