Day 487

Day 487 - Chicken Taco Salad.  Leftover grilled chicken on lettuce with cheese, tomatoes, corn chips, yogurt/salsa dressing and some grapes.

I have the same lunch but with black beans instead of tomatoes.

Days 482 - 485

Day 482 - Grilled cheese sticks, peppers, tomatoes, pizza sauce, clementines, chocolate covered craisins and some "trail mix" of Brownie Gold Fish and coconut chips.

I have chicken salad with melba snacks, coconut chips and a clementine.

Day 483 - Pretzel Dog bites. I saw these on Pinterest and had to make them.  Well I sort of made them.  I was lazy and used pizza dough that I had on hand....do yourself a favor....make the dough.  Pizza dough is a bit too chewy.  Delicious, but chewy!  D also has ketchup for dipping, peppers and tomatoes, grapes and trail mix of almonds, coconut chips and chocolate chips.

I have pretzel dog bites too with some of the beer cheese which was amazing!  I also have grapes, a clementine and trail mix.

Day 484 - Lunchmeat "sushi", trail mix, grapes, peppers and tomatoes, trail mix.  D is on some medication that has decreased her appetite.  Lots of food has bee coming home.  I thought if I put it in a smaller container it would be less overwhelming and she may eat more....didn't work...lots of food still came back home.

I had pretzel dogs again because I was really the only one that liked them and I had a ton left to eat...I guarantee they would have been a bigger hit if I had used the dough in the recipe.

Day 485 - D has a ham sandwich decorated with cheese, some peppers, Brownie goldfish, clementine and chocolate covered Craisins.

I had soup so I didn't take a picture of it.

Day 481

Day 481 - Leftovers!  D has leftover pizza, rainbow sweet bell peppers, an orange and some cinnamon graham crackers.

I have leftover chicken, some melba toast, cottage cheese and an orange.

Days 479 and 480

Day - 479 Ham sandwiches.  I cut out some mini ham sandwiches and decorated them with cheese stamped with a rubber stamp and food coloring.  D also has tri-colored sweet bell pepper slices, an orange and a cherry/dark chocolate rice crispie treat.

I have leftover grilled pork tenderloin, a soft pretzel, an orange and a piece of chocolate.

Day - 480 Today D has lunch meat sushi (ham, chicken, string cheese and bell pepper strips), bell pepper slices, dill pickles, an orange, some cinnamon graham crackers and a piece of candy.

I have an italian cold cut spread wrap with some Bugles, an orange, cinnamon graham crackers and a piece of candy.

Day 478

Day 478 - More leftovers!  Today D has meatballs, broccoli, string cheese, mini bell peppers, pizza sauce for dipping, clementine, blueberry almonds and a cherry/dark chocolate rice crispie treat.

Today is a 1/2 day at school.  Since I'll be coming home early I'll just eat lunch when I get here but the kids do eat lunch at school.

Day 475 - 477

Day 475 - Turkey sandwich, colby/jack cheese kabobs, corn chips, chocolate covered craisins, reese's and a clementine.  I cut the sandwich with a FunBites Cube It.

I have my Italian cold cut spread with soft pretzels, chocolate covered craisins with pistachios and a clementine.

Day 476 - Breakfast for lunch!  Blueberry pancakes, sausage, syrup, clementine, chocolate covered craisins and a cherry/dark chocolate rice crispie treat.

I have cold cut roll ups, coconut yogurt, clementine and a peanut butter brownie.

Day 477 - Leftovers!!  Breaded chicken strips, grilled green beans, bbq sauce, apples, and a small piece of candy on top of a rice crispie treat.

I also have leftover chicken, grilled green beans some mustard dipping sauce, clementine and apple.

Day 473

 Day 473 - Today D has leftover Chicken Parmesan casserole, garlic bread, a clementine and some almond cookies.

I have cottage cheese, italian cold cut roll ups, a clementine and grilled green beans.

Day 470

Day 470 - Today D has heart shaped cheese ravioli that I cooked in water with pink gel food coloring on a bed of spinach with grape tomatoes, an orange and grapes.

I had leftover chicken and roasted potatoes on a bed of spinach with an orange and grapes.




 

Days 445 and 446

Day 445 - Quick easy Friday lunch, DIY Lunchable!  She has turkey, ham, cheese, crackers, grapes and cherry tomatoes.

I have an Italian cold cut sandwich on ciabatta bread (that I shared with a co-worker), peas and hummus and some grapes.

Day 446 - D was sick all weekend. I made her a pb&j fairy sandwich with some fruit but to be honest, she didn't go to school today and didn't eat a bite of it.

I have a couple slices of a leftover Italian calzone, peas, cheese and grapes.

Day 441

Day 441 - We are still trying to finish up the last of the leftover steak tips so steak salads today!  D's salad is mixed greens, tomatoes, steak, marinated mozzarella and a little bottle of Greek dressing.  She also has some sunflower seeds with Swedish fish and an apple filled with "fruit dip" (cream cheese and marshmallow fluff).

