Lunches

[houseelf]

I need help coming up with some new things to put in DS's lunch box.

We do left over pizza, PB&J, sphagetti-os, turkey pepperoni, cheese sticks, celery, carrots, grapes, strawberries, apples, gold fish, wheat pretzels, and milk. Other than this I'm stuck. Help.

Kelly

Yogurt (squeeze tube if you are feeling generous), bagel and cream cheese, leftover mac and cheese, tangerines (pretty easy to peel), string cheese, granola bar, cheese and crackers, melon cubes.....

We get into a lunch rut. I usually get new ideas when I hear about what someone else brought in their lunch. Like one mommy who always includes a little handwritten note. Two can play at that game: I started cutting DD's sandwiches into heart shapes with cookie cutters.

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Crap....Kelly & Nellie....you both have me beat....I think last week DS took pb&j four out of the five days he went to school. The other day he was home and had a grilled cheese!

As far as cutting them into shapes, he is lucky if it still looks like sandwich when he has lunch, after toting it to the car, swinging it around, cracking his brother in the head with a few times....mostly I think they look like pb&j balls by lunch time!

[Rapunzel]

applesauce in the little individual containers (it comes in some funky colors and flavors now, too)

clementines (my kids' absolute favorite winter fruit - it's so tiny and very easy for my youngest to peel by herself)

Jennifer

[DCJenn]

These were some of the ingredients in my all time favorite lunches:

hardboiled eggs (easy to peel once the fingers are bigger, those pre-wrapped small cheeses (Baby Bons?), celery and she'd send a tupperware of PB to dip, real Ritz and PB sandwiches, yogurts, and the all-time greatest April Fool's joke was a dollar between two pieces of white bread (back when lunch was under a buck).

Jenn

[mommax3]

I use the little applesauces Rapunzel talked about, and also the jello with pears, mandarin oranges, peaches, etc. in it, and I look for the "lite" versions, (they are sweetened with Splenda) so that I don't have the guilt about sugar content. I also found some Kool-Aid fruit drink in a pouch that is sweetened with Splenda. My kids have never commented about the sweetness (or lack thereof) in either of these.

Sally

[SueC]

My kids like leftover mac'n cheese in their lunch. I think they eat it cold. I also do homemade lunchables, because I'm too much of a tightwad to buy the real ones. A few days last week, when we were out of bread and everything else, I cut up hot dogs and sent those. I feel like what I pack in their lunch is a direct reflection on the kind of mother I am (I know, I have issues), and I used to be really conscientious about what I sent, but lately I don't really give a crap.

[DCJenn]

Oh, Hey Matt-

Don't feel bad- my brother took every single day from kindergarten through 11th grade: one PB& J on white bread, one twinkie type dessert, one bag of chips, and one orange cut into quarters. Seriously, it wasn't until they were allowed off campus as seniors that his lunch varied.

Jenn