Lunch for Sully...

Okay....one more post tonight and I am through....I promise.

So, as you may have already read below - Sully starts his new school tomorrow and it's a rule that you have to take your own lunch. Well, I have not been privvy to this sort of hulamagoolah since Fish Fish was a wee tiny tot, so I'm having some troubles.

I sent out an email calling on the help of all my mommy friends.

Thank bahjeezus for my mommy friends. Here are a few ideas they have come up with and I will continue to post them into this same blog as they roll in. Enjoy the ideas...I sure have!!!

Liza Suggests...

Screw that thermos crap! Too much trouble for me. I'm waaaayy too lazy to wash those everyday. I just make sandwiches for "A". Cut the crusts off, of course. I'll make one with a meat -- turkey, ham, etc -- and one with either jelly or peanut butter. I always make two, cuz I know at least one will be eaten. They have those little juicy-juice boxes. And I always pack fresh fruit. I'll cut up oranges or apples or pears, whatever. And then I just keep those ice packs, so nothing gets spoiled. You think she would get tired of eating the same thing every day. But she doesn't. Kids are creatures of habit. Hmm....what else can you do.....yogurt, string cheese, they have fruit cups, raisins, peanuts. Oh, sometimes I'll make pigs in a blanket the night before. Easy, easy. Get those cheap biscuits and turkey weiners. The small pack of Village Park has five biscuits like five for a dollar. I know she'll eat those. And she'll eat those cold. When she was at the daycare, on Fridays we had to pack a lunch. I would also do spaghetti or
Spagetti-Os just in a plastic container. They would heat it up at the school.

Missy Suggests...

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/YourKids/LunchboxSolutions/

I receive this Kraft Food and Family magazine and love it--I'd sign up if I were you! They recently did a few pages on kids lunch ideas, so I'm sharing the link with you.

Cool things I've also seen for snack/lunch: apple slices with caramel dipping sauce (HEB does it already pkgd.), cucumber slices with or without ranch, Chex mix with nuts, dried fruit

De Suggests...

Goodness, it's been too long since I've had to make preschool lunches. I think we had to send everything in one container that had sections in it, so we really didn't have many options at all. I think I would send mostly sandwiches or tortilla wraps with fruit. I think the school where they went usually wanted finger foods. I know that doesn't help much, but that's all I got!

Val-ree Suggests...

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yummy. I'm looking forward to seeing these responses because I haven't had to worry about this yet and I will need some ideas.

Shelly Suggests...

If he likes PBJ, try those Smuckers premade frozen sandwiches (Uncrustables).
Target has the best selection (strawberry, grape and honey). You just throw them into the lunchbox frozen, and they're ready to eat at lunch.

Does he like carrots? In the produce section, they have 10-packs of small packages of teeny carrots. (That's the only vegetable “C” eats right now.)

Steph Suggests…

Lunchables are quick and easy and good to have around for “running late” mornings. "A" loves PB&J, and ham sandwiches. I would just get juice boxes and those snack packs of chips, and we’d be set. Sometimes I’ll throw a granola bar in – or those little tiny gladware bowls w/ lids w/ those little grape tomatoes or blueberries.

Christa Suggests…

Pepperoni slices, string cheese and crackers usually with some kind of fruit and a dessert item. Sometimes I cook chicken nuggets in the micro in the AM then wrap them in a couple of layers of foil, this usually keeps them warm until lunch time.

Sonia Suggests…

Okay, my friend Alicia will cook chicken nuggets and put them in a thermos.
Oh, she will also put mac & cheese or soup in the thermos.

I lay out stuff at night and even put her chips and cookies in the “snack size baggies” the night before. A bag of 99 cent Lays will last her 3 lunches. I cut up strawberries for her or buy the peaches and drain them to put in another container so her teacher doesn’t have to open the container and the juice is gone so it’s not too messy. She will eat ham or turkey sandwiches or “worms” which is the ham sliced in strips.

Get the little Glad containers (one with blue lids) they are the perfect size for the
fruits and sliced ham. They have PB&J sandwiches in the freezer aisle now and by the time lunch comes the sandwich is thawed.

If I send cut up cucumbers and small carrots, I will have a tiny ranch that is already in its own container and they don’t have to be refrigerated.

For a drink, I send the small gatorade’s that way she can close it with a lid and drink the rest when I pick her up.

Think cheese cubes and ritz crackers.

Tonda Suggests...

My first instinct was to delete this one without replying cuz, the kitchen is someplace I really need to stay out of, but I remembered something I used to make for Hannah that came in handy on occassion. You tear two sheets of foil and place them on top of each other criss-crossed. In the middle put a hamburger patti, a potato cut into bite-size pieces and a few carrots. Dash with a little salt and pepper and two or three splashes of Worcheshire (spelling?) sauce. Then pull the foil up and scrunch together at the top so as to make a little pouch> around the food. Throw it in the fridge. Put it in the oven when you get up the next morning at about 350 for an hour. Pull it out and hold it over the sink, poke it on the bottom a couple of times with a fork and let the grease run out. Then cover with another piece of foil in case it leaks some more juice during the day. It should still be quite warm come lunch time, but even if it's barely warm it's still a pretty tasty lunch. Hope it helps!