kids - time and convenient lunches
buffveganme
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When pressed for time during the week, do you send your kids out the door with store made convenient items such as 'Lunchables', 'bear paws', 'fruit roll-ups' etc.,
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No, I pack lunch the night before since mornings are so hectic.0
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I never send my kids out the door. We homeschool and for lunch they help make there healthy food.0
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I had to make my own lunch for school. 2 slices of bread, a slice of cheese -> Boom, lunch
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I make my own lunchables so to say. I hate processed cheese and prepackaged lunch meats gross me out. I only have one I have to pack (my older boys eat in school) and she is in preschool so she only goes 3x per week. I will make her almond butter and jelly sandwich pockets. I bought a pocket maker on Amazon. So I will make usually 3-4 at a time and freeze what I don't use so it is convenient the next few times. I use lunchblox containers so it's like an assembly line: pockets or homemade lunchable, pirates booty, fruit and a little sweet treat like fig newtons or graham crackers.0
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everyone gets free lunch at my sons school- he usually eats there.
when he takes lunch its lunchable or the uncrustables, and fruit or baby carrot packs, juice or water and a treat.
my teens are on their own.0 -
As a rule, lunch is dinner leftovers. I usually cook enough for at least two meals, so it does not add require extra time for preparation.0
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never ever. those things are disgusting and filled with i don't even know what or how to pronounce the ingredients.
lunch is always left overs from dinner. my daughter prefers hot lunches anyway so it gets heated up, placed in her thermos that keeps things warm for up to 5hrs.0 -
awesomejdad wrote: »I never send my kids out the door. We homeschool and for lunch they help make there healthy food.
*Their. I do hope your teaching your children correct grammar.
I have no children but my sister (10 years old) always has her lunch made in the mornings. She never has Lunchables or anything like that - such a waste of money for very little nutritional content. And they taste pretty bad.0 -
buffveganme wrote: »When pressed for time during the week, do you send your kids out the door with store made convenient items such as 'Lunchables', 'bear paws', 'fruit roll-ups' etc.,
lunchables are reserved for field trips and then when new braces go in (only thing my two kids ate for a week, after getting their quads in sigh...). Otherwise I'm too cheap to buy that kind of stuff-some lunchables are over $3 sheesh.
I have two kids that go to school (and one that does her school at home). Typical packed lunches are-pb sandwiches, cold, toasted waffles, cold, toasted bagels, cold pancakes, leftovers (cold pizza etc), ham on buns. Paired with one piece of fruit or homemade applesauce, yogurt or pretzels, and then a sweet snack like graham crackers, homemade cookies etc. My kids are old enough to pack their own lunches and this is the pattern they follow most days
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RebeccaChemmy wrote: »awesomejdad wrote: »I never send my kids out the door. We homeschool and for lunch they help make there healthy food.
*Their. I do hope your teaching your children correct grammar.
I have no children but my sister (10 years old) always has her lunch made in the mornings. She never has Lunchables or anything like that - such a waste of money for very little nutritional content. And they taste pretty bad.
Wouldn't the correct word be "you're"?
My kid is not yet in school but I plan on making meals the night before to ensure less chaos in the mornings. For work I always make meals on Sunday then freeze or refrigerate as necessary.
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I get up earlier so I have time to pack them lunch. It's one of my least favorite chores though because I just never know what to pack them. Those great healthy Pinterest lunches? They wouldn't touch them. Hot food? Nope. When I make them sandwiches, they don't eat them... so I make them eat them when they get home, but when it's hot out, I just don't trust the lunchbox to keep it cool enough all day (plus now my daughter broke her good one so I have to make do with those $10 lunchboxes from Target)... So basically if I want to make sure that they're going to eat their lunch, it has to be pizza bagels/muffins, chicken nuggets, hotdogs etc.
I HATE PACKING LUNCHES.
I did buy lunchables a couple times though, when I found the big ones with a drink at $1.5, because at least I know that this way they will actually eat lunch and it's a good deal AND I don't have to stress out about it.0 -
RebeccaChemmy wrote: »awesomejdad wrote: »I never send my kids out the door. We homeschool and for lunch they help make there healthy food.
*Their. I do hope your teaching your children correct grammar.
