Lunch: 8.30.17

The Girl saved her lunch from yesterday, because they had a free Freshman BBQ, but The Boy has a fresh lunch for today.

Sandwich: 35g, string cheese: 1g, apple slices: 10g, Inner Peas: 8g

He has a sandwich on homemade bread, with hummus, ham, and spinach, along with a string cheese, apple slices, and Inner Peas.

Today is the first day where all of the students are in each school, instead of just first years... so I am looking forward to hearing how it went!!

And so it begins... First Day of school 2017: 8.29.17

We had many adventures over the summer, and I packed lunch for most of them... but I just took the summer off from blogging here.  I continue to write the Mealtime column for KidsVT - so be sure to check that out!

But, here we go... The Girl is entering high school, and The Boy is starting in Middle school!  Unbelievable!  They both have half days today, because they are both in transition years, and we are not entirely sure that they need lunches, but better safe than sorry!

The biggest change that has happened around here this summer is that The Boy is now on an insulin pump!  This will help his independence a lot - lessening trips to the nurse for insulin injections, he can just do it himself by plugging numbers into his pump.  Very cool.  (The nurse, of course, is still there for assistance, so he's not all on his own yet)

For this first (half) day of school, I made some fresh pain de mie (using this recipe for Bee Keeper's Pain de Mie from King Arthur Flour - lovely, but I will modify with some whole wheat flour next time).

Sandwich: 40g, cheese: 1g, apple slices: 10g, sesame sticks: 14g

The Boy has a sandwich on pain de mie with hummus, spinach, and ham, along with a string cheese, apple slices, and sesame sticks.

The Girl has a sandwich on pain de mie with mayo, spinach, and ham, along with a string cheese, cherries, and sesame sticks.

And... if we have packed preemptively, they can eat these when they get home.

Lunches: 6.14.17

And here we are on the second to last day of school... and my mighty stack of Easylunchboxes from the beginning of the year has dwindled down to... 2.  Yes, 2.  I don't know what the kids have done with all of them.  I wouldn't be surprised if we find some sort of spontaneous society formed from Easylunchboxes in The Girl's locker when we clean it out (though she swears she doesn't have any in there)...

So, when The Boy forgot his Easylunchbox at school yesterday, it was time to dig into my pile of other containers for his lunch.

Sandwich: 40g, apple slices: 8g, pb pretzels: 5g

He has a peanut butter and honey sandwich in one container, apple slices in another, and peanut butter pretzels in another.  These had better come home.  Along with the Easylunchbox that I know is there.

The Girl brought home her Easylunchbox, so she gets one for lunch, with peanut noodles made with linguine, zucchini noodles, and carrot noodles.

Lunches: 6.12.17

Happy final Monday of the School Year (at least for us!!)

Yesterday, I went out to my mom's and we made a lovely Latin/Caribbean meal together, including my next offering for KidsVT, coming out in July - a Caribbean Fruit Salad with ginger syrup and sweetened condensed milk.

Lunches feature leftovers (no dressing in the lunches, because they would leak)!

Fruit salad: 8g, chicken: 3g, rice: 10g, trail mix: 21g

The Boy has rice, chicken with almond and raisin sauce, along with fruit salad, and some trail mix.

The Girl has rice, leftover chicken, fruit salad, and a clementine.

Lunches: 6.9.17

It's the last full Friday of the school year!  The Boy has a half day next week, and The Girl doesn't have to go, because she is graduating 8th grade the night before!

Sandwich: 40g, apple slices: 8g, pb pretzels: 10g

For this Friday, The Boy has a sandwich with hummus, ham, and salami, along with apple slices, and pb pretzels.

The Girl has a sandwich with hummus, ham, salami, with apples and pb pretzels.

Happy Friday!

Lunches: 6.8.17

One week left in school!  The Girl went to Six Flags with her 8th grade class yesterday and is trying to stay home today because she has a little sunburn and and aches from going on 100 roller coaster rides.  That's a hard no.

So, lunches for today, while I am dragging my child to school...

Sandwich: 40g, apple slices: 10g, trail mix: 21g

The Boy has a sandwich with hummus, ham, and salami, along with trail mix, and apple slices.

The Girl has a sandwich with hummus, ham, and salami, along with trail mix, and apple slices.

How much longer do your kids have in school?

Lunches: 6.6.17

I was away for the weekend, and just got back last night.  And yesterday, we went to Target.  So - the kids lunches feature Target finds (as we don't have any in Vermont)

Smoothie pouch: 26g, nutella and pretzels: 36g, apple slices: 8g, puffs: 3g

The Boy has a protein smoothie pouch, nutella and pretzels, along with apples, and puffs.

The Girl also has a protein smoothie pouch, nutella and pretzels, and apples and puffs.