We have a Winner

We have a problem around the Jamieson house. We are in a lunch time rut. The kids are super picky about what they like to eat and Vaughn wants a peanut butter sandwich for lunch everyday. I usually dread lunch time.

I guess there are lots of things that the kids will eat but they don't always seem like the healthiest choices, kraft dinner, hot dogs, grilled cheese, and eggs (Greta only). I know there are worst options out there but getting a raw vegetable into Greta is nearly impossible. The kids plates often contain a peanut butter sandwich with heated up frozen peas, which just seems really strange to me. They refuse to eat leftovers, honestly how do they know, they could love it for supper the night before and won't touch it with a ten foot pole the next day.

The list of things they will eat is pretty small so it feels like I am feeding them the same things over and over again. Maybe I could do other things but having to fight with them to eat lunch and supper is too much, I choose to only fight over one meal a day.

I am happy to annouce that we have a new lunchtime winner. I found it in a recipe magazine and knew it would be delicious but was trying to be cautiously optimistic that picky 1 & 2 would give it their stamp of approval. The miracle lunch was basically homemade Pizza Pockets. You buy the frozen buns from the grocery store, pull them out in the morning so they are defrosted by lunch. Roll them flat, fill one with your favourite pizza toppings, put the other one top, seal it with a fork and bake it for 20 minutes. It was pure bliss at lunch today! I am sending Matt to the store tonight to buy more buns because I will be making this again!

The recipe called for chicken and swiss cheese and some other fancy ingredients but tomato sauce, sliced ham, red peppers, mushrooms and mozza cheese worked great for us. Hopefully next time I'll be able to find wholewheat buns and will push this meal over the edge.

Oh it was a happy lunch day today!