what's in that kids lunchbox..........eight

How did we get to week 9 of the school term already. Honestly it has gone so quickly that we haven't really gotten into any type of rhythm yet and we are already staring down the school holiday path. I must admit that I am looking forward to the 2 week break with my special girl. Full time school is tough on a 5 year old and her sooky Mumma. We have never really spent this much time away from each other.

We had such a beautifully busy weekend that we were barely home, which resulted in having no fresh fruit or salad left and no shopping done. Luckily I was still able to scrape some things together and come up with a half decent lunch

Week 9: this kid has

• cream cheese and vegemite sandwich (don't knock it till you've tried it!)
• a slice of carrot cake (thank goodness for the freezer)
• apple crisps (these are so yummy, 100% apple freeze dried with nothing else added)
• a fruit juice
• carrot for shared recess

I received no complaints about last weeks lunchbox. I best do some shopping though so that next week we don't have to resort to canteen orders!

what's in that kids lunchbox....... seven

I had a lunchbox FAIL last week! Lucy didn't like the pizza. Actually she didn't like the muffin that I used for the pizza base. So I won't be buying those again. It wasn't a complete waste as Clint made the most of it and he took them for lunch instead. And Lucy had sambo's. 


Don't you hate that feeling of wasting all that time making things that turn out to be a flop........grrrrrrr. Oh well lesson learnt.


week 8, this kids has

• "chicken salad" and lettuce mountain bread wrap. (the chicken salad is  leftover BBQ chook and celery blitzed in a mini food processor and mixed with mayo and salt and white pepper. It's even better if you add in walnuts too but had to leave this out due to the school nut policy)
• choc and zucchini muffins using this recipe - but with a few changes. I swapped butter for olive oil and white sugar for raw and I used grated dark choc instead of cocoa powder. I also added dried craisins to half the batter to add some extra pizazz. The batter is super moist so when you make them into muffins you don't need to worry about them being dry.
• carrot sticks
• soy milk with a sippah straw

what's in that kids lunchbox.........six

after a week stuck in quarantine we are all glad to see the start of a "normal" week. The kids and Clint both dodged catching the nasty germ but we were all still very cabin feverish in the last day or two. Lucy is eager to see all of her school friends too.


So week 7, this kid has

• fruit juice
• homemade mini pizza's
• coconut bites (100g coconut, 100g panella, 1 egg white; combine and cook balls for approx 10mins in moderate oven)
• cucumber slices
• apple for shared fruit recess

My kids really like cold pizza so this works well for us. It's a great leftover lunch item. I class it in my "hot to cold leftovers" lunch category. You know - things that were hot but can be eaten cold. Other things in this category are quiche, chicken wings, sausages etc. We usually make our pizza's on pita's or Lebanese bread, but I especially bought English muffins with this in mind for Lucy's lunch box as they are the perfect size.

Week fives lunchbox wasn't complete smooth sailing. Lucy loved it, however it took too long to eat, so she was unable to finish in time to play. So we played around with the quantities and took out a snack. It was a good lesson for me to learn. Having enough time to play is important to a 5 year old! 

going stir crazy

Being in quarantine and "stuck" in the house is sending us a little bonkers. Here's some photo's of the things we did to pass the time

baking

roasting

deep poor masks

and driving each other crazy

It's fair to say that we all well and truly ready to go back to normal. I am REALLY missing the gym and am feeling terrible about all the crap I have eaten while being stuck here in my own miserable sorryness.

empty lunchbox.

Well we have just come back from a long weekend and Lucy has only got a half day today because of parent interviews. I have been unwell so I scooted straight to the doctor only to be told that she is almost certain that I have whooping cough and need to be in quarantine for the rest of the week. I had whooping cough when I was little - and that resulted in some nasty third degree burns and a whole year in and out of burns units, because I spilt some boiling water from an inhaling bowl on me. So I am kind of having some horrible memories return.


So I doubt Lucy will be going to school this week either as we just don't have any other option  but to be exposed to each other.  I'm sure for lunches this week we will be having soups and toast. We'll probably be having that for breakfast and dinner too.


I am going to go and feel sorry for myself and try to get some sleep. Hope everyone is well and remember if you haven't had a vaccine booster since you were little to go and get one RIGHT NOW!


Mxxx