Lunchbox Pizza

Reese has been coming home with a lunchbox full of her lunch for the majority of the year now.  "what do you eat?" I ask her.  Mostly she tells me she shares with friends, but since most of her lunch is still in the box, I don't know what she's sharing with them.

She's slowing stopped eating any sort of protein, too.  She liked Go-gurts, until one splattered on her when she opened it.  She doesn't like peanut butter sandwiches anymore, and won't eat plain peanut butter on a spoon, or peanuts in general.  She used to like ham and cheese roll-ups (we would roll cheddar up in lunch meat) but has changed her mind on those.  She won't eat string cheese anymore.  We put cottage cheese in her lunches and that worked for about two weeks.

So we've been having trouble packing lunches.  The other day she came home and told me that her friend let her try one of her home-lunch pizzas.  She said she put the sauce and the cheese and the pepperoni on it and it came with a piece of chocolate.  This sounds suspiciously like a Lunchable,

And I have not yet caved in to the pre-made lunches.  So far, with the occasional exception, our lunches have been entirely made from scratch- mostly to save on cost, a little because I like to know what's going into my kid's bodies.  But there is room for compromise here!

Pita bread + pepperoni + shredded mozzarella + home made marinara sauce = Reese actually eats lunch again!  Yay!

She likes it so much she asked to have it for dinner.  I was worried about her getting sick of it, but Will and I are going out tonight to eat dinner with someone I am interviewing for a school project, so she picked the right day to ask for this simple dinner.

So we'll call this a win.