0 Will My Kid Eat Cold Shrimp Cocktail? Chicken Lingonberry Croissants.

October 22, 2012     8th Week of School

Lunch: My boy loves fish - and who doesn't like a cold shrimp cocktail once in awhile?  Trying to send chilled shrimp (cooked last night) along with a chicken lingonberry croissant sandwich, and plum.

Snack AM: 1/2 Lingonberry Chix Sammy, Grapes

Snack PM: 1/2 Lingon-Chix Sammy, Tomatoes.

Extra Snack:  D has a hoops class after school, and is picked up 80 minutes later than normal. He needs extra energy!  Chicken and Potato Chips. Note: Boy was asked to eat chicken first, and that chips were reward for finishing.

YumLunch?  
Shrimp Fail. Boo.  Sandwiches and Fruit gone. Extra Snack not finished.

0 Hot Lunch: Bow Ties, Snack: Hard Boiled Egg Robots, Chicken

October 19, 2012

Lunch:  Bought New Fantastic LunchBots Stainless Steel Food Container. Attempting to pack hot lunch again (See Previous Hot Lunch Post). Boiled water, poured over LunchBot Tin, while it sat in a collander. Heated left over bow ties and marinara sauce in microwave. Placed into Tin Foil, sealed in LunchBot Tin, and placed in insulated lunch box. Let's hope it works.

Snacks: Hard Boiled Eggs in Robot Containers, Leftover Rotisserie Chicken.

YumLunch? Hot Lunch?
Lunch All Gone! Boy said bow ties were warm.
Lot's of left over egg. Boy said not enough time to eat his snack - again. What is up with snack time?

LunchBots Stainless Steel Food Container

0 Peachy Chicken Salad on Bun (Sailboat), 5th Wk of School

Monday, October 1, 2012

Bought delicious batch of peaches (7 for $3) from Trader Joe's. Also, we have left over chicken.

We do not like Mayo in our house. Sour Cream  is used instead. It has more protein, and fat, which we think is a good thing. If you want to know why, watch this 89 minute video here.  Dr. Lustig has informed and hardened my resolve to eat less processed food and sugar, and not get too hung up about fat.  Despite my avoidance of sugar, corn syrup, and processed foods, I added a tiny baby spoonful of sugar to the chopped peaches, and then chilled them, before adding them to the chicken, so as to get a bit more peach juice. Despite the "spoonful of sugar," I think I am still on track to hit a goal of 15 grams of sugar a day, (or less), for my son.

Lunch: Peach Sour Cream Chicken Salad Sandwich, Colby Jack Cheese (sails) tomatoes, and peach sliced.

Snack: Cute Hard Boiled Egg Bear, Grapes. Peaches.

Snack: Cute H. B. Egg Bear, Tomatoes, Pretzels.

YumLunch? 
My son ate one huge bite of sandwich. He said he didn't like the texture, but it was OK. He did not declare it Yucky - see new favorite book below.  Mommy ate it, and Daddy too, and we thought it was yummy. We have many more peaches, and will try again.

Michelle writes: Yum / Yuck

Yummy Yucky (Leslie Patricelli board books)

0 Chicken Cream Cheese Croissant and Corn Salad

September 18, 2012

We're into the third week of school, and have Nana in town. So we're having a lot of yummy dinners, with yummy leftovers.

Lunch: Croissants sandwich, rotisserie chicken and cream cheese. Side salad of corn, golden potatoes (cooked last night) mixed with a small amount of sour cream and plain yogurt.

Snack AM: Cream cheese rolled up in tortilla, grape tomatoes.

Snack PM: peanut butter sandwich, on freshly baked whole wheat bread (yes, we make our own bread.  Actually - husband is the bread maker, and we love our bread machine! )

YumLunch?
85% Yum. 
The corn salad was untouched.
Mommy ate some for her lunch though, and her biased opinion was yum, so we'll have to try again another day.

0 Meow Chicken Lingonberry Croissant

Over the weekend, I got these adorable tooth picks from Japan via Amazon.

Lunch: organic rotisserie chicken from Whole Foods with lingonberry jelly, and cute kitty cat pick. Grapes and Annie's Cheddar Bunnies.

Snacks: oops. Forgot to photograph.

YumLunch?
Yep. NomNom. All Gone.

P.S. My son loves the book ALL GONE

Begin Smart All Gone! 
by Elliot Kreloff, $5.95, from Amazon

Giraffe, Monkey, Cat, Bear, Dog Bento Toothpicks 

0 Day 2. Chicken Lingonberry Cornbread Bites

Doesn't that sound yummy? My kid loves cornbread, and he and I made some good ol' fashioned Jiffy Cornbread over the weekend. The loaf was a little odd shaped - not traditional 'wich sized slices, more like bite-size.

We had leftover rotisserie chicken from Whole Foods, and a tiny bit of Lingonberry Jelly from AnnSather. I sliced a plum in half for lunch, and paired the other half with cheese cubes for morning snack. For the afternoon snack, I made cream cheese + ritz cracker sandwiches.

YumLunch?
Yes!  Completely eaten.

BTW - How do I know my kid is eating everything? What if he's throwing away food, you ask? The PK teachers tell the kids to pack up uneaten food so Moms know to pack more/less/ or different items.

Rotisserie chicken and
lingonberry jelly
on bite-size cornbread. 

Lunch: Chickie-Cornbread-Bites
with half a plum
and cherry tomatoes.

Snacks stacked:
AM: Plum + cheese cubes /
PM: Cream Cheese Ritz