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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question for those providing elaborate hot lunch items - how are you managing food safety or not having it just be luke warm and taste gummy?

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Most leftovers can be used for lunch. Grownups take such lunch to work but we usually have a fridge and a microwave available.  Not everything translates well to kids lunch without some changes, but it is doable.

With kids lunch - 
- use ice packs for cold stuff. You can even use frozen juice boxes or milk boxes as ice packs. I even freeze string cheese and it is usually thawed out by lunch time.
- Some food can be reheated/heated thoroughly and packed in a pre-heated thermos. Usually good for food that can be eaten wet - mac and cheese, chowder, soups, pastas, risotto, chilli, meatballs in spaghetti sauce. 
- pizza, quesadilla, nuggets, fish fingers, hot dogs - must be cooked, cooled and then wrapped in foil.  It will become room temperature but will not become soggy.  Hot dogs cab also be packed in thermos and the roll separately, The kid then assembles at school. If you take out pizza slices from fridge and wrap in foil it will become room temp by the time it is lunch time. 
- when reusing stuff like mashed potatoes-turkey dinner or some other kind of leftovers, you can try and make into sandwiches so that the food is contained and easy for kids to eat during lunch.  Wrapping in tortilla also works. You can add any kind of salad - egg, chicken, potatoes and make a sandwich or put it in a wrap. 
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