feeling a little lunchy: 15 minute lunches

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feeling a little easy...how many times do I have to say this??!!

EasyLunchBoxes are definitely easy...who wouldn't love being able to slap some food into one container instead of all those little bags and boxes? I've been working a bit more, and focusing on some other things lately, so lunch is the last thing on my mind. In fact, the girls have been making their own lunches this week and after getting the eye-roll from the husband last night for not packing lunches, I felt I needed to step it up. And this is about as far as I stepped it up, folks. A mushroom ring on top of some grapes with salami and cheese on leftover hamburger buns and pretzel thins.

Call me easy...I don't care. But please don't say "Ain't nobody got time for that" to me or my other bento moms...and never question what someone packs for lunch. You don't know their entire meal plan. Please try and recognize that there's real moms and real people behind these blogs and lunches...they're not just some random pictures. Their kids DO eat this food. Don't comment on their Facebook posts that there's too many carbs or not enough whatever. It's the Internet, yo...and quite frankly, the internet can't accomodate for what you do in your own home. Your kids might not typically eat it, but you'd be surprised if that's what you packed and they were hungry. My wild child won't touch a vegetable at the dinner table, but she scarfs down a whole EasyLunchboxes full of salad at school during lunch.

Here's the wild child's lunch...she made it herself. Think she's learned it by watching me? (So glad we won't be featured in that Just Say No to Drugs ad campaign just yet). She even took the picture (explains the blur) and set it up on that black and white paper. There's some Star Wars action going on there with goldfish, a homemade chocolate chip cookie, a hot dog bun, peanut butter and jelly in the mini-dippers with a little cheese spreader for that. We are glad to report that there were no issues with her having a cheese knife at school...otherwise we'd have been on the news defending it's blunt edges and versatility.

John Lennon said it best..."Time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted." I'm living by that now and teaching my daughters to do the same. So much so, I felt the need to waste good time drawing on my chalkboard. And I wasted a LOT of time here...I have sensory issues with chalkboards and just doing that foggy chalk around the clock took like 15 minutes. Tickety tock. You make time for what you enjoy...so just enjoy it.

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feeling a little sick of winter

But I made a snowflake lunch anyways. Using a big cookie cutter, I punched out a sandwich and served it up with some butter snap pretzels, cheese cubes and carrots.

Hopefully the last of the severe winter weather has left Atlanta. Although sometimes we get one last pop in March. Lunchy is craving some sunshine for sure! I've not been diagnosed, but I'm fairly certain that I get seasonal depression. Every winter around this time, I fall into a slump and feel so sluggish and lazy and full of anxiety. This year I'm not suffering so much from the anxiety, but the sluggishness is definitely present. Here's to sunshine and flowers and pollen!

feeling like something is missing

Yep. No bread. Oh well. They'll have to survive on this pieced together lunch.

Thanks to my friend over at Bentos on the Bayou for the little paper cups and bunny picks. They jazzed this up a little. Hard boiled egg, Goldfish, turkey slices, raisins, a leftover fortune cookie, Smokehouse almonds and a clementine.

On the bunny note...this video has been circulated recently and I may have watched it about 42 times. I want to go to there and have bunnies chase me!

feeling a little short

Short on time...so LOOK! LUNCH!

Romaine lettuce salad with snow peas and Colby-Jack cheese, egg, strawberries and croutons, an apple and homemade ranch dressing in the mini dipper. I buy the cheese by the block and slice it using the side of my big cheese grater. It saves a bit of money in the long run.

Cherries, Colby-Jack cheese, water crackers and tomato soup in the thermos. We love when cherries are in season...and cheap!

feeling a little corny

Hopefully my girl will eat the corn!

