Feature Feast: Mommy Elephant

This delicious lunch is brought to you from Mommy Elephant Sarah.

Lunch today is an egg salad sandwich ( small spoonful of fat free mayo and a couple squirts of yellow mustard) on whole wheat sourdough bread, with slices of fresh cucumber and a small bowl of ranch for dipping.To satisfy my sweet tooth I ate some red seedless grapes. Yum!

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Mmmmm Bacon

One massive BLT burrito for lunch. Two slices of bacon, about 2 cups of lettuce, one whole cut up tomato and a little bit of mayo makes a wonderful and very filling lunch.

Spinach Quesidilla

I apologize for showing you a half eaten quesidilla. My only excuse is that it is that good.

This is frozen spinach, thawed and drained, simmered in olive oil. And then combined with feta cheese and put in a tortilla. The tortilla was then seared on both sides. And soooo good.

With this a side of red beans and rice.

Super Fast Lunch

Typical bean and cheese frozen burrito and a banana. Fun and fast.
The exciting part is that white blob on the plate there.
That is homemade plain yogurt!
More on that at a later date.

Leftovers are lovely

This is leftover Turkey Balongse. A recipe from Real Simple magazine. Loaded with celery, carrots, and onion as well as fire roasted tomatos and, of course, ground turkey breast.

So good! Worth the repeat for lunch.

Sloppy Joes

I love sloppy joes. Add a cup of broccoli and that is a tasty, filling, and nutritious combination.

Lunch Bunch - Toddler Lunch

Toddlers + Sloppy Joes = The best combination ever!

This lunch is also featuring soy sauce seasoned broccoli (the ultimate secret in getting veggies into babies) and mozzarella cheese.

Brunch: Not just for Sunday

My husband is in love with breakfast sandwiches. This is his plate. I couldn't imagine eating this much at one meal!

Breakfast sandwiches are english muffins with fried egg, cheese, and sausage patties. Banana and strawberry on the side.

These are good. Real good.

Happy brunch!

Anti-Mayo Chicken Salad

On a day with no sunshine, sun chips are the way to go. A small handful of carrots off set this extra special sandwich.

It's chicken salad. Made from leftovers. And no mayo!

We were out. And so I used chopped pickles, some pickle juice, and yellow mustard to stick the chicken together. It was delicious.

CLT

I ditched the meat for this sandwich which was a simple combination of lettuce, thick cut tomato, and cheese on honey wheat with a smidgen of mayo. Delicious!

Half a banana (because when you care you share) and carrots finished this lunch. Along with a couple big glasses of water.

I love water.

Ooey Gooey Grilled Cheese

This was the MOST satisfying grilled cheese sandwich. Cheddar cheese, honey wheat bread, and old fashioned butter.

Great.

Leftover salad, romaine; carrots, celery, skim milk mozzarella tossed with oil and vinegar.

Lunch with a Friend

A great lunch with a friend! Asparagus seasoned with butter and salt.

Wolfgang Puck Tortilla Soup split with a friend

Grilled Cheese sandwich

It was a fantastic lunch! And good company.

Just Peachy

A super sweet salad!

2 cups lettuce
1/2 peach
4 baby carrots
1 tomato
3 ounces shredded hot chicken breast (leftovers)
oil and vinegar dressing

Fruit and salad are such a great combination!

English Muffin Pizza

An entire peach cut up to frame my delicious English muffin pizza.

My pizza consisted of one whole wheat English muffin, two tablespoons of pizza sauce, some slices of tomato, and a handful of mozzarella cheese.

I made these in the microwave because I didn't want to heat the whole house with the oven. Next time I'll do the oven because they are so much more delicious that way. 15 minutes on 375 changes everything.

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What's Pho Lunch?

I saw Rachael Ray make this Funky Pho and, knowing I had leftover pork that needed eating in the fridge decided it would be a great lunch. Unfortunately, I'm not Rachael Ray and my recipe didn't turn out as well as her recipe. Of course, I left out a few ingredients so that would be why.

Add to it a side salad covered with oil and vinegar and that is one Pho-tastic lunch!

PIZZA!!!! Guess which one is mine?

This has been a tough week for us. The grocery money ran out way too fast, as our little ones needed new shoes. So we traded some of our grocery store money with Stride Right. I had to get creative with what we had in the pantry and fridge and it actually worked out to equal some yummy lunches. I think I'm going to start trying this once a month. It has definitely made me feel less wasteful.

Using Store bought whole wheat thin pizza crust I topped the kid's pizza with red sauce, mozzarella cheese and black olives. For mine I used pesto sauce instead of red sauce and topped with mozzarella cheese, canned artichoke hearts, black olives and some broccoli. It looks way too green but was still very yummy!

So here is this weeks challenge for y'all.....Check in the pantry, the back of the freezer and the fridge and try to use up all of the things that have been hiding there for too long. A little creativity can go a long way. :)