The Lunch Idea:

I'll be honest, I almost wasn't going to make lunch for today. Tomorrow marks the start of ski lesson season for us - that means the whole family piles in the car early in the morning and we spend our day at the mountain. And, if we don't want to spend a fortune in the lodge, that also means packing lunch for all 6 of us on Saturday. For 7 weeks. So I wasn't sure if I could really bring myself to pack lunch 6 days a week. I was contemplating just letting the kids buy lunch on Fridays during ski season. And I may yet some weeks.

But yesterday I felt like I had time, and so I just quickly peeked a my page with all of last year’s lunches for an idea. I saw a lunch similar to this and I realized that I could throw it together in about 5 minutes. So I could feel good about packing them lunch, but not have to spend a bunch of time doing it.

This is what I sometimes call deconstructed nachos. Basically, its all the ingredients for - nachos, the chips, cheese, beans, sour cream - but not all toasted and melted together. If you have chips and cheese in your house, you can make this. This lunch honestly took me about 5 minutes to make.

What’s in the Lunch:

Tortilla chips
Shredded cheddar cheese
Black beans
Sour cream (actually, it’s a mixture of sour cream and plain yogurt, because I ran out of sour cream. But ssshh, don’t tell, they’ll never know)
On the side they have some quickly sliced up apples and cucumbers.

Questions and Tips:

We don’t have any means to heat up food at school, so all of these lunches are eaten at room temp.
Sorry, but I’ve looked high and low for an online link for these little metal containers that I put the beans in, and I can’t find one. I often use these instead though, they're a little smaller, but you could pack the beans and sour cream separately.
I pack in EasyLunchboxes, they keep the food nice and fresh overnight in the fridge.
Here’s my post about apples.