Lunch-September 5

Yesterday's lunch got out the door without a photo session but I am pleased to announce that it too was enjoyed and eaten completely.

Feeling that there must be more to a 1st grader's lunch than peanut butter and pudding, I went again to the internet for inspiration. I got this egg idea from my Freecycle friend Erin. Emily loves boiled eggs but not the yolk. On the side she had 2 slices of turkey bacon, sliced apple soaked in diet Sierra Mist (to prevent browning) and 2 graham cracker and strawberry icing sandwiches. I couldn't believe it, but she ate all but one bite of a graham cracker and one bite of turkey bacon. WOOHOO!

Lunch-September 3

Yesterday the hot lunch was corn dogs so Emily chose to eat that. She didn't come home starving so I guess it went ok.

Today, since the heart shaped sammy was so popular, we went for another shape-A STAR! It was accompanied by more starfish/goldfish crackers, grapes and chocolate pudding. I am happy to report that the sandwich was eaten in it's entirety in the school cafeteria as was the entire meal! YEA EMILY!!!!

Lunch-August 29th

Today's menu: heart shaped PB&J, broccoli trees with ranch dressing, grapes and vanilla pudding. Emily thought the heart shaped PB&J was the best ever! However she only ate about half of it at lunch and apparently ate the rest of it on the bus on the way home. (She assured me that Twilla didn't see her. But I explained that she wasn't supposed to eat on the bus and just because Twilla didn't see her do it didn't make it OK.) The grapes, pudding and about half the broccoli were eaten in the lunch room.

Lunch-August 28th

Today's lunch consisted of turkey & cheese pinwheels, starfish & goldfish crackers, apple soaked in lime juice and sugar free chocolate pudding. Emily ate 2 of the pinwheels and all of the crackers and pudding. The apple didn't go over as well. She normally likes granny smith's in lime juice but this was an apple picked from our neighbor's apple tree and was an extremely tart apple to begin with. The lime juice was just too much. Not bad for a first attempt.

Emily & School Lunches

Many of you know that Emily is not a big eater. So, I began wondering how eating lunch at school was going to be. Not being able to know what she ate each day started to bug me and I started thinking about doing mostly bagged lunches from home. But I knew that Emily wouldn't sit down and eat your traditional lunch of a sandwich and chips. I began to explore other options when I ran across Lunch Nugget.

We bought a cute Princess lunch box from Walmart and a bunch of reusable containers in different sizes and the journey began. My long term goal is to purchase a Laptop Lunch System but they are quite pricy.

Anywho, I will be making Emily's lunch each day that she has no interest in the hot lunch at school and posting the results here.

EDIT: It is now the 9th day of school and her Princess bag is already splitting a seam. Perhaps we will be going with the new lunch box sooner rather than later!