I am SO excited to share this with you. I am starting a blog series on real food lunch boxes that I’m making for Abby and Jessica this year. Tomorrow is Jessica’s first day of school and I made this lunch extra-special with lots of hearts. The kabobs are cheese, Applegate turkey, and whole-grain tortillas, on top of a serving of spring greens and three more tortilla hearts. There is a banana muffin (that we made together) and cut-out apples dipped in fresh lemon juice to keep from browning. Three small organic sour gummy worms are tucked in around the muffin for a treat. There is Organic Valley whole milk (from pastured Wisconsin cows) in her Thermos where it should stay nice and cold until lunchtime.
For a snack, I put a smoothie freezie pop into a Wexy bag. I did this so as it thaws, the silicone top is kept on better, and also so it doesn’t go all over if it leaks. I haven’t used these silicone freezie pop molds before so I didn’t want to take any chances.
Now, this may not seem like a lot of food, but it’s real food so it’s a lot more filling than chicken nuggets or whatever they’re serving in the hot lunch line. Jessica also only has 20 minutes to eat, starting from when they get into the lunchroom to when they line up to leave. I asked her to let me know how it goes.
I think it’s going to go pretty darned well. What do you think?
I started making Jessica’s and Abby’s lunches at 8:02 pm, and it was 9:02 pm by the time I had cleaned everything up and put my lunch tote back up in the cupboard. My goal is to get lunch preparations down to 20 minutes, but the first day of school is kind of a big deal and I wanted it to be special.)
