Back to School

So, in the last few days my husband has overseen feeding the family. We both have been so crazy busy we succumbed to the "let's get a pizza" mentality last night. We got a pesto pizza with fresh tomatoes and bacon AND a regular "red" pie with spinach and black olives. That's my homage to getting our vegetables. Spinach on pizza.

I stopped at Target last night to get some school supplies before the hard lines team dismantles the section and ending up getting school food. Juice boxes, some sparkling V-8 fusion as a treat, cashews, Zen trail mix, goldfish pretzels, cheese, Morningstar vegetarian sausage patties, Archer Farms real fruit bars (strawberry). And I got the makings to make some incredible eggplant from the produce in the garden.

Which I hope to do tonight.

The third grade teacher has sent home a note that healthy snack could be sent for a 10:20 snack break. That is awesome news and I am queen of healthy snacks, but my cupboards were ill-prepared for this. On top of this, I was not letting my daughter buy "popcorn chicken." So she got sent to school yesterday with mandarin oranges for a morning snack and leftover chicken and pasta in her thermal bowl for lunch (with a side of Healthy Harvest Blueberry Applesauce). But, with the thermal bowl in the lunchbox, that left no room for her thermos and with no juice boxes, I sent juice in a bottle and she spilled it. Couldn't have been too bad of a spill because I didn't see much mess in there after-the-fact. To avoid this in the future, I went to Target and got some juice boxes.

I'm also contemplating letting my daughter try breakfast at the school, since they sent home a menu which I can check. She's not buying breakfast on mini-bagel/cream cheese day since I don't think that provides enough protein and I think cold, untoasted bagels are a last resort. Toast them and enjoy them! Not soggy, chewy and cold.

I am sooooo glad that the school has breakfast. Now I'm trying to convince some neighborhood kids whom I know don't get breakfast at home AND they qualify for free breakfast to get to the school to claim it!