Food for the Boys

Week 12 (Friday)

2010-11-13T07:41:00.000-08:00

S's snack was apple, carrots, peppers and bunny crackers. E had apple slices and pretzels.

For lunch the boys had a bagel sandwich, grapes and rice pudding.

Week 12 (Wednesday and Thursday)

2010-11-13T06:03:00.000-08:00

Lunch Wednesday was a sandwich, pear, cucumber and candy.
Wednesday's snacks. Plum, granola bar and fruit leather for S and E. Pear and bunny cookies for A.
Thursday's lunch was rollups, candy, zucchini bread, pear and carrots.
Thursday's snacks. A had plum and cheese stick. S had crackers with peanut butter, plum and a fruit rollup. E had plum and dates with peanut butter.

Week 12 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-11-13T05:48:00.000-08:00

Monday the boys had pizza, applesauce, juice and a cookie for lunch.
For snack they had pear slices and pepper slices. S also had bunny cookies and half of a granola bar.
Tuesday the boys had chicken noodle soup, apple sauce, a mini pita with cheese and some M&M's.
For snack on Tuesday E had pear, pretzels and peanuts. S had cheese and crackers, pepper slices and pear. A had pear, cheese and crackers.

Week 11 (Wednesday and Thursday)

2010-11-13T05:32:00.001-08:00

Wednesday's lunch was pizza, coleslaw, berries and M&M's (which my 8 year olds still call MMM's. Too cute to correct... I'm sure their friends will correct them one day and they will give me grief)
I packed candy in their snack today, how bad is that? I am just anxious to get the stuff out of the house so I don't continue to eat it! Sa nd E had apple slices, o's ceral,, fruit leather and candy. A had berries, apple slices and candy,
Lunch on Thursday was berries, carrots, dates with peanut butter, little pitas with cheese, candy and bunny cookies.
Snack for A was pretzels, cheese and berries. E (who is asking for smaller snacks) had apple slices and (gluten and dairy free) pretzels. S had apple slices, pretzels and cheese.

Week 10 (Thursday and Friday)

2010-10-30T18:40:00.000-07:00

S discovered "fruit loops" at a hotel breakfast buffet several months ago and has been asking for them for ages. Cascadian farms makes "fruit loops" with decent ingredients do I bought a box. S was thrilled. For snack Thursday S and E had fruit loops, apples and carrots. A had fruit loops, carrots and some cheese.
For lunch Thursday E and S had grapes, granola bar, date with peanut butter, pretzels and mini pitas with cheese.
For snack on Friday, S and E had apples, peanut butter to dip the apples in, o's cereal and fruit leather. A had apples and bunny cookies.

Week 10 (Wednesday)

2010-10-30T18:36:00.000-07:00

Wednesday snacks for S and A (E had a field trip). A had apples and pretzels and S had apples, pretzels and a granola bar.
Wednesday's lunch for S was salami and cheese, crackers, a cookie and pear.
E's field trip lunch for Wednesday was pretzels, a cookie, apple slices, granola bar, roll up sandwiches in the foil and a juice.

Week 10 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-10-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

Monday's snack was some cavity causing caramel apples, cheese and pretzels for S and cashews and corn cakes for E.
S's lunch is on the left. He had pumpkin bread, cheese and salami, pears and crackers. E's lunch is on the right. He had crackers, pumpkin bread, egg salad and pears.
Tuesday's snacks were rice crackers for everyone, cheese for S and A and dates with peanut butter for E.
Tuesday's lunch was a sandwich, pumpkin bread and apple slices.

Week 9 (Friday)

2010-10-22T09:20:00.000-07:00

Friday's lunch was yogurt, pears, granola bar and dried mango.
Friday's snack was apples, a few pears, and crackers with cheese (S) and peanut butter (E).

Week 9 (Wednsday and Thursday)

2010-10-22T09:12:00.000-07:00

Wednesday's lunch was tortilla rollups, carrot sticks, apples and a cookie.
Wednesdays snacks. S and E had crackers with peanut butter, apple and fruit rollup (along with some cheese chubs for S. A had apples an cheese cubes.
Thursday's snacks were pear and rice crackers for everyone with the addition of nuts for E and cheese for S.
Thursday's lunch was apple slices, a cookie, ketchup in the green container, tator tots , crackers, cheese and salami.

Week 9 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-10-22T09:04:00.000-07:00

Mondays lunch was a sandwich, salad and chocolate cake.
For snack Monday, S had apple, cheese and crackers and E had apple sunflower seeds and crackers.
For snack Tuesday the boys had homemade apple sauce. Yum! S and E also had a granola bar with it.
Tuesday's lunch was grapes, pumpkin cake, cheese an crackers and peanut butter filled dates.

