Today’s quite an exciting day!
One of my dear dear friends, Catherine, you might know her from Weelicious, is coming out with her 2nd cookbook Weelicious Lunches! And I think we should celebrate by giving some away don’t you think?
Weelicious Lunches is PACKED with recipes that will literally make your kids lunches the envy of everyone around. These are simple, delicious and healthy recipes that please not only kids… but adults too! I’ve already put in my order with Catherine so I can start picking up my lunches every morning. It’s happening. I’ll even bring my own lunch box.
Let’s take a peek inside shall we?
These grilled cheese croutons are a MUST!
Or how about this world’s greatest pb&j!! heck yes – any kid would love this! And you could sub out any of your fav nut butters if needed.
I mean, pizza balls!! Is there anything we can even say about these? They are freaking awesome.
banana dog bites for the win!
and then there’s the homemade chocolate hazelnut spread. I’m literally drooling.
Bottom line. We all need this book, regardless if we have kids or not! I mean, I’m seriously going to start sending Thomas to work with some of these ideas from Catherine.
So, in honor of such an exciting day, I voted and and the results are in. I guess there really aren’t any other opposing votes to count since it’s just me, but whatever… details shmeetails. Let’s give away some books!
Leave a comment on this post letting me know what you used to eat for your school lunches and you’re automatically entered! I’ll pick 3 winners and we’ll send you you book ASAP. Contest goes through Friday September 6th just before midnight!
Ready, set, go!
When I was in school I used to eat raisin bread sandwiches with cream cheese and carrot sticks! Weelicious lunches look way better than what I had!
I bought lunch so I ate a lot of mystery meat. 🙁 I want better for my babies!
I always love finding new recipes to try!
Back in the day, it was sandwiches – lots of sandwiches: pb&j, bologna + mayo, turkey or ham. This book looks so fun – can’t wait to take a look at it!!
OH jeez! Aside from Chef Boy-ar-Dee in a thermos …..sandwiches: tunafish, pb&J, bologna – and even….sardine! (Yes…that one makes you popular on the bus;)
Peanut butter sandwiches, I was the only kid who hated Jelly!
When I was little, I had a ding dong (loved the foil wrapping) cut carrots, cut tomatoes and always a sandwich on wheat. I was so embarrassed because none of the other kids had wheat bread – now almost ALL the kids at our school have wheat bread. I guess I was “in” before I knew I was ‘In” thanks to my parents.
I struggle to find fun and nutritious lunches that aren’t processed. This book looks like the holy grail of kids lunch planning.
I usually just had a sandwich with chips but it was always a treat to open my lunch box and find a lunchable:)
My school lunches must not have been memorable enough. I did pack my sons lunches for the 13 years each of them attended school. They were picky eaters, so there lunch consisted of a ham sandwich, Capri Sun drink, small baggie of chips and maybe a cookie. Milk money was paid ahead.
Funny story, once my high school aged son’s ham sandwich caught the attention of the drug sniffing dog that made a surprise visit to the school. He was quite nervous trying to open his combination with a dog, State Police, principal and superintendent waiting.
My mom always packed me my favorite: salami and cream cheese roll-ups!
I ate a lot of sandwiches, either bologna or PB & J. And I always had chips and a juice box of some kind.
When I was little, I was a very picky eater. I remember having buttered hot dog buns for lunch! When I got older, I would eat a salami sandwich every day. Not very healthy!
Whatever the cafeteria was serving.
Bagels and cream cheese with fruit and crackers! 🙂 Definitely need some inspiration! 🙂
I hate to say it cause I’m a health freak now but my favorite lunches involved gushers or fruit by the foot! Mmmm I could have eaten the whole box, good thing my mom limited me because those are SO bad for you 🙁 oh well I was young and naive.
I always loved little debbie cakes for dessert. (Now I know what’s in them;)
I typically would buy my lunch at school. Hooray mystery meat! And I spent a year at a private school where lunch was whatever the local Luby’s had leftover from the previous day. Needless to say, my kiddo will eat better (I hope!).
I hate to say it but I had to eat whatever the cafeteria had nooked up.
I hated it when the bread got soggy so I ate lunch meat and cheese separately. It was not good. Adult lunches (and my 16 mo old son’s lunches) are way better now (also, I got over my bread issues…)
Plain old boring sandwiches and apples!
Nothing healthy. 🙁
I used to eat a plain bagel with cream cheese and a bag of cheese curls every day for lunch!
Bologne sandwiches- yuck!
Sadly my favorite sandwich as a kid was 2 slices of Wonder Bread with one slice of white american cheese in the middle. That or Bologona and Ketchup sandwiches! Who would have thought I would grow up and become a foodie! Lucky for my kids I have severed them neither sandwich!
When I was in high school, I was so freaked out by the cafeteria food that I usually ate a mixture of packaged snacks. Thank goodness I’ve learned to embrace whole foods and limit my intake of processed foods as I’ve gotten older.
I loved peanut butter and mint jelly sandwiches!
It was great that there was a cafeteria when I was in elementary and middle school; the food was actually good plus my mom worked. In high school I walked to the local burger place. I grew up in a very small town so could walk everywhere.
Thanks for the chance to win. My granddaughter is in VPK and takes her lunch so this is a perfect cookbook for her mom and dad. Packed lunches are so creative now!
Meatloaf sandwiches and old, gross Halloween candy on May…lovely.
I can only remember having pb&j or tuna sandwiches everyday until high school, where there was an actual cafeteria and I could purchase lunch.
I love Weelicious! When I was a kid, I had a peanut butter & jelly sandwich and an apple every single day.
I ate a lot of school food when I was a kid. My favorite was hoagie day and when they would make spaghetti and homemade rolls. It’s definately not the same. Those ladies got creative with what they got. I can remember zebra patties (salisbury steak patties with strips of cheese) and a ham patty sandwich made with ham loaf mix and the breaded. When I got to junior high, the food was no longer homemade and came out of large cans and such. And when I got older and out of school, I would miss those peanut butter bars. Packing was “not cool” and certainly no more than a sandwich and chips back then. Now I struggle for new ideas so when my daughter gets older, packing will still be ok with her. Thank you for the giveaway.
My siblings and I were always PB&H (honey) kids
Turkey sandwich on a bagel, yogurt and a piece of fruit or granola bar. FOR-EVER. I was difficult and refused to buy the gross school lunch!
I used to get the cafeteria lunch, my mom would typically make pb&j for sack lunch, and I was not a fan.
I must have blocked it out because I cannot for the life of me remember! Probably sandwiches, chips, etc.
I used to eat bologna sandwich on white bread, cheetos, and Kool-Aid in my Thermos. In a metal lunch box, no insulation or cooling packs. After a few weeks, the lunch box took on a funky stench, then everything all tasted the same after that.
My lunches consisted of a pb&j(always strawberry) or on rare occasion, turkey and miracle whip sandwiches, a baggie of doritos or cheetos(the balls were my favorite), and a juice box. Mom would put in the occasional treat. Totally unhealthy! Trying to do better with my kids.
I used to love the french bread pizzas they would do at the school cafeteria!! Now I can’t imagine eating all of that grease and processed cheese!! I love the first Weelicious cookbook- I’m really crossing my fingers!!
I always ate the school lunches, so who really knows what I was eating
I honestly ate school lunch. Some good, some bad. It’s gotten so bad over the years that I strive to pack my sons lunch.
I always bought the school lunch. Stake nuggets ! My mom could have used this book back then!
I always loved a classic peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich. No crusts, please!!
PB&J or Bolonga in elementary school and in Jr. High and H.S., usually cafeteria pizza and tater tots or whatever the hot lunch was. Looking back…yuck!
I was making Lunchables before they were a big thing. Cheese, crackers and some deli meat were a big thing for me during high school when I realized that I didn’t have to eat the school lunch 🙂
Always a sandwich, most often peanut butter and strawberry jam, or the occasional processed turkey and miracle whip. Also, a baggie of doritos or cheetos( the balls were my favorite) and a hi-c drink box. Mom would sometimes throw in a treat. Totally unhealthy! Trying to do better for my kids.
I had to buy lunch in elementary school so I had pizza, gross meats, jello with “fruit” chunks, canned veggies, fries, and chocolate milk. YUCK! I want so much better for my kids!!
So excited to see these. It’s so hard with in between kids. They see all their friends with lunchables etc and they have wheat sandwiches and wraps. I had a lot of bologna and PBJ. And bought on pizza day… Oh that was the best. Trying to stay the course for my boys against the current.
I almost always ate school lunch. My favorite was chili day when the lunch ladies made homemade cinnamon rolls to go with it. 🙂
Sandwiches and juice box!