On a break....

I hope to be back next month. We are attempting to sell and buy a house so lunches are going to be very simple for a bit. Lots of burritos, stuffed potatoes, apples, carrots and pretzels...

..and lots of peanut butter and jelly :)

Be back next month!

Busy week....

This week we had a lot of build your own lunches. I have been experimenting and made up multiple batches of beans and chicken, a large batch of mexican rice, fresh guacamole plus we bought a big bag of Costco taco chips and a few bags of tortillas. We ate a lot of mexican this week and also managed to make burritos for the freezer.







Here is a tray of burritos about to be frozen for future lunches. They are black bean, rice and cheese.












We also put up a batch of twice baked potatoes. My oldest will happily eat these everyday.

The first week of the new year.....

I neglected this blog in December but I am to trying to get back to it . I did not get pictures of everything as there were a few self-serve lunches but here is most of what went out the into our lunchboxes this week.



Today's lunch for my oldest was leftover steamed vegetables with some pork meatballs. The meatballs were a impulse Costco purchase that nobody but him will eat :)

Also tucked in there are 2 bar cookies.


Its hard to tell but this is a filling similar to what I use for empanadas. It has chicken, cheese, green chili's, hot sauce, chili powder, cumin salt and garlic with lettuce leaves and sour cream to make low carb "tacos" or lettuce wraps served with some extra hot sauce. DH is low carbing to jump start his diet.







My second oldest ate at school a few times this week since he gets free lunch for working at the school. This day he took a noodle-less tuna casserole we usually call mock tuna casserole. Its really a tuna salad mixed with green beans and topped with cheese and and heated in the microwave, Here with a sugar free jello. DS2 is very sensitive to what he eats so he does not eat at school everyday.






Ds2 again. A chicken salad using items I used to make burrito bowls for DH ( below)












This is the most successful lunch of the week. The black beans came out well seasoned, the chicken was awesome, and the improvised hot sauce came out well. I wish I could remember what all I put in everything :)

I was trying to make something like what my husband has been craving from Chipotle.







This terrible picture is my oldests lunch. More meatballs as a sandwich with a peeled and sectioned orange and chips. He had this a few days. One day he substituted a chicken club using chicken nuggets which is also what my daughter ate most of the week.


I still have one more lunch to pack today but I have a busy afternoon planned so I will put that one up later :)

Monday :)

Today both the highschoolers took burritoes from the freezer with chips and salsa.


Dh took a tuna fish sandwich and potato chips ( not pictured)








This is a lunch from last week. Its a southwestern style salad and a chocolate pudding.












Here is another salad from another day last week. It has grilled chicken. I can't remember who took this one ;-)

No pictures today- Early release

The kids had early release today so we had a big early family meal today. DH packed his own lunch (he works nights) from our big mexican meal. We had beef tacos, freshly fried shells and chips with taco beef and all the fixins including homemade guacamole, rice and beans.

I was to busy eating to get a picture :)

Completely skipped posting in November....

DH's lunch-
Chili, cheese, sour cream and crackers.
Zero











Daughters lunch, which she gave to her little brother when she realized i was making chili :)












DS1 had a bagel with cream cheese, crackers, a hershey bar and a banana.

DS ate at school. He gets to eat free for volunteering in the kitchen.

October 28th

Hubby made his own lunch today while I was taking a nap ( I only ended up with 4 hours sleep last night) so I did not get a picture of his lunch.

DS1 took quesadillas with sour cream, some taco sauce packets leftover from carryout, a bag of chips and a apple. I bought a box of single serve chips for a get together Saturday so I pulled out a few to use in lunches this week.

Its funny, I have not put quesadillas in a lunchbox before because I was worried about them drying out but DS loved them and requested that I make them everyday. I threw in a black bean, tomato, corn and cilantro mix that was leftover from southwestern salads then added a little sauteed onion. No nuking of quesadillas here, they MUST be cooked on the stove top in a little butter till crispy and golden. Yum!





