School Lunch Salads

We alternate between sandwiches & salads for school lunches. 

This day the boys had orzo salads.

• Orzo
• Cucumbers
• Tomatoes
• Spinach
• Basil
• Cilantro
• Red Onions
• Sweet Red Pepper
• Sun-dried Olives
• Sea Salt
• Garlic powder
• Corn
• Sun-dried tomatoes

School Lunches 2012/2013 school year

We've made some additions to our school lunch menus this year.

I found these nifty containers for lunches (Bed, Bath & Beyond)... they work great for sandwhiches and snacks.

Cheese sandwiches have been added to our menu a time or two per week.  We use either sprouted grain buns or bread, raw goat cheese and organic condiments.

The smoked cheese is amazing!  It is my favorite, but the boys prefer the mild cheddar.

School Lunches

I've learned something very interesting about kids-- I don't know if it's just my kids or if all kids are like this.  The boys don't require a lot of variety-- especially where their school lunches are concerned.  I send them basically the same lunch almost every day.

Matthew gets a salad that I make the night before when I'm making dinner.  His lunch also includes an apple and a container of "snackies" (mix of almonds, raisins, carob coated almonds- and any other little snacks we have in the house).

Taylor and Noah prefer fruit lunches- so they each get a fruit salad, dip (either tahini and agave or almond butter and agave), and a container of "snackies".

Occasionally I'll send them a sandwich- maybe 4 or 5 times a year.  Otherwise, it's some variation of the list above.

Matthew's Lunch:  the night before we had garbonzo beans.  I send a container of home-made dressing too.

Taylor and Noah's lunch:  I always add celery to their fruit salad so they are getting a green veggie for lunch.  Taylor likes coconut sprinkled on his fruit salad and I frequently toss a few raw pistachios.  Because fruit doesn't keep as well once it's cut up, I make their fruit salads in the morning before school.

I send a "dip" made from either tahini and agave (below) or raw almond butter and agave.

They all get a container of "snackies":

An apple or clementine (cutie) rounds out the lunch.