How on earth is it August?

When I was a kid, summer seemed to last forever. I’d spend hours face down in a clover patch, happily imagining an entire world of tiny people living underneath a canopy of heart-shaped leaves.

Now that I am a grown-up, summer blows by in a blink. I was just racing to sign my kids up for summer camp, and now I’m thinking about what to pack for school lunches, one of my least favorite things to do.

But done it must be. So I spent some time scrolling through New York Times Cooking in search of some high-protein lunch ideas for my kids. In that spirit, here are a handful of easy, protein-rich weeknight dinners whose leftovers pack up beautifully in a lunchbox.

Cowboy Caviar

Depending on where you’re from, this simple dip is known as cowboy caviar or Texas cavia

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