DS2-Lower carb lunch, crustless pizza, salad and diet jello. The crustless pizza does not look pretty but smells and tastes yummy. It has sauteed garlic, onion and pepper with banana peppers, spicy sausage pepperoni and cheese,
















The younger 2 had cheese and crackers lunches but lucky DD ended up with a cookie :)

Today, I ran out of time so I grabbed DH a rice/black bean burrito. They are vegetarian and DH has to have meat in his lunch so I grabbed some taco chicken out of the freezer and topped it with a little cheese and packed some taco chips and salsa to go with it.

DS1 likes to be done early. He would rather have a simple lunch, less containers and fuss. He ate rice/black beans burritos most of the week.

One day he took leftover chili, taco chips and fruit. (pictured)

DS2 has been eating lower carb this week. He ate at school last week and felt terrible. He has to watch his blood sugar.

Here is a salad with ranch dressing, canteloupe and strawberries and sunflower seeds.

Here he had a hamburger with salsa and cheese, canteloupe, sunflower seeds and a little veggie tray.

Today's picture came out a little fuzzy. Here is a turkey and cheese lettuce wrap, a little leftover smoked sausage and peppers, veggies and almonds.

I did not take pictures of a few lunches. DH took leftover lasagna and a salad one day and another day he took sandwiches and chips.

Friday

I'm late posting again :)

DS1- Grabbed a quick lunch, a freezer rice and black bean burrito, chips and salsa and fruit.(not pictured)

Ds2-Worked today (free lunch)

DD- Garlic vegetable pasta, homemade chex mix, strawberries and yogurt, a rice crispy from the freezer and some cereal to put on the yogurt.

I made little guy a plate when I was making DD's lunch.









Taco salad for DH. Salad base, chili, salad topping, fruit and chips.

Back to school...

We are still adjusting to our new schedule. The kids are doing great but I am still on night owl time. About half of our lunches have been self serve with either a rice wrap or sandwich from the freezer, fruit, and chips. DS#2 is also working at school and gets lunch for free on days he works.


"Fried" chicken salad with fritos for crunch and fruit. Chicken is actually baked tenders from the freezer.

Sandwich with lettuce and tomato on the side, fruit and chips.








Kids lunch- Wrap, chips and salsa, veggies and rice krispie treat.

Wrap, chips, cookies and fruit.

White bean chili with cheese, yogurt with fruit and cereal topping.

Pizza pasta, salad and bread with butter.

Friday and Monday

DH is really into crunchy stuff on his salads right now. He likes both sunflower seeds and croutons on his salad. I also packed some sun chips and nuts in case he does not have time to sit down and eat. Last week he had to skip lunch a few times. The sun chips are from a Amazon.com deal and we are just about out of them.





I made some southwestern style wraps for lunch and packed 2 for DH's lunch. I added a little hot sauce to ranch dressing to give it a little kick. They have salad mix with corn and chicken strips and just a little bit of tomato.

Tomorrow is the first day back to school!

Summers almost over......

Well, I ended up ignoring this blog over the summer. I did not pack as much summer food as I usually do. Our garage sale days were shorter so we came home for lunch and the kids did not take food to the pool like I thought they woold. DH still needed lunch. He packed a lot of his own lunches over the summer.

School starts next week and I plan on keeping this blog updated again. It does not get a lot of comments but it does get a decent amount of visitors :)

Summer is here!

Chef salad













Taco salad with chili and chips. Yogurt and fruit.















Salad with bacon bits and croutons, yogurt with fruit and a bageful ( free after double coupon)













Sandwich, carrots and dressing, yougurt with fruit











Reuban kit, granola and a banana

Summer is here, no more school lunches :)

I still have to pack for DH and food for trips to the pool and park so I think I am going to try to post more make ahead and portable foods. Towards the end of the summer I will need to stock up for the lunch box season and make some freezer items to grab and go for the new school year. I will probably post them on my other blog and link from here.

May 28th

DH- 2 Caesar wraps with dressing and fresh fruit













The beige lunch.....

Ham and cheese sandwich, taco chips, graham cracker and mandarin oranges













Leftover pork and beans, carrots with ranch, strawberries and a oatmeal cookie.