Another day, another wounded sauropod 🦕🤦🏻‍♀️ let’s pack lunch!!

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Another day, another attempt to pack a Pinterestw worthy lunch for my second grader as a mom who's only sometimes Pinterestw worthy. Well, apparently I woke up feeling ambitious today because I'm going to attempt to defeat my arch nemesis, the Dino Uncrustable. Somebody commented claiming to own this exact Uncrustable and they gave me some tips to avoid head wounds. I used my rolling pin to flatten the bread so it looks like it's been taking ompic. Now, this alleged dino uncrustable master said to put peanut butter on both sides of the bread and then only put jelly where the body of the dinosaur is. I'm not sure how my kid will feel about the uneven distribution of nut butter to jelly, but I can cross that bridge when I pick him up from school. Well, it seems that I'm the problem because the first dino ended up with not only a head wound, but also an abdominal puncture. Great. But I'm committed to the plot at this point, so I kept on going. And the second dino turned out perfect. Well, not perfect, but a heck of a lot better than any of my previous attempts. I did a little dino first aid and popped them in the box. They said to put them in here this way to protect their structural integrity. And if it fits, it ships, I guess. For fruit, he's getting strawberries. We bought these on Saturday for his swim meet, but it doesn't look like they're going to make it through the week. So, instead of five, he's getting six. And I cut them in half, so he thinks he's getting more.

[00:01:09]Duh. For veggies, we're going baby carrots and black olives. The carrots can be the food for our wounded sorapod, and the olives can represent the dino eggs. I went in my collection of Pinteresty decor and grabbed my assortment of dino-shaped picss. I put the Stegosaurus and the Triceratops in the carrots because they're herbivores.

[00:01:26]Duh. Then I pop my baby brachiosaurus into an olive. We can pretend he's a baby that just hatched from the egg. I pop the T-Rex and the strawberries because they're red, like the flesh of the brachiosaurus with the flesh wounds he probably inflicted. Just go with it.

[00:01:40]Now, aside, he's getting potato chips from a bag my husband opened over the weekend that we need to eat before they go stale. Then for dessert, I just tossed in a few twisters. We can pretend they're the meteors that took all the dinos out, head wound or not. Now, for his fun fact, on his daily note from mom, we learned that Brachiosaurus had a massive 400 lb heart that pumped blood all the way up his 9 m long neck. Maybe the distance helped make his head wound non-lethal. I told him I loved him to the Jurassic period and back, slapped it on the box, and sent him, his wounded soraods, and their asalent to school.

[00:02:12]Okay, bye.