Happy New Year 2018! For us it has been a week of back to school since the holidays. If the new year for you is starting with requests for hot lunches, this post might stir your imagination. Nikolai was always a sandwich loving kid and now he tells me that he only wants hot lunches from now on! His latest favorites are jambalaya, red beans or black beans and rice, gumbo and chicken curry. Here is how I prep in the mornings when I need to send him a hot meal: