I’ve got a brain full of organized posts to write, but tonight is not the night for that. No, tonight is the night for deep breaths, headlong plunges into the fall routine, and sharing the bits and pieces of clutter
Category: Lunchbox
Hey readers…that lunch-packing post I wrote for “another blog” (very mysterious, right?) is up! Bettina of The Lunch Tray graciously invited me to write a post about packing lunches for her site, so I came up with what she’s amusingly
Last night I introduced the idea of the add-on system for varying your kids’ lunches, without going crazy cooking tons of extra items, AND without pushing them so far outside the comfort zone of “familiar” lunch foods that they’d start
Earlier this week I wrote about my very simple lunchbox rule: just provide more than two opportunities for them to make good choices, and the rest will take care of itself. However, that rule is not, in and of itself,
It hasn’t escaped my notice that the internet is buzzing right now with back-to-school wisdom, especially in the realm of lunch packing. Some school districts began the new academic year as early as last week; many others, today; and still
I’m not such a big fan of being sneaky with kids’ food. I mean, okay, in general I’ve got no intellectual or moral issue with putting broccoli into the mac and cheese or sweet potatoes into the pancakes, or whatever
Every once in a while, I manage — in all the meal planning I do — to either completely mess myself up for the week, or make my life ridiculously easy. There are weeks when it just seems as though
Yikes. Mondays. OK, more accurately: Yikes, today, which happens to be a Monday, and which fully lived up to the harried and vaguely menacing reputation of all Mondays. Not in every way; it was actually a fine, if unremarkable, day
Oh, time…that precious commodity that so few parents actually recognize anymore as a part of daily life. For the past two days, I’ve been involved in a relatively lengthy comment thread on Facebook, wherein my best friend, C., kicked things