And here's her sisters lunch...because I know she won't eat the corn:

Each has a turkey and cheese sandwich on a Pillsbury Grands biscuit, two Keebler shortbread cookies, blackberries and carrots.

feeling a little breakfasty

Breakfast for lunch! It's a favorite around here and I'm always happy to oblige. This lunch will be eaten at room temperature and the girls don't mind that at all. Don't chide me, but those are frozen waffles that are lightly toasted, as well as Morning Star Farms veggie "sausage" patties served with syrup in the Mini Dipper. There's also an egg and a side of Muller Greek Corner yogurt. We love those yogurts!

It's been a bit busy around here with the holidays getting ready to start. If you didn't know already, I work at Starbucks, in a mall location and I must say, it's already feeling like mid-December around there. It's been much busier and I am struggling to keep a cheerful disposition, kind of a requirement for that job. I've been quite disheartened by the decline in civility lately...and not just because I work in the service industry, but in general, people seem to be wrapped up in their phones and lives which is leaving little time to look up and say hello before barking an order at the girl behind the register. Those who do say "Hello" and "I'm fine, how are you" back to me are fewer and farther in between. I know you're busy too and really just need that coffee, but it's nice when customers genuinely respond to a simple "Hi, how are you?" Enough of that rant! On to the next...I'm really enjoying my new camera! It's a Nikon D5200 and my wonderful husband bought it for me for my birthday. I'm doing my best to learn how to manipulate all the settings and lenses. I do not edit my photos for the most part, so what you see is what it looks like. I do crop of course. Otherwise you'd be seeing my patio table and a cutting board underneath that cute background paper. Daylight savings is eating up the good light on my deck for photos. But I must say, the photo quality from the Nikon is a lot better than the ones I've been taking with my iPhone! Check out my adorable kitten, Charles Ingalls (yes, that's his name) and how beautiful he is in the first photo I took with the new camera below.

feeling like being honest with you, dear reader.

I am. I am lazy. Sometimes I think I may do all this blogging stuff just so I don't have to fold laundry. Or clean out my car. Or unload the dishwasher. Or feed the dog. Please don't tell the Hubs. Don't tell him that I spray Lysol around just before he gets home, either. He thinks I've been cleaning...(insert evil snicker here).

If you're lazy, I mean awesome, like I am...this is the lunch for you. I made spaghetti for dinner last night and we had a lot of leftover noodles, but no more sauce. How about a lazy mom leftover makeover? Take the noodles, squeeze on the ranch dressing, chop up some cold cuts, chuck in some frozen peas and top with grated parmesean cheese. A Babybel cheese, sugar snap peas with a side of ranch and some crunchy mini toast slices adorn their lunches. I say lazy, they say "YUM!"

This is a ten minutes or less lunch for sure. And I made two lunches in that little time. Takes longer to clean up the kitchen. Which I still have to do...but I'd rather force you to have more words to read. Check out some more lazy, I mean quick, lunches over at Bentos on the Bayou 15 Minute Fridays. Each Friday there's a post that bloggers can link their quick lunches to...tons of awesome ideas.

I swear...EasyLunchboxes and PlanetBox make these lazy lunches look spectacular. Here's the same lunch as above in a PlanetBox Shuttle:

feeling like spring has sprung

The weather here in Atlanta was gorgeous over the weekend. That being said, the pollen is swelling in the trees, our eyes are feeling a little squiggy and spring has finally sprung. Time to scarf down some allergy meds and hang on for a few weeks...then it will be waaaaarm and we will don our shorts and flip flops for the next four months. I am in no way complaining! I love the spring and summer in Georgia.

Our little lunches took less than 15 minutes total to put together...unless you count the boiled eggs, which obviously were done earlier. For those who think I've got too much time on my hands...well, maybe I do, or maybe I just enjoy making lunch fun for my girls. So I will watch a little less tv, or put down that book for a bit longer...I make time for it, just like you may make time to craft or knit or read or whatever it is that you enjoy doing.

Ham and cheese on burger buns, Veggie Stix, fruit, applesauce and boiled eggs all packed in easylunchboxes with a bit of flair for my almost 10 year old.

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