Happy Little Not-always-cute Lunches and Sometimes I Need to Grocery Shop.

Probably not my best work but this is what happens when I'm out of bread and the kids have activities til late and I'm making lunches at night like a Mombie (Mom + Zombie!)  But at least the photography is terrible!  ;)  Haha, but this gives an idea of what happens for lunch on the crazy days.  We're in the first full week of school now and the lazy days of summer surely made a quick exit!

This lunch:

packed in a 2-tier Bento box from Aldi

sweet peppers

pretzel nuggets

Wow! butter to dip them in

yogurt tube

crusty bread leftover from Panera dinner

This lunch:

packed in a rectangle Lock & Lock

cottage cheese

mandarin oranges

cheese crackers packed in a Lunchskins reusable bag

spork

A word about the Lunchskins reusable baggies.  We love them and use them all the time!  If you've ever been concerned that they'd be hard to keep clean, don't worry.  I just dump out any crumbs when the kids get home and they're ready to go.  I do still buy regular plastic baggies for certain things but I probably only buy a couple boxes per year now.  We have the sandwich size Lunchskins, too, but use the snack size the most.

This fella loves his cottage cheese!  

And I am loving these leakproof lids!

Aaanndddd...I still need to grocery shop!  Ha!  But managed to do these up with what we had on hand.  It's my baby boy's 8th birthday tomorrow!  He loves these little Uncrustable sandwiches and I like to have them on hand occasionally for making my life easier.  These come on wheat bread and are a "less sugar" variety.  Since they come frozen I put a little circle of parchment paper underneath to protect the popcorn from moisture.   My kids always give a little whoop of joy when they learn I'm sending popcorn in their lunch.  Popcorn is fun!  And naked air-popped counts as a healthy whole grain in my book.

These lunches:

packed in a rectangle Lock & Lock

Uncrustables on whole wheat with "less sugar" jam  

air-popped popcorn

watermelon

turkey roll-ups

Bonus Baby's lunch all made up for the next day.  

We're usually at home for her lunch but it's just so easy to grab this.

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