Recipes for school lunches?!
Snacks, sandwitchs, wraps!.!.!.or any tips on how to store!. ThanksWww@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
Lunchboxes rule! Letting your kiddo pick their own will go a long way in keeping them using it!.
Boxes hold a lot more, a lot safer, than plain bags!. You can get plain hard plastic ones, or you can get the squishy but insulated ones!. Either way, if you want to keep things cold you need ice packs!. Our boxes ($5 from Dollar General) came with a self contained sheet of smaller ones!. I LOVE IT!. You have more cooling area, and because they're smaller pieces together you have some flexibility in how you use it!. IE you can wrap it around a specific item OR just line one side of the whole box!.
And don't forget the thermos! Thermoses keep apple juice cool, but they can also keep all sorts of things hot too! Soup, Canned Pastas, Chicken Fingers, !.!.!. the list goes on!.!.!. just see what you can cram in there!
For my kids!.!.!. usually the following!.!.!.
1 - main course!.!.!. sandwich, nuggets, etc!.
2 - veggie!.!.!. usually carrots (I cheat and use the precut/washed ones) with some dressing
3 - fruit!.!.!. my kids love mand!. oranges!.
4 - dessert!.!.!. pudding, a cookie, a poptart, etc!.
5 - drink!.!.!. juice, etc!.!.!. or give them $ to get a carton of MILK at school!
Usually I let the kiddos have a say, but within the list of 'appropriate' items!. Makes them feel like it really is THEIR lunch, and helps to keep mom from forgetting!!
Hope that helps!Www@FoodAQ@Com
Boxes hold a lot more, a lot safer, than plain bags!. You can get plain hard plastic ones, or you can get the squishy but insulated ones!. Either way, if you want to keep things cold you need ice packs!. Our boxes ($5 from Dollar General) came with a self contained sheet of smaller ones!. I LOVE IT!. You have more cooling area, and because they're smaller pieces together you have some flexibility in how you use it!. IE you can wrap it around a specific item OR just line one side of the whole box!.
And don't forget the thermos! Thermoses keep apple juice cool, but they can also keep all sorts of things hot too! Soup, Canned Pastas, Chicken Fingers, !.!.!. the list goes on!.!.!. just see what you can cram in there!
For my kids!.!.!. usually the following!.!.!.
1 - main course!.!.!. sandwich, nuggets, etc!.
2 - veggie!.!.!. usually carrots (I cheat and use the precut/washed ones) with some dressing
3 - fruit!.!.!. my kids love mand!. oranges!.
4 - dessert!.!.!. pudding, a cookie, a poptart, etc!.
5 - drink!.!.!. juice, etc!.!.!. or give them $ to get a carton of MILK at school!
Usually I let the kiddos have a say, but within the list of 'appropriate' items!. Makes them feel like it really is THEIR lunch, and helps to keep mom from forgetting!!
Hope that helps!Www@FoodAQ@Com
For sandwiches its best to do something healthy or you could always do pasta or a wrap!.
For sandwiches you could do either a ham or cheese salad, as for the pasta it could be pasta with vegetables or in a tomato sauce kept in the fridge in a small tub!.
For the wraps you could buy ordinary tortilla wraps and fill them with what ever filling you want to be creative whatever :) and wrap them up in cling film or foil!.
For snacks you could have a fruit salad, carrot sticks, a small chocolate bar or something!.
This could all fit into a lunchbox!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
For sandwiches you could do either a ham or cheese salad, as for the pasta it could be pasta with vegetables or in a tomato sauce kept in the fridge in a small tub!.
For the wraps you could buy ordinary tortilla wraps and fill them with what ever filling you want to be creative whatever :) and wrap them up in cling film or foil!.
For snacks you could have a fruit salad, carrot sticks, a small chocolate bar or something!.
This could all fit into a lunchbox!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
My kids like it when every once in a while I pack them a sandwich made with cream cheese w/chives spread, roast beef, and spinach or arugula (for a change)
But usually its the same old ham or turkey sandwich with a fruit and veggie!. Kind of boring but at least it's healthy!. Sometimes I will cut an apple in half, scoop the core out and fill it with peanut butter and cinnamon, they like that!.
They have come home with ideas before, like asking me to give them cereal in a tupperware so they can use their lunch milk with it, or I do have a thermos for soup that has a little spoon in the lid that I use sometimes in the cold months!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
But usually its the same old ham or turkey sandwich with a fruit and veggie!. Kind of boring but at least it's healthy!. Sometimes I will cut an apple in half, scoop the core out and fill it with peanut butter and cinnamon, they like that!.
They have come home with ideas before, like asking me to give them cereal in a tupperware so they can use their lunch milk with it, or I do have a thermos for soup that has a little spoon in the lid that I use sometimes in the cold months!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
My sack luck almost every day is this some kinda of 100 calorie snack, and allstar gatorade, a wrap with ham lettuce cheese and ranch wraped in foil, and a lit n fit yogurt! I dont know if this help but i took this almost everyday Jr!. and Sr year in high school! Never got old! But I do recoment foil and not sandwich bags or seran wrap because it keeps everything where you first put it! no spills no messy bags to reach into, and it cheaper!Www@FoodAQ@Com
I pack my son a sandwich in a sandwich container, plastic baggie of fruit cut up, bag of chips or crackers, string cheese, juice box, container of cereal (milk at school), canteen with soup, bagie of crackers, cut up veggies whatever fits in them containers and fit in his lunch box!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
dried fruit, turkey and cheese, cheese squares(they come cut already) with crackers, use pita instead of bread to change things up, or even the tortillas, anything you would use to make a sandwhich put in a pit or wrap!. you foil to wrap seems to last better or plastic wrapWww@FoodAQ@Com
have u tried hotdog maybe even pasta i take pasta to school all i take to school is sandwich pastaor hotdogs it sucks eating this almost every dayWww@FoodAQ@Com
PB & J!Www@FoodAQ@Com