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My boys start school tomorrow, which means my weekly menus will now include a brown bag lunch meal. Kaitlyn and I will eat the same things as the boys, just at home. My lunches this week are coming mainly from the book “Brown Bag Success-Making Lunches Your Kids Won’t Trade”, by Sandra K. Nissenberg, MS, [...]

The first edition of this post was so popular last year, and is still bringing me search traffic (hi Googlers! Welcome to MomCooks!) that I am reposting the recipes along with some new information. Ever since my oldest son started all-day kindergarten, I’ve been on a quest to find brown bag lunch ideas that [...]

Well, whether we like it or not, summer is coming to an end and it’s time to start thinking about back to school plans, including the dreaded (at least for me) routine of packing school lunches. This year I am determined to make school lunch packing easier on both myself and the boys by keeping [...]

There is so much to love about the new Freeze Dried Fruit packs from Funky Monkey Snacks! I admit, I am terrible about remembering to eat fruit, even though I do love the taste of most of it. Funky Monkey takes delicious fruits and freeze dries them to make them easy to pack, easy to [...]

I saw this post on Simple Daily Recipes from Jill, who served her kids crackers, meat, cheese and a squirt of cream cheese on top, and called them “Mom’s Munchables”. Her kids loved them! And it got me thinking, why not make my own Lunchables? What I think kids like most about those is the [...]