Princess Lunchbox Report

OK, this is mostly for yesterday. Today is Pizza Day (an institution!). For those of you joining our program at a later date, yes, I could save money by not buying hot lunches at all-but to be frank I’m really more concerned with the nutritional content of the school lunches and being able to tell exactly what she has eaten rather than the cost (although I do think that when all is said and done I spend less than $1.45 per day when I make her lunch at home since I shop inexpensively). Therefore, since I know she loves pizza I chose to buy her pizza. It is something she enjoys, we can well afford, an it is also somewhat of a status thing (yes, peer pressure exists, even in kindergarten). Believe it or not-she is usually one of only 2 kids in her class who does not buy both breakfast and lunch. And it would be SO much easier for me to just shell out the money for both. Then again-we make enough money that we don’t qualify for assistance on either. . . . But I come back to the nutrition thing. I just wonder when the entree sometime is “Mozzarella Cheese Sticks”.

OK, back to the program for yesterday:

Ritz style Crackers (she ate an entire yogurt for B-fast)

Bologna and Mozzarella Cheese Roll-up
Cauliflower and Dip
Pretzels
2 Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies (made with 1/2 whole wheat flour)
Raisins
Pink Milk

Hamburger Casserole
Salad
Cantaloupe

For Today:

Canned Pears in a reuseable container (why buy those little 4 packs?)

Bought Pizza Lunch

Leftover Lasagna for Yankee Bill and the Kiddos. I have a Board meeting for the Theatre project (which at some point I will sit down and write a long involved post on) and we (the council, ie the 4 or 5 folks who are not actually on the Board but are actually making this theatre happen) will probably go out to the Lost Dog Cafe in downtown Binghamton after. Nice place, awesome food, not too expensive.)

A note about yesterdays lunch: She wound up eating half of her lunch roll up for breakfast snack, then the rest for lunch, and then ate the raisins and cookie and left everything else. Then when she got home she was starving. Oh well-as I said at least I can look in her lunchbox and see what she has eaten and ask some questions. Sometimes she’ll tell me that she didn’t have time (which usually means she was too busy eating)

Funny aside-the first thing that Buddy does when Princess gets off the bus is beg for his “snack” because she shares whatever she didn’t eat for lunch with him as an afternoon snack. He thinks this is wonderful because it is from his big sister and will just chow down on cauliflower and dip etc etc that he wouldn’t be interested in for a snack if I gave it to him just then. Plus they both get a lesson in sharing.

And sometimes if the other kids had prepackaged saltines on their hot lunch plates Princess will bring some of those home especially as a present for Buddy, which he thinks is so cool. (never mind that we have a huge box in the pantry-the fact that big sister brought him an individual package home from KINDERGARTEN is just way better).