Lunches Last Week

We only had 3 lunches from last week.  Colin had pink eye so he stayed home from school on Thursday and Friday.  He is all better now and I hope it is a very long time until I have to wrestle a toddler down for eye drops again. 

Monday, 10/18

Breakfast: apple cinnamon muffin & a banana

AM Snack: blueberry yogurt

Lunch: turkey & cheese 'spooky meow (cat)' sandwich, green grapes, 1/4 of an oatmeal raisin cookie & Snikkidy cheese fries

PM Snack: peanut butter crackers & a mandarin orange

Tuesday, 10/19

Breakfast: nutri-grain bar & applesauce

AM snack: apple muffin, green grapes

Lunch: pasta salad (car shaped noodles, corn, tomatoes, peas, & cheese w/some light italian dressing), fruit salad, sliced pickles

PM Snack: trail mix (peanuts, honey nut cheerios, raisins, marshmallow)

Wednesday, 10/20

Breakfast: fruit loops cereal (added milk @ school) & banana

AM snack: blueberry yogurt

Lunch: pb&j 'sushi rolls', mandarin orange, grapes, veggie chips, and a candy treat (m&m's & marshmallows)

PM snack: pretzels & fruit snack bites

Lunches This Week

I always have a hard time packing Colin's lunches food for school.  Then I heard about the Easy Lunchbox system - the blogs/ideas I found through their website were great!  So this is my first attempt at blogging Colin's lunches for the week.  It probably won't really matter to anyone who reads this blog, but someday it might!  Colin is at "school" everyday from about 7:30am - 4pm so I pack a ton of food for him: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack. I pack everything the night before and leave it in the fridge for my hubby (he takes him to school in the mornings).  Also, just b/c of how I pack it/intend for him to eat doesn't mean that is how it always goes at school.  A lot of times he comes home with food he didn't eat/ate in a different order so it gets recycled into the next days lunch if possible. So, here we go with a warning - the pictures are not great.

Monday, 10/11

Breakfast: Waffle w/butter, banana

AM Snack: applesauce

Lunch: pb&j sandwich, goldfish, cucumbers, carrots & strawberries

PM snack: pretzels

Tuesday, 10/12

Breakfast: Fruit Loops w/milk (not shown), banana

AM Snack: yogurt, granola bar

Lunch: crackers, cheese, ham, fruit salad, teddy grahams w/a few marshmallows

PM Snack: goldfish

Wednesday, 10/13

Breakfast: Cheesey scrambled eggs, mandarin orange, ABC cereal

AM snack: applesauce

Lunch: Ham & cheese quesadillas, carrots, cucumbers, strawberries, raisins & peanuts

PM snack: ritz crackers w/peanut butter, fruit snacks

Thursday, 10/14

Breakfast: Cereal bar, yogurt

AM Snack: pumpkin muffins

Lunch: spooky macaroni w/turkey dog, peas, carrots, applesauce, tomato, half a cinnamon cookie

PM Snack: pretzels and raisins

Friday, 10/15

Breakfast: Cereal bar, banana

AM snack: pumpkin muffins

Lunch: turkey & ham rollups w/cheese, tomatos, carrots, pickles, veggie chips

PM snack: pretzels and mandarin orange

Ham & Cheese Sliders

So my family has been eating for the last couple of months, I just haven't been blogging about it.  Mostly because by the time dinner is ready we are all so hungry/tired/cranky/whatever that I don't even think about looking for my camera to take a picture.  If I don't have a photo, I won't blog about it because that's no fun.  I didn't take a photo last night either but luckily this recipe has been making its rounds around the blogosphere so I borrowed someone else's picture!  This photo is Annie's Eats blog- check it out (link at bottom), she has some amazing stuff on her blog.  I am a huge fan of every recipe I have found on her site - speaking of, I need to blog some of them if I can find the photos I took.  This is an easy recipe and really tasty - I made it for our bible study last night and everyone seemed to really like them.

Sandwich Ingredients:
24 good white dinner rolls or slider rolls
24  slices honey ham
12 slices white American cheese (use any chz you want!)
Mayo

Sauce Ingredients:
1½ tbsp. yellow mustard

8 tbsp. butter, melted

1 tbsp. finely minced onion

½ tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Poppy seeds, for sprinkling

Preheat the oven to 350˚ F.  Split the slider rolls and spread the insides lightly with mayonnaise.  Fold a slice of ham to fit on each slider bun, and top with a slice of cheese (I used half a slice of cheese on each roll).  Replace the top bun to assemble the sandwiches.  Place the sandwiches on a baking sheet.

To make the sauce, combine all ingredients except the poppy seeds in a small bowl and whisk to combine.  Drizzle the sauce over the tops of the slider buns.  Sprinkle with poppy seeds (I forgot to buy these).  Cover with foil and bake 10 minutes, until the cheese is melted.  Remove the foil and bake 2 minutes longer.  Serve warm.

Also, for me the sauce recipe did not make enough - you can never have too much butter, right?  So I doubled the sauce and doused the sandwiches - yum!  I can't wait to make these again!

Source:

Annies Eats