Cooking Madness

I was perusing the Dollar Stretcher website and I read this excellent piece of advice for those preparing school lunches every morning. In a nutshell, it said to prepare "prepackaged" lunch bits on the weekends. I'm a big advocate of less waste, make it yourself, control the sodium and fat by preparing your own - that sort of thing. So, I made a bunch of stuff for Gabe's lunches this weekend. I was rather tired, but kind of proud of myself:

• hard cooked eggs (for which he requires hand-drawn faces)
  
• pumpkin bread (baked the fresh pumpkin myself!)
• oatmeal cranberry cookies (from the Trader Joe's freezer section)
• toasted pumpkin seeds
• chocolate pudding
• popcorn - bagged it in little bags, too
• and....honey butter, for his morning waffle

Dang, I'm good!

Speaking of waffles, we picked up a belgian waffle maker at the recent garage sale weekend here for a buck. Makes great waffles, too. I loves me a good bargain.