LunchBot

A few weeks into this deal, we’re getting pretty adept at sending the kids off with healthy lunches each day. I have become the LunchBot and crank out lunches for myself and the kids in about 10-15 minutes after dinner. I have a simple formula I follow. Main Dish + veggie + fruit = lunch. I ask them what they want from a small array of choices (2-3 for each category) and then they tell me what they want. I’d love to let them help pack, but usually there’s just not time. Tabby is somewhat more limited in her choice of main dishes – she has to have something that taste good cold. Even if I send a thermos, they put the lunch bags in a walk-in and its tepid at best by lunch time. So she takes a sandwich a bit more frequently than I’d like – I think I probably need to go back through all of my lunch-related pins and see about finding some other options for her. Luckily she does seem pretty happy to take a sandwich a couple times a week and we’ve found some things that are better cold – the shepherd’s pie, for example, was a huge hit cold.

In addition to our family’s food, I’ve been making some extra meals for a meal train. A family friend has cancer and we are keeping her well-fed so she can kick its ass. This has mostly just meant doubling whatever I’m making for our family and dropping it off. But today, there was a hole in the schedule, and so I filled in and I had a few moments of wishing I hadn’t. I’d been going since 5a and my feet were killing me, but it’s a small thing, something simple to do to help someone out. It’s always worth it!