When my son Brayden started his new daycare/preschool after Thanksgiving I had to get used to providing him with breakfast and lunch every day (previously his in-home daycare took care of it). We leave the house by 6:45am and there really isn't time for breakfast at our house (most days I wake him up, get him dresses, and we leave). For breakfast I rotate between waffles, pancakes, and Kashi cereal bars. I make the waffles and pancakes on the weekends and then reheat them and put them in a thermos to take with us. Cereal bars are for days I'm running late, out of waffles or pancakes, of the thermos didn't get washed the night before.
For lunches I pack a veggie, a fruit, and a sandwich. All these things are cut up into bit-sized pieces. The veggies and fruit I must admit are usually from can. He likes the veggies (namely carrots and beans) from a can better than fresh or frozen, and the fruit I buy is in juice (not syrup). If I have fresh fruit that can be cut up and will not get yucky before lunch I'll sometimes pack that instead. However my desire to pack all the lunches (minus the sandwiches) on Sunday cause me to use canned fruit more times than not. Each day has it's own color cont
ainer to help me remember which containers have which foods in them (so he doesn't eat the same fruit and veggies two days in a row).I usually not only pack my son's lunches on Sunday, but I also prep my own. I've been on a daily salad kick for a couple years now (strangely enough I never want to eat it at home...it just never tastes as good). I also pack a sandwich and usually some fruit or fruit/yogurt mixture. I make the salad preparations on Sunday and maybe a couple days worth of fruit and yogurt. I don't have a picture of my lunches, but here's what our fridge looks like on Sunday with Brayden's lunches ready to go for the week.
