If you pack a hot lunch in a thermos...

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What types of foods do you put in the thermos? What other containers do you use for non-thermos foods?

We tried a quesadilla yesterday but my daughter said it was soggy and didn't eat a bite. Are there any foods that do well in thermoses? I was thinking of pancakes or something, but then what container do I use for the syrup/fruit/carrots? Thanks in advance!

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I don't use thermos for those sorts of solid foods. Thermos use is for pastas, soups, casseroles and things like that. Even then I use a separate re-usable container to hold other items. Everyone has their favorite brands. I'll often use one sandwich-sized container and put a few turkey rollups and then two muffin cups each filled with veggie and crackers or fruit, for example.

Things like pizza or quesadilla would be wrapped in foil and closer to cool or room temp by the time lunch rolls around.

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Chicken noodle soup and pasta. That's pretty much it, but DS brings one of those two things almost every day.

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Chicken Noodle soup, pesto pasta and chicken nuggets are our hot rotations.
The key is to put hot water in the Thermos for a few mins 1st ( with lid on) to warm it up.
If you do nuggets put some paper towel in the bottom to absorb the moisture, it stops them going soggy.

We have a couple different lunchboxes, on Thermos days we use a tall one that has 2 compartments. This goes in the large side and the fruit and other stuff goes in the other side with an ice pack.

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We do chili, soup, pasta, and sometimes lasagna or similar cheesy dish in the thermos. As PP says, we heat it up with hot water first, and it stays fine through lunch. We have these short wide Thermos containers that allow us to pack the hot food, and then just a ziplock or tupperware with the cold stuff.

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My son gets mac and cheese in his

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My kids like canned Annie's products, including ravioli and all-stars pasta

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Soup, pasta, stew, chili, and casserole's go into the thermos. We don't try to put in anything with breading (nuggets), nor tortillas. DD likes cold pizza, so will eat cold quesadillas as well.

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We usually do leftover pastas, mac and cheese with hot dogs.

I always boil water right when I wake up and pour it in the thermos to “heat” it up. Then I dump the water right before I fill with food.

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We use this one for foods like quesadillas, pizza, pastas, meat with rice & mash potatoes etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-FS3-BL-Thermomax-Stackable-Double-wall/dp/B06X6DCCR8/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1534954904&sr=8-8&keywords=square+thermos

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Anonymous wrote:We usually do leftover pastas, mac and cheese with hot dogs.

I always boil water right when I wake up and pour it in the thermos to “heat” it up. Then I dump the water right before I fill with food.

Yep this is key to keeping things warm.

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Anonymous wrote:What types of foods do you put in the thermos? What other containers do you use for non-thermos foods?

We tried a quesadilla yesterday but my daughter said it was soggy and didn't eat a bite. Are there any foods that do well in thermoses? I was thinking of pancakes or something, but then what container do I use for the syrup/fruit/carrots? Thanks in advance!

Pancakes and quesadillas are both fine cold. Packing them in a thermos would just make them soggy.

Soups, stews, rice and beans, fruit salad, pasta, things that have a liquid component basically, are what does well in a thermos.

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I haven't problem putting leftovers from dinner in it. It keeps rice/beans/plantains/chicken/vegetables pretty nice and warm. Soups too.

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Anonymous wrote:What types of foods do you put in the thermos? What other containers do you use for non-thermos foods?

We tried a quesadilla yesterday but my daughter said it was soggy and didn't eat a bite. Are there any foods that do well in thermoses? I was thinking of pancakes or something, but then what container do I use for the syrup/fruit/carrots? Thanks in advance!

Pancakes and quesadillas are both fine cold. Packing them in a thermos would just make them soggy.

Soups, stews, rice and beans, fruit salad, pasta, things that have a liquid component basically, are what does well in a thermos.

Thanks! Do you heat up the pancakes/quesadillas the morning of and just pop them into a lunchbox without a cold pack so it's essentially room temp by lunch? Or do you pop them into the lunch cold/room temp?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What types of foods do you put in the thermos? What other containers do you use for non-thermos foods?

We tried a quesadilla yesterday but my daughter said it was soggy and didn't eat a bite. Are there any foods that do well in thermoses? I was thinking of pancakes or something, but then what container do I use for the syrup/fruit/carrots? Thanks in advance!

Pancakes and quesadillas are both fine cold. Packing them in a thermos would just make them soggy.

Soups, stews, rice and beans, fruit salad, pasta, things that have a liquid component basically, are what does well in a thermos.

Thanks! Do you heat up the pancakes/quesadillas the morning of and just pop them into a lunchbox without a cold pack so it's essentially room temp by lunch? Or do you pop them into the lunch cold/room temp?

I never actually sent pancakes, because my kid prefers waffles, but I'd toast those and throw them in, because untoasted they're gross. Quesadillas if we had them for dinner and there were left overs they'd go straight from the fridge. If I made them in the a.m., they'd be warm when they went in.