Fun with lunches

I was right. This blog will take more thought, energy, and commitment. My other blog is basically a journal, but this one takes some discipline and being open to many things to share.

I'm up to the challenge!

It's Spring Break and my step-daughter is in Florida, but I'm going to share the only 2 pictures I could find of lunches I've been packing her for school.

I was getting really burnt out with sandwiches and trying to send the right amount of food so nothing went to waste. She is a really slow eater, so it's important to try to get a variety of healthy foods that she can finish in the time allowed.

I got tired of the thankless job of making healthy lunches for a picky eater. I felt so hurt when I found out a lot of the lunches I was putting time into making we're thrown away. So I decided I would have fun with making lunches and, hopefully, they would be more fun to eat!

I try to include a veggie, fruit, and some protein. I also try to make it fun and include a treat every now and then.

Different "Sandwiches" I've done

• Sandwich in wrap form
• Wrap cut in slices to make round disks
• PB&J "quesadilla"
• English muffin to build your own pizza with sauce, cheese, pepperoni
• PB&honey 

We had some goldfish crackers to use up, so I decided to do a theme.  If I had some cookie cutters it would have been really cute, but I made an attempt at a fish. :) I had some plain yogurt that I topped with blue sprinkles. I went through some ads and found a cute goldfish to cut out and added a little caption.

Not the absolute greatest execution, but it made it fun.

With the next lunch I took two sandwich quarters and turned them into the corners.  I alternated cucumber, cheese, and carrots because it looks nice.  Last, I lined it with pretzels.

These are some of my first attempts. I'm slowly collecting fun containers and tools.  I just got some spring flower cookie cutters and bento boxes!  

Stay tuned as I share more that will be even more impressive!