Survive April school holidays - Check
2 out of 2 tasks completed. Now to do it all again but with jumpers on because it is bloomin' cold. In the scheme of things it's not as cold as full blown winter yet, and other places and countries survive much colder weather. But here in WA anything below 20degrees Celsius and we are all pulling out our thermal undies and ugg boots. It also adds a different dimension to the morning routine, because getting up in the cold and dark is strange and convincing the kids to get into action is a bit tougher because they still think it is night time.
I may have to start thinking of warming lunches too. Does anyone know of a good "kid friendly" thermos? Something that can be opened easily by little hands?
Week 11, this kid has:
- Soy milk and Sipahh straw
- Pasta salad
- a slice of Fruit cake
- Red seedless grapes for recess
If your kids are happy with eating "fork" food at school then pasta salads are an easy lunch to throw together. Especially if you have leftover pasta from last nights dinner. Then add any salad veggies you have in your fridge that your kids will happily eat. Lucy chose cherry tomatoes, cucumber, basil and parsley. I also added some shredded ham and her favourite salad dressing which is a creamy potato salad one (not my preference - I'm more of a balsamic vinaigrette gal, but it's not my lunch so I let her have it) Other options could be with cheese, olives, salami's, spring onion, pinenuts, capers, etc. Anything your kids will eat really.
The fruit cake is one of my lunchbox cheats. This one is store bought and I cut it all up and freeze it. It is always defrosted by the time she eats it and it keeps it fresh all week. No thinking in the morning and is friendly on your finances too.
Maybe next term I will try and do a rough costing of how much each lunch is. What do you think? Hmm already sounds too hard. Maybe not.
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