Hello! How was your weekend? We had a great one with quite a bit of downtime. We have family visiting, so we hung out at my brother’s on Friday night, and we all went to lunch on Saturday. Travis and I went to a concert with friends on Saturday night, and then Sunday’s weather was beautiful. It finally felt like spring.
Today, I’m co-hosting our NJAM link up with these awesome bloggers:
So far this year, we’ve discussed:
Last Monday, I shared some easy dinner ideas, and today I’m talking about: What’s for Lunch…
I’ve a few Let’s Lunch posts in the past…
….and an easy lunch idea:
I have a love/hate relationship with lunch. Somehow it always gets brought up with my students, but in 20 years as a teacher, I only buy the cafeteria lunch once a year for the Thanksgiving meal! That means, I pack my lunch the other 175 days in the school year…
It’s not even that I get bored with lunches, I just hate having another task like packing a lunch.
I often make something that will at least provide two lunches for the week like shrimp fried rice or a salad. Otherwise, I will pack cheese and crackers, a chip (pretzel, popcorn), carrots and hummus, a hard boiled egg, or fruit (strawberries or grapes). I typically pack a protein shake as well. Sometimes, I will include a small sweet bite like a Built bar or granola bar.
Lately, my “go to” has been a Cheeseburger salad. It’s delish.
If I’m home, I love to make a “snack plate.” I’m not sure why, but it feels like a treat!
The kids often took their lunches in elementary school. Now that it’s middle school, Hayden buys lunch every single day, and Hadley brings her lunch every single day. She tends to eat the same thing every day in her Yumbox: an Uncrustable in the big section, Gushers or fruit snacks in the small middle circle, fruit or vegetable in one section, and then a chip in the last part. She typically packs a granola bar for a snack. She occasionally will pack something in her thermos and then bring a chip and other snack for lunch.
What are some of your “go to” lunches?
We hope you’ll join us next month when our topic is: go to gift ideas.
If you are a blogger, we hope you’ll link up with us today.
I hope you have a great week. We have lots going on, but I hope to post pretty regularly.
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that cheeseburger salad looks good. what dressing do you use?
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I drizzle of the Magnifi sauce from Trader Joe’s (but a bet it’s a mix of ketchup, mustard, Mayo?)
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I like a snack plate too, or if I feel like being sophisticated, I’ll call it a charcuterie board 🙂
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I do the same. I feel like I’m eating less if I call it a snack plate 🤣
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You only have school 176 days? We’re required to have 180 by state law. I almost always packed my lunch too; though our teachers did have a few restaurants that let us order meals on Friday and they delivered them by our lunch periods.. I definitely took advantage of that a few times!
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Kids go 170 days and teachers 176. Pre-Covid our school had food truck Friday for teachers. I loved it!
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Wait tell us more about this cheeseburger salad! Do you have a recipe for it?
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Very easy and it’s in my last “Monday meals” post
https://showmeandsweettea.com/2022/04/04/monday-meals-7/
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