Bento Monday

Tuesday

As I said in the last Bento Monday post, I think I’ve been sending too  much food to school for Nate. I get carried away with so many ideas, and I want to make sure I represent every food group in each box. Not that he will eat something from each food group, but that’s out of my control. Right?

So here’s Tuesday’s box: leftover salad with olives, bacon pieces, cheese and carrot flowers and a container of dressing, with apple skewers and chicken nuggets. I took an apple that he only nibbled on the day before and cut it up into chunks before making skewers. I took what was left and packed it little containers for other lunches. I stole the ketchup and nugget sandwich idea from the bento post on Parenting.com that I featured a few weeks back.

The salad was GONE, totally, like he scrapped the section out with his fingers. That kid kills me how he eats salads! Of course the nuggets were gone and he left one apple skewer. A very successful bento!

Wednesday.

Let’s be honest, I totally lost Wednesday. He did not have the best day at school on Tuesday (mid morning phone calls from the teacher=bad news all around) but everything has been much better since then. Thanks to the friends who sent all that positive energy our way Wednesday! So I have no idea what he ate Wednesday, but I do know I made something and he was fed.

Thursday

We had steaks, mashed taters and garlic cheese biscuits Wednesday night, so naturally he had leftovers on Thursday! I cut up his leftover steak into tiny pieces, added some carrot flowers to the mashed taters, cut out a few numbers from a fruit strip (I put the leftover strip in a baggie for later) and put them on top of the biscuit, and added a few edamame. And yes, I kept going with the rest of a banana yogurt he didn’t finish after dinner and some cantaloupe balls.

All the taters and carrots were gone, as was the yogurt. He ate most of the edamame, steak and canteloupe. Amazingly, the biscuit and fruit strip numbers were not touched. What???

Friday was Grandparent’s Day, and my parents, niece and myself all had lunch with Nate. It was his first tray lunch, and it was pretty good: wheat bread grilled cheese, veggie soup (pretty spicy stuff!,) an apple cut into quarters, sherbet and milk. Nate ate all the sandwich and most of the apple, but that was it. My tray was clean!

Nate and my niece Madison at Grandparent's Day Lunch

Nate, Grami, Grumpy and Madison makin' some noise!