GoGo Squeeze, corn muffins stuffed with chicken and mixed vegetables, marshmallows, oatmeal & chocolate sprinkle cookie, and oatmeal raisin cookie

corn pasta w/mushrooms, mango, GoGo Squeeze

73rd Day of School Lunch

73rd Day of School Lunch

Half a soy nut butter sandwich, carrots, turkey and baby spinach meat rollups, GoGo Squeeze, and grapes.

65th Day of School Lunch

65th Day of School Lunch

Corn pasta, carrots, ants on a log, and GoGo Squeez.

Mani was in our bed again last night, but it was "only 2am" so this time I made him go get in his bed.  I have to remember to talk to him about this because the most he will ever do is ask me to come lay in his bed with him until he goes to sleep. And that's only when he has taken a nap and can't get to sleep.  That's one thing I wish I could change, all Mani needs is a 30 second nap and he's up all night.  But, I'll just be thankful that the preschool days of when they made him take a nap are over.

58th Day of School Lunch

58th Day of School Lunch

I'm back to working 40 hours a week.  YAY, we can use the extra money, but I am sad I will not be taking Mani to school or picking him up.  So today was Mani's first day taking the "school van".  The mom of one of Mani's classmates has a transportation service and she gave me a great rate for round trip service.

We both thought that he would be nervous because it was his first day, but she said he hopped in the van and talked non stop. 

This is my post for What's for Lunch Wednesday Week 24.

45th Day of School Lunch

45th Day of School Lunch

Turkey and lettuce meat rollups, half of a pastrami sandwich because this was the last piece of Mani's bread and I used all the turkey for the meat rollups, GoGo Squeez, and Chex and pretzels.

I didn't make the trip to Whole Foods this weekend because my cousins from Texas were in town.  I had a great time, lots of laughs and reminiscing, but now I'm forced to go to Whole Foods during rush hour.

This will be my post on What's for Lunch Wednesday,Week 21.

42nd Day of School Lunch

42nd Day of School Lunch

Soy nut butter and jelly sandwich, chex and pretzels, GoGo Squeez, grapes.

I thought the hole in the bread would have been perfect for a one eye monster, but I didn't have any time to jazz it up.

35th Day of School Lunch



35th Day of School Lunch




My alarm clock was on the floor, I didn't think anything of it.  I just picked it up and made sure it was set.  Well, little did I know it was now set one hour earlier.  This turned out to be a good thing because when it first went off at  what I thought was 5:45, I just walked and turned it off and went right back to sleep.  When I woke up again the clock said 7:00 am.  I immediately thought I'm late, what a great start to the week. But it was still very dark outside, so I was quit dazed and confused for a minute.  My first thought was, oh wow, we are at that point already when it is totally dark in the morning.  But then I checked my cell phone and I was happy to see that I wasn't late at all. 

We made it out the door on time and as I'm getting in the car my cell phone rings.  It's Mani's teacher, his table was the best on Friday and she promised them a treat.  So of course she just goes to Dunkin Donuts and gets some with sprinkles, how fun.  She asked if Mani can eat them, umm NO.

Quick Quick think, I know I took out two of the Wonder Balls, so I can run back in and put some icing and sprinkles on the one I didn't put in his lunch.  I ask her if she wants me to send something and she say its ok, she will find something prepackaged for him. We hang up and I'm thinking if you didn't know he couldn't eat donuts, what are you going to buy him.

Do I go back inside and fix the Wonder Ball, just in case. If I do we will end  up being late on the only day, since I don't know when, that we are actually on time?  I ask Mani .  He says no mommy it's ok, lets just go.  So we have the talk, if you are not sure you can eat it, then don't. I told him he could eat the Wonder Ball in his lunch, if she got him something he couldn't eat.

I'm stressing, the whole ride to work.  We had two very bad episodes last year.  My poor baby was at school crying his head off because his class won a party and he couldn't eat anything they purchased. Both times they called me and there was no calming him down.  He was so upset and kept saying that he was tired of not being able to eat what the class eats.  They offered him candy and chips and he just turned them down and kept crying. 

The second time they had buttered popcorn at the party.  But luckily the school nurse felt so bad for him, she went to the store and had the lunch room make him some with no butter. I always tell his teachers if they know before hand to tell me.  That way I can send something for him, so he can be like the other kids.  But do they call NOOOOOOOOO, not until my baby is crying.

Thank you God, because I didn't get a call like that today.  She gave him a baseball themed wooden tic tac toe set.  I asked if he was upset he didn't have  a donut and he said he didn't care, YAY.

Ok I got all that out, now back to  lunch--Carrots, GoGo Squeez, Wonder Ball, and soy nut butter and jelly sandwich.

29th Day of School Lunch

29th Day of School Lunch

I finally found this lunch on my husbands laptop.  He has over 1500 photos on his computer, it took forever just to find the picture and then it was another ordeal just to get it uploaded.  Ants on a log, ketchup in the container, Ian's gluten free chicken nuggets, and GoGo Squeeze apple apple flavor.

25th Day of School Lunch

25th Day of School Lunch
2nd Pizza Lunch

My sister found this neat applesauce GoGo Squeeze, it's perfect for Mani because there is no mess.  Mani went through a period in 1st and 2nd grade where he didn't throw his trash away because of some craziness with how trash was collected.  I had to clean many messy lunch boxes and I stopped sending applesauce altogether after he didn't throw away the opened container.

Well, thanks to my sister and GoGo Squeez, applesauce is back in lunch box rotation.  The Jewel store I purchased these from had them in three flavors, apple apple, apple cinnamon, and apple strawberry.  They also make apple banana and apple peach.  Mani picked apple apple and the apple strawberry.  They also are healthy and Jewel had them on sale 2 for $5.00.

To go along with the GoGo Squeez he also had celery with soy nut butter, carrots and Amy's gluten and diary free pizza.