HELP for School Lunches

[redsoxmaniac]

as far as time to pack a lunch if you watch tv at night, get up during every commercial and start putting it together. By the time the show is done...so is lunch neatly packed and ready to go. I love watching baseball so, for me its between innings

[happysmileylady]

My daughter is 12 and in 7th grade, but has been packing her own lunch since around 2 grade. What happened was she was coming home complaining that I had made X for her lunch and she didn't want it. So, we printed up a copy of the food pyramid that was designed for her age, discussed it at length in terms of good nutrition, how many servings of each group to have and so on and hung it on fridge. We wrote on there what sort of lunch things would be appropriate and when I go grocery shopping I ask her what sort of stuff she would be interested in for lunches. She knows she has to have some sort of bread element (either in a sandwich or tortilla or even just a slice of home made bread) a fruit and a veggie, a meat or other protien (hard boiled eggs etc) and then her drink has to either be a fruit juice, milk in a thermos or water. For the first few months, and at the beginning of each school year, I would check and approve it, but by now, I know she's taking good stuff.

[myscilyn@aol.com]

Go to www.Kraftfoods.com. They have great kid receipes for lunch boxes. I just tried the kabobs with fruit, lunch meat and cheese. I let the kids help me make them, and they can't wait to eat them. Lunchables work well with carrot and celery sticks, ranch or blue cheese dressing, fruit, jello, yogurt. I like to do the checkerboard sandwiches. Using the lunch meat that is on sale at the deli, I make a sandwich with wheat bread, then I make one with white bread. Cut it into thirds long ways, then cut it into thirds cross ways, then I mix in the sandwich up between the wheat and the white bread. I have two children, so they each have a mixture of sandwiches. I try to make lunch fun for them and they love it. Fruit salads. You can always find coupons for lunchables in the newspaper (at least here I do).