Cook Time with Remmi.  Hi 918moms.  Are you ready for back to school?   We have the uniforms, the supplies and today we are shopping for lunch boxes.  My mom found a lunch box-its called a Bento-and you can find it at lunchboxes.com.  It is a combination of 5 separate boxes inside of the lunch box.  The Bento is $19.95 which is too expensive.  My mom thinks she wil be more creative with lunches if we have one of those.  Instead of sandwiches and wraps-more salads and salsas!!!  So we are going to shop for a less expensive “Bento” kind or put together our own “Bento”!  With the separate compartments-it is going to be a lot easier to put cut up veggies and dip in the lunches.  Ok so now for the cooking.

In my last blog to you I promised some more lunch box ideas.  OK-its pretty simple-but think fruit sandwiches.  Apples, pears, and strawberries all work.  However-the strawberry sandwich is my favorite.  Here is the recipe-

Strawberry Sandwich

Ingredients:

2 slices of bread(whole wheat)

4 or 5  medium strawberries

2 oz of cream cheese(low fat)

Directions:

Spread the cream cheese on one side of each bread slice.  Slice strawberries and place on the cream cheese side of one of the breads.  Top with the other side of bread-cream cheese side down.  COOKS NOTES:If you use the pears or the apples-you can add some baby spinach leaves too.  Also-this sandwich is also good with sliced cucumbers.  And-really-I do not know any  kid that doesn’t like cream cheese!!

REMMI RATING………4 1/2(LOVE STRAWBERRIES)……….COST PER SERVING $0.90(CENTS).

OK-this week is my restaurant rating.  PeiWei-it has been a long time since I had been to PeiWei and I was hungry for their eddemamme.  My 2 sisters and I shared-HONEY CHICKEN WITH RICE(CHILD’S PORTION)-EDDEMAMME-LETTUCE CHICKEN WRAPS.  This restaurant is a fun place to go because you can order different things and share them all!  I also love to eat with chop sticks and if you are not good at it they have easy to use chop sticks for kids.  I am also crazy about fortune cookies and they do not limit you to one.  In fact-it is the fortunes that we talk about when we are at this restaurant-which is a lot of fun.

REMMI RATING………EDDEMAMME….5  LETTUCE WRAPS…….4  HONEY CHICKEN……4  FORTUNE COOKIES……5(BECAUSE THEY ARE FUN!) Also-with 3 of us sharing these dishes-we spent about $4.00 per serving.

I built a new page on my website called “Fun Lunch Box Ideas”.  The data on the page got corrupted but we are rebuilding it today.  However-that is not going to stop this weeks GIVEAWAY!  Be one of the first 10 to email me with a fun lunch box idea and you will have a chance to win a piece of FRANKOMA POTTERY!  Or you can post your idea here on my blog or you can post on the “Forum” “Fun Lunch Box Ideas”!!  See you next week!  Remmi