I have no children but my sister (10 years old) always has her lunch made in the mornings. She never has Lunchables or anything like that - such a waste of money for very little nutritional content. And they taste pretty bad.
Wouldn't the correct word be "you're"?
My kid is not yet in school but I plan on making meals the night before to ensure less chaos in the mornings. For work I always make meals on Sunday then freeze or refrigerate as necessary.
ha, I caught that too
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Occasionally my son will ask for a Lunchables when we're grocery shopping, but it's not something I buy on the regular. Typical lunch is a sandwich, fruit, crackers (like Cheese Nips or something), and a couple of cookies for a sweet treat. Oh, and they have "morning snack" at his school, so I throw a granola bar or something in there, too. Today's AM snack was a Fiber One cinnamon coffee cake. He loves those. LOL0
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I was making my own lunches in elementary school, the morning of. Peanut butter roll up (PB on a tortilla) with sunflower seeds, an apple, usually gushers and a frozen juice box.
Now a days, similar food, no fruit snacks or juice boxes though. A lot of things like carrots, grapes, or crackers can be divided into baggies well ahead of time. Then all you need to do is make a sandwich and throw whatever other baggies into the lunch box.
I don't like sunflower seeds any more, but flax seeds are good. Yeah I know it sounds weird in the first place.
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Lunch is the same everyday in our house: pb&j, fruit (usually cantaloupe and/or grapes), drink, and a dessert like a small bag of cookies. She also takes a nutrigrain bar for her snack, because she has kids with nut allergies in her class and finding something that can be eaten quickly and is nut-free left me with….nutrigrain bars.0
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No. My kids learned to pack their own lunches by age 6. I prepped things in the fridge, carrot sticks, cheese sticks, had applesauce cups, juice boxes, and treats were packs of graham bears. They grabbed what they wanted.
Sunday morning is great for food prep time, make muffins, and egg muffin cups, which make great quick breakfasts and lunches.0 -
Wouldn't the correct word be "you're"?
My kid is not yet in school but I plan on making meals the night before to ensure less chaos in the mornings. For work I always make meals on Sunday then freeze or refrigerate as necessary.
Indeed. And that's why I study Chemistry and don't intend to teach children. I'm not good at it. Also, English is not my first language (Welsh is) so I do struggle on occasion.
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I do the same thing for my son. One of the kids at school had a lunchable and my son wanted one too so I caved and bought one. He wound up hating it... LOL! So I now take cheese, black olives, strawberries, crackers, couple cookies and make my own. So far so good...I make my own lunchables so to say.
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I always pack something for my daughter. I don't buy lunchables because they cost too much for what they are.
I send a lot of leftovers. When I grill chicken for dinner I always do extra cut up like grilled nuggets for lunches. Last night we went out for pizza with my family. Today she has leftover pepperoni rolls in her lunch. If we have rice or Mac and cheese she usually gets that in her lunch the next day. I fill the lunch out with fruit, yogurt, crackers, cheese, chips, whatever we have.0 -
That's what I made my kids do. They never liked what I put together so I made sure to have things they could assemble themselves. My daughter often took a thermos of soup and some crackers.likehlikeo wrote: »I had to make my own lunch for school. 2 slices of bread, a slice of cheese -> Boom, lunch
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No lunchables. Ever.
We are not allowed to send any nuts to school, so that leaves us with fewer options.
They usually get a sandwich or wrap with leftover chicken, hummus, cheese plus veggies. Or they have a thermos with beans, rice, peppers and cheese, or barley/cheese peas. They always get a vegetable too (carrots, peppers, cucumber).
Their snacks are always some sort of fruit, along with yogurt or a home made low-sugar muffin, or sunflower seeds. No cookies allowed, and no juice (just extra sugar).
