Heather Prins
aA Creative Team Member
seeing as how you have SEVEN lunches to make i figured you are the one to ask-what the heck do you give your kids for lunch & snacks?!!!! I hate packing lunches!:help:
Oscraps
Oh JustJen.....
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y'all won't believe what Alyx takes. A greek salad - EVERY DAY!
spinach, onion, feta, calamata olives, croutons and greek dressing.
His choice. He's always been a salad fanatic. In 1-4 grades it was onions, tomatoes, black olives, croutons and dressing - no lettuce lol
spinach, onion, feta, calamata olives, croutons and greek dressing.
His choice. He's always been a salad fanatic. In 1-4 grades it was onions, tomatoes, black olives, croutons and dressing - no lettuce lol
Heather Prins
aA Creative Team Member
That is one adventurous kid!!!
Like Dumpty said
Hopefully there are lunch services at school !!!
Hopefully there are lunch services at school !!!
snowdropz
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I too hate packing lunch box so my sons have their meals in school. We have to pay for it but I figured it's better than having bread everyday. At least they get hot meals. It's bad enough trying to figure what to cook for dinner everyday, let alone figure what to put in their lunchboxes!!!
hondachicc
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Okay...I am anxious to see here too...I have become a "mom" again...so I am packing lunches and snacks...mostly snacks..as the kids get school lunch most of the time.
I did some searching in the grocery store yesterday.....I found a few things that I thought they might like...I have been sending a banana or baggie of grapes or those small packaged goldfish most days for a snack....but I found yesterday, PopTart Crisps...little packaged teenie tiny poptarts....and small packages of dried fruits..all kinds...apples w/cinnamon, pinapples, bananas....they love stuff like this...and I was trying to find VEGGIE CHIPS....my Mom and Dad get them from Sam's and the kids absolutely love them.....they are much healthier than regular chips!!
For their lunch, when I pack it....a sandwich, applesauce cup or orange cup...that's about all they want...it seems to be enough for them for lunch.....but they eat HUGE DINNERS...
I did some searching in the grocery store yesterday.....I found a few things that I thought they might like...I have been sending a banana or baggie of grapes or those small packaged goldfish most days for a snack....but I found yesterday, PopTart Crisps...little packaged teenie tiny poptarts....and small packages of dried fruits..all kinds...apples w/cinnamon, pinapples, bananas....they love stuff like this...and I was trying to find VEGGIE CHIPS....my Mom and Dad get them from Sam's and the kids absolutely love them.....they are much healthier than regular chips!!
For their lunch, when I pack it....a sandwich, applesauce cup or orange cup...that's about all they want...it seems to be enough for them for lunch.....but they eat HUGE DINNERS...
Heather Prins
aA Creative Team Member
No lunch service here 
justjen
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ok, ok... lunches... I HATE MAKING THEM... usually a ham/cheese bun, juicebox, piece of fruit whatever kind I have or that is on sale, a pudding or yougurt or jello, I do 2 kinds of baking, cookies, squares, muffins... you know a granola bar and a package of gummy fruit like welches fruit candy. and sometimes Ill put chips in a baggie for them, and sometimes carrots... that's the lunch menu usually. BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
trista
O so scrappy!
My kids are not real fans of the school lunches so I generally pack two lunches each day.
I love the bento lunch idea... but wow, I do not have the time for that now that we are rushing for school each day. http://bentolunch.org/
For us... we keep lots of things in stock and actually enlist the kids in prepping their lunch boxes each night. The night before I have the kids grab a drink (caprisun or sunny d or juice of some sort). They get to choose one dairy item (cheese stick or string cheese, go-gurt), a fruit (cup of fruit or fresh), chips, and then a small sweet item for their lunch (fruit snacks, pudding, anything I have baked, cookies or the like). Then we place their lunch bags in the fridge for the night. In the morning, I start by adding a freezer brick to their lunch bags, then I fix their main lunch item. If we had pizza the night before I'll warm up a slice - cut it into chunks and put it in a thermal container. It stays warm until their very early lunch time 10:45am. :O
Some days we make grilled cheese sandwiches, but most days it is turkey or ham sandwiches - cut into a star shape. It does get boring - doing the same thing... but my kids are happy and seem to still be eating everything without any fussing.
I love the bento lunch idea... but wow, I do not have the time for that now that we are rushing for school each day. http://bentolunch.org/
For us... we keep lots of things in stock and actually enlist the kids in prepping their lunch boxes each night. The night before I have the kids grab a drink (caprisun or sunny d or juice of some sort). They get to choose one dairy item (cheese stick or string cheese, go-gurt), a fruit (cup of fruit or fresh), chips, and then a small sweet item for their lunch (fruit snacks, pudding, anything I have baked, cookies or the like). Then we place their lunch bags in the fridge for the night. In the morning, I start by adding a freezer brick to their lunch bags, then I fix their main lunch item. If we had pizza the night before I'll warm up a slice - cut it into chunks and put it in a thermal container. It stays warm until their very early lunch time 10:45am. :O
Some days we make grilled cheese sandwiches, but most days it is turkey or ham sandwiches - cut into a star shape. It does get boring - doing the same thing... but my kids are happy and seem to still be eating everything without any fussing.
