Fresh & Healthy: Lunch Box Meals

Brina & Karlie’s Lunch Bags are ready to go!

Today I have a picture of the girls packed lunch bags. These are the ones they used last year so they will look familiar to some of you.  Our friends gave the girls these lunch bags for their birthday a couple years ago and we have gotten a lot of great use out of them.  The girls love having their names on their individual bags and I like that when they lose the bag at school, bus, or some other random place we always get them back.  There are not a lot of “Brina” and “Karlie’s” at their school so it makes it easy to identify whose bag it is.

What’s for lunch today?

The bags are showing some wear after much use but still have plenty of life left in them so we are using them some again this year.  This year I am trying to rotate through the different lunch bags to keep them from getting too moist or smelly.  Giving them a break helps them dry out, air out, and will help them last a little longer (hopefully) too.

 Lunch Box Meal:

• Tuna Fish Sandwich
• Fresh Watermelon
• Fresh Yellow Pear Tomatoes (from our garden)
• Mott’s Plus Mixed Berry Applesauce
• Strawberry Yogurt
• Quaker Blueberry Stila or Animal Crackers
• Cinnamon Teddy Grahams
• Strawberry Fruit Stick
• Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie or Chocolate & Vanilla Oreos
• Cubed Beef Jerky Stick  (in the container)
• Berry Blast Fruit Drink

Watermelon, yogurt, tuna sandwich and more good stuff to eat!

The girls are excited about rotating through their lunch bags because it adds a little extra variety.  They get excited to see what’s in their lunch that day.  With the lunch bags sometimes I pack a note too or write on their sandwich container or something else as a special surprise for them that day.  Whatever they don’t have time to eat at lunch they can eat it as a snack during class or as an after school snack.