Happy Little Sandwich Stacks and Another Great Use for Scraps ;)

I remember eating lunch with my mom at the Hudson's near where I grew up and they served sandwiches with little toothpicks.  I always felt like that was so special.  I'd get half a shrimp sandwich with their amazing Canadian Cheese soup with the little carrots.  I've tried to replicate that recipe but can never get it quite right.  Mom would always order the Maurice salad.  So good...I bet I could find that recipe online somewhere...ah memories.  Sometimes I wonder what my kids will remember about me from their childhood days.  #lunches  (Or probably that I wear pajamas whenever we're at home, haha!)

This lunch:

packed in a rectangle Lock & Lock

pb&honey on whole wheat cut with flower cutters and stacked with flower picks

blueberries in silicone liner

home canned peaches

cheese stick 

spork

This lunch:

packed in a rectangle Lock & Lock cut with star cutters and stacked with panda & China flag picks

blueberries in panda liner

home canned peaches

cheese stick

spork

So by now you know my best and most favorite use for scraps is for the toddler child's lunch.  It's true; I love that I can serve her a healthy, fun, lunch the next day while on auto-pilot.  My *other* favorite use for them is snacking!  Usually it's the 2nd grader hovering around the kitchen when I'm making lunch and he asks if there are any scraps for him?  Especially if it's pb&honey.  Especially with a big glass of milk.  He's always been a fan of Second Breakfast...so why not Bedtime Lunch?  ;)  I typically eat salads for lunch and also will save any meat or cheese bits to throw on my salads the next day.

This child.  Oh my heart.  Go on 

with your little scrap loving self.

So, to sum up.  These are all things I personally do with scraps:

1) Make a scrappy bento for my toddler.
2) Eat them as a bedtime snack.

3) Save meat and cheese in a baggie in fridge for salad toppings.

4) Save bread scraps in a big baggie in freezer.  You could make homemade croutons.  Or when you go to a park that has a duck pond your children will be delighted to feed the ducks.  Ducks eat frozen bread just fine.  ;)

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