Mommy Lunch

I started making this lunch for S&Z on my days off sometime last spring.

It has come to be known around our house as The Mommy Lunch. 

The vegetables vary based on what we've picked up at the Farmer's Market or have on hand from the grocery. The protein often includes a few pieces of cheese, a few cubes of tofu (which S&Z have eaten since they were babies and still devour to this day), and some rolled up turkey on a toothpick. The vegetables often include cucumbers, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower; in the summer we always have haruki turnips and radishes as well. It used to be a battle to get Zoe to eat all of these vegetables, but now she pretty readily eats everything since they continue to show up on her plate no matter what. I add a few crackers as a treat (because who doesn't love carbs around here). Silas recently started requesting pickles, so his plate now includes sliced pickles.

I think part of the attraction of this lunch is the variety and the fun factor. They can eat everything with their hands and they also play a little bit. They make cucumber and carrot towers, or bake "cookies" out of cucumber and top them with tofu.

Mommy Lunch is served Friday through Sunday. Today Silas randomly asked for pizza, so Derek offered to make him a cheese pizza with turkey pepperoni on a toasted sandwich thin. I asked Zoe if she wanted pizza or a Mommy Lunch. She voted M.L.

And she devoured everything :)