Wishful Thinking
Tonight I'm going to write about something that is heavy on my mind. Something that I have to face, to deal with, to devote time to multiple times a week.
Packed lunches.
This is what Ben's lunch looks like almost everyday he goes to school, which is only three days a week. I can only imagine what it would look like if he went five days.
I've even made a complete lunch mainly consisting of these
and these.
How those even got into my house is beyond me. (Not that far beyond, though).
There are so many things wrong with Ben's lunches, the plastic baggies for one... the lack of protein, the quantity of processed foods, blaach.
I want his lunches (and mine for that matter) to look like this:
or this:
I promise I will not re-purchase any of those nasty things. Pinky promise.
**The delicious looking lunches pictured up there are from a fabulous little website called Weelicious. They have a fan page on FB and they post a picture of their packed lunch for the day, everyday. Not only does it heap loads of guilt on my already processed packed - packed lunch, but it gives me pretty ideas of what I should/in my dreams/will pack for Ben. Starting tomorrow.
Packed lunches.
This is what Ben's lunch looks like almost everyday he goes to school, which is only three days a week. I can only imagine what it would look like if he went five days.
I've even made a complete lunch mainly consisting of these
and these.
How those even got into my house is beyond me. (Not that far beyond, though).
There are so many things wrong with Ben's lunches, the plastic baggies for one... the lack of protein, the quantity of processed foods, blaach.
I want his lunches (and mine for that matter) to look like this:
or this:
I promise I will not re-purchase any of those nasty things. Pinky promise.
**The delicious looking lunches pictured up there are from a fabulous little website called Weelicious. They have a fan page on FB and they post a picture of their packed lunch for the day, everyday. Not only does it heap loads of guilt on my already processed packed - packed lunch, but it gives me pretty ideas of what I should/in my dreams/will pack for Ben. Starting tomorrow.
Comments
Oh, and goldfish crackers now come with naturally derived colors, so you don't have to worry about giving your kiddos the chemical colors.
My cousin got married this weekend and every time we walked by the table with the sliced wedding cake she would lunge at it saying, "bite, bite!"
Your mom is right--you can put all kinds of healthy, delicious food in front of them, but if they're not interested, they won't eat it. I'm loosing my mind trying to figure out what she WILL eat!
I guess I'll have to rethink my menu planning:)
Please blog about your wonderful ideas!