healthy school lunch idea: rainbow salad jars

Congratulations to this season’s pickalilly winner: my friend, Rosaura Sandoval, for suggesting a post about healthy school lunches. Not only did Rosaura recommend I tackle this topic, she encouraged me to attempt it as a video!

What do you think? Is it easy to follow, concise, and most of all, interesting?

Rosaura and her daughter, Gemma, and my friend, Grace, and her two daughters, Ally and Abby, came over yesterday to help me pilot a parenting workshop on healthy school lunches. In a serendipitous twist, my boys were home from school (teacher in-service day) and they were very enthusiastic about helping the little girls assemble their salad jars. As soon as the girls were done, the boys asked for larger jars to make their own versions!

Here are a few of the ingredients we used:

• Sugar snap peas
• Frozen peas
• Frozen yellow corn
• Mini yellow pear and Sweet 100 tomatoes (from our garden)
• Kidney beans
• Cannelini beans (white kidney beans)
• Baby carrots

I was so busy setting out healthy ingredients, providing a running commentary and making a hummus dip on the fly, I did not have time to take photos. Luckily, Rosaura is a professional photographer and was snapping away the entire time. I’m hoping she’ll post them soon (or send me a few to share with you). Meanwhile, check out her amazing work at:

http://www.rosaurasandovalblog.com/

Thank you, Rosaura for the amazing tutorial on using the manual settings on my camera; I learned so much from you and hope to put these new skills into practice right away. I’m especially grateful to both women for allowing me to photograph the kids decorating cupcakes (for a fun client project I’m working on).