Turkey Burritos

Tuesday Nov. 16th

The night before I had made turkey tacos for dinner and I made sure to save two spoonfuls for lunch this morning.  I just wrapped the meat up in a flour tortilla with a little rice and beans to make the burritos. Since they were made of turkey and Thanksgiving is coming up I  thought I'd add a little cheese turkey to the top:) Along with the burrito I packed some mandarin oranges, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, pineapple chunks, sugar snap peas and carrots flowers. 

                      

Pasta

Monday Nov. 15th


This morning I was limited to going into my freezer stash for lunch ideas since I didn't have many fresh ingredients to work with. The result was a not so colorful happy lunch, but still something I was very happy to send my kiddos to school with. I made Alaysia the last of our homemade tortellini and my little carnivore didn't want any because they weren't stuffed with meat lol! So instead he had mini shell pasta with marinara. I only had a lone little pear in my fridge for the fruit and used canned pineapple, I did have plenty of fresh veggies for them though:)

In pink is Alaysia's lunch the top tier had the cheese tortellini, bottom has cucumber, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, sliced green pear, pineapple and homemade banana bread. And her bear container has strawberry yogurt.
Z's has the mini shell pasta and the same fruits and veggies as her sister except for the yogurt.

This morning my kitchen was very dark and gloomy for some reason so the pictures aren't very good:( Maybe it was the lack of freshness in the kitchen :D

Turkey Wraps

Wednesday Nov. 10th

  Not feeling too good this morning:( I must have caught what the kiddos had  few days ago. And I'm sure it doesn't help that I go help my son's kindergarten class full of coughing and sneezing children:D  Anywho, I'm just going to get to the lunches for toady so I can go take a nap with my little man....

Here's Z's lunch he has a turkey wrap filled with cream cheese, turkey, shredded colby jack cheese, lettuce and carrot. A couple of figs, crackers, mandarin orange, pomegranate and the usual veggies carrot and sugar snap peas. 

Since Alaysia is older and has an actual lunch hour she gets a little more .

Encore Empanadas

Tuesday, Nov.9th


  Since all of the empanadas I made last time vanished, my son and I made a new batch last night. We stuffed them with meat this time and had some left over masa so we made some all cheese ones too. I was hoping to be able to save a few this time to stash in the freezer for those rushed mornings when I only have a few minutes for the kiddos lunches. And I am happy to say that I did get to save some:) even after they gobbled up 3 each for dinner last night and 3 more for todays lunch.

In her box today she has 3 emanada halves two meat and one cheese, along with oranges, grapes and the usual veggies carrots and sugar snap peas. In her bear container she has some yogurt and a sweet treat from her candy stash. I've really been wanting to order some dividers for their boxes but since I haven't done it yet I've been  improvising with some of the kiddos favorite characters printed on thick card stock paper. She loves Nightmare Before Christmas, and anything with pink skulls or punk-ish (if thats even a word).. I think they came out pretty nice! The only thing is they aren't very reusable though:(

And here's Z's smaller box with ninja turtles....Turtle Power!!!

Three Cheese Tortellini & Chicken Taquitos

Monday Nov. 8th


 Happy Monday everyone! This past week just seemed to drag along, Z spent almost the whole week home sick and Alaysia has caught the bug now too. And since this week the kids only have 3 days of school because of Veterans day I'm hoping that Alaysia will be well enough to attend the whole week. 
Since she was still feeling a little under the weather I made her one of her favorites for lunch...tortellini! I had made these tortellini before and totally forgot that Z didn't like them so I had to pack him some chicken taquitos:) These were both rather simple lunches since I just had to boil the pasta and reheat the frozen taquitos. Then I just added some fresh fruit and viola a cute and satisfying lunch for two..

For Alaysia's lunch I just tossed the hot tortellini with a little butter and herbs, she also has cucumber, orange, black berries, grapes, and sugar snap peas.

Z has chicken two taquitos, orange, cucumber, black berries and a couple of grapes.

Empanadas

Friday Nov. 5th

  Well yesterday I had out my press that I used for making sandwiches and thought I would try and make some empanadas for dinner. And yippy! They turned out really really good, which was a good thing because I made a bunch of them:) I stuffed them with a chicken filling and for the kiddos I also added some cheese. I served the along with beans and red rice which I made extra of because it's great for their lunch boxes and my littlest guy loves it too. All of the extra emanadas didn't end up lasting as long as I thought they would because I sent some off with Grandma and I used the rest for these lunch boxes:( but that just means they were a hit and I will have to make more!!!

This box was for Alaysia she has red rice, two empanadas, green grapes, black berries, carrots and sugar snap peas.

Z has one empanada cut in half,grapes, carrots and sugar snap peas along with peach yogurt with sprinkles

And here is Daddy's lunch:) He has a mixed spinach and romaine salad, two empanadas, carrots and sugar snaps peas, a few grapes and blackberries and some ranch for his salad.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Dumplings

Thursday Nov. 4th

This morning Alaysia insisted on having potstickers but I made her a peanut butter and homemade strawberry jelly version instead:) she got two for her lunch along with carrot, tomato, ham and cheese kabobs, watermelon, green pear, and some Halloween candy.


So I bought the awesome little presses the a while ago and haven't had time to use them as much as I thought I would. And today was the perfect time to and since I took them out I'm hoping to try and use them to make some emanadas tonight. And if they turn out you may see them in their lunch tomorrow:)