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Packing lunches for school

post #1 of 10
8/29/08 at 10:47am
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If you pack a lunch for your kids to take to school, what do you or are you going to pack in the lunch? What about the drink (keeping milk cold)? Do you send reusable containers for them to bring home or plastic bags to throw away?
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post #2 of 10
8/29/08 at 10:48am
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Re: Packing lunches for school

This week we did PB&J sandwiches, fritos, carrots and bottled water. Sometime I send chicken nuggets that can be microwaved or something like that.
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post #3 of 10
8/29/08 at 11:24am

Re: Packing lunches for school

Emily can't have anything that needs to be heated, so that makes it a little hard. Every day she takes a cheese sandwich. I also put in some type of yogurt--either Danimals drinkable, regular yogurt you eat with a spoon, or gogurt. This week it's been gogurt. She also gets some type of fruit each day--a whole apple, mandarian orange slices, grapes, or strawberries. I also put in cookies and either the small bag of pringles or goldfish or cheezits.
The fruit I put in reusable ziploc tupperware type stuff. The sandwich is in a ziploc bag, and it depends with the cheezits and goldfish. Sometimes I buy the prepackaged ones (if they are on sale and/or I have a coupon), sometimes I put them into ziploc type snack bags.
Sometimes I send in chocolate pudding cups or applesauce (applesauce especially if I am out of fruit).
Oh, and I send her juice in a sippy cup. I just use freezer packs to keep the cold stuff cold. Her lunch box has two compartments, an insulated compartment for the cold stuff, and a smaller part on the bottom where I put her spoon or fork (for fruit or yogurt) and I also put her cookies and crackers or chips in there.
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post #4 of 10
8/29/08 at 11:17pm

Re: Packing lunches for school

I send cold stuff usually. Noah isn's supposd to have stuff that needs to be heated but his teachers are great and will heat it for him or I send a thermos. He likes leftovers like meat with rice or noodles and and meat. Another thing I do sometims is make pasta salad with veggies and cheese and meat and a lite vinegrette. I always send a yogurt and a dessert (cookies, fruit snacks, etc.) and a carb. (crackers, goldfish, breadstick). Cheesesticks are good too. He loves oatmeal and cereal and they will make it up for him. Noah also like Spaghettios-ugh so he gets those once in awhile. I send breakfast for him too. I get that ready for him every morning. That's usually pancakes, waffles, oatmeal or cereal with fruit, or applesauce and yogurt. I keep about 10 of those keep or toss cups at his school and they provide milk and juice AND wash the cups. I take them home at the end of the week and run them through the dish washer.

Zach gets free breakfast and free lunch every day--everyone in his school does! Yippee!
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post #5 of 10
8/30/08 at 1:16pm

Re: Packing lunches for school

I sometimes put soup in a thermos for Emily. She is pretty picky, and likes to eat chicken (grilled or fried strips) or pork chops or roast, so that makes it hard to fix cold lunches for her. She also likes steak, so none of that is really something I could pack in a lunch for school.
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post #6 of 10
8/30/08 at 1:20pm
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Re: Packing lunches for school

We have a person at lunch who's sole job is to microwave food, (I volunteer on Wednesdays) so leftovers are an option also.
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post #7 of 10
8/30/08 at 4:46pm

Re: Packing lunches for school

i haven't had to do lunches for school yet, and kinder provides the snack thank goodness. however when we do we aren't allowed to send peanut products.... makes things harder to come up with. i discovered this summer though, that anything in a sandwich is good for Logan. and a banana, cookies and or crackers and a cheese string
yogurt tubes will be a staple by next year i am sure!
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post #8 of 10
8/30/08 at 9:30pm

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I see everything and I heat my rooms food for them. Lots of left overs. Some have entree's (banquet or pot pie).

With Trey he likes roll ups. Like a piece of meat and cheese rolled up in a tortilla wrap then a frozen gogurt to keep the others cool and a fruit and water or juice drink. Sometimes some chips or pretzels or cheese its. Nothing beats him and PB&J
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post #9 of 10
8/30/08 at 11:51pm

Re: Packing lunches for school

When I packed lunches, I used a Thermos for a drink and usually gave him a PBJ, yogurt and chips or crackers.
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post #10 of 10
9/2/08 at 11:25am

Re: Packing lunches for school

Ally gets a sandwich (usually PB&J or ham & cheese), a juice bag or a bottle of water (depends on what she wants), a piece of fruit (we always have apples, banana, grapes and oranges here, plus I picked up some plums and nectarines last week) and some kind of treat (chips, goldfish, cookies, etc). 9 times out of 10, something comes home uneaten. She eats at least that much for lunch when she is at home. I think she is too busy talking to eat everything!

We aren't allowed to send leftovers - they won't/can't reheat anything at her school. I've been trying to find a kid sized thermos for 2 years, but all I can ever find are the big ones. She would like to be able to take chicken noodle soup, but w/o a thermos there's no way to send it.

They frown on having the kids bring home containers, so they "suggest" that we use baggies. I encourage her to bring home her water bottles so they can be washed and reused, but last week they were making her throw them out. I need to call the school about that. Talk about wasteful! They don't want containers because they say it's a health hazard. Give me a break!

If I send something that needs to be kept cold, I put a freezer pack in the bottom of her lunch kit. Also, you can freeze about 1/4 to 1/3 of their drink the night before (like juice). In the morning, finish filling it up. It will melt by lunchtime and help to keep other things cool.
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