On Fridays, I don't cook because I have to drive all over town getting my stepkids. So we get fast food or pizza those nights. I know, I know, awful! We only end up eating that crap once or twice a week, though, so I figure it's not too bad. Everything in moderation, right?
Anyway, we'd had pizza on Friday, and Squirrel begged (I mean begged) to have 'naked' pizza in her lunch Monday. 'Naked' is pretty much how it sounds: all toppings but cheese picked off. Friday, she'd said no to pizza in her lunch, then on Sunday all of a sudden decided she'd have it, but only with ranch dressing to dip it in! On the side she had apple slices, cucumber flowers, and a few candy corn that she'd gotten out of the bulk section of the grocery store. Incidentally, she didn't touch her apples because she's decided she doesn't like the skin. Guess what goes in her morning smoothies? Bwahahahaha!
Snack is strawberry hearts with a bunny pick, apple slices (that she also didn't eat), grapes, and 's'mores:' marshmallow fluff and chocolate frosting on graham crackers.
Tuesday, I packer her an extra-large lunch so she could split it between lunch and snack, but it apparently confused her because I hadn't packed her snack in a separate box. She had the school snack instead.
Bear and I had went out to lunch the day before after we finished running errands after dropping her off in the morning. We went to our favorite little Japanese hole-in-the-wall restaurant. I always get the #18, which is gyoza, teriyaki chicken, salad, and rice. I don't really care for the chicken, but the Squirrel devours it so we always split the plate. She was completely stoked when I told her I brought the chicken home for her lunch! She got the chicken, plum sauce in the little to-go tub that I didn't trust so stuck in a baggie, grapes, apples, cucumbers, and iced animal crackers. She also had greek yogurt in the little tub, with a colored frozen yogurt flower.
Here is her lunch/snack with a Hello Kitty baran to keep the chicken from bouncing around.
On Tuesday afternoon we stopped and the Dollar Tree on the way home. I needed to grab something (I think I forgot to get it anyway), and saw some darling little ladybug containers that would be perfect for my Squirrel!
I used the Tinkerbell sandwich box that was the very first one I'd ever bought for Squirrel way back when. She got a mini bagel with cream cheese and jam, string cheese nibblets wrapped in ham, a cucumer flower, cucumber, and cheddar whales. She had greek yogurt with a frozen yogurt flower on top. Her snack was trail mix, a few cheese balls, cucumber flowers (which she didn't touch. I swear, one of these days I'm going to be successful in getting her to eat it!).
And with the lids on and her spoon and cloth napkin on the bottom. The bagel made it so the lunch box didn't quite want to close. I need to make her some bento box bands, I just haven't gotten around to it. I even have adorable ladybug-spotted elastic perfect for it!
On Thursday she got turkey sandwiches. I cut the bread with linzer cookie cutters that I LOVE for sandwiches (especially mini grilled cheese!)! I also added string cheese slices to the upper section. The lower has apples that are also cut with the same linzer cutter, and canteloupe underneath. I cut a few butterflies out of the apples with the inner bit of the linzer cutter, cut some butterflies out of the canteloupe, and stuffed the apples with them. I sprinkled a little bit of cinnamon red-hot sprinkles on it to liven it up, but it kind of put her off it. I even covered my bases before hand by showing her when I made them but no-go :( Normal greek yogurt with frozen yogurt flower on the side.
Her snack was more leftover teriyaki chicken w/ an egg pick and baran, carrot flowers, pretzel crackers, and raisins under the green cup.
And here it is all packed up!
On Friday, I'd wanted to do a superstition-themed lunch (Friday the thirteenth), but I could only think of a black cat sandwich and somehow incorporating a 'broken mirror' into press-n-seal wrap or something or other. Didn't really come together so Squirrel got octowienies!
They're super easy to make and she loves them. Just slice a hot dog in half (I use turkey dogs). Slice the cut ends into however may arms you want (eight is a little rough). I carved a face into it with a knife. Then boil it and the legs curl out! She got two octowienies with ketchup to dip, frozen blueberries, grapes, carrot flowers, and 's'mores.' The grapes were the most gigantic grapes I'd ever seen in the grocery store so I grabbed them to try. Little did I know they were so big because they had tons of seeds, so I had to slice them in half to get the seeds out for her. I mixed a little Hawaiian Punch drink mix leftover from camping into her yogurt, and topped it off with some rainbow sprinkles. The yogurt was actually really yummy! She got trail mix for a snack, and they're all packed up with her cloth napkin, spoon, and milk box on the lower right.
Sorry for the massively long post - wanted to try out just one weekly post to save myself a little time. I might have to go back to multiple posts throughout the week. What do you think - one long weekly post or multiple smaller posts?
