Lunch ideas for New-in-all-this Kinderg. mama

[Anonymous]

So what would be your best suggestion for IDEAL first ever lunch box stuffing? All that you believer
should go there. Do people actually put napkins there??? notes ? pictures? fork,.. knife? plastic? metal?

[Anonymous]

Oh and what fooooooooooooooooooooooood of course to go with it !

[Anonymous]

I think you know what would be a special lunch for your child but make sure they can open all the containers etc and maybe a note from you with some stickers. Yes a napkin. Big NO to any knife even plastic. No to real forks and spoons that you really want to keep..but plastic or some stray spares that can be reused are fine. I reuse plastic but don;t have to worry that my real stuff could easily be lost or tossed.

[Anonymous]

sandwich, cut up fruit she likes, juice box or water or milk, whatever you want her to drink and something a little treat-like. I send packaged chips because they are a big treat in our house; could be brownies, cookie, whatever.

[Anonymous]

cheese sticks, some pretzels, yogurt "tubes" -- we like to mix it up sometimes as my kids get sick of sandwiches. sometimes we'll send it whole-wheat pretzels and baby carrots with a little container of hummus or some kind of dip.

[Anonymous]

I do turkey wraps a lot, with pesto sauce instead of mayo. Cheese sticks or cheese cubes on little Batman toothpicks. A juice box or a Foogo thermos with milk. Whole wheat pretzels. Dried fruit strips. A cookie on Fridays.

I use plastic utensils as well, but heavy duty ones. It's hard enough for me to cut or eat with flimsy utensils. Definitely napkins. I send two. I use Batman napkins or whatever's leftover and fun from birthday parties, etc. Not every day, but fairly often.

I also agree to make sure your child can open all containers. My son has trouble with cheese stick wraps, so I "start" them for him before putting them in the lunch box. I also freeze the juice box as an additional ice pack if needed.

[Anonymous]

For utensils I went to Target and bought a cheap eight back of spoons and an eight pack of forks.

http://www.target.com/p/Madison-Stainless-Steel-Spoon-Set-of-6/-/A-12980969

[Anonymous]

I'm really into Weelicious's Facebook Page - she has an album called Lunch2 that has tons and tons of pictures with the ingredients listed. It's such a great resource!