I got Leah a laptop lunch box. Last night she helped me prepare her first lunch in it. She choose strawberry yogurt, angel hair pasta w/olive oil, Parmesan cheese, red pepper flakes (leftover from dinner), strawberry & blueberry fruit salad & small cubes of mozzarella cheese. She added a bottle of water & box of apple juice.
There are many reasons for this change. It helps us reduce waste (which as a family we make too much of), it helps cut down on the amount of prepackaged junk we are used to giving Leah for lunch thanks to the convenience factor. It helps Leah have an active role in preparing her lunch and getting her to eat different types of food. Hopefully, it will also make her eat a lil more of her lunch every day. She is a notoriously slow eater and picky when it comes to her school lunches. I am hoping her participation in her meal preparation and the whole packaging of her meal will make her eat a bit more.
We are also going to begin recycling. We didn't at first due to no recycling pick-up on our complex, which really isn't a very good excuse considering the grandparents have recycling pick-up so it isn't like we couldn't bring out stuff there or even directly to the recycling facility. Pure laziness on our parts. We do have pick-up now and it is important for Leah to understand things like recycling and why cutting down on waste/garbage is beneficial to all of us.
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