What are you packing for school lunches?
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Anonymous
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Oldest takes a combination of cheese, chicken, pretzels, pasta, carrots, grapes, and apples. She's not into variety.
Youngest eats leftovers or bean burritos. That kid could eat bean burritos for every meal. She gets a fruit cup and sometimes some Mexican rice to go with it. |
Anonymous
Yes, heat the food extra hot and it stays warm in a 10oz thermos. Some people put boiling water in the thermos first and then empty it immediately before filling with hot food. Someone experimented that on a blog and it doesn't make it hotter. So I just open up and throw it in and seal the top. I do soups, stews or casseroles 2-3X a week. |
Anonymous
That totally sucks. MCPS nuts are allowed. |
Anonymous
| What am I packing for lunch? Nothing. 4 kids 10 and under in DCPS. Hot lunch is cheap. If they don't like what's on the menu they can make themselves a lunch. |
Anonymous
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I usually pack a "main dish" and two "sides". My DD is in K and is not a particularly adventurous eater so it's pretty basic stuff.
Mains: PB and J, or PB and banana sandwich Cheese quesadillas Mac and cheese, spaghetti, or pesto pasta in a thermos Fish sticks in a thermos Baked chicken, or nuggets in a thermos Cheese and crackers Sides: Fruit Yogurt Cheese stick Carrot sticks Peas Popcorn Goldfish or cheddar bunnies Graham crackers Corn Sun chips Roll and butter Applesauce |
Anonymous
Except for the allergic kids who are segregated and have to sit with random kids rather than their friends. I truly don't understand why people are so attached to their nut butters that they get so up in arms about the idea of being a nut free scho (like a lot of DCPS elementary schools are). We use for our lunch sunflower butter and golden pea butter with jelly. Kids love it and don't care that do t have peanut butter. |
Anonymous
One problem is that all of the sunbutters and pea butters have added sugar. I can get the nut butters (peanut, cashew, etc) with just nuts and nothing else added. (Of course, I don't get up in arms. Our FCPS elementary is not "nut-free.") |
Anonymous
NP here - we use sun butter with no added sugar or salt. All it has are sunflower seeds. You need to stir it before the first use, but it's better than all the additives IMO. |
Anonymous
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For my 7 year old who has a big appetite and is a good eater at a school with an anti-junk food policy:
-a main such as sun butter and jelly, deli turkey on bread or a wrap, bean and cheese quesadilla - a fruit - a veg such as cucumbers, tomatoes, peas... Recently have found out red pepper strips are a hit! - additional protein such as Greek yogurt - sometimes a treat such as dried fruit or graham crackers (cookies and candies aren't allowed by the school) Sometimes we mix it up with a Marie Callender pot pie or soup...but the above is typical. |
Anonymous
| 10:14, what is the name of this sun butter and where do you buy it? |
Anonymous
Ours is strongly nut-free. Why would you say this when you don't know every school?? Please think before posting. |
Anonymous
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I have two kids; one is picky, one is not (but the one who's not has food allergies and the picky one has a nut allergy kid in his class).
Picky gets the same thing every day: sunbutter and jelly sandwich; a cheese stick; seaweed snacks, goldfish crackers, or pretzels; applesauce, fresh berries, or an apple; and a juice box or nutritional shake. Non-picky gets either leftovers, soup in a thermos, or some kind of deli-style sandwich -- ham and cheese, salami and cheese, the occasional PB&J. These he will eat with yogurt, fresh fruit, pretzels, crackers, or whatever else he feels like throwing in there -- he's in middle school, so half the time he packs his own lunch, or at least helps. To drink, he usually sticks with water or a Vitamin Water Zero - he's not on a diet or anything (far from it), but he likes the taste and it's the only energy drink with no ingredients to which he is allergic. |
Anonymous
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I do a bento box with different things every day.
Today it is a steak salad with tomatoes in one compartment and the other has a hard boiled egg shaped like a bunny, cantaloupe, blueberries, and olives (weird kid). Yesterday it was a Japanese omelet on a bed of green peas and tomatoes, rice and blueberries (separated). |
Anonymous
How much is lunch? In FCPS it's like $3 a day. So 3x4=12, and 12x5=60, and let's say there are about 40 weeks of school that's $2,400 for the school year! Seems a lot to me. My child buys on average once a month, probably less. |
Anonymous
School lunches are gross and are certainly not hot when they eat it. Don't have 4 kids under 10 if you are just going to use it as an excuse to be lazy. |