how to keep lunch warm?

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Anonymous wrote:I do a hot lunch once a week. We switch between chicken noodle soup and chicken nuggets. I use the Thermos fundraiser too. I fill it at 8 and DD eats lunch at 12. She tells me the food is still hot/warm. I do preheat the container too like other PPs suggested. I’m not sure this would work as well for leftovers though tbh. With the soup I make it in the morning so it’s literally boiling water when I put it in the thermos. I don’t think I could get soup that hot if I was just reheating it.

Why can’t you reheat soup as hot? I don’t understand. Just leave it on the stove or in the microwave a bit longer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why?? Just pack a sandwich.

Our dinner leftovers are healthier than a sandwich and it’s easier to put a Pyrex container in the microwave and then put the food in a thermos than to make a sandwich.

Exactly, my kids love leftovers of our healthy dinners (stews, pasta/rice dishes, etc.) and it's no more trouble for me to heat up leftovers than to pull out all the sandwich components. We use Thermos brand, too. I usually skip the hot water trick and just heat up extra hot. They tell me the food is still warm at lunchtime, but not hot.

I dont know, sounds like a big pain to be boiling soup and boiling water to then thermos at 6am. Im glad my kids will eat room temp food without complaint.

I walk downstairs turn on the electric kettle, turn on the coffee maker and then take lunch and breakfast stuff out of the fridge. I prep breakfast or put snacks in lunch boxes and as soon as the water boils, I put the water in the thermos and the Pyrex in the microwave. (When we put away dinner we put the amount we need for kids’ lunches in a Pyrex that’s ready to go.) I dump the water out and add the food. Definitely easier than getting out sandwich ingredients, spreading, slicing, etc.