Any teachers? Need your best lunch ideas

[Anonymous]

The teacher’s workday starts so early. Do you eat breakfast before commuting, or grab something in the car?

If you pack your own lunch and snack, I’d love to hear what you eat in a typical workday.

[Anonymous]

Cup of Breakstone's Live Active cottage cheese and a banana (both in the car on my way to school) for breakfast.

For lunch, I try to make a big pot of something on the weekend and put into 5 containers to take one each day (could be soup, stew, cauliflower fried rice with grilled chicken, etc.). I also bring baby carrots to have with lunch, and an apple to eat in the car on the way home.

If I didn't get around to making a big pot of something, because I'm busy with my own family on weekends, I'll typically buy a bag salad kit, and have that (and bring grapes or something to jazz it up)

[Anonymous]

I pack dinner leftovers into my lunch bag as part of evening clean up -- If I don't do it at night I will forget it in the morning.
I also toss in a Go Macro bar and if I have it, a protein smoothie. If I have time for a quick egg in the morning, I have that, and keep the smoothie or bar for another day.

[Anonymous]

PBJ on soft wheat bread and an apple.

[Anonymous]

I have a soup mug I take in and a can of soup. I also like freeze dried fruit as a snack. I don't normally eat breakfast.

[Anonymous]

I eat breakfast in the car. A Greek yogurt. I’ve also done bagels or bananas at times, but currently really like Greek yogurt because it keeps me full until snack time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a soup mug I take in and a can of soup. I also like freeze dried fruit as a snack. I don't normally eat breakfast.

No wonder some teachers get moody in the afternoon. I’d be starving after a meal like that.

[Anonymous]

I do a mix of leftovers and remade sandwiches/salads from Trader Joes. When we have leftovers, I store them right away in smaller tupperware so it's easy to grab on the way out the door.

[Anonymous]

I have a thermos type container. I fill it with steel cut oats topped with peanut butter and raisins. That, plus tea is usually the only thing I bring to school. Sometimes I do turkey chili. Both of these are very filling meals. I occasionally buy lunch from the cafeteria, and usually have fruit like apples, pears, or plums, and granola bars for quick snacks.

[Anonymous]

Left overs in a thermos. Or a sandwich. This post gave me flashbacks to when there was one microwave and the most senior teachers got it first and we had 15 minutes to eat and no prep period. I almost cried when I left teaching and was able to eat lunch like a normal person and go to the bathroom when I needed to.

[Anonymous]

Leftovers from dinner the night before usually. Sometimes I “jazz” them up with an extra topping or a fresh vegetable. The sad part is that I rarely get to eat them during lunch and usually scarf them down at the copier at 3:15 or during an afterschool meeting. Anything extra is just sad and soggy anyway at that point.

[Anonymous]

This whole thread reminds me that teachers are noble and deserve our deepest gratitude. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a soup mug I take in and a can of soup. I also like freeze dried fruit as a snack. I don't normally eat breakfast.

No wonder some teachers get moody in the afternoon. I’d be starving after a meal like that.

Throw in not being able to leave your class to take a when you need one. Lots of things might be behind that “moody”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a soup mug I take in and a can of soup. I also like freeze dried fruit as a snack. I don't normally eat breakfast.

No wonder some teachers get moody in the afternoon. I’d be starving after a meal like that.

We have less than 30 minutes. After the kids clear the room it is more like 25 minutes because there is -always- some kid who comes back because they forgot something. You have to walk from your classroom to the teacher's lounge to get your lunch bag out of the refrigerator. Then there is a line for the microwave. If you're in lunch, someone will hold your place in line while you scoot over to the bathroom. If not, then the bathroom side trip takes 2 minutes. Then you take your hot soup and go back to your classroom. At that point you have maybe 15 minutes before the first kid comes walking in the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a soup mug I take in and a can of soup. I also like freeze dried fruit as a snack. I don't normally eat breakfast.

No wonder some teachers get moody in the afternoon. I’d be starving after a meal like that.

We have less than 30 minutes. After the kids clear the room it is more like 25 minutes because there is -always- some kid who comes back because they forgot something. You have to walk from your classroom to the teacher's lounge to get your lunch bag out of the refrigerator. Then there is a line for the microwave. If you're in **lunch, someone will hold your place in line while you scoot over to the bathroom. If not, then the bathroom side trip takes 2 minutes. Then you take your hot soup and go back to your classroom. At that point you have maybe 15 minutes before the first kid comes walking in the door.

Sigh. **luck, not lunch