Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tea for Two
Today's lunches, tea time! My girls love having tea, and being proper young ladies with cute little sandwiches. I love it too, so this was an easy lunch for me to pack. I could have gone farther on the theme by baking little scones, or tarts...but this is lunch and I'm a busy Mama. Maybe next time.
This is LiLi's lunch, she loves cucumber sandwiches with her tea. So she has cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches on organic bleached wheat bread, with baby tomatoes, cucumbers and carrot sticks, a banana, little sandwich cookies and a few conversation hearts...we are after all close to Valentine's Day!
Gigi's lunch has two different varieties of tea sandwiches, one with cream cheese and homemade raspberry preserves, the other with Nutella. She also has blue berries, cucumber slices and baby carrots, some little sandwich cookies and a few conversation hearts, plus a banana for snack.
I used our Easy Lunch Box containers, because they hold a lot of food and keep it all well separated! I used cupcake pics to hold the sandwiches together and some silicone cups to divide the sides from the sammy's.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
School Lunches
I can only imagine what your thinking...this lady home schools, why on earth is she packing lunches? I love back to school time, new supplies, backpacks, clothes...and most of all lunch boxes. Even though my girls are primarily at home, they love all of these things too. Nothing makes me more excited then receiving the Sunday papers in August, busting open with all sorts of ads for reams of paper, unsharpened pencils and highlighters galore!
It is in those moments that I feel a little pang of guilt that my girls won't have the traditional school experience, but I can mostly recreate it at home. And we are so fortunate to have an amazing charter school in our area that caters to only homeschooling families. Two days a week, I plan and prepare little lunches for GiGi (8) and LiLi (6). I have so much fun creating these mini master pieces, and I hope that my girls have just as much fun eating them.
I'm also so lucky to have a handful of blogs who share this same passion, they daily inspire me to get even more creative in providing a balance of healthy choices and exciting food. This blog might not be earth shattering, I may not be changing world politics, and I probably won't win any journalism awards, but I might inspire one family to make a change in what they eat. Given the press that school lunches have gotten (none of it good), I really hope that I can help show a really very easy way to feed our kids the food their growing bodies need!
These were a Winter Wonderland theme...the first was for LiLi, she had organic ham, cheddar crackers, cucumber slices, a granola bar, some homemade breakfast bread, and organic apple fruit leather. I usually give them either organic milk boxes or honest kids fruit juice to go along and I use organic when ever possible. This was kind of a cheating lunch, since I was rushing and didn't really get to be to creative. The second lunch is GiGi's, she has ham, sliced orange bell pepper, raspberry fruit leather, granola bar, cheddar crackers, breakfast bread and some gummy bears (aka polar bears). I intended the granola bar to be a snack item.
The third is my lunch, a salad with organic turkey, cucumber, tomatoes and feta, some left over tomato mozzarella salad, some cheddar crackers and a honeycrisp apple for snack.
All three lunches were packed in an easy lunch box system. They are hands down the easiest bento style box ever! You can find them at http://www.easylunchboxes.com/. I use a lot of cupcake picks, little cookie cutters, silicon cupcake holders and all sorts of little containers when making our bentos.
It is in those moments that I feel a little pang of guilt that my girls won't have the traditional school experience, but I can mostly recreate it at home. And we are so fortunate to have an amazing charter school in our area that caters to only homeschooling families. Two days a week, I plan and prepare little lunches for GiGi (8) and LiLi (6). I have so much fun creating these mini master pieces, and I hope that my girls have just as much fun eating them.
I'm also so lucky to have a handful of blogs who share this same passion, they daily inspire me to get even more creative in providing a balance of healthy choices and exciting food. This blog might not be earth shattering, I may not be changing world politics, and I probably won't win any journalism awards, but I might inspire one family to make a change in what they eat. Given the press that school lunches have gotten (none of it good), I really hope that I can help show a really very easy way to feed our kids the food their growing bodies need!
The third is my lunch, a salad with organic turkey, cucumber, tomatoes and feta, some left over tomato mozzarella salad, some cheddar crackers and a honeycrisp apple for snack.
All three lunches were packed in an easy lunch box system. They are hands down the easiest bento style box ever! You can find them at http://www.easylunchboxes.com/. I use a lot of cupcake picks, little cookie cutters, silicon cupcake holders and all sorts of little containers when making our bentos.
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