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 Posted: Mar 6th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
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Mar 4th, 2011 at 12:17 pm, Chicago wrote:
My lunch making has totally gone downhill. DD has no formal lunch period at this time, so she eats in the hallway and/or in the classrooms of some accomidating teachers. (I know that many of you are shuddering at the potential cross contimination - but in our local HS's this is very common as the students schedules get so full).
So DD has ruled out anything that needs a spoon/fork and anything too loud that will disrupt a class (like carrots). She used to take pasta, salads, fruits cups etc... and they are now all out.
I did find some squeezable apple sauce and yogurt, but otherwise I am stumped. (She does take a sandwich, some chips sometimes and whole fruit and water).
To make this even more fun, due to an activity she is often at school quite late, so I am packing dinner and lunch several days a week!!!
Any suggestion welcome!
wraps? easier to eat on the go than a sandwich?
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Posted: Mar 7th, 2011 at 10:32 am
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Mar 4th, 2011 at 12:17 pm, Chicago wrote:
My lunch making has totally gone downhill. DD has no formal lunch period at this time, so she eats in the hallway and/or in the classrooms of some accomidating teachers. (I know that many of you are shuddering at the potential cross contimination - but in our local HS's this is very common as the students schedules get so full).
So DD has ruled out anything that needs a spoon/fork and anything too loud that will disrupt a class (like carrots). She used to take pasta, salads, fruits cups etc... and they are now all out.
I did find some squeezable apple sauce and yogurt, but otherwise I am stumped. (She does take a sandwich, some chips sometimes and whole fruit and water).
To make this even more fun, due to an activity she is often at school quite late, so I am packing dinner and lunch several days a week!!!
Any suggestion welcome!
Wraps are a great idea!
What about pepperoni rolls? Those can be premade, then eaten room temp. And they are filling!
What about the one-hundred calorie packs of cookies and stuff too? That way she can have a sweet snack every so often.
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2011 at 11:07 am
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Wraps are a good idea - I will check out some "filling" ideas and see what she thinks and work on how to hold them together.
I do get some of the small 100 calorie packs, but am trying to package up my own from bigger bags since, unless they are on sale they are a bit expensive. But it is a great idea as I know some of the things only seem to come in the 100 cal. packs - like those Oreo chips.
What is a pepperoni roll? Like a pizza roll - I think the brand is Totinos?
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Posted: Mar 8th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
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We make lunches to take to work. We usually make the main lunch item on the weekends and either freeze them or keep them in the fridge and take one a day. A little monotonous for the week, but it's quick and easy.
quick to make (non-crunchy) finger foods we use in lunches:
- vegetarian sushi
- noodles (requires chopsticks)
- homemade muffins (even GF ones)
- homemade chewy granola bars
- baby tomatoes
- fruit cups (you can practically drink them)
- trail mix (omitting allergens)
- Caribbean patties (little buns filled with stuff, like pizza pockets)
- soup in a thermos (can be sipped without a spoon that way)
- apple slices with a spritz of lemon (and some cinnamon sugar, optional)
- cut up pita bread and hummus
- tortilla wraps
- bean burritos
- cornbread
- cut up red/yellow/green peppers
- smoothies in a thermos
- the list goes on and on...
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Posted: Mar 12th, 2011 at 07:40 pm
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 11:07 am, Chicago wrote:
What is a pepperoni roll? Like a pizza roll - I think the brand is Totinos?
These seem to be a thing from here with coal mines. I forget that sometimes. 
But it is a pizza dough with pepporoni and cheese then you roll it up and bake it. Don't know your allergies, but they keep really well.
http://chickensintheroad.com/cooking/in-pursuit-of-the-perfect-pepperoni-roll/
I love them.
I make as a long roll and only put cheese and pepperoni in it. Then I cut it after it bakes.
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Posted: Mar 17th, 2011 at 06:48 am
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The remaining bit of the multigrain bread DH made earlier this week, sliced
slices of cheddar to go with
strawberries
Quaker mini-rice cakes (caramel)
Pink Lady apple (for snack before theatre rehearsal)
bottle of water
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Posted: Mar 27th, 2011 at 10:28 am
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15yr old must be growing, although i cant see any sign of it, always hungry.....so,
organic wholemeal bread (for some reason was cheaper than non organic stuff this week) cheese and ham.
sausage roll.
oat bar.
strawerries and blueberries.
water, plus carton of organic fruit juice.
12yr old.
wholemeal bread, chicken, salad.
baby bel cheese.
oat bar
strawerries, blue berries
water, plus carton of fruit juice.
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egg, peanut,beans, yeast extract, kiwi fruit, dog, cat, dustmite, mold, tree pollen, hay fever, and current unknown allergy.
this year so far, 6 reactions and used epi pen twice.
