yellow is the new brown.

It is that time of year, when I keep reminding myself, in Annie-like fashion: "the sun will come out, tomorrow!" For some reason, this year in particular, I have been craving the glowing warmth of that blazing ball of fire. And although I cannot do anything about the sky, I can add a little warmth and sunshine to my children's lunches. So when they open up their brown bags, they will be filled with glowing yellow on top of yellow: a bag full of sunshine to brighten their day.

What goes into a 'yellow brown bag'? Here are some ideas to get you started:

• freeze dried corn pieces (buy at whole foods or online at just tomatoes)
• mini corns (canned tiny corn cobs)
• yellow squash
• yellow pepper slices with ranch (maybe ranch with a tsp of mustard for color?!)
  
• quiche wedges
  
• egg pasta with olive oil and Parmesan
  
• egg salad sandwich
• Hawaiian bagel w/pineapple cream cheese
  
• yellow beets, roasted with olive oil and salt
  
• egg bagel with cheddar and butter
• granola or yellow-colored cereal with milk
• lemon yogurt
• golden yellow apple slices
• dried apple, pear, banana, pineapple or mango slices
  
• pineapple
• banana
• lemon bars
• cheddar rice cakes
• popcorn
• lemonade

It you like colorful, bagable ideas, here is a bagful of white ideas and a bagful of red.