| This is a lunch featured in a earlier post. |
His school has a cafeteria that serves a variety of healthy lunch options. Super healthy main dishes like black bean burgers and vegetables with hummus. They sound great to me, but I don’t know if you would like them. My plan was just to keeping making him lunch all year rather than having him buy lunch.
We were going to try out different breads, vegetables, and fruits. I have plans for sandwiches cutout with cookie cutters and pinwheel sandwiches filled with homemade cream cheese spreads.
That is still going to happen, but recently JDaniel announced that he would like to try to buy lunch.at school. I am not sure if it is the allure of getting in line and selecting your meal or as he says buying lunch means you don’t have to carry a heavy lunch box.
As I mentioned the lunches are all healthy. The days of tacos with sides of fruit cocktail, tater tots and a cinnamon roll are over. (I loved taco days at school when I was little.) We sat down and looked at the school lunch calendar to select a good day to try to buy lunch. There was a little debate over whether or not certain food selections would actually be eaten or would be thrown away. ( I hated to watch student throw away 50% or more of their lunches when I was a teacher.)
Finally we decide on pizza. JDaniel told me that it looked good on other students lunch trays. I asked if they liked it and he didn’t know. I am crossing my fingers that he likes it. He will be having it for lunch this Friday.
If he likes it, we will trying buying lunch on pizza days. They only happen three times a month at his school. We may even try a few of the other lunch options. I will continue to create lunches on the non-pizza days. That should make us both happy.
What do your children like to have for lunch at school?
I love this lunch, it is super cute and creative!
Super cute!
Last year our daughter was buying lunches (How exciting! I am a big girl now!), but she was ending up eating very little of them, and we had “food fights” and consequences practically every day. This year she suddenly asked to have her lunches packed again. Unfortunately, neither of us is creative with food, and she is a picky eater, so usually she gets toast, beans and fruits every single day. Meh 🙁
My kindergarten daughter loves buying her lunch!-Ashley
Oh wow- sounds like they have great healthy options!
Our school lunches aren’t totally UN-healthy, but they still aren’t the best. My oldest goes through the lunch calendar each month and we circle the days where they are serving things he likes. He probably buys about half the time, maybe a little less. My first grader only tried buying his lunch once and he was not a fan, so I always pack his.
I let pierce buy lunch on special occasions like his birthday. Our school lunches here still don’t seem healthy. They have nachos as a lunch choice some days.
Seems like a good solution – pizza days are always popular at every school. That is one thing that never changes. I used to love taco day at my school! As well as the days of chicken nuggets, whipped potatoes with gravy, carrot coins, and a white bread dinner roll! I miss that.
We don’t have that option yet, but we will for kindergarten. We have a peanut free school so we do cheese and hummus sandwiches in shapes (inspired by you!), cut grapes, peas and carrots, pasta, applesauce, etc.
Wow! Your little guy is growing up. He is in school, dealing with lunch choices no less. Maybe he wants to try out the lunch line because it is like a little rite of passage from small child to grade school boy who can pick his own lunch! Sounds like both JDaniel and you are making the most of his adventures in growing up!
Mashed potatoes with gravy – of course, they were whipped instant potatoes and brown gelatinous jarred gravy, but delicious non the less – that was my favorite food from the cafeteria. Actually it was the only food I ever ate in the cafeteria. 50 years ago, when I was a grade school kid – school lunches were things of awe. As in Awwwe! I have to eat that??
What a fun post here. Always love visiting and reading about the adventures JDaniel and you have.
broxton takes his lunch… but it mostly all comes back. then, he says :” i wasn’t hungry”
not sure what is going on with him.
You make the best lunches! If I were your little guy, I would take my lunch every day just to see what surprise was in store! But you’re wise to let him buy his lunch every now and then so that it becomes something that is not out of the ordinary.
Creative lunch photo ~ kids always want to do what the ‘crowd’ is doing ~ smart move on your part ~ Great post for S ~ carol ^_^
I love the bento lunches you make for JDaniel. They are truly wonderful works of art! I am sure JDaniel will like pizza day at school but I hope he figures out quickly how lucky he is to have a mom who packs him a lunch with such love and creativity!
Until I read this post I had forgotten my son eventually asked if he could start buying lunches at school, too. I think to him it was a sign of maturity that he could carry money to school and buy his own lunch. Then, he got to be a teenager and lunch wasn’t enough for that growing boy, so he asked me to supplement, with things like fruit leather and dried meats, which I was happy to do until I found out he was selling them to his friends, who were also hungry – 100% profit. But, that’s another story:)
I do hope he likes the lunches. It’s always good to have an option of buying or taking his own.
Hope he enjoys his lunch tomorrow! I don’t think I ate that well, when I was in school. But that was many, many years ago… {:-Deb
That is good that you have found a compromise that suits you both. That is how life works as JD gets older
I’d love a lunch like that myself. It’s so much fun to look at.
The lunches you create are so fun! It’s great that the school actually provides healthy lunches. So it’s safe for Daniel to experiment.
A very fun lunch to open up! I loved making lunches and then putting little notes in them :o) Going through the lunch line does sound like a fun thing to do too… so that is great that he is wanting to try out a new adventure through the lunch line.
Blessings & Aloha!
It sounds like your little guy is making some smart choices… He is lucky he has a spectacular family to show him the way!
Splendid post for the letter “S”!
Thanks for linking.
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