Make a Lunch Quick Enough For a Homeschooler
This week’s Works For Me Wednesday is about last minute meal ideas. I shared a chili recipe at my personal blog that I think some of yo
u might like. It’s vegetarian chili, but you can easily brown some ground meat and add to it if you prefer meaty chili.
Around here because daddy works evenings and nights dinner is usually something light for me and the boys. Lunch is our big rush meal, trying to get something made that he can eat while getting ready and have enough to take to work to eat is tricky. Mine is usually a 11:45 scramble to figure out what to make and get it done with the boys needing me. And because I need another obsticle he eats meat and I don’t, so it has to be something everyone can happily enjoy. The midday rush does help to remind me that by getting to create our own schedule instead of the one that everyone else thinks is the only proper one they get more daddy time than if I had the boys in a typical school schedule.
So here’s my quick and simple, never fails meal idea. Toss a chicken breast in the oven, usually season it with lemon-pepper or something. While it’s baking I make rice in a pot. Then I open my bag of frozen veggies and heat up some peas and carrots or mixed veggies. If I have some I’ll cut up raw spinach and stir into the rice, usually with some parmesan cheese and a little garlic salt. It’s easy and generally quick to make. Then I just wrap up the chicken breast with some rice and veggies and tuck it away for him to take to work, and serve what’s left for us for lunch.
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December 4th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
That sounds delicious!
December 5th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Those are great suggestions!
December 5th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
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