It's all about playing with scale this week in Walker and Addie's lunch. Are those normal-sized sandwiches and giant pretzels? Normal pretzels and enormous grapes? Well, let's let Amanda explain:

We had leftover slider rolls from our last photo shoot, and I figured my kids would love them for sandwiches -- they're just their size. Ham sandwiches are a good canvas for experimenting with new flavors. Here, I layered smoked ham with mayo, anchovy sauce, a slab of green zebra tomato, and arugula. The rest was a snap -- potato chips, pretzels, and Italian plums from the Greenmarket.

Ah, Italian plums. Got it. What's in your lunch today?

 It's technically fall but still feels like summer, meaning your brown bag lunches should be in full celebration of this stage in between seasons.

It's time to think about school lunch again (and -- as always -- the quest for a civilized office lunch marches on). Lucky for us, our friends at Food Network have asked the minds behind our favorite food sites to pool their best ideas for lunches that will stand up to a trek in a brown bag (or one of these).

6 ways to perk up your brown bag lunch. 

Today's lunch is barley with Mint-Pistachio Pesto (a Your Best Recipe with Mint finalist!) and crumbled feta. In Amanda's words: "Kids love mix-ins! And watermelon. Because it's summer, and kids deserve to eat lots of watermelon when it's in season."

We've got a bevvy of Walker-and-Addie standbys in today's lunch snapshot: ham and cucumber sandwiches, a big favorite, paired this time with farmer's cheese and a chimichurri sauce that you'll be seeing on FOOD52 sooner or later. And dessert? Anne Dimock's Genius rhubarb pie, a perfect end to a summery lunch.

This edition of Amanda's kids' lunch is brought to you by Amanda's CSA haul: pattypan squash and broccoli (cooked in lots of olive oil and a little bit of water over high heat) with sour cream cilantro sauce and goat cheese, plus Greek yogurt with dark honey and blueberries for dessert.

How are you cooking up summer's abundance of summer squash?