It worked!

I have the menu for lunches at Owen's school and once a week they serve french fries. Now, anybody who knows Owen knows he's obsessed with fries. He would eat them every meal of every day of every week if he could. So I think it was the second or third day of school they had fries, and Owen went NUTS because he didn't have any (I didn't have the menu at that time so had no clue). The teacher gave him some and he completely ignored the nice, healthy lunch I packed him because she just kept giving him fries. Grrrr.

So, I found a solution. On fry days I bake some oven fries for Owen. MUCH healthier than the fried version, but he still loves them. As an added bonus he's started eating them when I cut them, put a little EVOO, garlic powder and parmasean cheese on them before I bake them! Woo... the cheese is a tiny bit of added nutrition. LOL! I wish I had taken a picture of his lunch, but I was in a hurry. He had a little container (that ovalish shaped one in the other picture) with oven fries in it, along with a little container of ketchup. He LOVED it. It was the first thing I heard about when I picked him up from school! Of course, he barely ate any of his other lunch but at least the oven fries weren't as horribly unhealthy as the school fries (and he did eat most of his lunch on the way from school to daycare so... it evens out).

We're trying mac-n-cheese in his lunch today... hopefully he eats at least some of it!