Week 8 (Wenesday, Thursday and Friday)

2010-10-19T16:16:00.000-07:00

Wednesday snacks were date with peanut butter, nut bar and oranges for E, grapes and pretzels fro A, date with peanut butter, oranges and pretzels fro S.
Wednesday's lunch was a sandwich with a cheese pumpkin on top, grapes, a pretzel and marshmallow "ghosts" (which I think my brother invented. ;)
Thursday's snack was grape with cashews and dried apricots for S and E and grapes with cheese and dried apricots for A.
Thursdays lunch was a pizza bagel, apple slices, carrots and a marshmallow ghost.
No snack for Friday. The boys actually had off from school. We were out at lunchtime so I packed a lunch of cream cheese and jelly rollups, carrots, apple, grapes and pumpkin cake for the boys.

Week 8 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-10-19T16:10:00.000-07:00

Monday's lunch was pesto pasta in teh thermos, salad with dressing in the little green container and apple crisp.
Monday's snack was peach with corn thins for E and quesildillas for S.
Tuesday's lunch was chicken and cheddar, a pumpkin muffin, pineapple and a cookie.
Tuesday's snack was peaches, corn cakes with chocolate peanut butter for S and E and raisins and o's cereal for A.
My friend Sami was visiting and packed her very first bento for her flight home. Didn't she do a great job?? She had a cookie with grapes on top and carrots with a chicken sandwich on the bottom. Hope the lunch traveled well Sami and that you (both ;) enjoyed it!

Week 7 (Friday)

2010-10-19T16:04:00.000-07:00

Friday's lunch was a plum, a cookie and some Brockie in the top container and some quesildillas with yogurt for dip in the bottom container.
For snack the boys had a fruit leather, dates with peanut butter, apple slices and raisins with a few chocolate covered raisins thrown in.
A and I needed packed lunches on Friday too. This is mine - a sandwich, plum and chips (which A ate. I don't know what I was thinking packing chips for me and none for him!)
A had quesildilla, yogurt, plum, broccoli and chocolate covered raisins in the white container.

Week 7 (Wednesday and Thursday)

2010-10-19T15:59:00.000-07:00

Wednesday was a field trip day so the boys needed disposable lunches. THey had a sandwich, apple slices, a cookie, pretzels, a granola bar and juice.
A had a snack of plum, o's cereal and raisins.
Boy these Thursday snacks are pretty colorless... Graham crackers and cream cheese for A and S and corn thins with peanut butter for E. They all had oranges.
Lunch on Thursday was grapes, pretzels, a cookie, cheese, salami and some veggies.

Week 7 (Monday, Tuesday)

2010-10-19T13:07:00.000-07:00

Monday's lunch was a sandwich, pumpkin pie and grapes.
Monday's snacks were apple slices, dates with peanut butter, crackers for S and cereal fro E.
Tuesday's snack was veggies, chips and guacamole for E, pretzels, cheese and grapes for A and veggies with salad dressing, dates with peanut butter, crackers with peanut butter for S
Tuesday's lunch was English muffin with cheddar, salami, apples and a cookie.

Week 6 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)

2010-10-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

Wednesday snacks. S had pineapple, bunny cracker and fruit leather. A had cheese and grapes on Halloween skewers (yes, we did pull out the Halloween stuff even though it's not quite October yet...). E had pineapple, corn crackers and a fruit leather.
Wednesday's lunch was orange slices, grapes, syrup for the waffles, egg salad (for E, S had salami), mini waffles and juice.
Sanck on Thrsday was peaches and a honey/peanutbutter rice crispy treat. School was a half day today was ended after lunch. I picked the boys up before lunch so we could go on a hike. Fun fun! We did eat lunch but no photo. I actually took the boys for their first ever trip to Taco Bell so not the healthiest lunch but they all liked it. ;)
Snack on Friday was some apple sauce with nuts and corn crackers for E and cheese and crackers for S.
Friday's lunch. The boys LOVE this lunch. I call it a "mock lunchable". All the fun of a real lunchable but with nitrate free meat, real cheese, trans fat free crackers, fresh fruit and a home made cookie - oh a a few token veggies too.

For more great lunches, see What's For Lunch Wednesday!

Week 6 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-10-02T13:11:00.001-07:00

Monday Snacks. Both boys had apple and orange slices. S had pretzels and E had rice crackers and this "Fit Stick" which is basically a prune in a bar form. :)
Monday lunch was a sandwich (I guess I don't buy the right bread for the sandwich sealers as mine always look quite ragged...), a cookie and some grapes.
Tuesday Snacks - peaches and crackers with cream cheese for S and A or rice crackers for E.
Lunch on Tuesday was mac and cheese, apple, salami and a cookie.

