A Week of Lunches 10-19-12

I really need to be better about sending a variety of foods with Keegan for school lunches.  Sometimes I send vegan hot dogs, sometimes I send lentil "meat" loaf, sometimes perogies - all things he has loved at some point or another.  The thing is, he doesn't always eat them.  He can be SO fickle.  Which is very frustrating.  So, my go-to meal is PB&J.  I am hoping to broaden the lunch horizon soon enough.

What do you send a vegetarian toddler to school with that they can be self sufficient in eating?  Also I have about 5 minutes in the morning to put his lunch together (totally my fault).

The awesome thing about PB&J - it is so EASY to make it so CUTE.  At least in my opinion.

Here are Keegan's lunches for the week:

Monday he had a pumpkin shaped PB&J, organic fruit snacks (no gelatin!), soy yogurt, applesauce, and peaches. The pumpkin was in honor of our foray into the pumpkin patch on Sunday.

Tuesday he had a medium fish shaped and two small star shaped PB&J sandwiches, a banana, soy yogurt, applesauce, and Annie's Organic little bunny cheese crackers. The fish was in honor of his LOVE of Finding Nemo (and incessant demands to see Nemo's daddy) and stars are kind of a favorite shape of his right now.

Wednesday he had dinosaur shaped PB&J sandwiches, organic yogurt, applesauce, an organic fruit snack, and sweet potato crisps/puffs (he's apparently so over those).  It was kind of an uninspired lunch.  Roar.

Thursday he had a leaf shaped PB&J sandwich, organic yogurt, applesauce, a banana, and a chocolate heart cookie from Ikea. 

 

Side Note: I've been eyeing a (different) leaf cookie cutter on clearance at Target and I should have bought it. It's a metal one. The plastic one I have was apparently no match for cheap bread. I also should not buy cheap bread anymore. Publix usually has the good stuff BOGO but since they didn't I grabbed the under $1 wheat (not 100% whole wheat so really not much of a purpose to it). Shame on me.



Friday he had one large and two small star shaped PB&J sandwiches along with an organic yogurt pouch, applesauce, a banana, and organic fruit snacks which are his beloved "treats." The star shaped sandwiches are because it seems that stars are definitely his favorite shape and he was tickled pink to have stars in his lunch on Tuesday.

I have to thrown in an additional picture of today's lunch because his sandwiches were packed in a total splurge item but totally cute - an Elmo sandwich container:

***Yes, the shadows in my pictures are awful, I have to work on that!***

I send him with water and lately a small organic juice box or a cup of some form of milk although he refuses to drink most forms of milk nowadays - cow, almond, soy, soy fruit and protein..... he eats yogurt everyday and has cheese and other forms of calcium.  No worries.

Of course each meal had to have 4 sides.  I think Keegan is a bit like me with his habits and obsessiveness.  Not with the 4 sides.  Not yet at least.  Poor Jay.