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.

24th Day of School Lunch

24th Day of School Lunch



TGIF lunch, popcorn, carrots, and a soy nut butter and jelly sandwich.  The bread had a perfect circle in it, so I decided to make a little face with some of the turkey bacon from breakfast for the eyes and mouth.  I glued the bacon on with soy nut butter and added some spinach for the hair.

23rd Day of School Lunch

23rd Day of School Lunch

Grapes, cantaloupe, marshmallows, carrots, and a turkey sandwich with a turkey star on top.  I started to make a face on the marshmallows but it was taking too long.

22nd Day of School Lunch

22nd Day of School Lunch
"1st Pizza Lunch for Mani"

Mushroom, spinach, and ground beef pizza on rice crust, vanilla cake muffin, and cantaloupe.  This is the first time I sent pizza for lunch for him and I wasn't even going to send it this time but he asked for it.

The crust is one from Whole Foods.  I'm going to take a picture and post it so I will not forget what brand it is because it is definitely a keeper.

21st Day of School Lunch

21st Day of School Lunch

Today was the first time I noticed that this little container has dogs and little dog bones on it.  So I thought that called for another dog theme lunch.  This doggy theme lunch contains, cantaloupe, strawberries with powder sugar in the little doggy container, carrots, turkey with strawberry jam on white rice bread, turkey dog cut out with spinach grass.

20th Day of School Lunch

20th Day of School Lunch

Bacon and lettuce on white rice bread, carrots, cantaloupe, and vanilla cake muffin.

Mani actually surprised me yesterday and asked could we bake something again for him like the past weeks.  I had an unofficial goal of trying to bake or make something special for him on the weekends.  But I didn't really expect him to notice (silly of me), so now I guess it's an official goal.  Which I haven't decided is a good thing or a bad thing. 

This weekend was busy, my little sister flew in town for her best friend's wedding and of course I wanted to spend as much time with her as possible. So the last thing I wanted to do last night after fighting the terrible traffic to the airport was bake something.  But we he compromised and we made the Chi Chi's corn cake mix.  It was the quickest and easiest thing and Mani was very happy and he enjoyed  helping me.

Once I made the mix I figured I would cook the fish for today's dinner.  I'm glad I did because the only thing on Mani's mind as we left out for school this morning was going to the skate park again after school.  Yesterday was his first time going and he felt very intimidated at first but he finally was able to go down one small ramp and he was happy, YAY.

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.