please tell me I'm not the only mother that slaps some sunbutter on two slices of store bought bread, throws it into a ziplock bag along with a tube of yogurt and a banana and call it lunch for my kids.
My kids had sunbutter and jam sandwiches for lunch today. The fanciest part of it was that the jam was homemade. I'm too lazy to even cut the crusts off. The kids can just deal. You are certainly not alone.
I don't know what sunbutter is, exactly, but I know that's what you're supposed to use instead of peanut butter because of allergies. Whatever sunbutter is made of, apparently you can't be allergic to it? I don't know.
This! I'm like What is this sunbutter that you speak of.
A PB alternative made from sunflower seeds instead of peanuts. It tastes horrible, but since my kids have never had peanut butter (due to allergies) they don't know the difference.
As for the no yogurt policy, I get that. Yogurt can be messy. I even hesitate to feed it to my own kids sometimes. Not only because the oldest is allergic to dairy, but because if they are messy eaters that stuff can be a pain to scrub out of hair.
yeah, and apparently people were sending their kids in with the yogurt cups and they weren't getting eaten, and the uneaten yogurt was a PITA
...because they kind of have a policy of sending everything that doesn't get eaten home with the kids (apparently, so that Type A moms know what their kids are eating, and so that moms like me have to deal with moldy food when we forget to take it out of the lunchbox for a few days).
Say wut now? If that stuff wasn't so expensive, I'd scoop it out and eat it with my fingers every night after my kids went to bed. It's an excellent alternative to PB.
peanut and tree-nut free sandwhich spread made of smashed sunflower seeds.
weird. Is it any good???
It's kind of like soy lattes.
If you haven't had a real milk latte in a while, a soy one will taste pretty good. If you had a milk latte yesterday, then you'll think a soy one is gross today.
Ditto sunbutter and peanut butter.
Ok, maybe I shouldn't admit this here, but here goes.... we make our own sunbutter. Mostly because we're super cheap (that shizz is expensive). We found a source for shelled sunflower seeds on the cheap, and we own a vitamix. One thing learned, though- - you have to add a ton of salt and sugar to make it remotely taste good. And the homemade stuff turns gray in the fridge after a couple of days.
Say wut now? If that stuff wasn't so expensive, I'd scoop it out and eat it with my fingers every night after my kids went to bed. It's an excellent alternative to PB.
I may scoop out too much to put on a sandwich just so I can lick the knife.
Say wut now? If that stuff wasn't so expensive, I'd scoop it out and eat it with my fingers every night after my kids went to bed. It's an excellent alternative to PB.
I'm so sorry, but I can't stand it. My kids won't eat it either unless I smother their sandwiches in jam. It tastes stale and bland to me. +o(
Also, today my son's sandwich was on a hot dog bun just because.
I made ants-on-a-log but ate them all myself.
my kid would flip if I did that.
He comes home in tears if anything is missing from his routine lunch.
Sometimes I think my body drove me to have children just so I could rediscover awesome foods from my childhood. I really had forgotten how yummy AOAL are.
My DD saw me eating them and mocked me for eating a kid food. She's six. True story.
do you get judged if you use nutella instead of sunbutter?
...at least at B's current school, no nut products are allowed in lunches at all. So, no nutella either.
One of my mom-friends forgot and showed up with peanut butter cookies for a bake sale there once. A bunch of moms noshed them in the kitchen before anybody knew about them. It was like we were smoking weed, the illicit secrecy of it.
Post by mominatrix on Aug 21, 2012 13:26:33 GMT -5
Oh, and allow me for a moment to defend the pic in the OP.
Now, I don't know if this is the case, but if you have a child with a grain allergy (or celiac) figuring out ways to do "sandwiches" is key... so, something like this is a genuine PB+J alternative for a whole class of kids, not a "I'm doing something fancy schmantzy because I've got the urge."