week 20: back from procrastination mode

after one week in portugal and one week of business work related travel (where we did prepare lunchboxes for jon, but they were never photographed…) we are back to business as usual.

on friday, jon did not have a lunchbox because we had to spend lunch at the hospital – nothing serious – it was a scheduled appointment.

a big thank you to WORDPRESS for making even easier to post and upload pictures!!!

p.s. jon emptied the lunchboxes every day this week.

monday

box 1: vegetable (zucchini, aubergine, tomatoes, red peppers, onions) quiche with some stincky yummy cheese box 2: greek yoghurt with fresh rasperries (they were picked last summer by grandma and frozen) box 3: cherry tomatoes

tuesday

box 1: spinach tagliatelle with tomato sauce + fresh parsley box 2: cooked zucchini in tomato sauce and onion and parsley box 3: cucumber sticks box 4: fresh strawberries picked this very spring!

wednesday

box 1: grilled tortilla wrap with kidney beans in spicy tomato sauce and cheddar cheese box 2: fresh strawberries box 3: long winter cupcakes (they have p-l-e-n-t-y of sugar, but they are delicious… jon does not usually eat sugar, but once in a blue moon….) on the side: celeri sticks

thursday

box 1: greek yoghurt and raspberries box 2: soya pølse (sausages) box 3: broccoli and tomato quiche with the quintensential cheese ingredient (we could not survive without dairy products in this house – that much we have established!)

week 6: colour me orange

last sunday afternoon was spent baking. we have not done much baking as we try to avoid to introduce sugar in jon’s diet. but it is almost christmas… and i had always wanted to try making cookies with jon… we made cookies with a christmacy touch: vanilla, cinammon & cardemom. we used shapes of all sorts: hearts, angels, hearts, christmas trees, dogs… jon loved to get his hands into the dough – we had a blast!

monday

box 1: smørbrød (typical danish open sandwiches – økologisk bread with gouda cheese + slice of cucumber and gammeldags smoked salmon with dill) box 2: one of our home baked cookies – dog shape box 3: thick cucumber slices with yellow and red cocktail tomatoes box 4: farmor’s (grandma’s) hytteost (cottage cheese) roast outcome: a bit of bread and a corner of cottage cheese roast were left in the box…

tuesday

box 1: peixinhos da horta (traditional portuguese recipe: boiled green beans dipped in egg and flour batter and fried in olive oil - these are not truly originals because i added a bit of curry seasoning to the batter… the japanese serve a similar dish called tempura, but it seems that it was the portuguese that brought it over in the mid-16th century!) box 2: green bean salad (with the left over green beans that i had boiled for the peixinhos, i decided to make a salad with tomatoes, onions and olives box 3: rice and freshly grated parmesan box 4: babybel outcome: most of the green bean salad was abandoned.

wednesday

box 1: mixed salad with crème fraîche (lettuce, tomato, cucumber + red pepper) box 2: freshly sliced carambola box 3: falafel box 4: pita bread outcome: empty box!

thursday

box 1: boiled and mashed broccoli with olive oil and raw pressed garlic box 2: red and yellow cocktail tomatoes box 3: home made pizza (tomatoes, black olives, raw garlic, mushrooms and drizzled with red pesto and olive oil, grated gouda) box 4: sliced cucumber outcome: EMPTY lunchbox!

friday

box 1: whole wheat pasta (penne + fusili) with a quorn mince tomato sauce box 2: sundried apricots box 3: sliced orange box 4: juicy carrot outcome: empty box! (i had to ask the daycare assistant who supervises lunchtime: “when the box comes empty, does it mean jon ate everything?” – “yes” she replied “he eats very well“)