I hope everyone had a great Easter yesterday! Here's KK, Squirrel, and CQ at grandma's house, with our baby niece after celebrating their Nana's 80th birthday yesterday afternoon.
What silly kids!
Happy National Kindergarten Day! As my little Squirrel is a very avid kindergartner, I definitely incorporated this holiday into her lunch today!
She got a 'K' turkey sammie, held open with carrots, a leftover cupcake from her Nana's 80th birthday celebration the afternoon before, leftover fruit salad from Easter, a yogurt tube, and club crackers with kindergarten-y things written on them. They're a bit hard to see, but I wrote 1, 2, 3 on some, K & ROCKS on two others, and drew others to look like crayons with the colors written on them as well. I used food markers for the decorating.
We take my step-daughter KK to school most Mondays, and I'm honestly not a fan of the food their school serves them. She doesn't take a lunch from home. Her school doesn't even have a kitchen! It's all just shipped to them, pre-packaged, and the cafeteria workers merely open it and put in on hot- or cold-tables. Narsty! So I decided she'd get a good lunch at least one day a week. She's thirteen, but she likes foofy things, so I figure I can cutesy them up a bit and she'd allow it.
So, not the healthiest lunch ever, but not completely awful. KK got a turkey and cheese pocket sammie, a sweet pepper, a leftover cupcake, and popcorn down below. She had a string cheese up top to round it out a bit. Her sammie was also decorated with food markers. No complaints, so green light, I guess!
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Earth Day! Squirrel's class planted some seeds and cleaned up their school grounds a bit. She was very proud of them :) She got an earthy lunch to go with it, and the debut of one of her new napkins!
For Earth Day Squirrel got PB&J roll-ups, with a PB&J tortilla Earth sammie on top, applesauce decorated with stickers, with cinnamon & sprinkles in the blue tub, a carrot sun, popcorn, and a few blue and yellow mint chocolate candies under the cloud baran. She had milk up top. Incidentally, that reusable juice box is the reason I bought her a Thermos Funtainer - it was upright in the fridge all night, and still spilled it's milk all over the shelf by morning! She did not end up eating the candies, which is almost a little funny to me. She says they're too 'spicy.'
Loving her new napkins! I went a little nuts at the fabric store. Fat quarters just call my name! I picked a few out, then she insisted on a few herself. When we got to the comic section, she was dying for some villain fabric - she wanted Poison Ivy or Catwoman, but she told me she'd 'settle' for Wonder Woman and Batgirl! Hahaha! Isn't that watermelon one just the cutest?! Here's just the six I made that afternoon, but I have quite a few more in the stack waiting for me to cut and put together. I'll put them up as I do them.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
National Zucchini Bread Day! Squirrel sort of celebrated it in her lunch today. She got a grilled cheese on sandwich thins underneath everything in the yellow box, and tomato soup in the fat Thermos. Apple hearts with pumpkin pie dip, zucchini bread hearts, and milk in the skinny Thermos on the right. She also took a little tub of cheddar fish crackers for her soup. That girl can tear up some tomato soup and grilled cheese! Her spoon came from the Dollar Spot at Target. It also has a matching fork. She has several spoon & fork sets from there, and I love them for cereal and soups in her lunches because the wide bowls make it easier for her to eat in her twenty-minute lunch period.
I was pretty disappointed that I didn't get to make her a lunch for Thursday, because it was Pig in a Blanket Day. We'd made wiener wraps the night before specifically so I could send one in her lunch Thursday, but it was also Take your Daughter to Work Day, so she got to go with Bear since she can go now that she's six! He works for our local cable company as a tech, and they always have a fun event for all the parents and kids at their shop that she had a blast at. They feed them all day, but she came home and told me that she wished I'd packed a lunch for her :(
Friday, April 25, 2014
This lunch brought to you courtesy of mama falling asleep on the couch the night before and having to scramble to throw both my and Squirrel's lunches together in the span of about fifteen minutes Friday morning! I normally pack our lunches the night before, so I'm not in a huge time crunch and I usually have the chance to be creative. It typically doesn't take me any more than about fifteen to twenty minutes to make our lunches anyway, but I don't like to feel rushed.
Squirrel got pretzel crackers with ham rolls and cheese flowers. The scraps for the cheese are underneath. Along the bottom are mandarin slices, carrots, and white- and milk-chocolate pretzels separated by rainbow baran. Accompanied by strawberry-banana juice in the Thermos, and her typical smoothie. My lunch was pretty much the same, but in place of the pretzels and carrots I had sweet peppers. And no smoothie or juice.
More next week!
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