lunch 2.29.10

In my son's thermos is homemade mac-n-cheese with green beans mixed in, an apple, an cookies that I made for a friend of mine who has celiac (sp?), They are snickerdoodles :)

I am having some of the mac-n-cheese with strawberries (inspired by amanda at lunchbox limbo), some chips, and banana muffins I also made for my friend.

Subway

I wanted to put in a small plug for SUBWAY. We all must have those days when we just must grab and go for a dinner or you only have a half hour between karate and cub scouts and you must eat on the run. Well when we have those moments we head for Subway. Look at these really cute REUSABLE bags that the kids meals came in the other night. I know it isn't the perfect meal but it is pretty good (sandwich, apples, and milk). I have two boys so one gets apples and the other one get chips. They split both and that way they only have a few chips but also some fruit.

School lunch review 2.26

School lunch today is pizza, corn, an apple and chocolate milk. My son had a sleepover last night so I haven't been able to interview him yet on this lunch. I was with him when he made his choices and he also had the option of rice with his corn and he could have gotten diced peaches (i'm sure packed in syrup) instead of the apple. I also don't know what he ate and didn't so I will find that out too.

Tomorrow's lunch is pierogies (in the thermos), cheese wrapped with Hormel natural turkey, pineapple packed in juice, (Wegman's brand), and organic yellow cupcake. I feel better about this lunch. I think it was mostly the big hunk of white bread I served him that made me cringe. Too many empty calories. Who knows!

I am having pierogies also with broccoli and mixed fruit in juice. I have ski school tomorrow so I am a worried about lunches. I got home late tonight too so I feel behind already. This hasn't been a great week. And I had high hopes after my success grocery shopping.

lunch 2.24.10

I am a bit embarrassed about today's lunch. There isn't too much healthy about it. But I suppose that is why I started this venture. To keep myself in check. I know there are days when I slip and pack lunches that don't hold up to my standards. Well this is one of them.

It includes white bread :(, sun chips (not too bad for chips), fruit 'roll up' (better choice than regular ones but not fresh fruit), and ORGANIC CARROT STICKS and dip. (that makes it all better right?) :)

Picture to follow. (If I can bear it)
UPDATE- Here is the photo. And when lunch came home so did almost all of the sandwich and chips. He ate all of the carrots and the simply fruit 'roll up' Go figure!

lunch 2.23.10

My son is having leftover shrimp lo mein in the thermos, a vegetable egg roll (see below), oranges, and organic yellow cake mix made into cupcakes.
This is the one item I bought 'just because' I had a coupon for it. I baked them tonight to have with our shrimp lo mein (details later). They were pretty good. There was one spice that I didn't care for but other than that they were really good and I was pretty happy with the ingredient list. I don't know if I will buy them again but I might try a different variety.


Shrimp lo mein (I made this tonight by throwing together shrimp, broccoli, carrots, escarole, noodles, some soy sauce and chicken broth and a little sweet and sour sauce. I don't think it is actually a recipe but I called it Sweet and Sour Shrimp Lo Mein. I am having a bite of baked egg roll, some pretzels and oranges.

A look in the fridge

This is quite empty. See that tub of butter... It is the second one. I bought one in December and finally finished it. My husband ran out for a few items and bought another! We will see how long it lasts this time. On the bottom shelf you see quite a bit of SOBE. I am working on weening my self off of Diet Soda (my vice) and this is an alternative I like and I am pretty confident with the ingredients.