Showing posts with label Wonder Balls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wonder Balls. Show all posts

Monday, November 22, 2010

67th Day of School Lunch


67th Day of School Lunch
Corn fettuccine, left over broccoli, Wonder Ball, and watermelon.

Mani was so excited to see that I went to Lil's Dietary Specialty Shop on Saturday and purchased this pasta.  He must have asked me ten times to make him some, but I didn't because I was sticking to my monthly meal plan.  So when I asked him what he wanted for lunch of course he said fettuccine.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

60th Day of School Lunch


60th Day of School Lunch
Mani came home the other day and complained that he wants lunch like the other kids. 

Me-What do you mean?(Instantly thinking he is upset about his allergies)
Mani- I'm just saying it would be nice to have junk, you know, like Doritos and stuff.
Me- Mani, you can't even eat Doritos.
Mani- I know but I would like chips and junk sometimes.

So we agreed he can have chips one day a week.  I think he threw the comment in about Doritos to soften me up.

Monday, October 4, 2010

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.

Friday, September 10, 2010

19th Day of School Lunch

19th Day of School Lunch
"Doggie Woggie Theme"
Today's lunch has a dog theme, watermelon, dog bone shaped mango, and in the doggy container is corn spaghetti pasta with red sauce, ground beef, and zucchini.  I also included two of the "Wonder Balls" that I had frozen.  I didn't taste the Wonder Balls before I put them in, so I hope they didn't suffer any freezer damage. 

I didn't want the Ziploc container to get stained, so I used the top container to one of the very first bento boxes that I purchased for the pasta.  I had started to throw the container out on Tuesday. My son never used it because it was too complicated, and I lost the straps that attached on the side when we moved.  But I'm glad I didn't because it worked out perfectly in this lunch.

I decided to post this lunch for What's for Lunch Wednesday  week 16 because although I'm quite happy with Mani's first pizza lunch the picture sucks and its just not that cute.  Besides I'm happy I finally used this container so I don't have to feel bad about wasting money and I'm proud of my mango dog bones, its not easy to make dog bones from a very ripe mango.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"Wonder Balls"


Cookies that turned out to be "Wonder Balls". I tried them two ways cinnamon sugar and plain drop cookies. The cinnamon sugar cookies turned out nice because I flattened them out, however, Mani preferred the taste and texture of the now famous "Wonder Balls". Daddy even liked them. I put a few in a Lock n Lock container and put them in the freezer, I will see how that turns out.
I made these from The Cravings Place Cake & Cookie Mix. I totally forgot how good their mix could be. When I first started this adventure with Mani, their mix was one of the only ones that you couldn't tell was gluten free. I remember one Thanksgiving, I made the brownie mix and everyone but Mani ate them. He still doesn't like chocolate.
The mix was actually 50% off because it was nearing the expiration date. I wish I would have grabbed the other one that was left.