We really feel that having a sweet each day in your lunch leads to the habit of wanting one, which creates unhealthy eating patterns in the long run. Luckily, many parents in our kids' school feel similarly, so our kids do not feel deprived at all. In fact, they usually feel like they have great lunches, especially since we get them involved in making them pretty often (they are five and eight years old).0 -
My kids get them occasionally but only because they have asked for them ahead of time. Maybe once a month. Their lunches are nearly always the same thing which I make the night before. Kid 1 gets his honey ham on a hamburger bun with mustard and kid 2 get's his on wheat bread with mayo and cheese cut into 3 pieces. They get various sides which they pack themselves and I usually send Capri Sun or water to drink. Pro tip: Freeze a Capri Sun and it's an instant ice pack. 0
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Try a thermos and make food the day before in a crockpot or week before (a lot of meals freeze well). Saves on time and they can eat something super delicious. Spaghetti, chicken and rice, soup, leftovers..etc. saves money in the long run too0
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RebeccaChemmy wrote: »awesomejdad wrote: »I never send my kids out the door. We homeschool and for lunch they help make there healthy food.
*Their. I do hope your teaching your children correct grammar.
I have no children but my sister (10 years old) always has her lunch made in the mornings. She never has Lunchables or anything like that - such a waste of money for very little nutritional content. And they taste pretty bad.
Wouldn't the correct word be "you're"?
My kid is not yet in school but I plan on making meals the night before to ensure less chaos in the mornings. For work I always make meals on Sunday then freeze or refrigerate as necessary.
This is TOO funny!0 -
My kids LOVE the new chocolate hazelnut uncrustables (sounds disgusting to me). I usually pack a few healthy snacks (grapes, fresh berries or raisins) and low-fat chocolate milk (hershey's or Nesquick) and a treat like fruit snacks or cookies. Sometimes I make sandwiches or wraps for my daughter, but my son pretty much insists on the uncrustables (or occasionally a lunchable). Oh well, I don't worry too much about what they eat - just happy that they EAT. I'm afraid if I pack something they don't like, they just won't eat, and I need them to gain weight and GROW (especially my 11 year old son - he sometimes seems to be on the scrawny side)...0
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I'm glad to hear many of you don't partake in sending those questionable items (in my view anyway) with your children.
Unfortunately, the majority of kids in my classroom eat 'convenience' foods for snacks and lunches everyday!
Most of you are health conscience, so that's probably why most of you send healthy things...0 -
He he, me loves me some good grammar police around here. : )0
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I homeschool my dd so she eats at home most days. Lunch for her is usually a sandwich or leftovers, some fruit, and milk. I often have leftover soup that I can warm up for our lunch. Sometimes she makes her own lunch. We don't buy things like lunchables or fruit roll ups because they are expensive. What are bear paws?
I do pack dh's lunch every day. I usually do it the night before and it takes maybe 5 minutes. It is usually a sandwich, fruit, trail mix/granola bar or dinner leftovers.
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buffveganme wrote: »I'm glad to hear many of you don't partake in sending those questionable items (in my view anyway) with your children.
Unfortunately, the majority of kids in my classroom eat 'convenience' foods for snacks and lunches everyday!
Most of you are health conscience, so that's probably why most of you send healthy things...
Or we have the time and resources available to us to focus on packing lunches and thinking about what to put in them. I'm very fortunate to have a computer in my home that allows me to search for different lunch and snack ideas on a high-speed internet connection. I can also afford enough reusable containers that packing those things in our sturdy insulated lunch bag is easy and I don't have to worry about things getting smashed or trying to figure out how I could possible send veggies and dip (because I can afford the fancy container with the separate section for dips). I have an awesome minivan that takes me to the various high-end grocery stores that populate my area where you can buy a variety of produce (including truffles at $999.00 a lb) and we have a weekly farmer's market that comes right to my neighborhood of Stepford within walking distance (also have a full grocery store within walking distance). Many other people in this world don't have those things.0 -
I bought
for my daughter this year which helps us expand lunches a little bit. I make 3/4 cup servings of chili, soup, etc and put them in the freezer. In the morning I pour boiling water into the thermos and warm up the food until it's very hot. Pour out the boiling water, wipe it down, and you can add in the hot food - it stays hot until lunchtime.
She also has been requesting salads a few times a week, so that's another easy one. I just pack it up the night before. I absolutely use convenience - apples, individual yogurts, tiny water bottles, 100 calorie packs of sweets, etc.
Everyday I come home and the first thing I do is pack our lunches for the following day. It's automatic now, but I still hate doing it with a passion.0
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