Batman!

Always be yourself.......unless you can be Batman....if you can choose, always be Batman!

This is my husband's favorite saying.  I know the man had a Batman lunch box.  You remember the old metal lunch boxes we carried to school?  I'll bet you had one yourself.  I had a different one every year.  But I'd bet on it - Lawrence always had a Batman lunch box!

Lunches are an enigma when eating Paleo.  There is only so much you can put in a lunch box.  I admitted we're not 'squeaky clean' Paleo and the lunch box is our 'dirty' area.  I mean.......please.......give me a break here.  I'm doing the best I can.  You can't expect Batman to eat raw veggies and slabs of meat for lunch....can you?   Well, maybe....but not my Batman!

Lawrence tries to cooperate with me on this Paleo stuff but he has drawn the line a few times and he has just done so again!  Sigh......the lunch box.

Our dirty little secret is wraps........we use tortilla wraps in his lunch box.  We DO use the low carb spinach wraps, etc.  He has had chicken wraps, beef wraps, ham wraps, and veggie wraps.  The one thing he hasn't had since we started this new life style is a PBJ sandwich.  (Just in case you don't know - that's peanut butter and jelly sandwich).

Peanut butter is a no-no.  Jelly is a no-no.  Bread is a no-no.  So basically, a PBJ sandwich is a big no-no!  And it's his all-time favorite sandwich.  It's been such a big part of our life.  He even passed the love on to our children.  Katie had a PBJ sandwich in her lunchbox every single day until she started high school.  I offered options; but, nope - she'd only take a PBJ sandwich. She even broke her toe at a very young age trying to sneak a large jar of peanut butter from the cabinet.  At least Josh tried other sandwiches in his lunch box - but not until middle school! Until 6th grade it was PBJ all the way for him! This family has an obsession with peanut butter.  I kid you not!

Just to give you an even clearer picture.......Josh and Katie eat really 'clean' and healthy.  BUT when they come home their only request is for me to make 'regular' biscuits so they can have peanut butter and syrup.  (Now, that's another story!)

Back to the lunch box enigma.  I decided to surprise Lawrence with a "PBJ" wrap.  Not a good idea, by the way.  I was so proud of myself.  I spread the wrap with peanut butter (yep, I treated him with real peanut butter) and jelly (really just crushed fruit with no sugar).  And I rolled it up -   very carefully and put it in a plastic container.  Did I say it.....so proud of myself! He was going to be so surprised!  And boy was he!

This is his re-cap of lunch.  Close to lunch time he began thinking, "I think I saw the peanut butter jar out this mornning.  I bet there's a PBJ sandwich in my lunch box. Yum."  And then he opened it up and.....a wrap. "Well, this is different."

 Bite number one.....jelly runs out the end onto his hand.  "This is going to be messy.  I'll hold it over the container."   Second bite....lots of jelly in the container.  Third bite.......nothing but peanut butter and the flavor of jelly!  All the jelly went out the end!  And yes, I had it folded properly!

Lesson -Don't try this at home!  PBJ wraps DO NOT work!  Just get a loaf of  bread and treat yourself to a real PBJ sandwich.  There is NO substitute!