Sad, Sad Lunches

A crumpled brown bag.  A ziptop bag of slightly dried out carrots.  A prepackaged bag of "cheese-flavored" crackers.  A warm yogurt.  A bagel with pb.  And sometimes a handful of chocolate chips and a juice box.

That is a sad, sad lunch.  I packed one-hundred and eighty lunches (minus sick days, and "oh-shoot!-we're-out-of-yogurt-and-baby-carrots" days) for each of my three school-aged kids last year. 

I always believed that the reason I packed lunches for my children was because I love them!  And yet...where was the love?  Ain't no love in dat sad, sad lunch.

So, here is my attempt to make lunch fun, healthy, creative and full of the most important ingredient in a kid's lunchbox--love!