As hard as it is to stop thinking about roasting marshmallows and hot dogs over an open fire and start thinking about school lunches, this time of the year forces one to do so. Well, if you have children heading back to school it does. I think coming up with a decent lunch for school is the bane of every parent and caregiver’s existence. It shouldn’t be so hard to slap some nutritious food together in an edible fashion and place it in a lunch box, but it is. I hate it. I dislike making school lunches as much as I detest cleaning toilets.
And you know what makes the whole thing worse? When my children don’t even eat the lunch we prepared for them!
This year I have made a decision; one that should hopefully alleviate a lot of stress in the morning and ensure my children have at least one tasty, good-for-them option in their lunch bags that I know they will eat. My decision is not for everyone, but after this past school year’s daily guessing game of “Who Didn’t Eat What Today,” something has to change. It’s simple really. Rather than making sandwiches that get thrown out or worse, get left at the bottom of a school bag or making hot soup or spaghetti in the morning only to have it come home congealed in the thermos it left in, school lunches this year will be less like a meal and more like a bunch of appetizers.
The plan is to stock the refrigerator every few days as follows:
- have cut up veggies on hand, like peppers and cucumbers
- purchase “fun” veggies like baby carrots and cherry tomatoes
- prepare small containers of dip
- buy cheese string or cheese cut into shapes
- roll up luncheon meat and wrap with fruit leather
- make hard boiled and deviled eggs
- pre-package crackers and pita chips in ziploc baggies
- slice up fruit in small containers
- stock up on GoGo squeeZ YogurtZ and applesauce
Then all my kiddos need to do in the morning is select five things from each section and away they go! These are all items that I know they like, especially GoGo squeeZ! Their applesauce has long been a family favourite and now they offer a scrumptious and squeezable yogurt snack that like all GoGo squeeZ products, comes in the iconic pouch and is filled with the GoGo Goodness families know and love. Made with real low fat yogurt and fruit, YogurtZ is available in three taste bud delighting flavors –Strawberry, Banana and Berry. The best part is that GoGo squeeZ YogurtZ are shelf stable, which means they do not need to be kept cold. My kiddos can not get enough of them! And with this new system of making school lunches, it is a sure bet that my children will actually eat what is in their bags. 🙂
GoGo squeeZ YogurtZ are a great snack for half time during soccer, or any after school sport!!
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Which flavour of GoGo squeeZ YogurtZ would you try first: Strawberry, Banana or Berry? The Berry is my favourite. 🙂
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Suz
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I would try banana first. they all sound amazing!
I would try the Berry first.
I’d love to try the strawberry flavour first!
My kids love theme I do to Thy are so good
Berry which my child would love!
I’d probably try the strawberry first.
I would like to try the berry one.
I would try the strawberry first,then all the rest because they all sound yummy!
I would try the strawberry first. My kids would want to try the berry first.
I would definitely try the berry one first.
I would like to try the Berry! I hope they come out with vanilla!
Berry! I’ve had the apple cinnamon before and it was great 🙂
My daughter would go for the strawberry first with a close second for the banana. These flavors are her 2 favorite. She would love these in her lunches for school.
I would try the banana flavour first…I think.
I would try strawberry first.
i would definitely try strawberry first. my favourite!
I think I would pick the Banana one first to try.
I would love to try the Strawberry first. thankyou, ken
banana please
i think strawberry would be first
Banana sounds delicious!
My favorite would be strawberry.
I’d try the strawberry first but they all sound good
I would choose Strawberry first.
I would love to try the strawberry flavour first, it sounds yummy!
I like to try the Berry first. They all sounds good.
I would most love to try the GoGo squeeZ YogurtZ Strawberry flavour first!
I think we’d try strawberry first
I would love to try stawberry first my 2 daughters agree but my sons want to try berry lol
I like strawberry
We would try the Strawberry first! Sounds delicious
We would try Banana first.
banana would be awsomes
I would try the strawberry first
I would like to try the strawberry firs
I’d try Strawberry first! My daughter would love to find these in her lunch!
I would like to try Berry
I would like to try Banana
I love banana anything! Except for artificially flavored banana yuck!
These look nice!
My girls would LOVE to try Strawberry! Thank you for the chance!
I would like to try Berry.
I would like to try Berry first.
I would try banana first
would try the Berry first
We all family like Banana Flavor
I would try the strawberry.
I think my girls would go for the Banana first
Mostly the mix berry , love the combined ones gives a unique flavour
I love everything Strawberry and so does my kiddo!
berry, please. thanks
Strawberry, for sure. 🙂
Yummy Strawberry for me first.
I bet my kids would choose strawberry first
My favourite would be the berry. Thank you for the chance 🙂
I would try berry first!
i would love to win this, we love gogurt and am always looking for healthy snacks on the go
We would like to try the Strawberry flavour first.
Strawberry first as it is my daughter’s favourite flavor.
all of them sound wonderful but strawberry would be my first try. Thanks for this 🙂
I’d try Strawberry first.
I would like to try the strawberry.
we love anything berry so we would try the berry first
i would try banana.
I would love to try the strawberry one.
I would try the banana flavor first.
I would try the Strawberry first!
I would love to try the berries one first.
Probably Berry but hard to say because Miss R is very much a vanilla yogurt fan.
I think the berry would be yummy! Though they all sound good. I think my daughter would like any of them.
Strawberry!
we would love berry 🙂
Strawberry!!
I’d like to try the banana first
I would like to try Banana!
I want to try GoGo squeeZ YogurtZ Strawberry flavour first.
Strawberry!
strawberry but they all sound good
Banana!!! Yum!! Thanks for the chance.
Strawberry or banana.. I can’t choose~
strawberry
I would like to try the Strawberry flavour first.
I would try Berry first
I’d definitely try the berry first!
I WOULD TRY THE BERRY.
Berry! Yum!