Category Archives: Lunchbox

Lunch Logic: May 2013, Week Three

This is a particularly delicious Lunch Logic session, if I do say so myself.  There’s some stuff for the carnivores and big appetites — taco-y stuff, tex-mex stuff, stuff that’s designed to stand up against the processed cafeteria nacho horror … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: May 2013, Week Two

There’s a reason I’m never without a jar of marinara sauce in my refrigerator.  Really, it’s true.  Some people talk about “never-ending stock;” I continually replenish my “never-ending sauce.”  When it’s down to the dregs, I dump them into my … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: May 2013, Week One

I’m dashing this off tonight, so forgive me; there’s not much to say, other than “Here’s the Lunch Logic!” Essentially, the only thing I want to point out to you about this particular edition is that it shows you exactly … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week Four

I have to laugh at myself a little bit tonight. Here I sit, writing a “Lunch Logic” post that supposes you’ll have plentiful leftovers from which to manufacture lunches, and I’m currently in possession of a nearly barren refrigerator.  Oh, … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week Two

This week’s menu is a menu absolutely rife with lunch-packing possibilities.  Some weeks are like that; you practically don’t have to think at all to make home-run lunches that the kids will Hoover down happily.  With a Sunday meal of … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week One

This week’s Lunch Logic is really all about planning ahead.  Oh, I know most of what I post here on RRG is focused on planning (that’s one of the side effects of sharing a monthly “meal plan,” ahem), but this … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: March 2013, Week Four

Tonight’s Lunch Logic seems, well, uber-logical, at least to me.  I guess what I mean is that many of these ideas are the types of things I would toss into lunchboxes on my most tired, least inspired mornings.  It’s all … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: March 2013, Week Two

Tonight’s Lunch Logic was fun for me to envision.  The ideas here are very simple, but they bring back some of our family’s favorite lunchbox items — favorites both for me, as the lunch-packer; and for the kids, as the … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: March 2013, Week One

Tonight I’m excited to announce a new feature for the blog — Red, Round, or Green “Lunch Logic.”  I’ve realized over time that it’s not only dinner planning people need help with, and while I’ve also got plenty of lunch-packing … Continue reading

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Treats at School

After I wrote this year’s Halloween mantras — “The Post About the Treats” – I got a pretty nice response from several people who said that the philosophy J. and I adhere to these days, as far as all that … Continue reading

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