Still no box milk - I'll be going to the shops tomorrow!! So we have oranges, roasted pumpkin risotto from the previous night's dinner, mortadella and cornichons and olives.
Monday, 28 March 2011
29 Mar 2011
Still no box milk - I'll be going to the shops tomorrow!! So we have oranges, roasted pumpkin risotto from the previous night's dinner, mortadella and cornichons and olives.
28 Mar 2011
Monday morning, and no box milk!!!! Moroccan lamb filos, red capsicum, honey snap peas and carrot flowers, mortadella and kiwi berry
25 Mar 2011
Rockmelon, toast with butter and vegemite cut out in dolphin shapes, olives and cornichons, babybel cheese and dried pineapple and organic apricots.
24 Mar 2011
Feta and caramelised onion tarts, box milk, capsicum, mushrooms and grape tomatoes, raspberries and olives and cornichons. Not too exciting but haven't been shopping with a lunchbox in mind lately!
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
23 Mar 2011
OK - I promise I will go to the shops today and get some fresh fruit for her lunchbox tomorrow!!!! Today she has roasted sweet potato with parsley, box milk, mushrooms, red capsicum, cornichons and olives and rockmelon (again!!).
Monday, 21 March 2011
22 Mar 2011
So still didn't go to the shops with a lunchbox in mind! Had some leftovers from yesterday's afternoon tea and dinner so rockmelon, box milk, hard boiled egg, roasted sweet potato, olives and cornichons and cheese and biccies.
For the roasted sweet potato I just buy sweet potatoes (usually kumera - the orange ones) and put them on a baking tray and bake at about 180 for an hour or so depending upon the size. A skewer inserted into it should glide easily in and out again when it is cooked. Delicious hot with dinner I put them into the lunchbox and have them in the fridge for the kids to eat cold as a snack. The kids eat them skin and all - the skin is good for all its nutrients so don't take it off for them!
21 March 2011
Monday morning means let me see what I have in the fridge on Sunday night as I was too busy over the weekend to think about lunchbox food! We had frankfurts, box milk, snow peas, grape tomatoes and green capsicum, cornichons and olives then no fresh fruit around so we have dried apples and apricots.
Friday, 18 March 2011
18 Mar 2011
Lulu is very excited about green eggs and ham today!
Left to right as usual, snow peas, green capsicum and grape tomatoes (she doesn't really eat grape tomatoes but tyga will eat them after school on our way home which is what happens to the leftover contents of her lunchbox), cocktail frankfurts, box milk, green eggs and ham and finally cornichons and green olives.
Happy weekend to all :)
Thursday, 17 March 2011
17 March 2011 - ST PATRICK"S DAY!!
Happy St Patrick's Day all! Lulu's school is having a mufti day today but kids have to wear green for St Pats, so I thought I'd theme the lunchbox accordingly!
First up, I used one of Tyga's lunchboxes so it was green to start off with, then we have granny smith apple cheeks, box milk (which has a green labeling on it anyway -lucky!!), green capsicum, snow peas and cucumber, sushi rolls with avocado and cucumber and some hard boiled egg that I coloured green! Lulu doesn't like the yolk of the egg so it was easy to just colour the white....
How did I do it? I boiled the eggs as usual and plunged them in cold water once done (to stop that grey ring forming around the yolk). Filled a glass with some filtered tap water and put some green food colouring in it. I then peeled an egg, cut it in half and took out the yolk then submerged the whites in the green water for an hour. And hey presto! Now of course they say they want green eggs all the time and I need to get some ham to go with it!
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
16 Mar 2011
Well here we are - today's lunchbox! Really excited to have a blog to put these pictures up on; I'll try and give recipes and ideas for what you see, and tips on making it easier for all my followers to make their kids' school lunch boxes!
Today she had cocktail frankfurts, box milk (I like to include this for protein and hydration, and it requires no refrigeration to keep it fresh), snow peas, raspberries (Lulu's favourite - on special at $4.99 a punnet yesterday!) and of course the cornichons and olive department compartment!!!
Lunchbox came back empty YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
15 Mar 2011
Rockmelon. box milk, grape tomatoes, cucumber, ham, wedge of brie and a beef an guinness mini pie
14 Mar 2011
Mini beef and guinness pies, box milk, cucumber rounds, red capsicum, sugar snap peas, cornichons and olive and rockmelon
11 Mar 2011
Peach cheeks, box milk, baby corn cobs, fresh green peas in their pods, pickles and olives and a wedge of brie
10 Mar 2011
Forgot to take a picture in the morning, so here is one of the lunchbox in the afternoon when it arrived home!
Box milk (empty), Moroccan lamb filos and pomegranate molasses dipping sauce (1 left!), all her rockmelon uneaten and olives and pickles all eaten!
