Idea's for School Lunches?

SPOONS said:

Hi all,

My kids are going to be starting kindergarten & grade 1. One child will eat
sandwiches & some fruit but no veggies where my other child won't eat
sandwiches but will eat frutis & veggies. I've been searching for some
really good web sites on some kids school lunches & I can't find anything
helpful. If someone has a good site can you post it please?

Cheese and crackers
Peanut butter and crackers
Cold cuts and crackers
Veggies and dip
Cold pizza
Cold chicken wings
Thermos of soup, stew, chili, mac and cheese, beenie weenies,
spaghetti
Nachos -- pack a thermos of taco meat with the sides packed separately
-- baked tortilla chips, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, salsa

Tara

Bagel and cream cheese or peanut butter
Bagel or English muffin pizza
Tortilla roll-ups
Hard boiled eggs
Tupperware bowl of dry cereal -- add milk from the lunchroom, fruit,
yogurt, cottage cheese
Pita and hummus
Chicken or tuna salad with crackers
Muffins, yogurt or cheese, fruit
Deli meat spread with cream cheese, rolled around a pickle spear, then
cut into pinwheels
Hot dogs or corndogs if your kids will eat those cold
Sausage and biscuits if they will eat them cold. (I like all kinds of
cold food!)
Sloppy joe or shredded beef/chicken in a thermos with the bun packed
separately
Any leftover in a thermos

Tara

SPOONS said:

Hi all,

My kids are going to be starting kindergarten & grade 1. One child will eat
sandwiches & some fruit but no veggies where my other child won't eat
sandwiches but will eat frutis & veggies. I've been searching for some
really good web sites on some kids school lunches & I can't find anything
helpful. If someone has a good site can you post it please?

Thanks & Take care,
SPOONS

When my kid went to a school with no cafeteria, I would bake sausage
rolls and send those. I would make a dense yeasted bread dough with
about 1/3 to 1/2 whole wheat flour and I would sweeten it just a little
with some honey. Then I would fry Little Sizzler hot and spicy
sausages, and wrap a ball of dough around a cold sausage and bake them.
When they were baked, they were about the size and shape of a medium
russet potato. Sometimes I would put ham and cheese in the middle
instead of sausage.

I also sent sliced peeled apples, in season. (they stay fresh and white
for a long time if you dip the slices in a Campden tablet solution)

I don't really remember what else -- string cheese, peanut butter
cookies, cheese popcorn, snakpack pudding cups, little bags of potato
chips occasionally, bananas, homemade beef jerky, etc.

Best regards,
Bob

SPOONS said:

Hi all,

My kids are going to be starting kindergarten & grade 1. One child will eat
sandwiches & some fruit but no veggies where my other child won't eat
sandwiches but will eat frutis & veggies.

I'm so glad you posted! I have an even pickier (4 year old) eater to
pack for.

SPOONS said:

Hi all,

My kids are going to be starting kindergarten & grade 1. One child will eat
sandwiches & some fruit but no veggies where my other child won't eat
sandwiches but will eat frutis & veggies. I've been searching for some
really good web sites on some kids school lunches & I can't find anything
helpful. If someone has a good site can you post it please?

Thanks & Take care,
SPOONS

Food Network has a lunchbox special tonight, 8 p.m. EDT.

N.