(Not sure why I ended my last lunch post with a Monday, but we'll just pick up where we left off)
Alrighty, you must forgive me if I'm not quite sure what's in these lunches. These are from seven months ago and, while I do have a pretty good memory, not always that good!! Hahaha!
Looking at previous lunches, I"m pretty sure her kindergarten class was studying the letter 'a' this week, and she got a pocket sandwich (no idea what's in it), with a fruit leather apple on top. Carrot shreds, and blueberries and strawberries. This was right around the time she started rejecting all veggies, which was pretty frustrating. We're thinking that someone in her class must have said something to her, because this was the kid that would eat any veggie or fruit you put in front of her with no issues. Carrots were always something we could get into her, even when she wouldn't eat anything else, but she even started to reject carrots, saying they hurt her teeth to bite them. So, I bought shreds. Which were ignored. I tried cooking carrots to soften them. No go. Pretty cuts. No go. Then fruit started being rejected, so meal replacement shakes started to make an appearance, which you'll see down the road. Thankfully, she is introducing more and more produce back into her diet (even eating carrots again! Squee!!), so I'm more relieved. When she was flat-out refusing to eat any fruit or veggie, she started to get sick, lose sleep, get headaches, and have behavior issues, so I also re-introduced smoothies. Her smoothies are about 2/3 veggies, yogurt, applesauce, and just a little fruit. Always with blueberries. I've discovered blueberries can cover anything!
Oh, and she's got chocoloate milk (which she no longer gets), and yogurt with a frozen yogurt flower and crackers for a snack, it looks like.
I discovered this in our local grocery store and love, love, LOVE it!!! Typically the only jam we have in our home is jam that I've made, but due to a few busy summers, we ran out before I could make more! Sad panda! Then I found this, and it will definitely be my go-to for when my homemade jam wont cut the mustard! I love it because it's all-natural, no artificial colors or flavors, no preservatives, just the same ingredients I use in my jam. BUT IT'S SMOOTH! NO CHUNKS!! So much easier! And it has a little flat spout to it that makes dispensing great :)
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
New lunch bag!! I'd wanted one that would make sure her lunch box stayed flat, but couldn't find one that fit our needs in any stores before school started. The lunch bag that came with her back pack clipped to the front of it so her lunches sat vertically. I got this one off of the Thermos website, pretty reasonable, if I remember correctly. It's now the end of April 2014 and this thing is still going strong and keeps her lunches very cold!
And here's how everything fits...
And the actual lunch for that day:
She got more baguette slices (I think I must have had a potluck or something at work. I typically make dips that sometimes require baguettes). Not sure what was in the pink bunny tub, but I think it's peanut butter. She'd gotten into a 'I can make my own sandwich' kick (spread her own spreads), so I'm pretty sure I was indulging that. She has a babybel cheese with a (maybe) bunny cut-out (done with mini cookie cutter), carrot shreds, strawberries, and blueberries. Looks like she has a Hi-Chew candy in there, too. I'm not a huge fan of that flavor, but it fit the theme for the week and she loves them. This was in a standard-size sandwich box, with a drinkable yogurt and juice on the side.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Introducing her Sassy On-The-Go box! I really like this box, although I honestly don't use it that often because the lids are a bit too tight for Squirrel's little fingers to pry open without making a giant mess. I tried soaking the parts in hot water to soften them up a bit, and taking them apart and putting them back together multiple times to try and loosen them up, but they are stubborn!
She's got yogurt in the upper left container, apple slices and either Ritz crackers or pretzel crackers in the upper right container. In the large container, it looks like she has cheese pieces, more crackers, more apple slices, and lunch meat on picks. I must have had a veggie shortage that week, or maybe that was when she started to refuse veggies. Not sure. I think the bunny tub has sprinkles in it for the yogurt.
In the outer container with the inner lids on.
And with the outer lid on, with a napkin and spoon inside. The spoon actually comes with the set, and has a little spot to hold it just inside the outer lid. Man, I'm really regretting my backgrounds on these older pics!
*all opinions in this post are my own. I am not sponsored, nor do I receive any affiliate benefits or anything free for review of these products. I purely saw them in other places, and purchased them for my own use.*
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