Memoirs of a Moorings

Last Week's Bento Box Lunches ~ Sept 30-Oct 2

Life is getting by me.......these are last week's lunches and I have been running late all week so no pictures of this week's lunch. Sad thing too because they were good lunches that he actually ate. These lunches pictured were pretty much a bust because he said they weren't warm enough. So I ended up buying him a thermos and another microwaveable container where you heat up the food, cover it and it stays warm. I tried it myself and it worked. I'll try to post photos of them soon.

For this lunch below, he ate all the fruit and some of the stuffed muffin. But the carrots and pizza were untouched. Who would pass up pizza? Such a picky kid this child is!

 

This lunch went over pretty well...the only thing he didn't eat were the Cheez-It crackers.

A Week of Bento Box Lunches ~ September 21-25, 2009

Last week got by me and I didn't get to blog so I'm not even sure what days go with what lunches. And there's one day that I totally forgot to take pictures of the lunch. Such is the life of a mom with a kid newly in kindergarten. I'm trying to catch a groove.

So this is my lunch. I packed it since my big boy ate in the cafeteria a few days last week.

Chicken taquitos, grapes, strawberries and yogurt.

This lunch sadly did not go over well. Most of the quesadillas came back since he said they weren't warm enough. I gave him some chicken lunch meat rolled up. He ate one. All the fruit was gone.

I was a little worried about this lunch and the mac and cheese staying warm enough. I'd bought two insulated bags for the bento boxes and tried them out. The mac and cheese was halfway gone. He said I put too much in there. The hawaiian bread roll was half eaten and the yogurt untouched. He said he was too full to eat it. But of course the fruit and fruit snacks were a hit. Oh yeah and on the bottom level of the blue bento box I packed a hot dog. It was gone. I ended up microwaving the mac and cheese and boiling the hot dog in the morning and packing it up hot in the insulated bag (I'll take pics of it this week if I remember.) He said they were warm enough. I'm thinking of packing lunch in the bag myself to see how warm it stays.

This Week's Bento Box Lunches ~ September 14-17, 2009

Thinking I'll make my big boy's bento box lunches a regular feature since a certain friend of mine requested that they be spotlighted so she'll have some ideas. This is for you LaCrecia :-)

I only had to make two lunches this week since the cafeteria was serving three of his favorite things this week: macaroni & cheese, quesadillas and pizza.

TUESDAY

Monday night I made stuffed muffins for the boys. I got a request to include one in lunch for the next day. This time I made them with chopped up rotissiere chicken, cheddar cheese and peas. I also included a hot dog, mandarin oranges, sliced apples, grapes, a pop tart and Capri Sun. This lunch was a hit.

WEDNESDAY

Packed a sweet hawaiian bread roll, crispy chicken tenders, peas, sliced apples, oranges, Cheez-It crackers and a drink. The entire second level (chicken etc..) came back untouched. Turns out he didn't know it was there. Aaarrgh. So we will have to do a dry run the night before. He ended up eating it when he got home.

THURSDAY

Although Rhyan ate in the cafeteria today, I still packed him a snack because they get to eat a healthy snack at second recess. So this was his request, hawaiian bread, grapes and sliced apples. I included the strawberries even though he insisted he didn't like them. When I checked this afternoon, there wasn't a strawberry to be found.

I'm too tuckered out to include tomorrow's snack...maybe I'll add it on next week's post. Any ideas on what to tuck in these bento boxes? I'd love to hear them!

First Day of Kindergarten Lunch

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." ~Orson Wells

Kindergarten starts tomorrow. I'm taking deep breaths and practicing crying without tears.

My big boy is a picky eater. So when the lunch menu came for the school, I knew I'd be packing lunches for him. Here's a peek at what he'll have for his first day of Kindergarten. I know half of this food won't be gone, but I'll feel happier knowing I packed too much rather than not enough. He's going to have to use mommy's bento boxes until I can find him something more boyish. I don't think he'll mind a bit. And I've repeated myself a million times that these containers must come back home. He reassured me they would. We'll see!

Lunch includes two stuffed cornbread muffins (stuffed with chicken, spinach, onion and cheese.) He's not big into sandwiches, so I had to find an alternative. Found the idea and recipe here. Smooshed up next to them are peas. There's a juice box and small pack of raisins in the back along with a pop tart (his request). Mandarin oranges and apples in one container and I think I'll also throw in some frozen grapes (the boxes come with two layers) and a small thermos of water.

Here it is all packed up.