The Sunshine State (Lunches)

When you think of Florida, what comes to mind? Songs, like “Way down upon the Suwanee River”, “Welcome to Miami”, or “Margaritaville”? Do you think of all the dumb criminals that keep surfacing on almost every news station country-wide? Or about our balmy beaches? We have ALL of those things. And tomorrow, my Bigs gets to learn about them, in his study of our great state. Well, maybe not the criminals. We’ll save that for a rainy day. Excitingly enough, I get to be Co-op Parent in his class.

Here is my lunch for tomorrow:

I packed blueberries, strawberries, a clementine, a hard boiled egg (on which I used my egg shaping kit to make it look like a bunny…because bunny eggs), S&P for the egg, snap peas, assorted raisins, Trader Joe’s mini peanut butter cups, and a few  TJ’s “Inner Beans” (which sounds horrific, but they are awesome).

For my Bigs:

I confidently decided that I could not free-hand cut the shape of Florida on bread and went with a tropical fish PB&J instead. I drew details with my Food Writers. I also packed pumpernickel pretzel sticks, strawberries, blueberries, assorted raisins, a clementine (you can’t pack a FL themed lunch without citrus), TJ’s yogurt star cookies, and an organic yogurt squeezy thing. I added a surfboard, a few flamingo (my spirit animal) picks, and a palm tree for decoration.

And for my little Smalls:

Going based on lunches alone, you might think I love my oldest son more than my youngest. Smalls’ lunches always look a little crappy. The truth is, this kid is so wishy-washy with food, I can’t even keep up. Tomorrow’s sad looking lunch consists of half a PB&J (which he tells me he only likes when he’s at school and won’t eat at home right now), a few carrots, pumpernickel pretzel sticks, assorted raisins, yogurt star cookies, and an organic yogurt squeezy thing. I also packed him a banana for snack.

If you need me, I’ll be looking for my large shaker of salt.

Kristin