Lunches: 9.29.16

Coming up to the end of the week!

Crackers: 19g, apple slices: 8g, wrap: 20g, cereal bar: 28g, yogurt: 10g

Thursday lunch for The Boy is some cheese crackers, apple slices, a wrap in a corn & wheat tortilla with hummus and ham, a pumpkin cereal bar, and some yogurt.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 14g).

The Girl has cheese crackers, apple slices, a wrap in a corn & wheat tortilla with hummus and ham, a pumpkin cereal bar, and some plantain chips.

Lunches: 9.28.16

Happy Wednesday!

Another simple day.

Sandwich: 30g, cereal bar: 28g, fortune cookie: 3g, apple slices: 8g

The Boy has a sandwich with ham and pesto, a cereal bar, apple slices, and a fortune cookie (can't wait to see what his fortune is!).  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 14g).

The Girl has a sandwich with ham and pesto, along with a cereal bar, apple slices, and a fortune cookie.

Lunches: 9.27.16

It's Tuesday, and it's a simple lunch day.

Sandwich: 35g, cereal bar: 28g, apple slices: 8g, strawberries: 5g

The Boy has a hummus and ham sandwich with a cereal bar (it's Pumpkin everything season!), strawberries, and apple slices.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 14g)

The Girl also has a hummus and ham sandwich with a cereal bar, apple slices, and strawberries.

Lunches: 9.23.16

Happy Friday, all!

Hot dog: 20g, strawberries: 8g, apple slices: 8g, cheese crackers: 19g

The Boy has a leftover hot dog for lunch, along with strawberries, apple slices, and cheese crackers.  His snack is a cereal bar (not pictured, 28g).

The Girl has a ham sandwich with hummus, strawberries, apple slices, and cheese crackers.

Lunches: 9.22.16

We had Chinese for dinner last night, so The Boy has dumplings for his lunch.

Dumplings: 25g, pepperoni: 1g, apples: 8g, nutella: 9 g, grapes: 4g

He has veggie dumplings, along with pepperoni, apple slices and nutella, and grapes.  His snack is an applesauce.

The Girl has a snacky lunch - cheese crackers, pepperoni, applesauce, apples and nutella, and blueberries.

Lunches: 9.21.16

Simple lunches for this Wednesday!

Sandwich: 40g, applesauce: 14g, crackers: 19g

The Boy has some cheese cracker sandwiches, an applesauce with mango, and a sandwich with hummus and ham.  His snack is a cereal bar (not pictured, 28g)

The Girl has some cheddar popcorn, an applesauce with mango, and a sandwich with hummus and ham.

Lunches: 9.20.16

Lunches today are simple sandwich lunches!  The kids have half days today, due to teacher inservice, so they will be home if they want anything more interesting in the afternoon. ;)

Sandwich: 40g, plantain chips: 2g, apple slices: 8g, nutella: 9g

The Boy has a sandwich with ham, cheese, and hummus, along with plantain chips, apple slices, and nutella.  His snack is a cereal bar (not pictured, 28g).

The Girl has a sandwich with ham, cheese, and hummus, with plantain chips, and apples with nutella.

Lunches: 9.19.16

Happy Monday!

Wrap: 12g, yogurt: 9g, plantain chips: 3g, blueberries: 3g, apple slices: 8g, nutella: 9g

The Boy has apple slices and nutella, blueberries, a wrap with Muhammara, ham, and cheese, a yogurt squishers, and some plantain chips.  His snack is a cereal bar (not pictured, 28g).

The Girl has apple slices and nutella, blueberries, a wrap with Muhammara, ham, and cheese, a yogurt squishers, and some plantain chips

Lunches 9.16.16

Lunches for this Friday are leftovers. We had Indian food for dinner last night  (quick, from Trader Joe's).

The Boy has curry chicken, naan, veggie pakoras (fritters), and apple slices. His snack is a cereal bar (not pictured, 23g).

The Girl has curry chicken, naan, chutney,  pakoras, and Palak paneer (Indian creamed spinach)

Lunches: 9.15.16

Today's lunches are simple.

Sandwich: 40g, plantain chips: 3g, grapes: 5g, ground cherries: 4g

The Boy has a sandwich with muhammara, cheese, and ham, along with plantain chips, ground cherries, and grapes.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 14g).

The Girl has a sandwich with muhammara, cheese, and ham, with some plantain chips, ground cherries, and grapes.

Lunches: 9.14.16

Happy Wednesday!

It's kind of a snacky lunch day for the kiddos today.

Pepperoni: 1g, babybell: 1g, blueberries: 3g, grapes: 4g, plantain chips: 3g, strawberries: 6g, granola bar: 24g

The Boy has pepperoni, a babybell cheese, blueberries, grapes, plantain chips, strawberries, and a granola bar.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 14g).

The Girl also has pepperoni, a babybell cheese, blueberries, grapes, plantain chips, strawberries, and a granola bar.

Lunches: Roald Dahl Day 2016 (9.13.16)

In case you haven't noticed, we are big Roald Dahl fans.  There isn't a big Roald Dahl blog hop this year, but I couldn't let the 100th Birthday of such a fantastic author go by unnoticed!

Both kids have essentially the same lunch.  I drew the BFG (That's Big, Friendly Giant to those uninitiated!) on a tortilla with food coloring.  I'm no Quentin Blake, but I think it turned out pretty well.

