So Parker turned out to not be a fan of the cream cheese and pancetta-stuffed fried jalapenos.
Admittedly, I’d meant to warn him Friday and tell him what I’d put into his lunch. I find he does better with things if he knows in advance. But in the morning rush, I kind of forgot to tell him.
“Were you trying to poison me?” he yelled across the field when I picked him up at summer camp Friday afternoon.
Hmm… OK. Perhaps I’ll hold off on any more jalapenos, fried, stuffed or otherwise.
Today, I decided to play it safe. We had steaks for dinner last night and I made sure to cook up a little extra so he could have steak tacos for lunch today. Normally, I would heat the steak and pack it in a hot thermos. But on a day that’s reaching close to 100 F, that just seemed wrong.
So cold steak tacos it is. That, some fruit and a peanut butter and banana on whole-wheat bun and we’re good.
What kind of whole-wheat tortillas do you use? They look so nice and thin. I picked up a bag this weekend to make pulled chicken tacos and they were excessively thick, doughy and “whole grainy.” Not so good.
Thank you!
That’s the trouble with a lot of the whole-grain tortillas — too thick. I like Boghosian Valley Bread Lavash (so it’s technically more flatbread than tortilla, but there isn’t a whole lot of difference).
That is too funny! Poor Parker.
Ha! Gives him something (or should I say, yet another thing) to complain about…
Will he eat cold beef? I can’t do that!
Oh yes! As long as it’s on the rare side, he’ll gobble it up at any temperature.
Was it too spicy? We’re training out toddler to get started on spicy food. So far, fresh black peppers are OK. Anything more, he freaks. I’m hoping by pre-school he’ll be carrying kimchi to school in the lunchbots.
Good luck. It’s funny, because when Parker was a toddler he gladly gobbled anything spicy, including wasabi peas and hot peppers. Now, not so much. I’m confident he’ll come back around. I think these things go in cycles with kids.
Ha! So funny, I guess the cream cheese didn’t do much to cut the spicy hot! My daughter likes spicier food than her father does. I think I started her off with well seasoned foods when she was little.
You know, I did that, too. But then he kind of cycled out of it. Not sure why he suddenly became sensitive to spicy foods. He used to eat wasabi peas. I think it’s just a phase. He certainly loves heavily seasoned foods.