Packing lunches

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you sending peanut butter to a school??

I pack pasta all the time-I make it that morning and they eat it while it’s room temp. Sometimes I also heat up leftovers and pack them-they can be room temp. Also I put soups in the thermos.

Our school allows peanuts. They manage it on a class by class basis. So if someone has an allergy, that class goes nut free for snack, and the child is monitored at lunch time.

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Our school has a nut free table. If there is a child with nut allergies in the classroom then we are not allowed to send in peanut snacks otherwise peanut butter and jelly is a perfectly acceptable food to send.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you sending peanut butter to a school??

I pack pasta all the time-I make it that morning and they eat it while it’s room temp. Sometimes I also heat up leftovers and pack them-they can be room temp. Also I put soups in the thermos.

Because some schools allow it. My kid's school serve PB&J uncrustables. I pack PB&J for lunch on occasion, but no nuts in the snack because its held in the classroom. Kids who are allergic sit at a separate lunch room table.

All of FCPS serve PB&J. We don't send snacks with peanuts or tree nuts, those are eaten in the classroom, but if the County is going to sell PB&J then I am not going to worry about sending PB&J.

[Anonymous]

Besides sandwiches, I send pasta, sushi, rice with meat and vegetables, and dumplings. With a fruit, and milk or water. We alternate each week. They've never had a school lunch. If you think the menu looks bad, wait until you actually see what the school lunch looks like.

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I don't send anything with nuts. I do sunflower seed butter on sandwiches. No matter the rules of the school, one of my kids was in a preschool class where a child who was nut allergic was exposed to something (never figured out) and paramedics had to come, fire truck, ambulance, etc. He lived but it was scary. There is no reason to take risks of sending PB&J imo.

Mostly I send leftovers and baby carrots and/or sugar snap peas.

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Bento box with dinner leftovers in the main compartment and fruit/veggies or another something small (muffin, crackers, babybel) in the smaller compartments. I take more or less the same thing myself and usually don't bother to heat anything up myself. Room temperature pasta or couscous or meat/rice is fine with me, definitely fine with my kids.

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I do a bento type box as well since my kid hates sandwiches. Today was kiwi, watermelon, cucumber/tomato combo, hard boiled egg, few cashew nuts, pita chips.

Sometimes he likes a thermos with pasta or chicken nuggets with fruit on the side.

He’s much pickier for lunch than any other meal so I am just happy if he eats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't send anything with nuts. I do sunflower seed butter on sandwiches. No matter the rules of the school, one of my kids was in a preschool class where a child who was nut allergic was exposed to something (never figured out) and paramedics had to come, fire truck, ambulance, etc. He lived but it was scary. There is no reason to take risks of sending PB&J imo.

Mostly I send leftovers and baby carrots and/or sugar snap peas.

Get all of the bee keepers together. We need to get rid of all the bees. Someone in school is allergic.

[Anonymous]

My daughter buys lunch about half the time, depending on what it is. She has sandwiches the other days. I alternate between turkey and ham and sometimes other lunch meats or leftover BBQ or pork loin if we had that for dinner. I change out the bread, usually whole wheat but sometimes flat bread or king's hawaiian rolls for "sliders". We're allowed to do peanuts but I don't send PB out of respect for the allergy kids.

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I use the thermos for soup and pasta. I also send DIY burritos (DD is ok with room temp beans).

[Anonymous]

I send either peanut butter and marshmallow fluff (or homemade jam) sandwich, pastrami sandwich, or left over pasta from a dinner. Pretty much alternating those three things. Plus a fresh fruit, a vegetable, and a pretzels/sesame sticks/veggie straws type snack.

They don’t complain and when I try to suggest more variety they say no or will leave it uneaten.

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Trader Joe’s makes a very good turkey summer sausage. Sometimes I’ll give them slices of that with some cheese and whole wheat crackers

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This thread makes me envious. Both my kids are very picky eaters and I'm so limited in what I can send.

Sometimes I've been able to send chips and hummus or guacamole and carrot sticks. They make individual packages for the guac. Not as good as the fresh, preservative-free kind, but one kid will eat it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you sending peanut butter to a school??

I pack pasta all the time-I make it that morning and they eat it while it’s room temp. Sometimes I also heat up leftovers and pack them-they can be room temp. Also I put soups in the thermos.

Schools don’t all follow the same rules, don’t you know?