Tortilla sandwich: 30g, yogurt: 9g, babybell: 1g, snozzcumber: 1g, snozzberries: 8g, dark chocolate honey mints: 14g

 The  Boy also as a snack of strawberry applesauce (not pictured, 14g)

What is under the BFG.

I made a BFG tortilla sandwich, with Muhammara and ham, with a yogurt squisher, a babybell cheese, half a snozzcumber (that's a cucumber, I couldn't find the foul veggie at a regular supermarket here, so I used the next best thing), and I did find some beautiful snozzberries (ok, so they are golden raspberries stuffed with blueberries...) - bet they taste like snozzberries!

 I couldn't finish a Roald Dahl lunch without a little something sweet, so there are a couple dark chocolate honey mints in each lunch.

Believe in magic, friends.  Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl.

Lunches: 9.12.16

I don't care much about football - except for the food.  So, yesterday, while The Hubby was joyfully watching his first football of the season, I made Philly cheesesteak oven sandwiches.

I neglected to write down a recipe, but I think I will make them again, and then I will blog it.  They were basically shaved steak cooked with peppers, onions, and mushrooms, along with some spices, and topped with American cheese.  I put the filling over dinner rolls that were cut in half, put the tops back on, and then baked for a few minutes until they were nice and melty.

And, it made a lot - so leftovers are in lunches!

Sandwich: 25g, grapes: 6g, apple slices: 10g, ground cherries: 4g

The Boy has a leftover Philly cheesesteak sandwich, grapes, ground cherries, and apple slices.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 14g).

The Girl has a leftover Philly cheesesteak sandwich, grapes, ground cherries, and apple slices.

Lunches: 9.9.16

It's Friday!  Its been a hot week here in Vermont - and a busy one!   We are looking forward to the weekend, that's for sure.

Ground cherries: 4g, grapes: 6g, apple slices: 8g, wrap: 18g

The Boy has some ground cherries, grapes, apple slices (from his own tree - it is young and only gives a few apples, which he rightfully claims as his own), and a wrap with hummus, cheese, ham, and spinach.  His snack is a granola bar (not pictured, 24g).

The Girl has an orange, ground cherries, grapes, and a wrap with hummus, cheese, ham, and spinach.

Lunches: 9.8.16

I got some Pocky for the kids when we went to ComicCon a couple of weeks ago - it was at a Japanese-themed booth.  I know that spring rolls are not Japanese, but the Pocky goes better in these lunches than in a regular lunch with a wrap or the like.

Spring rolls: 22g, fruit leather: 12g, Pocky: 5g, grapes: 6g, ground cherries: 5g

The Boy has two chicken spring rolls (from Trader Joe's), along with Pocky, a fruit leather, ground cherries, and grapes.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 15g).

The Girl has chicken spring rolls, Pocky, fruit leather, ground cherries, and grapes.

Lunches: 9.7.16

Taco Tuesday = Taco Lunches Wednesday.  Not quite the same ring to it, but.. still delicious!

I've been using the marinated Mole Chicken from Trader Joe's for tacos... that stuff is amazing.

Taco: 15g, grapes: 8g, ground cherries: 4g, carrots: 2g

The Boy has a Mole Chicken taco, with rainbow baby carrots, along with ground cherries, and grapes.  His snack is a granola bar (not pictured, 24g).

The Girl has two Mole Chicken tacos, with ground cherries, and grapes.

Lunches: 9.6.16

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!  I made a wedding cake for a friend, and I will be blogging it soon, because I was super proud of it.  Really.  I took two days off work to make the cakes, to make sure it was right.

I have no problem saying... I did well.  The Bride and Groom were happy.  The cake was delicious.  Very pleased.

And now, it's time for school again!

Hey look, ground cherries!

A friend gave us some ground cherries, which The Boy decided he is especially fond of.  I always love a good fun fruit, so I'm thrilled to put them in lunches!

Ground cherries: 4g, grapes: 8g, wrap: 15g, carrots: 3g, egg: 0g

The Boy has some ground cherries, big grapes ("Sweet Celebration" variety), a wrap with ham, cheese, hummus, and spinach, along with baby rainbow carrots, and a hard boiled egg (wrapped in plastic wrap, so that it keeps it's egginess to itself.  His snack is a PB&J bar (from Trader Joe's, not pictured, 23g)

The Girl also has ground cherries, grapes, a wrap with ham, cheese, hummus, and spinach, rainbow baby carrots, and a hard boiled egg.

Lunches: 9.2.16

First Friday of the school year!

I found little individual containers of Nutella at the grocery store yesterday, and I knew I had to get them for the kids.  I went with a snack-style lunch today, and the kids are super excited for it.  Sometimes, they like something a little different.  The Girl has a field trip today (beginning of the school year bonding trip - super fun!), so snack-style lunch is good for her!

Nutella: 17g, apple slices: 8g, strawberries: 6g, pepperoni: 1g, plantain chips: 5g

The Boy has apple slices, nutella, strawberries, pepperoni, and plantain chips.  His snack is an applesauce (not pictured, 15g).

The Girl also has apple slices, nutella, strawberries, pepperoni, and plantain chips.

Hope that everyone has a great Labor day weekend!  I know we have a full one planned!