Day 2!

All in all, Lilly's first day of middle school was good. She had a bit of trouble with her combination lock on her locker and missed half of her lunch period (she only got to eat half her lunch), which meant she was super hungry by the time she got home yesterday.  We purchased a key lock and switched them out. We'll see if that helps with speeding up her locker visits. 

On to today's lunch!

▪️Turkey, white American cheese, and light mayo tortilla roll ups

▪️ pineapple chunks

▪️pretzel spoons and a Laughing Cow light Swiss cheese triangle

▪️Nature's Path Organic Dark Chocolate Coconut Macaroon bar (Lilly couldn't really eat this because it's a very hard bar and she has braces.) 

▪️ Horizon Organic Lowfat milk 

Packed in the Rubbermaid Lunch Blox system. 

I have the smaller version of this system and even though they're somewhat interchangeable, this still isn't my favorite system. The snapping aspect (the containers are meant to snap to the ice block) isn't as secure as I'd like. 

I think we may break out her GoGreen Lunch box tomorrow!

First day of sixth grade!

Soooo, we're back to public school this year and back to bento! 

Well, sort of. 

Lilly asked that her bento lunches be a bit more mature this year. 

How do you make a "mature" lunch? 

Anyway, here's my stab at it today!

Turkey and White American sub on wheat

Green, seedless grapes

Sensible Portions Garden Veggie Straws in Zesty Ranch

Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Oikos Blueberry Greek Yogurt

Horizon Organic low fat milk

Here's to a great year full of great lunches!

A couple of lunches...

Needless to say, the flu made its rounds through our house.

Lilly missed quite a bit of school.

I only have two lunches to post today.

PB&J sammie

Star pretzels

Babybel light Swiss cheese wedge

Stila strawberry bits

Penguin crackers

Two Oreo cookies

A few mini marshmallows

Juiceheads Strawberry Banana smoothie

Salad with Turkey Pepperoni

Low Fat Ranch dressing

Cheez-its crackers

Apples and grapes

Mini Oreo cookies (purple container)

Two mini Hershey bars

Apple juice

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Hopefully, with everything Lilly's caught at school, her immune

system is able to fight off most things in the future.

Have a great weekend!

A bunch of lunch, all at once.

Today is the first day of Lilly's Christmas break, so I figured

I'd post the lunches she's had for the last week or so.

She was sick last week (again) and missed two days of school.

Here's her lunch for the days she was actually well enough 

for school and ate home lunch.

Turkey and cheese sammies

Christmas pretzels with roasted garlic hummus 

Grapes

Christmas cookies

Juiceheads strawberry banana smoothies

Packed in the GoGreen Lunchbox

Christmas shaped PB&J sammies

Christmas pretzels with Babybel Swiss cheese wedge

Chocolate strawberry granola

Grapes

Cliff kid Z bar in chocolate brownie

Vanilla pudding with sprinkles

Juiceheads strawberry banana smoothie

This is one day that Lilly said she wished she would've had more

time at lunch to eat it all. :)

Christmas tree PB&J sammies

Christmas cookies

Raisins

Celery (with Ranch dip in the Christmas tree container)

Red & Green M & Ms

Horizon organic lowfat milk.

Chobani Vanilla Greek yogurt

M&Ms (in the snowman container)

Snowman shaped sammies

Pretzel thins with Babybel Swiss cheese wedge

Strawberries

Horizon organic lowfat milk

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Two days, Lilly wanted to eat school lunch and the other two

lunches were just tomato soup and mac n' cheese, so no pics.

We're off school until January 2nd, so have a very Merry Christmas!

No lunch post today.

Last Friday, the awful happenings at Sandy Hook Elementary School

left so many hearts broken forever.

I can't imagine what those parents and the entire community

must be going through.

I explained to Lilly what happened and her first reaction was

shock and then anger.

Anger that someone could do something so evil.

But we must focus on the lives lost that day,

the brave educators that gave their lives

to try and save the children in their care.

And the people who acted bravely to prevent further loss of such precious lives.

May they all never be forgotten.

Nyan Cat and other stuffs.

I'm so glad it's Friday!
Lilly ate school lunch one day this week, and macaroni

and cheese another day (no pic),

but here are the lunches for the rest of the week!

Bagel slices

Mozzarella cheese

Turkey pepperoni

Marinara

Buddy Fruits blended strawberry

Juiceheads strawberry banana smoothie (not pictured)

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Gingerbread girl shaped PB&J sammie

with four gingerbread marshmallows

Colby cheese squares

Dried strawberries

Penguin crackers (in the little gingerbread man box)

Gingerbread man cookie

Milk (not pictured)

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Nyan Cat PB&J sammie

Colby cubes

Chocolate strawberry granola

Carrots

Cucumber (with music note pics)

Ranch dip (not pictured)

Apple juice (not pictured)

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This lunch is special.

It's not exactly how I pictured it when I thought I'd make it for her,

but I really wanted to cheer her up.

She's had a tough week.

A playground fall left her with two busted up knees

and the drama with her bully is still happening.

I had a phone conference with her teacher and she

assured me she would take the necessary

steps to end the bullying.

I sincerely hope she does.

Anyway, the theme here is Nyan Cat.

If you aren't familiar with Nyan Cat,

you can watch the super popular video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

Lilly LOVES this video.

I can't explain why she (or countless others)

are so enthralled by this Pop-Tart, rainbow emitting cat.

She just loves it.

It's drawn in 8-bit style (which is Lilly's favorite),

it's set to a Japanese song (also one of Lilly's interests),

and it's a cat.

I guess I do understand why she likes it so much.

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I'm not super happy with how this turned out.

It was late and I decided on a whim to make it.

I WILL attempt a better, more aesthetically pleasing Nyan Cat

bento in the future!

This week's lunches.

This week, we packed lunch four days!

One day was just tomato soup, so no pic.

Here's the other three.

PB&J rectangle sammies

Freeze dried apple slices

Stila strawberry bits

Peach applesauce

Cheddar pretzels

Babybel cheese

Milk 

Angry Birds triple-decker PB&J sammie

German chocolate marshmallows

Angry Birds graham crackers (only the piggies)

Celery w/ranch

Sugar Free Vanilla yogurt

Juicy Juice Apple juice

1UP turkey & cheese sammie

German chocolate marshmallows

Colby Jack cheese cubes

Cheddar penguin crackers

Freeze dried apple slices with a Mario mustache

Mario fruit strip

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