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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are grown and flown now but I always packed [b]mini-versions of regular food [/b] as school snacks for when they were in ES and MS. My kids bento boxes often had the following snacks. 
- blueberry pancakes (sweeten with dates puree in the batter, no need to send syrup)
- cut up cheese cubes
- cut grapes or berries
- tangerines (half peeled)
- yogurt (homemade)
- french toasts
- quesadilla
- spiced vegetable appe, upma, spiced idli
- crepes filled with nutella or just sweetened and cardamom-flavored or vanilla flavored mashed paneer or ricotta.
- tea sandwiches - usually cucumber or egg salad.  Cut a full sized sandwich in 4 squares or triangles. 
- Use rice wrappers, mandu wrappers,  puff pastry sheets, empanada dough,  parantha dough, dosa batter, cheela batter etc. -  and fill it with any stuffing on hand + cheese - and bake it or steam it.   I would go crazy with different fillings - eggs, meat, beans, vegetables,  cheese, rice, nuts, leftover pasta, mac and cheese, deli meats, and fruits.

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Thank you for this— my son’s school provides lunch, but it isn’t healthy and he doesn’t like it (like, jelly sandwiches and white rice) and he needs so many more calories lately. I’ve been going crazy trying to find things he will eat that are nutritious, or at least include some protein/fiber/fat so he isn’t famished at pick up.[/quote]

This is only helpful for someone with the time to prepare all of it. I used to prepare lunches like this for my kid when I was a SAHM. I no longer do, sadly. My kid gets a lot more pre-packaged and processed foods now because it's a way to get food in a lunchbox with minimal effort. I feel bad about it and try to buy the healthiest stuff I can.

The average working parent simply cannot prepare food like that. I know because I've done it.[/quote]

I absolutely 100% disagree with you.  You can prep or make most of the food before or reuse leftovers in creative ways.  You just have to get away with buying into the myth that only packaged food are snacks.  Stop believin that giving healthy foods is time consuming or costly.

If your kid had a life threatening illness or food allergy, you would be making every single meal at home.

Giving healthy foods to children is a solved problem already.  This is not something that you have to solve from scratch.  Cheese cubes, loaded sandwiches, fruits, veggies ...these are not rocket science  to make or pack. [/quote]

Yep, plus one on this. I am a single mom with full custody who works way more than 40 hours a week, but providing food cooked from scratch is a priority for me, so I make it happen. And PP could too, if it was a priority for her, but sounds like it is not. Not surprising, a lot of people who stay home aren't high functioning, so stands to reason she went back to work and can't figure out how to adequately feed her children.[/quote]

A two parent household wasn’t a priority, though? Why should anyone give a $hit what you think about anything? You’ve already failed your kids.[/quote]

Please take a step back to figure out why you are so triggered by a single mom who cooks from scratch you feel the need to lash out like this. [/quote]

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