With a dinner plan that doesn’t necessarily lend itself effortlessly to quick packing of leftovers for school lunches, this week is more about reinvention of ingredients than we’ve done recently. To come up with the lunch menus, I had to
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The Columbus Day holiday means that this week’s lunch menu only includes four days’ worth of meals. The extra day off also means that I’ll have additional prep time, but because the menus are exclusively based around leftovers, I won’t
Five days into October (sorry for the delay) and already, the freezer meals I started putting by in August and September are SAVING MY BUTT. Sidebar for a second here: It feels weirdly cool to sit in a meeting where
This week, I’ve got to head to New York City for a couple of days for business travel. That means J. and the boys will be in charge of lunch packing one of the days, and since we’ll be pulling
This week’s plan requires a little more prep than we’ve been doing, but is still pretty intuitive — I’ll just take foods that we’re already working with, and reinvent them purposefully for lunchtime. Weekend Prep: I’ll roast three chickens on
This week, we’re not relying much on the lunch pantry at all. Kid favorite dinners that lend themselves well to lunchbox reinvention are going to make life pretty easy. The biggest thing to think about is ensuring that I cook
This week’s school lunches are what I call easy-peasy. There’s going to be minimal prep involved, and heavy reliance on simple, kid-friendly menu choices that will all but guarantee the boxes come home empty. As always, you can change things
I’ve been packing school lunches for so long now that it’s really second nature to me. I know this is a skill that many people struggle with, but I’ve got a system that works well in our household, combining a
At the start of a new school year, everything is different, but very much the same. We’re facing another September full of possibilities. What will the year bring? What opportunities will fall into place, what activities will the boys explore,
I don’t buy sugary yogurt. I don’t buy flavored yogurt. I don’t really “do” yogurt cups. All of these statements were pretty much true until VERY recently….and here’s why. The backstory is this: While I definitely grew up on —