Happy Valentine’s Day!
For lunch today, Cam has a few chocolate pancakes cut with heart-shaped cookie cutters, organic fruit leather (also cut into heart shapes), fruit snacks, cheddar cheese hearts, red pepper slices, a tomato heart, and a few grapes on heart picks.
I hope you have a lovely Valentine’s Day!
♥
Today’s lunch might seem odd… especially for a six-year-old.
What you see pictured above in Cam’s thermos are the reheated leftovers from last night’s dinner: Pumpkin polenta with roasted brussels sprouts.
I also roasted some cremini mushrooms along with the sprouts but Cam isn’t a fan of mushrooms so those didn’t go into today’s lunch.
I had a spur of the moment dinner idea last night and ran with it. Luckily it worked out and everyone loved it, especially Camryn.
She specifically requested that I send it for lunch today.
What kid asks for brussels sprouts for lunch?
She’s awesome.
In addition to her polenta and sprouts, I filled her Lunchbots Trio with fresh strawberries and tomatoes, sliced sweet peppers, a Babybel, and some cheese crackers.
For lunch today, Cam has a toasted cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese, broccoflower, grapes, carrot coins, and a few chocolate covered almonds.
Happy Friday!
I love sending leftovers for lunch.
It makes lunch packing so much easier.
I don’t have to get any cutters or stamps out. I just add the reheated leftovers to the warmed thermos, screw on the lid, add a few simple sides, and lunch is ready.
Cam still isn’t crazy about sandwiches and prefers a hot lunch most days so you’ll probably be seeing a lot more pictures of that thermos.
For lunch today, I packed Cam’s thermos full of cheese ravioli, chopped spinach, and marinara. She also has grapes, mandarin oranges, baby Goldfish crackers, pumpkin seeds, and a few chocolate covered almonds.
It’s Monday again which means that I had to pack lunch and a snack this morning.
I’m loving that my daughter gets to have a snack in the afternoon even if it is just once a week. She is so much more pleasant when she’s not starving.
I packed a chocolate hazelnut spread sandwich on whole wheat bread, some broccoflower, a few sweet potato tortilla chips, a Babybel, a small handful of tiny cookies, and some grapes.
Plenty of food for both lunch and snack for a six-year-old and it all fits neatly in our Easy Lunchbox Brights container.
I also packed a thermos full of ice water that will easily last all day.
Do your kids love tacos?
Cam is a taco maniac. She loves them. I’m pretty sure that she could eat them every night if I let her. So why have I never put them in her lunch?
We had tacos for dinner last night and there were just enough leftovers to make a nice little taco salad lunch for her today.
It couldn’t have been easier to make too.
I just layered the cold stuff (shredded lettuce, chopped tomato, shredded cheese, and crushed tortilla chips) in her bento box, and then added some warmed taco meat to her thermos that I had already heated with boiling water.
At lunchtime, all she has to do is dump the meat over her salad, mix it up, and munch away!
For a sweet and healthy finish, she also has a few grapes.
And that’s lunch!
Happy Friday ♥
Today’s lunch is full of bears and bunnies.
Cam has a few bear sandwiches, Annie’s snack mix (which is full of bunnies), a few fresh strawberries with a bear pick for easy eating, and some dark chocolate covered almonds for a sweet treat.
I kept lunch super simple today.
I made Cam a BST (bacon, spinach, and tomato) and tucked it all into a hot dog bun.
I like serving bacon sandwiches this way because it’s a lot easier for little ones to eat.
I also put some baby Goldfish crackers, broccoflower (broccoli/cauliflower hybrid), and a juice box in Cam’s Bynto.
And that’s lunch! 🙂
I haven’t been posting Cam’s lunches this week because she’s been taking reheated leftovers in her thermos and for the most part, food in that thermos just doesn’t photograph well.
I made a big batch of veggie chowder over the weekend and we’ve been eating it for lunch this week. I love when I can stretch a meal like that!
My original plan was to make a loaded baked potato chowder, but when I noticed all of the elderly veg I had in my fridge that needed to be used up (kale, carrots, onions, celery, and corn) I decided to change up my game plan.
I still made baked potato chowder but instead of cheese and green onions, my new version had kale, carrots, celery, onion, and corn.
Along with her soup she has some Goldfish crackers, a few strawberries, and her favorite sweet pepper rings.
A new grade usually means a new bento box or lunch container of some sort.
Also, I have zero self-control and can’t seem to pass up a cute food container (especially if it’s under $10).
So… since Camryn is in a new grade as of a few days ago and I may may have lost all restraint while in Target over the holidays…
Look! A new lunch container.
In this off-center and slightly out of focus picture is Cam’s new lunch container that I found in the housewares section at Target. It’s pretty nifty. The container itself is big which is great because it will hold a lot of food. That will come in handy on Mondays when I have to pack lunch and snack.
For $8.99, it comes with two separate containers with lids and an ice pack that fits in the middle.
I spotted a few different sized containers with Spiderman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Minnie Mouse on them.
Pictured above is Cam’s lunch and snack. She has a butterfly shaped chicken sandwich, Annie’s snack mix, sweet pepper rings, carrot coins, a Babybel, some fruit and veggie gummies, and a juice box.
And it all fits in that box!
The ice pack goes in the middle and the sandwich and snack mix go on top.
I did a little searching online for this box but couldn’t find it anywhere. I also didn’t see it at target.com. That doesn’t mean that it won’t be available on their site eventually but for now, it seems that you can only find it in store. 😦
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