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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

7 March 2012

A nice full looking lunchbox...just the way I like it!!!

Passionfruit and mango, box milk, corn on the cob, cheese slices and biccies and some salami.  She has drama straight after school on Wednesday and I try and give her a super full box so she can snack on all her left overs after school before drama.

Tuesday 6 March 2012

A little bit better.  Lulu is getting more fussy as she gets older which is making it harder to make her lunchbox.  Challenge!!!

Avocado (am loving the shepherd avocados!!) box milk, and egg white, passionfruit and cucumber.  She didn't eat the egg because she said there was texta all over it. Der!!!! It was special for food texta!!!!

Monday 5 march 2012

This is probab;y the most pitiful lunchbox I have EVER done!!!!  It's the Monday Morning Blues lunchbox where I didn't even have a box milk to put in there :(

So we have a sad looking pirate cheese sandwich on oat bread, a corn on the cob, a passionfruit and mango.  So sad... but it came back empty which is good!!!

Monday, 5 March 2012

Friday 2 March 2012


Yes our lunchboxes have been invaded by pirates - even Lulu is asking for it as she is feeling left out.  Obviously love hearts are just not enough for a modern girl!!

Tygie has box milk, pirate avocado sandwich, pickled cucumber wrapped in prosciutto, pirate cucumbers, pirate red capsicum and some black olives/

Lulu has pirate cucumbers snow peas, box milk, a love heart cheese sandwich, fresh avocado (loving having the shepherd variety back in stores - a firm avocado that does not go brown easily)and a frankfurt.

Thursday 1 March 2012


So Tyga is really big on the pirate theme...practically will eat anything if it is pirate food!  So as well as rockmelon, box milk and frankfurts, I have given him pirate cucumber slice which he scoffed in no time at all!  Also some roasted pumpkin rice balls and olives and pickles.

Lulu had rockmelon (can you tell it was on special this week!), box milk, a cheese stick, rice balls and frankfurts with tomato sauce in a tub.

The rice balls I make are leftover risotto. Refrigerate until the next day then roll into balls and bake.  The kids love them!

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Lulu's new favourite...fish fingers! Plus a small tub of mayonnaise, box milk, fresh rockmelon slices and feeling creative so some cucumber and cheese love hearts!

Tuesday 28th February 2012

Was making some corn cakes for a catering job so we have corn cakes, fresh cucumber slices, mushrooms, box milk, avocado wraps, plum and raspberries.

Monday 27 February 2012

Monday morning...if I haven't been to the shops it's always a real challenge but I did get some mountain bread so we have mountain bread wrap with avocado, cheese stick, box milk, rice crackers, cucumber and a plum.

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Friday 24th February 2012



Lulu got rockmelon, box milk, sausage rolls with tomato sauce, corn and carrot with a babybel cheese.

Tyga got rockmelon, box milk, a cheese stick, love heart sandwiches with cream cheese (he told his teacher they were girl sandwiches!!), salami and olives.

Thursday 23rd February 2012



Lulu got left over fish fingers from dinner last night which she devoured!!  I popped a tub on mayonnaise with it.  She also got her box milk, lychees, mushrooms, salami and futt.

Tyga got corn, lychees, a pirate avocado sandwich, ham wrapped around pickle and cut up tomato and cucumber.

Wednesday 22nd February 2012


Found a bit of creativity overnight!  Lulu has a cream cheese love heart sandwich, dried pineapple (which for some reason Lulu calls pineapple nut or futt???), corn on the cob cut into rounds, cucumber slices and some watermelon.

Lulu has lost 3 teeth in the last month or two so all food is generally chopped a bit smaller than usual as she has no top front teeth at the moment!!!

Tuesday 21 February 2012

So the lunchbox brain drain has hit me!!  Lulu always says she wants an empty compartment in her lunchbox but I always think it looks unfinished but today I could not for the life of me think of something to go in the end compartment so she got her wish!

She got cherry fruit bread with butter, box milk, carrot and cucumber sticks and snow peas and some dried pineapple.  Nothing to exciting but still nutritious!

Monday 20 February 2012


Monday morning...what is in the fridge and the pantry????

Crackers with avocado, box milk, carrot sticks and fresh snow peas, rice balls and passionfruit.

Friday 17 February 2012

Boys versus girls in the lunchbox department!!!!

Tyga has carrot and cucumber sticks, pirate cheese sandwich, with extra cheese square off cuts from Lullu's cheese hearts, salami rolled around pickled cucumber and finally some rockmelon.

Lulu has cucumber, carrot and celery sticks, a cracker with avocado, love heart cheese, rockmelon and salami.

Thursday, 16 February 2012

16 February 2012



I had to include Tyga's lunchbox today as I made him a "pirate sandwich"!  He loved it!  As well as babybel cheese, watermelon, strawberries, cucumber and olives.

Lulu had watermelon and strawberries, carrot, cucumber and cream cheese, babybel cheese, crackers and baby pickles.



15 February 2012


Avocado sandwiches, box milk, carrot, celery and baby pickles, cream cheese for dipping veggies into and a passionfruit.

14 February 2012

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!  
Decided to make a love heart shaped sandwich for Lulu's lunchbox today so thought I'd shoe you a step by step....start off by making your sandwich as usual....

cut the crusts off......

...and cut a small square out of one corner....

...cut the two corners off the sides....

...and there you have your love heart sandwich!!!!!! 

Add a little note to your valentine and surprise for them when they open their lunchbox!  I only wish I had been there to see her face when she saw it - maybe next year I can invent lunchbox cam and record it when she opens it up!!


So what did she have???  Box milk, a salmon and avocado sandwich, strawberries and raspberries and a pumpkin roll cut up into slices.

13 February 2012


Tyga and I went to the zoo while Lulu was at school, and we always take a lunchbox with us - we never get the take away food there and my kids have never known any different so I get none of the pester power!  I buy them a calippo as a treat and that seems to keep them happy.

So Lulu had for school frankfurts and tomato sauce, box milk and egg mayo sandwiches, passionfruit and fresh cucumber slices.

Tyga had an apple slinky, egg sandwiches (which I shared with him!) pretzels and rice biccies and some dried fruit - kiwi, pineapple and banana.  I get all my dried fruit from my local organic market on Sunday mornings in Frenchs Forest.

10 February 2012

Lulu's lunchbox today is a quick thrown together as I was super busy working.  but still nutritious and not filled with packaged pantry goods - I don't actually have nay of those at home!

So corn on the cob. snow peas and cucumber, cheese stick, crackers, box milk, salami and baby pickles and some orange slices.

9 February 2012

Tyga's lunchbox today...Lulu's must have been the same!  So what did they get?  Box milk, corn on the cob, a chicken drumstick, fresh cucumber, philadelphia cream cheese tub with crackers and some orange.

If you notice a pattern (for our new followers!) there is protein, veggies and fruit + a box milk for calcium and hydration.  I always try and tick those boxes then everything else is OK.