"Um, Mom? I'm pretty sure this doesn't actually count as real lunch food."
I struggle with lunch. I don't like preparing big fancy lunches, and when you're trying to serve Real Food and don't happen to have leftovers, lunch can be a struggle. It's primarily just the girls and I at home for lunch, and we need things that are quick and easy, but healthy too.
Today's lunch: diced apples and bananas, sections of clementines, chopped "kwammerlope" and raisins, topped with a "dressing" made of plain yogurt blended with honey and all mixed up. The result? They loved it, ate it all, and asked for seconds.
Some other common lunches at our house:
*PB&J (homemade bread and jam, sometimes homemade cashew butter)
*Homemade cheese and veggie sandwiches
*Homemade noodles tossed with olive oil and chopped tomatoes
*Baked or mashed potatoes with homemade "ranch" dressing
*Quesadillas and homemade salsa
*Whatever random things Mommy can find and toss together to make it look like lunch
*Leftovers
*Leftovers
*More leftovers
What do you serve for lunch?
I think lunches out there sound good... want company? ;-)
ReplyDeleteLeftovers are the standard around here, too...
Today I made a soup from beef gelatin (which I buy in bulk and store in the freezer), pizza seasonings, a few shakes of brown rice flour, date powder, flax seed meal, a couple of tablespoons of tahini, olive oil and sea salt. It turned out rather well :-)
We do a lot of Tahini on brown rice tortillas w/ cinnamon sprinkled on top.
Sometimes we do Tahini or almond butter on Carrots or sliced apples...
I do a lot of "mac 'n cheese" -- though nobody but my family would recognize it as such: Brown rice pasta with coconut milk, ACV, Sea salt, and cashew butter stirred and warmed up into a "cheese sauce."
Scrambled eggs or crepes are favorites, and fruit is the staple to go with anything and everything.
We mostly do leftovers, honestly!
ReplyDeletei suck at lunches. dinner too for that matter. ever since andy's been out of work, i've been such a slacker.
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