While trying to come up with different alternatives to peanut butter and jelly or balogna sandwiches this week, I started thinking about ways I could phase out my kids’ favorite “side dish” — chips!

For me, chips have always been the default go-to for sandwiches or lunch in general, but as the new school year approaches I’ve been trying to re-think and re-plan what goes into my kids’ lunch boxes. Sure, they’ll still get a small bag of chips now and then, but I’m going substitute one of the below ideas several times a week as well!
~ Fresh fruit and vegetables. …read more

I admit I’m not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. That said, I need some help here from you mothers who have a clue about some of this school-age kid stuff. What do I do about lunchboxes and lunches? Here’s the deal, Truman is buying his lunch at school. I paid enough into the plan that he should be set for most, if not all, of the first semester. The school apparently serves a decent lunch and they got rid of the fryer, so I felt good about the food he was offered. What I didn’t bank on was other …read more

My hubby left this morning. In his Pyrex portable, shown left, I have put instead the large bento box he brought me home from a Japan trip 5 years ago. Along with 6 colleagues, he’ll be out of town overnight for a project.
My hubby suffers from food allergies, just recently diagnosed. He can’t have wheat, eggs, or dairy. That means, unless they eat at a Japanese or Chinese restaurant on the road, he can’t have anything. No fast food, no Subway or Pizza Hut or McDonald’s for him…. which is great because those …read more