My salad is mixed greens, bean, steak and feta cheese.  I have my crushed red peppers and some strawberry almonds.

First Day of School 2013

Yesterday was breakfast for lunch day for D.  She has mini waffles, blueberry chicken breakfast sausage, cocoa roasted almonds, some maple syrup, grapes and strawberries.

 

I have my old standby mixed greens with roasted chicken, beans and cheese.  The small container has my crushed red peppers and I also have some raspberries and chocolate chips.

For the first day of school I asked D what she wanted...I was thinking she'd want a character lunch or something fun.  No, she asked for homemade chicken nuggets...I make "naked" nuggets.  I use 1 lb of ground chicken, 1/4 cup coconut flour (you could use bread crumbs and an egg instead) salt, pepper and some poultry seasoning.  I also used my micro plane to grate some onion into the mixture.  I mix it all up and press it into a 8x8 pan and bake it at 350 until it's done.  I let it cool completely then cut it into cubes or use my small fondant cutters to cut them into shapes. (The scraps go nicely into a salad).  I always take a little pinch off the mixture and cook it in a frying pan before baking so I can taste it and adjust the seasoning.  She also has grapes, bbq sauce, crackers, tomato and fresh mozzarella salad, strawberry roasted almonds and a Hello Kitty marshmallow.

I have another salad but instead of shredded cheddar cheese I have Cabot Hot Buffalo Wing Cheddar.  I also have grapes and strawberry roasted almonds.

 

Day 436

Day 436 - Lots of leftovers equal a very yummy salad!!  On a bed of mixed greens, D has cucumbers, grape tomatoes, rotisserie chicken and some leftover pasta salad.  She also has grapes and an Oreo brownie.

I also have rotisserie chicken on mixed greens with cheese and kidney beans.   Every Thursday my grocery store sells their rotisserie chickens for $5.  It is the best bargain in the store!  Not only do D and I get a few lunches out of one, I always use what's left to make chicken stock!


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Day 434

Day 434 - Linzer Star chicken sandwiches!!  D's chicken sandwiches are cut with the Linzer cookie cutter.  Her sandwich is chicken/mayo on wheat and white whole wheat.  She has orange grape tomatoes and jack cheese cubes.  There are also cucumber/carrot stars and black grapes.

I am still working on that rotisserie chicken!  On a bed of mixed greens I have chicken, black beans, a pickled egg and some Hot Buffalo Wing cheddar, my usual crushed red pepper "dressing" and some grapes.

Day 432

Day 432 - Chicken BLT salad.  Mixed greens topped with leftover rotisserie chicken, chopped tomatoes, and some chopped bacon.  She also has strawberries and 1/2 of a chocolate/peanut butter cupcake.

I have mixed greens topped with leftover rotisserie chicken, black beans and some buffalo hot wing cheese.  I also have strawberries and a container of crushed red pepper.

Day 429

Day 429 - Odd post today...I'm only posting my lunch because D is having some homemade chicken and stars soup.  She has been feeling under the weather for the last week so she has been requesting a lot of soup for dinner.  So I didn't photograph the soup.  My lunch is just random odds and ends that were in the fridge.  Roasted chicken, buffalo chix dip, hummus, pea pods, Cabot Hot Buffalo Wing cheddar, grapes and strawberries.

Day 428

 

My parents went to Texas to attend my niece's wedding.  They will be arriving home today.  After a long travel day I like to have something in their fridge for them to eat so they don't need to worry about food prep.  For today I left them chicken spring rolls, cucumber/tomato salad (from their own garden!), grapes and strawberries and some Soy Vay sauce to dip their rolls.

Day 428 - D has leftover pizza, salad, strawberries and a Hello Kitty cupcake from her Great Nana.

I have a salad of leftover roasted chicken, Cabot Hot Buffalo Wing cheddar cheese, kidney beans and cucumbers over a bed of lettuce. For my "dressing" today I used a little bit of a leftover dip I had made this weekend.  I took about 1 cup greek yogurt, mixed it with about a tablespoon of blue cheese crumbles and about a 1/4 cup of Frank's Red Hot.  I also added a couple of dashes of Tabasco Habanero sauce.  I used it to dip soft pretzels over the weekend.
 

Day 427

Day 427 - Clean out the fridge salad.  D's salad is mixed lettuce, deli sliced ham, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrot flower, and fresh mozzarella, she also has apple cinnamon Quakes and an apple.

My salad is mixed lettuce, leftover chicken, kidney beans, Cabot Buffalo Wing Cheddar, carrot and tomato flower.  I also have a mini dipper of crushed peppers for my dressing.  I have a few Quakes and some blueberry almonds.


 

Day 426

Day 426 - Today D has some leftover pastrami sandwich, pickled egg, red/yellow grape tomatoes, sesame bread sticks and some Whipped Jif Chocolate/Peanut Butter Spread.  It's not the healthiest of peanut butter spreads but it's ok for the occasional treat.

My lunch today is a bit of a repeat.  I have the same as yesterday but instead of grapes I have the Whipped Jiff.