Heather Prins
aA Creative Team Member
mine are the same
ham & cheese
Turkey & cheese
jam
no peanut butter allowed
berries of some kind
pea pods or carrots or cherry tomatoes
snack-teddy grahams and a few choc chips or cheese & crackers or cereal bar
water
ham & cheese
Turkey & cheese
jam
no peanut butter allowed
berries of some kind
pea pods or carrots or cherry tomatoes
snack-teddy grahams and a few choc chips or cheese & crackers or cereal bar
water
Ella and Luke now make their own
clarabear
always chatty at the O!!
My kids make their own lunches too. Addie gets a bit of guidance and she gets sent back to make changes and add/take stuff away but she does okay. Ethan;s only requirement in his lunch are almonds and a shake. He takes ADHD meds which cut his appetite so that's what I put my foot down on for what he has to eat. Plus he has shakes other times during the day when he won't eat otherwise. I hate the shake selection though. Most of them are very sugary. When he makes them at home he uses slim fast mix and adds PB or a banana or both. Slim fast is still a meal replacement and has much less sugar.
When he makes them at home he uses slim fast mix and adds PB or a banana or both. Slim fast is still a meal replacement and has much less sugar.
LSlycord
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Oh how I hate packing lunches! During the school year, I insist that the kids do hot lunch at school unless it is a special occasion. However, during the summer, daycare only provided lunch two days a week. That left me packing lunches three days a week...I hate it! For a drink, we had to take a clear liquid in case they spilled. So clear Gatorade was our drink of choice. And then we had to have a dairy product which some days they wouldn't eat but we packed just so that we met the stupid rules...
So Jen and her seven lunches is amazing to me!
So Jen and her seven lunches is amazing to me!
petey111
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Our school lunches, especially with the new federal guidelines, are AWFUL. (shhhh....as a staff member, I'm supposed to be supportive of our cafeteria staff.) But they are soooo uncreative and the lunches stink and are next to nothing.
Ben takes his lunches. Usually he has an apple juice box to drink. He has a sandwich or a homemade lunchable (better and cheaper than the actual ones). Sometimes he has a chicken salad with lots of croutons (LOL) or a quesadilla or something. His chip of choice is Cheetos. I've started getting the baked ones for him. We usually try to give him a fruit of some kind. I can't get the kid to eat veggies. He will at dinner time, but never eats them at school. If he's lucky...he gets a sweet treat, like Oreos or pudding or something.
Linda - Those rules are NUTS! We started hearing rumors that they were going to try to start monitoring what comes in cold lunches from home. And that's not right! I understand the no peanut butter thing. But to start trying to dictate what I send him from home is ridiculous. Supposedly, they are starting to tell the high schoolers that they can't bring in "commercial" food. Not even healthy things like Subway. That's crazy.
Ben takes his lunches. Usually he has an apple juice box to drink. He has a sandwich or a homemade lunchable (better and cheaper than the actual ones). Sometimes he has a chicken salad with lots of croutons (LOL) or a quesadilla or something. His chip of choice is Cheetos. I've started getting the baked ones for him. We usually try to give him a fruit of some kind. I can't get the kid to eat veggies. He will at dinner time, but never eats them at school. If he's lucky...he gets a sweet treat, like Oreos or pudding or something.
Linda - Those rules are NUTS! We started hearing rumors that they were going to try to start monitoring what comes in cold lunches from home. And that's not right! I understand the no peanut butter thing. But to start trying to dictate what I send him from home is ridiculous. Supposedly, they are starting to tell the high schoolers that they can't bring in "commercial" food. Not even healthy things like Subway. That's crazy.
LSlycord
Well-Known Member
I agree... I understand being careful of things that could bring on an allergy attack so peanut butter and one year, in Syd's class, no cinnamon because a teacher was allergic to it.
But to make sure that I packed a dairy product even if my child didn't eat it. (And they couldn't take milk because it wasn't a clear liquid...)
to the stupid rules!
tanteva
Mistress of Mayhem
I was so hoping for this effect from the meds too - thought I'd finally would have a chance to lose weight - but no such luck
Heather Prins
aA Creative Team Member
I have to chop onions every morning - some mornings that is not a good thing lol
check out the school lunches offered here:
in the main cafeteria: http://www.schoolmenu.com/directory/ok/moore/junior-high-menus/
in the bonus cafeteria: http://www.mooreschools.com/site/Default.aspx?PageID=13971
for breakfast today he had leftover steak lol
Heather Prins
aA Creative Team Member
wow that Oklahoma school has amazing lunches!!!!
so why am i having to chop onions every morning lol!!!!!
Linda~
we wouldn't be able to do the dairy requirement as Alyx and I both are allergic to the proteins in dairy (different than lactose intolerance)!
Alegna
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Here in the morning the boys eat fruit or gingerbread at school, lunchtime at home they eat 2 or 3 sandwiches with peanut butter, nutella, cheese or jam. In the afternoon they eat a gingerbread or crackers. They take lemonade to drink in the morning at school and lunchtime they drink milk at home. Only Wes eats and drinks it all at school, he is in a special school further away and isn't home for lunchtime.
Only I don't make the boxes ready, my husband does that while I'll get the boys themself ready for school
Only I don't make the boxes ready, my husband does that while I'll get the boys themself ready for school