Well, I like sandwiches. Most people do. But my three year old, who used to be a great eater, has become picky. He refuses to eat sandwiches. We have sandwiches a lot for lunch. They are cheap, good and fast. I've tried giving him sandwiches thinking he would get over it. He has gone days without eating lunch (or eating just a piece of fruit). So I decided to start changing up our lunch routine. I decided to plan for three meals a day (I'm actually copying my friend Amanda). I'm sure this is not a new thing for everybody but it is new for me. It's nice. I have a calendar on the fridge and everyone can see what they are eating for each meal of every day. This time I am trying a few new things. I've recently discovered Heavenly Homemakers (thanks again to my friend Amanda). She has a lot of recipes available on her blog. Be sure to check it out! I'm trying four of her recipes: corn dog muffins, pizza pockets, and homemade poptarts, and breakfast burritos. We made the poptarts yesterday. They are good. We have our own tortilla recipe that we used for the breakfast burritos. No month would be complete without PW's cinnamon rolls. The rest of our breakfasts will consist of cereal, oatmeal, pancakes (I'll share my favorite recipe later), and we are going to try and make our own bagels. I'll let you know how they turn out. For lunches we'll add in some peanut and jelly sandwiches (except for my middle man of course!), some boxed macaroni and cheese (it was on sale), ham and cheese crescent rolls, and bierocks (recipe coming soon!). I'll save our dinner menu for the next post.
Fabulous ideas! I have found that if I don't have a written meal plan for the week, I end up not cooking- we either eat out or I throw something together that doesn't involve cooking. Neither one of those options work out to do very often.
ReplyDeleteI've made bagels...the real way, where you boil them, then bake them. They turned out way better than I expected :) Good luck!!