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Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade son loves Ravioli in his thermos. If he's taking a home lunch, 99% of the time that's what he'll have. Then he gets baby carrots, some sort of fruit and a "treat"---pudding cup, pack of mini cookies, etc.
When my 3rd grader takes a home lunch, he likes a sandwich--usually PB&J, which is allowed at his school. Then I put in something crunchy: pirates booty, cheez-its, pretzels, goldfish, etc. A fruit and/or veggie: baby carrots, apple slices, berries, yogurt, etc. A treat for him too, along the lines of his brother.
I'd love to be that mom who makes prize-winning bento style lunches, but trust me, my kids would complain!!

I will try the ravioli, never thought about it before! Yeh, I'm not the bento mom either, lol and the thing is she is a picky eater as well and will only pick at her food most of the time

How would she do with a "snacky" sort of lunch? Cheese, crackers, meat, some grapes, baby carrots or whatever she likes?

Anonymous wrote:My son is into wraps- I buy the Wholefoods house roasted or smoked turkey (I don't think it's processed much at all), add avocado slices and wrap it in a whole wheat tortilla or wrap.

I add fresh fruit, maybe some crackers or yogurt, a box milk, and a small treat.

Leftovers - Pasta, soup, brown rice with chicken work well. Once a week I buy the Mac and Cheese out of the box and make it. DS loves it and I try to get something organic so it may have some actual cheese in the powder.

Glad you asked OP- I'm hitting a slump and also need some fresh ideas.

Anonymous wrote:My lunch packing formula for my kindergartener is generally this:

a main dish of sandwich, salami cheese roll ups, chunks of leftover sausage or meatballs, hot soup, or other hot leftovers (in the funtainer style thermos, preheated with boiling water, as pp described) (just to be clear - only one of these item is the main dish, not sure if that's clear from my rambling list)

cut raw veggies - favorites are bell peppers, cucumbers, carrots

fruit or a "treat" like a granola bar

if the meal seems on the small side, I'll add a handful of almonds, a few olives or a slice of cheese

I often ask my son at dinner if he wants the dinner food again for lunch or if he'd prefer a pb&j sandwich, or whatever second option I have to offer. Seems good to get his participation in the planning.

Anonymous wrote:We had roast beef tonight so tomorrow's sandwich will be roast beef. I'll also send ham, or egg salad. Or (I know.. the horrors..) bologna!

I send things in his thermos a couple of times/week. Leftover pasta salad sometimes. Or if there's leftover mashed potatoes and gravy he has "dibs" on that as soon as supper is finished, and he'll have chopped up meat with it.

I try to stock a different assortment of fruits and veg each week, but sometimes I get lazy.

Anonymous wrote:I have a thermos and was sending hot leftovers twice a week but she didn't eat it most of the time. Turns out she just really loves sandwiches - almond butter & jam.

Then there's fruit, yogurt, raisins, and a cheese circle. If I have leftover steamed veggies, I send those instead of fruit.

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grade son loves Ravioli in his thermos. If he's taking a home lunch, 99% of the time that's what he'll have. Then he gets baby carrots, some sort of fruit and a "treat"---pudding cup, pack of mini cookies, etc.
When my 3rd grader takes a home lunch, he likes a sandwich--usually PB&J, which is allowed at his school. Then I put in something crunchy: pirates booty, cheez-its, pretzels, goldfish, etc. A fruit and/or veggie: baby carrots, apple slices, berries, yogurt, etc. A treat for him too, along the lines of his brother.
I'd love to be that mom who makes prize-winning bento style lunches, but trust me, my kids would complain!!

Anonymous wrote:Last nights leftovers packed in a thermos - ranges from pasta, to curry, to roast chicken, fish, hamburger etc. A fruit or vegetable - apples, carrots, cucumbers, banana. Milk with an ice pack.

Anonymous wrote:For hot lunch - get a thermos. You can get one at Target - the Funtainer one for about $15 or something like that. Boil water, then pour it into the thermos and close the lid. Keep for 10min. @ 10min - Heat up the food - pasta, rice, soups, whatever. Pour out the water from the thermos; optional - dry the thermos inside. Put the hot food in the thermos.

I have one of those lunch bags that have two sections. I put hot food in one of the sections with something underneath the thermos to keep the warm/cold separate as much as possible.

For the cold stuff, milk, cheese, fruit, I put it in another section with an ice pack.

My kids have told me that the food is still warm.

The only bad thing about this is that a Ker has a hard time opening the thermos. But, there is usually a lunch aide that helps kids open containers and stuff. I used to volunteer at my Ker's lunch and spent the entire lunch period opening containers, yogurt packs, etc.

