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Our Meal Planner

Monster Munchies #2

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As part of the lunches for the Kidlets I have 1 juice and 1 water bottle each that are in the fridge for them. Their water bottle gets replenished as they finish it, but they are only allowed one bottle of juice a day.

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Monday
Strawberries, Spanich, Sweet Carrots, Rice with Gravy and Pork Roll Roast and Orange Jelly

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Tuesday
Strawberries, Monster Pie and Rice with Gravy and a Banana Fritter

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How cute are these little pies, I took a big flower cookie cutter put the pie filling in the middle then folded it in half and use a heart cookie cutter to make it extra special

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Wednesday
On Tusday night Noo requested spaghetti, it tastes 100 x better than it looks, LOL. So in our lunchbox today we have blue and yellow banana cupcakes, blue spaghetti and mince (ground beef) and greengage jelly covered apple slices

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A closeup of the spaghetti

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Thursday
Dried Cranberries, Fish Fingers with Toast and Lichi Jelly

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Friday
Pumpkin Fritters, Boerewors (traditional South African sausage) Stew

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Next week I’m going to have a go at making my family Bento Boxes and see how that works out for us. I’m quiet excited to get started.

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Introducing Monster Munchies # 1
Monster Munchies #2

Featured ~ Another Lunch Blog

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Today I discovered the Another Lunch blog while looking for new ideas for our Monster Munchies. This blog is dedicated to Bento Boxes and give you all sorts of ideas on how to present the meals to your children.

Some of the features on this blog include:

  • How to start
  • Recipes

    • From next week I’m going to try to make the kidlets’ lunches a little more “bento like”. I’m going to have to buy some really cool new tools and odds and ends, but that’s ok, that can be bought over time.

    Thank you Melissa for sharing all your wonderful ideas.

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    Monster Munchies #2

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    I’ve made a weekly lunch planner to help me stay on target every day when I’m packing their lunches.
    Weekly school lunch planner
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    A reminder of the lunches I have planned for the week, I have printed my planning sheet out and used Prestik (sticky tack) to mount it onto my kitchen cupboard where I can see it everyday.
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    Our Lunch Boxes
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    Monday was a public holiday (Woman’s Day) and we had friends over, so I didn’t pack lunch boxes for the kidlets.

    Tuesday
    Strawberries, Monster Pie with Rice and gravy and Jelly
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    Wednesday
    Julienne Carrots with mustard mayo dip, Meaty Pasta and Butterscotch Pudding
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    The pudding had blue chocolate sprinkles on, the boys thought that was great
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    Thursday
    Fruit (Strawberries and grapes), Peanut butter sarmies and pumpkin fritters (I was to lazy to make muffins, LOL)
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    Friday
    Boiled Egg, Cheesy noodles with left over lamb stew and Julienne Cucumber with mustard mayo dip
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    Monster Munchies

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    For today’s Monster Munchies I’m going to share websites that focus on lunch box lunches.

    The Healthy Lunch Box – I bought our lunch boxes here. I need to get 7 more, LOL
    Health Castle – 8 Healthy Lunch Box Ideas
    Creche Guard – Healthy Lunch boxes for Kids
    Go for Your Life – Healthy lunch boxes for children
    Eat Well – Tips for a healthy lunchbox
    Kid’s Health – A healthy lunch box
    Fresh for Kids – Healthy Lunch Box Ideas
    Fresh for Kids – Fresh for Kids – Fresh For Kids Recipe Booklet – Recipe Ideas
    Fresh for Kids – Fresh For Kids Recipe Booklet – Quick recess, lunch and snack ideas
    Fresh for Kids – Day Healthy Lunch Box Meal Plan

    I was introduced to Bento Boxes by an online buddy and just love them. I wish I had the time to make one for the children every day.
    Just Bento
    Hub Pages – Make A Bento Box Lunch!
    Flickr – Bento Lunch Box Recipes
    Bento Lunch
    Lunch in a Box
    Cooking Cute
    Easy Lunch Boxes

    Fun Lunch Box Cards – These are fun little cards, I write personal little notes on the back for each child ♥

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    Introducing Monster Munchies # 1

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    This is today’s Monster Munchies and it was one of the Kidlets favourite dishes. I make enough dinner at night so that the Kidlets and Hubby can have a decent cooked meal at lunch time

    This is my my Hubby’s lunch box for work. Pasta bake, naartjie and strawberry yoghurt
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    Noo and Koko had the same as Daddy, they just has some dried cranberries with their yoghurt
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    Fifi, being only 18 months old, got just a few naartjie wedges and a tablespoon of dried cranberries. She gets her yoghurt at 3, just before her afternoon nap time.
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    Here are a few photos of my kidlets enjoying their lunch. Koko insisted that Noo sit with him at his little table and not at the big table and Noo is such an awesome big brother that he obliged ♥
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    Monster Lunch Boxes

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    I bought these lunch boxes about a year ago, from The Healthylunchbox after stumbling across this blog and decided to start prepacking the kidlets and my Hubby’s lunches for the following day. I decided to start doing this after realising that some days I just don’t have time to make lunch for the kidlets, especially when Noo takes longer than usual with his school work and needs extra help with something. I like keeping the kidlets in their routine as much as possible and this helps a great deal and if they don’t finish their lunch, it just gets sealed and gets stored in the fridge till 3 o’clock snack time (with a few additions).

    I usually make heathy food for dinner, with exception of our Friday Pizza Nights and make enough for their “Bento Style Lunch Boxes”.

    On this particular day they had Grapes, Rice and Monsters Steak Pie and a naartjie each.
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    Have a look at Carissa from 1+1+1=1’s post about her lunch boxes.

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