Vegetarian Lunchbox Inspiration Week 3

Another week of lunches done and my daughter is starting to have favorites and special requests.  My 3 year old son also has a few lunches in the post this week because he got jealous of his big sis's special lunches and wanted me to put his lunch in his lunchbox to eat at home.  Easy enough request!

Mondays Lunch:

A simple snack style lunch where my daughter could build her own sandwiches with the fixings.  There are Triscuit crackers, sliced Colby Jack cheese, Havarti dill cheese, apples, raspberries, cucumber, carrots, black olives, hard boiled egg, and some pistachios and dried fruit.

 Tuesdays Lunch:

The first day of fall required a special sandwich.  It is PB, honey, and banana slices on Challah bread, cut with a leaf cookie cutter and I added some orange sprinkles.  There is also a strawberry Chobani Greek yogurt, raspberries, carrot, bell pepper, and cucumbers.

 Wednesdays Lunch:

There are cream cheese veggie rolls made with carrot, bell pepper, and spinach on a whole grain Flatout wrap.  There is also a hard boiled egg, black olives, whole wheat Ritz crackers, baked sweet potato slices, pistachios, raspberries, and kiwi butterflies.

 Wednesdays Lunch #2:

My children all have different tastes and enjoy different foods.  For the most part I try to get them to eat the same thing but neither of my boys like hard boiled egg while my 5 year old daughter LOVES them (minus the yolk).  My boys lunch was similar to his sisters today except for a few additions and minus the egg.  He has cream cheese veggie roll-ups, pistachios, string cheese, Triscuit crackers, black olives, sweet potato slices, raspberries, and kiwi butterflies.

 Thursdays Lunch:

I made a fun open-faced sandwich for todays lunch.  A slice of whole wheat bread topped with cream cheese and sliced nectarines.  There is also a hard boiled egg, grapes, kiwi slices and leftover Squash, Wild Rice and Barley Casserole.  The recipe can be found in The Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Judith Finlayson.  It is YUMMY!  I usually double up the batch because everyone in my family loves it!

 Fridays Lunch:

Banana "sushi" made with whole wheat bread, homemade cinnamon almond butter and banana. There is also string cheese, pretzels, nectarine, kiwi, bell peppers, cucumber, and pistachios. 

NOTE:

 My husband makes all our nut butters and it is super easy, just very taxing on your food processor.  You can chop the nuts up and add them to the food processor and just go until they turn to butter. You may need to give it a rest a few times so the motor doesn't overheat. He will add some cinnamon and sometimes maple syrup to flavor them.

 Fridays Lunch #2:

My growing boy requested a big lunch out of his lunchbox today (and eats every last bite from it too).  His lunch has Macaroni and Cheese Muffins with Broccoli and Peas (I kinda smashed it up to fit in the box), black olives, nectarine, grapes, sweet potato, bell pepper, and pistachios.

I am linking this up to Fun Food Friday at the Eats Amazing blog.
                                                                          
We are almost through the first month of school here and my daughters favorite part of the day is still lunch!  She really enjoys eating with her friends at school and has learned that lunchtime is only so long and that she has to talk a little less if she doesn't want to be hungry at the end of the school day.

I hope you can find some inspiration from these lunches!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Crystal

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