mommy + me lunch box

Monday:  C's lunch: Homemade "Lunchables": ham, cheddar and Ritz crackers Watermelon, blueberries and fruit snacks My lunch: soup, watermelon/blueberries, mozz cheese stick Tuesday: C's day off My lunch: banana bread oatmeal, mozz cheese stick, and an apple Wednesdsay: C's lunch: Salad with turkey  rice crackers, strawberries, and blueberries    My lunch: Salad and blueberries Notice I don't waste the scraps when I cut out shapes for C's lunch. They either become part of my lunch, or more often, I eat for my breakfast. Thursday: C's lunch: heart shaped chocolate Sunbutter sandwich veggie chips, strawberries, Babybel cheese,  Strawberry Frosted Mini Wheats,strawberry yogurt Sunbutter is not C's favorite. She prefers peanut butter, but she goes to a nut-free school. I finally figured out a way to make Sunbutter palatable for C. I took 1/4 cup of sunbutter and added 2 T chocolate syrup. It made the ...

My sweet, adorable 4 year old started preschool today.  She'll be going 4 days a week for morning preschool then going to "play & stay" in the afternoon. Play and stay is like an extended afternoon preschool, there's no curriculum, but it will have structured play time, creative time, music time, and learning time, correlating with what they are learning during the morning classes. We felt that this is a great way to ease her transition to all-day kindergarten next year.  I now have to pack her lunches--Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Pre-planning and packing lunches are definitely not my forte. I tend to eat out for lunch during the work week, despite many attempts to try to pack a healthy lunch. So now I'm presented this challenge to pack my child's lunches every day. Do I crumble at the pressure and resort to easy PB&J every day? No. I can't because there are a couple students with severe NUT ALLERGIES so her school is a...