School Lunches

Jon and I have been making lunches for the kids since we moved down here in 2006.   But now that Jett is finished at Primary School, Jon and I are retiring from lunch box duty, leaving them to make their own (much to their horror).

So to mark the final week of lunch-box making I had fun recreating some of the highs and lows of the last 11 years, as well as providing a few surprises for them.  Our lunchbox routine has always been that Jon makes all the sandwiches and freezes them (on Sunday night usually), and then I assemble the lunch boxes with the extra snacks for recess on the day.  This means that I accidentally mix up the rolls at least once a fortnight, so of course this week I had to do the same at least once.  Here’s Jett’s lunchbox on Wednesday.  It was actually his own roll that I gave him but he was smart enough to check the contents (jam) - unfortunately Zali took me on my word and tossed her fetta and cheddar straight in the bin!

I really wanted to re-create that time cousin Toby got a raw mince patty by mistake but we didn’t have any, so they avoided that gag.

However I did get to recreate the week from about 4 years ago, where each day I gave the kids something unusual (i.e. not a spoon) to eat their yoghurt with - I provided forks, chop-sticks, and even a pastry brush (which turned out to be a utensil too far as it turned out).  This week I simply provided a spoon which was too big to fit into the yoghurt tub. heh heh.