Week 5 (Friday)

2010-09-25T14:55:00.000-07:00

Friday snacks. S had a banana muffin and grapes. E had chips and grapes.
Lunch Friday was mac and cheese in the thermos, plum, carrots and a cookie.

Week 5 (Wednesday and Thursday)

2010-09-25T14:40:00.000-07:00

Wednesday snacks. E had pear, dates and rice crackers with peanut butter. A had cheese and crackers. S had pear, dates, crackers and cheese.
Wednesday lunch was a sandwich, fruit leather, peppers and carrots and cantaloupe.
Thursday snack. S and E had grapes and granola bar. A had cantaloupe and rice crackers.
Lunch Thursday was apple, bunny crackers, a chocolate bar and yogurt.

Week 5 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-09-25T05:54:00.000-07:00

Monday's snack was apple with peanut butter and so cereal.
Monday's lunch was grapes, cantaloupe, crackers and cheese, some granola bar, date and a few almonds.
Snack on Tuesday was grapes and cheese for S, grapes and a banana muffin for A and grapes for E.
Lunch on Tuesday was egg salad, cantaloupe, tator tots with ketchup (yuk - I can't believe they wanted (and ate) these cold..) and a banana muffin.

Week 4 (Thursday and Friday)

2010-09-19T14:48:00.000-07:00

Thursday snacks - A = peaches and cheese stick. S= peaches and crackers with cheese. E=peaches and rice crackers.
Thursday lunch = juice, cantaloupe and grapes, cinnamon roll with frosting and pizza.
Friday snacks. S=veggies, dip and chips with cheese (He loves the chips with cheese because someone told him it was like nachos) E= guacamole, veggies and chips. No cheese for him as I try to keep wheat, dairy and egg out of his classroom (where he eats snack) due to allergies. It is more of a courtesy than a requirement. That is good since I mess up sometimes... like the rice crackers yesterday which have soy sauce that contains wheat... whoops..
Lunch on Friday was yogurt, peaches, graham crackers and granola.

Week 4 (Tuesday and Wednesday - no school Monday)

2010-09-19T13:51:00.001-07:00

The big boys S and E tell me that the little snack containers I've been using just don't hold enough snack for them so I'm trying to use these bigger containers some of the time. S and E had apples, peanut butter n the green containers and cereal. A (in the middle) had strawberries with a special treat of a few chocolate chips on top.
S and E had a birthday this week so today they had some party leftovers - pizza, cupcake, plum and a few veggies.
For snack on Wednesday S had cheese and tortilla chips, veggies and salad dressing in the green container. A had grapes and crackers with cheese. E had guacamole, chips an veggies.
For lunch they had a sandwich, cantaloupe and a piece of cinnamon roll (another birthday treat)

Week 3 (Thursday and Friday)

2010-09-14T09:41:00.001-07:00

Everyone had cereal and a plum for snack on Thursday.
The big boys had cheese and crackers, cheese stick, peperoni, sweet peppers, granola bar and cookie and cantaloupe for lunch.

I'm SURE I packed a snack and lunch for Friday but apparently didn't take any photos... Oh well.

Week 3 (Wednesday)

2010-09-14T09:32:00.000-07:00

S wanted a bigger snack today so his is in the middle. He had grapes and graham crackers with cream cheese. E's on the right was chips and grapes and A had apple slices and cream cheese on graham crackers.
For lunch the big boys used their lap top lunchbox. We don't use these too often as the boys only have 20 minutes to eat and are slow eaters. This box hold more than they can eat in that time. By filling one area with juice, however, it works great and holds just enough. The juice is a rare treat to them too so they love it. ;) They had cheddar melted on English muffins, juice, apple slices, a brownie and peanut butter in the green container for dipping the apples.
A and I joined them for lunch today. A had a cream cheese and jelly roll ups, a cheese stick, chips and cantaloupe.
I had a sandwich, chips and cantaloupe.

Week 3 (Monday and Tuesday)

2010-09-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

Monday's snack for all the boys was plum and pirate booty.
For lunch the 7 year olds had a sandwich with cantaloupe and a brownie.

For snack on Tuesday S and E had granola bars and a plum and A had cantaloupe and Graham crackers.
S's lunch on Tuesday was cantaloupe, chips, a sandwich and carrots.
E has cucumbers, cheese sticks, guacamole, chips and cantaloupe.