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Post by dara1012 on Jun 5, 2012 19:04:17 GMT -6
DS (4 yo) is signed up for a summer preschool program through the Y and needs to bring lunch everyday, they would prefer not anything peanut butter or tree nut based.
What do you send for your kids for lunch at school?
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Post by sharon on Jun 5, 2012 19:05:56 GMT -6
We use an insulated lunchbox with a reusable ice pack and do send perishable stuff. Any reason it has to be non-perishable?
We have to send vegetarian, so I do send a lot of nut based stuff, but also dairy and soy.
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Post by cissy on Jun 5, 2012 19:29:10 GMT -6
The only things I send that do not need an ice pack would be a pepperoni sandwhich or a jelly sandwich with juice box, crackers, a container or fruit. My 6 yr old will take an ice pack with his yogurt or we have an insulated thing that he will take soup, chicken and rice, beans, enchiladas, taco meat. He also has food allergies so it is hard to send the real easy stuff.
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Post by dara1012 on Jun 5, 2012 19:33:48 GMT -6
It says non-perishable on the list of what to send each day....though I was thinking that I would do an ice pack in an insulated lunch box. I haven't ever packed lunches before so I am not really sure where to start.
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Post by cissy on Jun 5, 2012 19:39:36 GMT -6
Maybe they mean non-perishable because they do not have a fridge or microwave that can be used. Unless it is a field trip type thing and they want it to be able to get thrown away when done.
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Post by sharon on Jun 5, 2012 19:43:37 GMT -6
I'm guessing they say that just because they don't refrigerate them and don't want to be responsible for it.
I do a lot of mixing and matching, and these are Ian's most frequent picks:
Protein - PB&J (but you can do soynut butter or sunflower butter) on bread, crackers or rolled up in a tortilla yogurt cheese cut into slices or cubes Quorn nuggets edamame "chunks of energy" (These are these little squares sold at co-ops but they do have nuts in them)
Veggies- carrots pickles peppers dried peas
Fruit- Dried mango apple slices (toss in a few drops of lemon juice so they don't turn brown) strawberries grapes apple sauce
Crunchy/snacky/bonus stuff- Carrot chips veggie booty whole wheat bunnies whole grain chips whole wheat pretzels whole wheat crackers
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Post by sharon on Jun 5, 2012 19:44:29 GMT -6
Oh, and felafel. I forgot that.
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Post by sharon on Jun 5, 2012 19:50:03 GMT -6
Chick peas. Ian calls them "butt peas" b/c he says they look like little butts
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Post by sharon on Jun 5, 2012 20:00:10 GMT -6
Sorry - I keep thinking of new things. On the Lunchbots website (those are the containers I use) they have a photo gallery of packed lunches: www.lunchbots.com/gallery/?nggpage=3A lot of them are putzier than I would personally do (lots of things cut to be shaped like animals and such) but there are still lots of ideas there if you just flip through. Also if you do a google image search for bento box lunches you will see a lot of ideas.
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Post by dara1012 on Jun 5, 2012 20:11:02 GMT -6
Thanks ladies! DS is really excited about his fun summer preschool so I am hoping his excitement will make him less picky
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Post by ReneeW on Jun 5, 2012 20:12:17 GMT -6
One thing I do is use insulated soup-style bowls and send "hot" food. I put hot water in it first to heat it up and then dump that out and fill it with leftover pasta, rice, etc. that my kid will eat. I'll also send "breakfast for lunch" and send (in the insulated bowls) cut up waffles and pancakes with a little container of syrup.
For cold foods, she gets lots of sandwiches. You could also do cheese 'n crackers, crackers with hummus, string cheese, etc.
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Post by sarahisis on Jun 5, 2012 21:14:20 GMT -6
I used to work for the y summer program and the reason they say non perishable is because they may not refridgerate any of the lunches. Some kids did bring refridgerated bags tho with a cooly. I saw a lot of lunchables back then! lol
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Post by deannemdm on Jun 6, 2012 7:04:22 GMT -6
I have packed (for me) little box that has crackers and either chicken salad or tuna salad in a can with little spreader-- It sits on the shelf so no need to refrigerate.-- Frozen yogurt containers usually thaw about lunch time-- Moo tubes/ go-gurt are good for this too. Good luck!
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