Food-wise, I do pastas - usually from leftovers the night before; stir fry rice, or soup and rice (rice separate). I also pack seaweed with the rice. Kids love it. Pastas can be simple. Mac/cheese, pasta with butter sauce or garlic/olive oil with/out sausage, ham, chicken, tomatoes, grilled zuchini or steamed brocolli.

My DD doesn't like sandwiches, but she does like ham, so I will pack ham and cheese, fruit.

Anonymous wrote:All kinds of random shit. Each day I send some form of fruit and some form of veggie. Sometimes soup in a thermos, falafel, mini pita pockets with hummus, sandwich of pb&j or tomato and avocado, turkey, etc. cheese and crackers although she dislikes warm cheese.

Anonymous wrote:The question really isn't why someone gets Ebola or some other disease/illness but why did God create those diseases/illnesses? Who gets them is a totally different topic, why they even exist is the more interesting God's will question.

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Looks to me like you are afraid to meet with a muslim.

I grew up among them, married one, gave birth to one and am carrying another, you ninny. There's nothing remotely scary about most of them.

Any muslim man that married a woman with such rank hatred of his religion is probably going to be asked by Allah WHY he married you and allowed you to be responsible for raising muslim children. I want front seats for that questioning. One has to ask if he is a true Muslim.

That question is moot. In Islam, the child of a Muslim man is Muslim.

It's not like he has a real choice about it, especially in certain Muslim countries, where, if he found that Muslim beliefs didn't really fit him and he'd really be another religion or none at all, he'd be guilt of apostasy and subject to capital punishment. So yes he is Muslim but he may not buy into very little of it.

Thus he may feel very little compunction about marrying an intelligent woman who has the wit to question a certain tenets of his titular Islam and laughs with him about Muslim women who call into religion radio shows to ask if she can undress in a room where she thinks a male jinn may be present.

I am not the PP who is married to the Muslim and mother of two Muslims (one in utero).

And news flash-- if a man does not accept major tenets of Islam, he's not Muslim.

You are being purposely obtuse again. Islamic law does not permit people born Muslims who don't practice and don't care--those you would considered to not be true Muslims--to change their civil status to nonMuslim. Islamic law says such Muslims are indeed Muslims and cannot change that without risking apostasy charges. You are stuck with it all your life, as are your children and their children, at least for all matters dealing with civil status.

I am quite sure you know this--you just choose to attack PP and her husband instead of addressing the fact that Islam really doesn't envision freedom of religion.

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Muslima wrote:Just stopping by to give you a short Salam my dear,

The Prophet saw said that deeds of people would be presented to Allah every week on two days, Monday and Thursday, and every believing servant would be granted pardon except the one in whose (heart) there is rancour against his brother and it would be said: Leave them and put them off until they are turned to reconciliation ( Muslim)! Today is Thursday, may our good deeds be presented to the Most Merciful, ma salaama ~

So true. Thank you for your gentle reminder. I think its time for me to refer this thread & others over to a few anti defamation and Islamic relations groups and bow out, especially now that I see this posters unwillingness to learn Quranic Arabic or talk to any scholar. I have been replying but trying to keep my cool. But I did read in the Quran the other day that Allah wants us to leave such people to Him to deal with. I shall do both.

Please say a dua for me.

Anonymous wrote: Too funny. I gave up just today upon realizing she really did have an agenda and no interest in learning anybody's view but her own.

This topic is rather interesting. Sometimes my son used to ask this very question when he was young. Why does God allow bad things to happen.

I remember a woman who had a great life, and then in her early 50's, suddenly developed a very disfiguring skin disorder. She said for a long time she kept asking God, "Why me, God? Why me?" One day she thought, "Well, why NOT me?" It finally occurred to her that to expect all good things should come her way in life was incredibly selfish and arrogant. She realized that God must have a plan and it was important she trust in that plan.

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Nah, you got it all wrong. Religion/Belief has nothing to do with logic or science, it is faith-based and it is a CHOICE, there is nothing logical about it. We all choose to believe in what we want and so you totally lost the point of what I meant in that first post. I added the statement "That's where Faith comes in" to show that regardless of how illogical something is to me, it is totally believable to someone else who has "faith" in it. Just like my beliefs can look totally illogical to someone else, but I have "Faith" and total confidence in them. The only person I need to convince is Me, Myself and I. What the rest believes doesn't keep me up ! night~

If you were so much about "I'm OK, you're OK" thing, you wouldn't have tried to put down other people's beliefs by the whole "nature likes to keep it within species" remark. That's the point of MY post that I believe you missed. The miracles of your own faith are believable to you; the miracles of other people's faiths are illogical.