She's hopefully going to be returning to school at the end of the month, so fingers are crossed.
In the meantime, we had our first day spent at the park (not just going after lunch and coming home for dinner) and so of course I packed some bento-style lunches for us! (I have three kids, but my oldest chose to stay home to help his father with yard work)
Ruthie requested pb and jam which surprised me as I have managed to figure out a chocolate pb spread recipe I like that is easy enough... but hey, it's okay to not be in the mood for chocolate, even if it does take me by total surprise. Her brother, on the other hand, was all about that so he had a pb/chocolate and banana sandwich (he also had some pb/chocolate on the useable part leftover from Ruthie's bread being cutout) They both got salad, cucumber, and oranges (I took the pics at the park, so that fork indent is totally from having been packed that way overnight with his salad fork on his sandwich)
And then lunch for me... I just had to be different... nah, really just trying to make sure I wouldn't get hungry when I shouldn't and keep things as low cal and high on the veggie end as I could.
I tore up leftover chicken after I loosely filled the main compartment of the zip lock container with salad, then added cucumber slices. In the larger side compartment is leftover steamed collard greens, the smaller one has some crackers, and then I also had a container for dressing and a big juicy apple... which tasted even better than it looked (yeah, I loved that apple)
