When Braden stays with his dad, he eats lunch at school (or I bring it to him). I was up there one day bringing his lunch but he had beat me to it and gotten the school "lunch". I use parenthesis because I don't think it should even qualify as food!! This is what he got - an applesauce cup (fruit), cold and soooo disgusting french fries, a "burger" (meat), and celery w/ranch (vegetable) with chocolate milk to drink (dairy). Water wasn't even an option. I sat there so upset that children are eating this garbage! I"m pretty sure I could take him to evil McDonald's and it would be more nutritious than this. DEFINITELY tastier. YUCK!
So, after that I got even more determined to make him good meals for lunch.
This is what I brought the day he was eating what can only be described as a mutant hamburger meal. It's Nachos with black beans, Daiya cheese, corn, and my taco seasonings in meatless ground beef (soy free, pea protein is used. Beyond Meat is the brand). With of course my salsa, guac and veg sour cream. One of our favorite meals around here!!
This was a basic sammich lunch. Chicpea sammich with cheese (I probably used real sliced cheese since I don't want him eating soy products too much and I think that's all I had at the time was soy sliced cheeze or reg). Some cooked sweet potatoes and blueberries.
The same day as the chicpea sandwich, I joined him for lunch with my usual nachos. Except I used potatoes instead of chips. Delish as always
Can't forget the pearsauce!!! That kid sat there and ate the entire jar of it! Everyone thought I was crazy making 40 lbs of pearsauce. Braden loves it and so do I. I yummy treat with nothing in it but PEARS!
PB&J with pearsauce and grapes. He's since seemed to develop an issue with PB so gone are the days of easy PB&J lunches =(
This is an "outside the box" kinda lunch. Mama was feeling creative the night before. I made hummus nugguts with sweet potato fries and some pasta with broccoli and cauliflower. The pasta was a sauce I made myself - oil, lemon, etc sprinkled with veg parm (cashew, nutritional yeast).
He ate the nuggets the night I made them, but none at lunch. Can't win em all!
Veg "meatballs" with my homeade spaghetti sauce (best yet!), olives, salad and grapes. He would eat olives with every meal if I could afford em!
So these are some of the lunches I send with him. They're usually just the previous night's leftovers. The weird thing is, they come back usually all the way eaten EXCEPT when I've had my lazy days and sent junk!! I've sent fish sticks, hot dogs and they come back uneaten! I guess that tells me what to do!
He still loves to eat the garbage at school of course. Just like I prefer eating a big hunk of bread or bowl of noodles. We always want what's bad! For the most part, he gets to eat up there on days his daddy takes him to school unless the food on the menu is so bad I'd feel guilty letting him eat it. Then I just take something up there. It's been a fun journey with him. A journey I didn't expect him to be a part of, but he loves it!
