RIP Little Bear Sauce Bottle

On the bright side, it looks like R really did eat a little bit of spinach yesterday and today from her lunch. On the dark side, that grinding sound in the disposal tonight was the sauce bottle with a little yellow bear head for a top (in the lunch picture from yesterday). It was cheap, but the shipping from San Francisco was expensive, so there won't be any more bear sauce bottles for awhile.



Yesterday it took me most of the afternoon to make gyoza. The filling is ground turkey, carrots, ginger, and scallions with sesame soy sauce. They are steamed and then browned in a little bit of olive oil, so they're healthier than regular gyoza. R loves them, but half a day to fill one ziploc bag in the freezer is kind of depressing. I don't think there are any shortcuts.

I did have some success with chocolate milk. We got a bill from the school for $.50, I guess because R got in the line for milk the first two days of full-day kindergarten last month. I had no idea. I have been wanting to put milk in her lunch, but I didn't trust the thermos to keep it cold enough. So I made chocolate milk with agave, cocoa powder and organic milk, froze the thermos last night with about an inch of milk in it, and put the rest of the milk on top this morning. It was still cold when I picked her up from school, and she had drunk maybe 3/4 of it. She definitely drinks more if it's chocolate. And this way, the milk is organic. No sugar or chemicals or high fructose corn syrup.