Anonymous wrote:NP here - my kids get picky about temperature. Any recs of favorite thermos containers for leftovers? (They won't eat soup and won't eat food that is mixed up...)

My kid is like this too. No thermos is going to keep the food truly hot. My son says it's warm-ish. Not room temperature, but kind of warm.

He buys his lunch most days, as a result.

Breakfast:
yogurt
fruit
oatmeal
bagels
waffles
occasionally eggs and pancakes if we're feeling wild and crazy

Dry cereal, no milk. Or, English muffin with jam or Nutella.

NP here - my kids get picky about temperature. Any recs of favorite thermos containers for leftovers? (They won't eat soup and won't eat food that is mixed up...)

Anonymous wrote:I'm interested in things I can put in a thermos as it gets colder. DD says there's not enough time to eat soup, so something like pizza rolls would be good. Other ideas of things we can heat up for lunch?

Mac n cheese
Rice
Chicken tenders
Spaghetti & mini meatballs or just spaghetti
Mashed potatoes or a baked potato with toppings
Fillings for a burrito or fajitas with the tortilla in a separate container
Oatmeal or scrambled eggs if they like breakfast for lunch
Leftovers from dinner

I'm interested in things I can put in a thermos as it gets colder. DD says there's not enough time to eat soup, so something like pizza rolls would be good. Other ideas of things we can heat up for lunch?

My kid gets leftovers in a thermos container. He gets a veggie or fruit with it and sometimes a treat. For drink it’s Capri sun or a milk box.

If there aren’t any leftovers I will find something in the freezer to send in (chicken tenders, waffles, pizza rolls etc) and fruit/veggie and drink.

Breakfast is usually hash browns or microwave burritos or microwave pancakes. He doesn’t eat cereal and I don’t allow milk in the morning anyways.

Milk or a danimal. Usually a bowl of cherrios and an apple sauce pouch. They basically eat the same thing every day.

Pasta or quesadilla. Banana or apple or grapes. Usually pretzels/animal crackers mixed together. Honest kids' juice box and some fruit leathers from TJ's. Sometimes cut up tofu or vegetarian nuggets.

breakfast: usually raisin bran with milk. Sometimes instead he will have two frozen waffles, or two morningstar farms tofu sausages. I think he sometimes has a second breakfast at SACC.

Lunch: PB&J&Sunbutter sandwich, fruit (usually grapes), veggies (sugar snap peas or carrots), cheese stick, occasionally cookies or a snack size candy bar if I'm feeling generous

Snack: cereal bar (usually "this [fruit] walks into a bar" from trader joes) and half an apple

He buys lunch 1-2 times a week depending on what's on the menu.

It's the same thing every day but he's not really complaining. This week we had no bread but a bunch of leftover hot dog buns so his sandwich is on a hot dog bun - he seems to like that more and asked me to make his sandwich on a hot dog bun even when we have bread...

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Breakfast
-Cereal
-Oatmeal
-Toast with cheese or PB

Lunch
-Hummus with cut up veggies
-Cut up sausage or hot dog
-Frozen waffles
-Mac and cheese

Dd daily breakfast:

Cereals
Fruits
Waffle
Oatmeal
Toast
Eggs
Pancakes


Lunch:

P/b
Nutella
Turkey
Chicken sandwiches
Baby carrot
Fruits
Cheese
Chips (twice. A week)
Breakfast bars
Yogurt
Spaghetti with meatballs
Meatball sandwiches
Pasta with sauce

Breakfast - granola bar
Lunch - whatever free lunch is serving at school

My options are very similar to yours. Sometimes a hardboiled egg or leftover pizza.

Our breakfast choices are basically identical to yours!
They buy lunch most days.

For snack I offer different things for them to choose and pick from (3rd and K and they pack their own snacks)- packs of raisins, apple sauce pouches, cereal bars, goldfish, pretzels, pirates booty, fruit leather, and cheese stick or yogurt if they feel like packing a freezer pack with it which they usually don't.

Do you have good suggestions on breakfast and packed lunch/snack options? It's always nice to get inspiration from others. I feel like I do the same thing all the time:

Breakfast:
Cereal + fruit
Yogurt + Fruit
Oatmeal
Waffles

Lunch:
Sandwiches (PBJ, Turkey, etc) + Chips + baby carrots + something sweet (nutella sticks, granola bar, gummies)
Pasta with Parm or Sauce
Tuna with Crackers + Sides