Chicken Strips

S said to me yesterday "Mommy, can you stop sending such a healthy snack?" When I asked why he said "I get jealous of the kids eating junk food." I said "well I usually give you some junk food in your lunch, would you rather have it in your snack?" S said "I want it in both." We negotiated for a little while and ended up with me saying I would sometimes surprise them with junk food in their snack. Hence the vanilla pudding in the snack today. And a few healthy pears too...
This very blurry lunch photo has pears, "yogurt" covered pretzels, chicken strips, raw veggies and BBQ sauce and humus to dip.

More Marshmellow Teeth

Snack today was oranges and cheese sticks (E) or peanuts (S).
Lunch was another marshmallow teeth sandwich, this time on an English muffin, apple and a Christmas chocolate.

Sandwich and Cake

Cheese, cracker and apple for snack today.
Mango, cauliflower and chocolate cake in the top row. (I put the yellow picks in the cake to hopefully keep it from getting the icing stuck on the top of the lunch box). A sandwich, pretzels and veggie bootie on the bottom row.

Bagel Sandwich

Snack today was an apple, a mini zucchini muffin and some peanuts (S) or cheese stick (E).
Lunch was a mini bagel sandwich and mango in the top container and pretzels and fruit leather in the bottom container.

Family Pool Lunch

No school or work today so we took a trip to the recreation center pool! Our lunch is shown above. Pizza and various sandwiches in the left. Chocolate chip bread (otherwise known as whole wheat zucchini bread with chocolate chips...), mango, veggies, gluten free zucchini muffin and humus for veggie dipping on the right.

Skewers and Crackers

Snack today was a granola bar and some fruit.
Lunch was apples with peanut butter for dipping, two deli skewers, some crackers and a chocolate lollipop courtesy of Aunt T. :)

Cookie Cutter Sandwich

Snak today was apple and cheese.
Lunch was orange slicis, veggie bootie, a duck cutout creme cheese and jelly sandwich, a granola bar and veggies with humus to dip. I'd love to make these cookie cutter sandwiches more often. They are cute and so easy. However, I rarely seem to catch the day that we finish one loaf of bread and pull out another from the freezer/grocery store. And also we are pretty boring and usually use the same brand of bread...
A and I joined the boys for lunch today. Above is my lunch of PB&J, banana, veggies and humus.
And here is A'' lunch of veggie bootie, bananas, pasta and chicken with parmesan to sprinkle in the orange container.

Does anyone know a good way to pack banana in lunch boxes? S and E always complained that they get to "old looking and smelly" so I stopped packing bananas for them. The two lunches above were packed just an hour and a half before we ate them and we still had that problem somewhat. Our whole lunches smelled like banana!