Lunch #21

Okay, I am back on track. This is K's lunch for today.

She had yellow bell pepper slices, strawberries, yogurt covered pretzels, crackers and pepperoni (10 each). One cracker came home.  Tomorrow she is buying lunch. I have some other news I would like to share so I will take tomorrow to share one item. I guess on the days she buys lunch I will take those days to share other info/ideas. 

Lunch #20

October 17th K bought lunch again. On the 18th we tried something different. 

Since K has decided she doesn't like bread. Lord only knows why! She said I would use tortillas. So, last Thursday K took to school a pepperoni wraps with mustard (yup, that's it), strawberries, sugar snap peas yogurt covered pretzels and for snack (which I don't often use) pineapple wedges. Just a few pineapple wedges came home. K said it was because they were soggy.

Lunch #19

Last Monday the 15th K bought school lunch. On the 16th I don't know what happened. I made lunch for her but only have an after picture. It was not a happy day.

She had left her Planetbox at school so she was not able to eat her leftovers in the car on the way home or to the my allergist appointment. This lunch was slices of bacon (which she begged for), flower cut out cantaloupe, black olives and garden style Sun Chips. The Sun Chips are gone of course. They are one of her favorite snacks.

Lunch #18

Once again I am late in posting! I have been laid up in bed with a migraine for  2 1/2 days. This lunch contained Trader Joe's movie theater popcorn, cherry tomatoes, pineapple and a pile of Ritz crackers, pile of pepperoni and pile of pepperjack cheese. I say a PILE because my husband glance at this photograph and said, "You gave K one pepperoni! You are starving her!

I really liked the popcorn idea but both times K asked me not to put it in her lunch. She said it gets soggy from either the cold pack or the juices from the other foods and who wants to eat soggy popcorn. She really likes the pepperjack cheese so I think we found a winner but I will keep trying other cheeses and she if she can find a few she enjoys.  

Due to the soggy popcorn and not being able to warm up anything I really have my eye on type of lunchbox... Laptop Lunches Bento-Ware. I am liking their idea because K can microwave certain parts of her lunch. This is becoming more and more appealing to me as K does not have that many main dish options. I have been trying to win all kinds of lunchbox giveaways to try out different ones but have yet to win. Boo hoo!

Tomorrow (which is actually October 17th) K will be buying lunch. Oh, she did take lunch today but I was in no shape for picture taking. I thought my head was going to explode. I am feeling better now so hopefully the migraine is on its way out.

Lunch #18

Okay, I thought K was buying lunch today but that is next Wednesday. Ugh! When I noticed we were already running short on time this morning. K insisted I pack a lunch. So, I rushed and packed without thinking about what I was doing. She got baby carrots (I don't know where they came from honestly. They just appeared in the refrigerator.), cantaloupe pieces, Ritz crackers with bologna and mozzarella again (since we are out of bacon and pepperoni) and Trader Joe's pretzel slims.

I have no picture for you again as she ATE IT ALL. I keep waiting for the big let down but it hasn't come. HOORAY!

Lunch #17

I always want to shop at Trader Joe's and never do. "Why?" you ask. I'll tell you why because the closest Trader Joe's to my house is up the street and the parking is worse than trying to find parking in Newport Beach during the summer. Okay, it may not be that bad but it is a close second. Then one day while I was going to my friend's house to scrap book I passed a Trader Joe's on the same street as mine just farther north (no more than 5 minutes). So, I decided to try that one as the parking lot seems HUGE. I took K with me to try to get her to pick out some new things to try. That went as well as a dentist visit. Anyway, here is what I packed for today's lunch in her Planetbox. Ritz crackers with pumpkin shaped bologna and mozzarella cheese, sugar snap peas, pineapple (from Trader Joe's), Movie Theater Popcorn (from Trader Joe's), Cuties (for snack; I usually don't take a picture of her snack), 2 gummy bears and some Chocolate Sunflower Seed Drops (from Trader Joe's; they are just sunflower seeds covered with candy hard shelled chocolate). I wasn't sure she liked them since she pitched a fit in the store when I put them in the cart. So I added the 2 gummy bears so she would have a treat I knew she would like.

It was another good day; an empty Planetbox came home. Tomorrow K is going to buy lunch.

Lunch #16

All right, I am getting pretty excited about K's Planetbox coming home empty. For October 4th's lunch K took sugar snap peas, cantaloupe shaped flowers, Cheetos with sour cream in the little dipper, Dove chocolate and bacon again. K said the bacon is the best part of the lunches now. I tried to explain bacon couldn't happen everyday as it is not all that healthy for you but she doesn't care. She loves her bacon!

So, again an empty Planetbox comes home. So pleased! She said she even shared a piece of bacon with her best friend at the lunch table (even they are told not to share). Her best friend told her she is so lucky because she gets bacon for lunch. lol

Fridays are Pizza days at school so K buys lunch and Monday she is buying lunch as well.