--MONDAY--
Lunch: Chickpea Cutlet strips w/ ketchup & mustard, cauliflower and green pepper mini-skewers,
and cucumber flowers, sticky rice w/ a soy sauce fish, red grapes, a grape gel,
vanilla yogurt w/ granola to sprinkle on (tiny yellow container), string cheese,
and a fun "toy soldier" breadstick thing from my sister in Japan.
Snack: Apple wedges (preserved for the day in lemon juice)
w/ peanut butter to spread on (in the little red and blue elephants),
banana bread cubes, and a Japanese candy. (I put some tomato
pretzel sticks in the lid where the plasticware is, too,
but did that after I'd take this photo.)
And,
just because it is cute, here's a photo of the snack box
wrapped up in a cloth (
furoshiki) from a different bento box.
I wrapped al lthe snack boxes this week.

--TUESDAY--
Lunch: Japanese egg noodles w/ a quick stir-fry I made that
morning (carrots, zucchini, bean sprouts, & broccoli) w/a little
bottle of noodle sauce (Kikkoman Memmi sauce),
fresh broccoli and dip, deli chicken meat rolls and string cheese,
and vanilla yogurt w/ pineapple tidbits, granola and raw peanuts on top.
Snack: kiwi, goldfish crackers and 4 gummie butterflies.
--WEDNESDAY--
Lunch: Roast Beef, mustard and baby spinach tortilla roll-ups
(she had no idea that was spinach in there, not till I picked her up from camp.
She LOVED it and was glad I didn't tell her beforehand), pickle bites (in the saran wrap),
vanilla yogurt w/ granola to sprinkle on, a fruit gel, rice ball w/ soy sauce fish,
fresh cucumber slices, green pepper and baby carrots, Koala Cookies.
Snack: Nectarine wedges (ice pack underneath),
homemade granola bar, raisins and raw peanuts.
--THURSDAY--
Lunch: Pizza "tacos" (spaghetti sauce, mozz. cheese, turkey pepperoni,
and crush pineapple on a tortilla, green pepper, baby carrots, cucumber slices,
and cauliflower w/ ranch dip (pink lidded container), goldfish crackers, mandarin
oranges (frozen and used as the cold pack today, were thawed enough by
lunch time), and a White Rabbit candy.
Snack: Tomato pretzels, raisins, raw peanuts, pineapple gel,
homemade granola bar, and nectarine slices (on a cold pack)
--FRIDAY--
Lunch: (by request) Pizza tacos again, celery w/ peanut butter, kiwi,
green peppers and baby carrots, goldfish crackers, and fruit leather.
Snack: Tomato pretzel stticks, raisins and raw peanuts,
homemade granola bar, 3 prunes, and 3 grape butterfly gummies.
Now, lest you think this is a lot of food... my daughter turns 11 next week and is over 5 feet tall. (5'2" I think.) The kids expend a LOT of energy at camp. She usually has saved back one thing from her snack box each day to eat on the way home (about a 10 minute trip.) It all gets eaten. Drink each day is one small (laptop lunchbox size) bottle of fruit juice w/ lunch, all other drink is plain water carried in her backpack. We freeze her water bottles each night half-full of water and top off the bottle with cold water in the morning. It's worked pretty well at supplying her with cold water all day. Her backpack gets heavy to carry (thus even more energy expended. LOL) but it's worth it to have cold water all day.
Thanks for your blog!