At our old daycare, P got two organic, vegetarian snacks and a huge, delicious lunch every day. The Waldorf-inspired program is very green, with the kids using cloth napkins and helping to bake and mend and all that good stuff. Tomorrow, we begin public Montessori school (no AM snack) and an afterschool program that (we called ahead) is serving bologna sandwiches for lunch. We’ll be packing lunches a lot of days, but I’m also assuming that I’m going to have a kid that is much hungrier at dinnertime than he has been in the past!

I’m going to sick to preschooler-pleasing meals for this week:

Monday: Grilling with friends (and nine kids age ten and under!), so lots and lots of chicken dogs and corn for the kids and broccoli, basil, and shrimp kabobs for the parents with grilled potatoes. Yum!

Tuesday: Pasta and turkey meatballs. We love the Trader Joe’s meatballs that you just dump into a pan with some sauce.

Wednesday: Cabinet clean out stir fry — I have udon noodes and a can of baby corn that P loves but I’d like to be done with. I’ll do a saute with some farmers market veggies (carrots, onion, garlic), frozen edamame, and some shrimp. A little ginger, a little soy sauce, and dinner is ready in 5 minutes!

Thursday: I had to skip the Quinoa and Black Beans from last week because I thought we didn’t have frozen corn. Goes to show you my freezer really is as out of control as I make it out to be, because the corn was there all along!

Friday: Pizza night, our weekly tradition

Saturday: Slow cooker teryaki chicken wings and rice

Sunday: Big box of Annie’s Mac and Cheese filled out with ground chicken and frozen peas

We’re lucky to have a three year old with a broad palate (his favorite food is Indian), but I don’t mind keeping it in the comfort food realm for a transition-filled week.

I just found Almost Frugal and now need to read everything she’s ever written!

My mommy envy (and a little bit of mommy guilt ) flares up when I find wonderful sites like No time for flash cards and her amazing naptime creations, including this car play mat. Maybe in a world where my triplets all napped at the same time…

I’ve always wanted a dual flush toilet, but Re-nest points out the ability to do a dual flush retrofit. That quickly jumps to the short list of things we really need (versus *want*) to do around the house, for sure. Re-nest also points out kitchen towels now available in Target’s organic cotton line, in stores only. We have a few pairs of bedsheets from the collection and they are very nice.

Leaving Excess has a handy tutorial for frozen chopped onion. With sweet onions so plentiful at the farmers market right now, this is a great idea for this coming weekend.

Plastic shower curtain liners in the washing machine! Who knew?

The food bankruptcy experiment is going well. I’ll post a wrap-up at the end of a week, but all I have to say is: rogue can of 7-Up yields remarkably tasty chicken…

simple sparrow showcases rubber stamped dish towels. When I get my new sewing machine (which I promise to stop mentioning until I actually get one), my first plan is to make cloth napkins out of my copious vintage linen collection and embelish them with homemade stamps. Lots of tips and ideas here!

Oh, if I only had $98 to spend on sheets for our 3 year old!

More school supplies talk at Mama Speaks. I need to find our list for pre-K ASAP… Just 2 weeks to go.