9 Mar 2011
Tyga's lunchbox: rockmelon, hard boiled egg, cheese stick, cucumber, red capsicum, avocado, grapes, pickle and olives
Lulu's lunchbox: box milk, carrot sticks, fresh green peas, passionfruit in tub, hard boiled egg, cucumber, pickles and olives
7 Mar 2011
Olives, pickle and cured beef strips, box milk, roasted sweet potato, cucumber and red capsicum, rockmelon and popcorn
4 Mar 2011
Toast with passionfruit curd, box milk, spaghetti and fresh mushroom, popcorn and frankfurts
1 Mar 2011
Box milk, sausage sandwich with mustard and tomato sauce, passionfruit, avocado, olives and dried beef
28 Feb 2011
Box milk, brie and guava paste sandwiches, passionfruit, carrot and cucumber, nectarine cheeks, olives and an air dried beef from our local organic markets
25 Feb 2011
Box milk, cheese stick, passionfruit pulp (Lulu's favourite things are raspberries and passionfruit; we call her a passion pig!), avocado, olives and pickels
24 Feb 2011
Heart shaped pasta, fresh snow peas, box milk, caramelised onion and feta tarts, fresh orange segments, olives and pickles
23 Feb 2011
Heart shaped pasta (available from Aldi only around Valentine's Day!), box milk, capsicum, cucumber, rockmelon, olives and pickles
22 Feb 2011
Rockmelon, box milk, fresh mushrooms, snow peas and cucumber, ham a,d pickles and olives
18 Feb 2011
Looks a bit sparse today, but that was probably all I had in the fridge! Babybel cheese, biccies, mini pies (I think these ones are wasabi beef), box milk, fresh peach, pickle and olives
17 Feb 2011
Moroccan lamb filos with pomegranate molasses dipping sauce, carrot and cucumber, box milk, watermelon and frankfurts
16 Feb 2011
Feta (turns out not a good thing to put in as it made everything else in that compartment completely mushy!), cocktail frankfurts, tasty cheese, box milk, home made mini pies, rockmelon, olives and pickle
15 Feb 2011
Ham sandwich, box milk, capsicum and cucumber, rockmelon and I can't remember what is in that top right hand corner sorry!
14 Feb 2011
Ham sandwiches, capsicum and cucumber, box milk, roasted vegetable frittata and blackberries; recipes will follow in later blogs for all my home baked goods!
11 Feb 2011
Carrot flowers, pickle and olives with herb cream cheese dip, corn cakes, box milk, strawberries and roasted sweet potato in its skin
10 Feb 2011
Plain pasta (exactly how she likes it!), box milk, fresh capsicum, prosciutto, babybel cheese, olives, pickle, watermelon and raspberries
9 Feb 2011
Capsicum, and cucumber, sandwich, crackers and cheese, ham rolled around pickle spears and strawberries. I had obviously run out of box milk!
8 Feb 2011
School swimming carnival on today, so I had to make a lunchbox for my 2 year old as well. His is the green one!
Tyga's lunchbox: sultanas, dried mango, cucumber, watermelon, rockmelon, raspberries, blueberries, ham sandwich, hard boiled egg, pickles and olives
Lulu's lunchbox: ham and mustard sandwiches, box milk, cucumber and green capsicum, pickles and olives and rockmelon and raspberries
FYI she came stone cold last in the swimming race she entered but as my husband says, the only failure is the failure to participate so at least she finished the whole length of the pool and didn't give up!
7 Feb 2011
After watching me make sandwiches for a catering order the day before, she finally asked for a sandwich!!! This is roasted sweet potato, turkey, cranberry and brie mini club sandwiches. Then box milk, a piece of cheese, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, rockmelon, raspberries and olives.
4 Feb 2011
Hard boiled egg with smiley face drawn on it (Lulu feels like a really big girl peeling her own egg). kalamata and stuffed olives (she loves the Always Fresh anchovy ones), green capsicum, carrot and cucumber, box milk, crackers and fruit toothpicks with cubes of rockmelon, mango, raspberry and strawberry.
3 Feb 2011
Lulu's favourite filo pastries are enjoyed cold in her lunch box. I'll include recipes further down the track when I am not trying to paste 2 months worth of lunch boxes up at once!!! Dates are pitted and stuffed with cream cheese, red capsicum, olives and carrot flowers. Box milk, cheese and biccies and finally fruit is honeydew melon and raspberries.
2 Feb 2011
Yay for summer! Lunch has cherries, grapes and rockmelon, "box milk" as Lulu calls it, cucumber, snow peas and red capsicum, ham and cheese cut in flower shapes and finally the olives and pickle department!
1 Feb 2011
First day of big school! Lunch includes fruit (rockmelon and orange today), liquid protein (long life milk), protein (a hard boiled egg), veggies (carrot, cucumber and snow peas) and some olives and pickles.
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