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Sep 28 2012

Mason Jar Meals

 

Pack a healthy yogurt meal to go for your Tillakid (and maybe one for yourself too!)

With all the after school activities my kids have signed up for, we are constantly on the go! From soccer practice to piano lessons, I’m always in the car taking a kid from one place to another. That can sure make keeping hunger pains at bay a challenge. I strive to always give my kids healthy snacks and Tillamook Light Yogurt is one of my go to resources.

While a cup of Tillamook Yogurt is easy and delicious, I’ve taken to making yogurt mason jars for on the go snacks. I can pack a whole meal in one jar that makes my kids happy while allowing me to give them something good for their growing bodies! You can make them out of anything you or your kids like and quantities always depend on how much I have on hand. Here are some of my ideas.

Morning Breakfast Cup
Tillamook Light Marionberry Yogurt
Granola
Flax seed
Raspberries
Blueberries

Lemon Bar in a Jar
Tillamook Light Lemon Squeeze Yogurt
Shortbread cookie

Vanilla Chip Bliss
Tillamook Light Vanilla Bean Yogurt
Chocolate chips

For each of these snacks, I take what ingredients I have on hand, layer in a mason jar, and store in my fridge until they are needed! They keep great and taste even better. What other ingredients would you use?

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Aug 21 2012

Lunchtime Love Notes

 

The sack lunch was always something magical when I was a kid.  It was made after I went to bed and showed up on the kitchen counter when it was time to go to school in the morning. I always looked forward to discovering come lunchtime what goodies had ended up in that brown bag. Even better than the snacks and sandwich and fruit was the little love note I would always get from my mom. It was always written on the backside of a Far Side comic torn off of one of those desktop calendars. I’d read the note first: “Have a wonderful day today! Love, Mom” or “Learn a lot today! Love, Mom” and then flip it over to see the latest antics of those silly talking dogs or absent-minded Vikings. I always felt so loved. So although I am in no way looking forward to sack lunch duty with my own kids, I do look forward to sharing a love note each day. What signs of love ended up in your lunchbox as a kid? How do you show your kids you’re thinking of them when they’re at school? Here are a couple of ideas – help me add to them!

- Make them a breakfast treat in the shape of a heart (yogurt or oatmeal with toppings in the shape of a heart, cinnamon toast with the cinnamon in a heart shape, etc.)

- Use a cookie cutter to make their lunch sandwich the shape of a heart

- Create fortune cookie strips of paper to be dropped into each lunchbox

- Write a note on the bag or napkin

- Have siblings write messages to each other that mom or dad can drop into future lunches

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