Do you pack your kid's lunch?

MellyMelB · June 2011

My oldest is not eating the school lunches at her pre-school. Barely a bite when she does. Now, I know she will not starve herself but I want to give her another option and start packing healthy, kid friendly lunches.

Any ideas? What do you pack in your kid's lunchboxes?

TIA!

ox,

Mel

LizC78 · June 2011

I pack my kids lunches everyday (well except when they have Papa Johns pizza-its apparently like crack )

I make sure they have a main item, fruit, dairy, and startch (I do pack what seems like alot but it is small portions and they usually will eat one thing for a snack)

Here are some of the things I pack:

Alot of the time I will just heat up what we had the night before for dinner and put it in a stainless steel thermos- it stays warm. (ie pulled chicken, picadillo, etc..)

Burritos, grilled cheese (I make it in the morning- stamp it closed pampered chef thingy) ham & cheese (not on a sandwich-my kids don't like any sandwiches except grilled cheese) grilled chicken, quesadillas, etc..

Fruit, all fruit, I usually freeze oranges (they thaw by the time they eat them), mango, strawberries, canteloupe, bananas, etc..

Yogurt- I freeze them and they thaw by the time they eat, string cheese, babybel cheese, etc..

Pretzels, cheez-its, goldfish

Hope this helps..

Liz

MrsLeanna · June 2011

I do about twice a week depending on the menu at school that day.

I usually make a ham and cheese sandwich, cut into a cute shape with a cookie cutter. I also do a starch and a fruit. A pack of goldfish, plantain chips, pretzels, and then cut up strawberries, apple sauce, canteloupe, etc. I don't do yogurt because that's usually a snack.

I have a lunch box that has a zipper pouch underneath and I put a frozen ice pack in there everything stays cold.

I also do leftovers sometimes, depending on what it is.

MelanieJH1016 · June 2011

I pack her lunch everyday. She gets 1/2 sandwhich, either PB&J or grilled cheese. A container of fruit, either strawberries, grapes, or oranges. 1 dairy item either a yogurt or a string cheese, and then a snack like a baggie of rice cakes or pretzels.

karenlisa714 · June 2011

I use this to make lunch packing easy: https://www.easylunchboxes.com/

In one compartment I give fruit, like strawberries or blueberries

In another compartment I give snacks - some pretzels, nutrigrain bar, Entenmann's little bites

In the main compartment is the meal. This varies from 1/2 sandwich (he loves PB & honey), Ellio's frozen cheese pizza which is so easy to give b/c it comes in these bricks (I put it in the night before and the teacher will warm it up in the microwave at school), two Morningstar chick'n tenders, fish sticks, quesadillas which I make the day before... I will also give crackers, an applesauce squeeze pouch, or a Gerber's fruit twist and a cheese stick if I feel that he needs a little more food. He usually eats all of his food (knock on wood!).

melly&jimmy · June 2011

Monday through Thursday Friday is pizza day! Ham and cheese sandwich, macaroni and cheese (container that stays warm), or a lunchable. Usually pack gold fish crackers, string cheese, apple sauce, mandarin oranges, and a dessert like chocolate chip cookies or jello pudding and a juice.