School lunches can really be a pain in the butt, BUT at the same time I love it because, 1 I don’t have to be around my little one and constantly enforcing her to eat, and 2, well, I don’t have to clean up either. So as stressful as it is it is also such a blessing.

I remember when I was young, my mum would make sandwiches, and MANY of them ended up finding its way to the bottom of the bag and well… a week or so… I would find myself carrying a um.. a almost a compost bin as a bag. GROSS… yes I know. So lucky for my own experience, I am going to try to avoid the situation. I was also actually always too busy to eat. Actually.. hmmm I don’t remember eating much of my lunches… eh.. my bad.

ANYWAY.. this post is not about what a naughty kid I was in school, so lets concerntrate on the job at hand. SCHOOL LUNCHES. Avoiding them going to the bin, and hopefully providing my young daughter some nutrients during her busy midday schedule. I will attempt to put up each week my lunch menu plan for her and hopefully be able to give you a few ideas too on the way!

SO THIS WEEK’s SCHOOL LUNCH BOX MENU

Monday – Cooked peas, corn and diced bacon, a small handful of mini nestum cookies (thank you Chinese New Year!), and sliced peach.

Tuesday – Baked pizza dough (saved from Monday nights dinner) and spinach and onion dip, Carrot sticks and raisins

Wednesday – No School!

Thursday – Ham and cheese sandwich (I know not very creative but she loves this. She is only in prep and so sandwiches at this time is a novelty – so best use sparingly and its just a good and quick one), cherry tomatoes, yoghurt coated raisins, and crackers.

Friday – Orechiettes (prepared from Thursdays dinner) and steamed brocolli, Orange squares, and Jelly with blueberries.

The past weeks she has been at school, it has really been hit and miss with some foods, so I think it is really important to check and review what worked and what didn’t (D’UH… you give them something that they didn’t eat… chances are that they may not eat it – HOWEVER… I am also quite a believer that Kids tastes buds change.. and well, they’re just fickle little people when it comes to food). So what I think is good for her, she may get it back in her lunch box, maybe this time with something else so that she have another go at it.

I like to ask her if she enjoyed her lunch, and what she ate. Like last week, I gave her cherry tomatoes as a snack, and she mentioned that it hurt her mouth because she had an ulcer. So if I was to just look into her lunch and discover all the tomatoes still in tack, I could have assumed she didn’t like them but that wasn’t the case. It was because she just couldn’t eat them. So I’m giving them another go this week AND checked that ulcers are gone. BTW kids are also darn good liars too… so yeh…..

That’s the plan. Will try to take pics etc and put recipes up if this weeks school lunch box menu is a hit.