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Posted: Aug 28th, 2011 at 09:44 pm
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friday:
sprucing up a boloney/potato bread sandwich for my Kindergartener (she likes it plain and doesn't do grainy breads. Trying to get her to drink the 42.00 worth of milk the district insisted I buy her with chocolate Milk Straws that are insanely overpriced):
Bento type box with ice divider that easily pulls out for freezing:
Truly, I love this box. Totally worth washing. Fits some Shortbread cookies, turkey cheddar/multigrain wraps, greek yogurt (smaller size), sliced strawberries, and carrots tucked in with the sandwich in a snack size zippie.)
Older son brown bags. Bottled water. Younger son *must* have a stainless thermos of ice cold water. I freeze a bottled water as an icepack in older son's lunch and for my kindergarden daughter. (small size, and wrap it in a piece of pop up aluminum foil with a half sheet of paper towel to absorb moisture)(Sam's club on the pop up foil. lasts for-ever.)
The water stays cold and they drink it too. voila' no ice pack to rinse and refreeze, and I think it works better.
Youngest (Preschool) gets a snack. Usually half a sandwich, fruit cup, pudding, rice cakes, raisins or crackers. Still have to pack spoon, napkin, wet wipe.
Hubby's second job he takes lunch and has been having me make it the mornings he's home. So that's five lunches. 
I can attest to assembly line efficiency. If you're going to mess the kitchen, might as well make it count. I've been buying prepackaged items in bulk, so it's not as pricey if I had bought stuff to wrap myself. (in some instances half of what I pay at the grocer, per ounce, and the portion sizes are just right) I just have to make that extra trip. We go through supplies like crazy.
Oh, kindergartener...hair is definitely growing out since Christmas!(oh, got those 48.00 half size bottles of water in the pic super cheap. Like, 4.00?)
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Posted: Aug 28th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
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Where did you get that Bento-type box?
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Posted: Aug 28th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
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GP...we have the same containers but with purple lids. I got ours at target. They are called Fit N Fresh. There are a bunch of different shapes. My only problem with the small containers that fit inside the large one is that they are not leak proof so for cut up juicy items not great going in a lunch box, but great size.
http://www.fit-fresh.com/
I recently found Klip It containers. you can get them on-line at different places, but if you have an Old Navy, they carry them in their check out line in fun colors. We bought sandwich size and snack size. They are a little bigger than the ones by Fit N Fresh, but have a gasket for better sealing.
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Posted: Aug 29th, 2011 at 06:33 am
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 11:05 pm, GingerPye wrote:
Where did you get that Bento-type box?
Hezzier is right. Fit and fresh. I meant to post that but was wrangling with Photobucket. Younger son picket it out at Jewel Foods/Albertson. 9.99, and I might have overpaid, but it seemed reasonable. No leaking so far, but I don't wash it in the dishwasher. I handwash. The plastic stays nicer.
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Posted: Aug 29th, 2011 at 08:48 am
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Thank you! We have the Built NY lunch bags, and I love those because I throw them in the washer. Those containers look like something I could use in the bags.
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Posted: Aug 29th, 2011 at 09:23 am
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"We're going to make everyone get along whether they like it or not."
~Oldest son, age 16, upon being asked what most typifies his generation.
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Posted: Aug 29th, 2011 at 09:56 am
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 08:48 am, GingerPye wrote:
Thank you! We have the Built NY lunch bags, and I love those because I throw them in the washer. Those containers look like something I could use in the bags.
They would work fine in there. The only problem I've had is when the lunch box gets turned on it side, then if I packed say cut up watermelon, the juice leaked. For dry/non juice items they are great.
I tried desperately to get DD to use a Built NY lunch bag, but she wouldn't do it. She wanted this...
http://www.planetbox.com/
but I refuse to pay $50 for a lunch box system. Plus, I don't pack huge lunches and they look like they hold a ton of food.
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Posted: Aug 29th, 2011 at 10:14 am
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 09:56 am, hezzier wrote:
I tried desperately to get DD to use a Built NY lunch bag, but she wouldn't do it. She wanted this...
http://www.planetbox.com/
but I refuse to pay $50 for a lunch box system. Plus, I don't pack huge lunches and they look like they hold a ton of food.
that's a Mompetition lunch box if ever I saw one.
does it come with express shipping?? I've got a Ms. Mercedes Benz mom to shut down at the kindergarten level. Her daughter is bringing Hallmark in her lunch. I mean, it's something different on that level everyday. It's all I hear about...
consider it done, lady, you're mine. 
I mean, I knew, girls...kindergarten...there'd be some degree of it. It's why I snagged the heart sandwich maker some weeks ago. I thought I had my bases covered, having had boys up until that point. I didn't think it would extend past sketchers and backpacks and maybe a Hello Kitty pencil. Was I wrong.
That box is mine. I will be posting pictures. mwahahaha...
is there a container for fresh cut flowers?
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~Oldest son, age 16, upon being asked what most typifies his generation.
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