I'm not one of those moms who likes school. I like having my daughter home. Getting a child ready for school
is the most exhausting activity in my life. I walk two miles by 9:30 a.m. and only half of that comes from the literal walk to school. The other half comes from the circles I walk and the stairs I climb getting child ready for school.
I'm wearing a pedometer today.
I fed my child a breakfast of Chobani black cherry yogurt, homemade granola, animal crackers and Very Vanilla Silk soy milk.
While she ate that, I could have joined her with my own yogurt. But no. It's chicken nuggets- ham and cheese- or - PB&J day in the school cafeteria and child requested a Mom-packed lunch. What'd I pack?
- 100 % juice "punch"
- leftover sizzling chicken and cheese from the TGIFridays dinner we had with my dad last night. That involved the hot lunch bowl.
- homemade fruit salad with tangerines, banana and raspberries (see recipe below)
- cloth napkin
- kid fork
Now, normally my fruit gets a Vouvray sauce like this:
http://angelfoodcooking.blogspot.com/2010/08/honeyed-fruit.html?m=1
But since child isn't a huge fan of white wine I adapted the sauce to this:
- 2 tablespoons Vouvray (sweet desserty white wine)
- 2 tablespoons local honey
- 2 tablespoons cran-pomegranate juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoons juice of fresh raspberry juice from the bottom of the raspberry bowl (more if you have it)
Well you only have one lunch to make. My mother did it assembly line style there was so many lunches to pack for school/work. I believe everyone got the same thing. If you didn't like it, you traded it! I don't think she ate till we were all gone!
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the commercial....of course you didn't, no tv ... I don't know what they are advertising, but the line is "do you think your kids are eating the veggies you pack. They pan to the cafeteria and a table of boys. One has his fingers up like a goal post, the other one is pelting carrots over it. It's quite funny. I can see kids doing that. You and Jamie Oliver would be appalled. (you should watch the "food revolution" on the net).
Poor ad though, because I haven't a clue what they are selling.