Comments on: Sustainable School Lunch — Loving On Leftovers

By: veronika

veronika — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Sayward, I love revisiting these kind lunch posts as reminders and for new ideas. More, please! :) And many thanks!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:36:00 +0000

Yeah he loves cold leftovers (so do I!) so it’s not a problem. I bet your kiddo will be fine with it!

By: Melissa_HerGreenLife

Melissa_HerGreenLife — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:04:00 +0000

I guess Waits is okay with the leftovers being served chilled or at room temp? We’ve been spoiled with a preschool that was willing to reheat my son’s lunch for him (our lunches are almost entirely dinner leftovers), but we won’t have that going into kindergarten this fall, and I’m not sure how that will go.

Thanks for sharing these snapshots and the containers that you use!

By: Jennifer Douglas-Craig

Jennifer Douglas-Craig — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:10:00 +0000

MY KIDS EAT LIKE BIRDS! Thank you thank you thank you for these posts. And this reminder to include calorie dense protein and fat. My biggest concern is that my kids don’t get enough calories and lately we’ve been relying on fruit since it’s so hot here in LA. You’re an amazing mom. Thanks for taking the time to put this together and share it with us.

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 03:54:00 +0000

I get such great ideas from these posts and think I want to try chlorella tablets.

By: Rebecca Carnes

Rebecca Carnes — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:14:00 +0000

I love using leftovers!! Unfortunately Ps school is nut free :( otherwise I’d love to throw some trail mix in there. So we use Sunbutter for our PB&J sammies, lots of bean/lentil dishes….hummus and veggies to dip. Today was a lazy day for me so I actually packed him some leftover pancakes and agave to dip lol. Will just call it a treat day ha!

By: Monika {windycityvegan}

Monika {windycityvegan} — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:22:00 +0000

What a fun post! I love seeing your lunches for Waits on IG. I only snapchat mine, because we have zero natural light in the wee hours of the morning and for some reason, grainy photos just seem more at home on SC than they do on IG.

I love packing Ni’s lunch every morning – there is always fat and protein (her metabolism is F A S T, but lately she has been anti-leftovers and anti-plant meat because the texture changes in the 5+ hours between when I pack something and when she eats it. So, it’s a lot of trail mix and Kite Hill yogurt with add-ins, or Justin’s nut butter pouches (I stock up like crazy when they are on sale).

I’m trying to get her to use a bento box, but she really loves her thermos and having everything in individual containers and pouches. She’s also asked me if I’ll start following the menu that her school puts out so that she can a bring similar-looking entree (vegan mac on her school’s mac ‘n’ cheese day, etc). I’ll enjoy the challenge when the new school year begins, but I doubt I’ll keep it up all semester. ;)

By: lysette

lysette — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:42:00 +0000

So cool Waits is still chomping chlorella tablets!

By: Sarah C.

Sarah C. — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:19:00 +0000

I want you to make MY lunches! ;)

I always work to get protein and carbs into my girl’s lunch (and every meal), but we’re also limited by a nut-free school and the fact that we don’t really eat a lot of plant “meats” – so there’s a lot of repetition in her lunches (lots of baked tofu, hummus with dippers, slices of bean quesadilla, rice and beans — a major favorite — and stuff like that). I wish she still liked sunbutter like she used to. And I also wish I’d bought some of those reusable smoothie packets years ago – I would have saved a bundle of waste! I’ll have to work at including more leftovers – she could easily enjoy a tofu stir-fry or similar – and planning meals that can be eaten as leftover.

Out of curiosity, does Waits do summer camps and stuff so you can work over the summer?