TF choices for preschooler's lunchboxes?

[Smithie]

My kids eat lunch out of the house 3x/week, and usually have a cheese or peanut butter sandwich. What on earth can I give them as a main dish that is NOT a sandwich? (The teachers can't heat things up in the lunchroom.)

[eirual]

-hard boiled eggs, deviled eggs
-quiche/leftovers
-beans
-rice/quinoa
-soup
-hamburger/meat patty with fixin's
-big, thin slices of cheese as bread with meat in the middle- or rolled up.
-If you're okay with breads- a wrap spread with real cream cheese then rolled up in a log and sliced into pieces.
-yogurt
-popcorn?

Combine 'snacky' type foods- a fat, protien, good carb.

[Feb2003]

today I sent egg salad (with Bubbies pickles in it, yum!), leftover sauteed greens, leftover baked yams, and a small apple

I'm trying to stay away from too many sandwiches and go toward a picnic-type spread...
carrot sticks
grape tomatoes
container full of yogurt
container full of cottage cheese
half or whole banana
hard boiled egg(s)
egg salad
salmon salad
chunks of cheese
really nice meat slices
apple slices with pb "dip" (pb, honey, and raw milk to thin)


that's all I can think of right now, gotta run
HTH
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[TonyaW]

bacon
green beans
homemade macaroons
tortilla - sprouted grain w/cream cheese
as many said hard boiled eggs
strips of chicken

[Theoretica]

bump-n-sub

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[spartz]

Today I sent mine into kindie with sausages, cheese, cold potato "chips" (leftover from the roast), rye crackers with butter and vegemite and a fruit bar. There's quite a good range of fruit bars these days that are pure dried fruit and free from preservatives etc.

I'm thinking of enchiladas next week (just have to work out how to TF the pastry component) and I also saw this neat idea for frittatas. Basically you put corn, peas, diced carrots, whatever veggies you like mixed in with egg (and cheese?) and bake it in those little cup-cake paper holders. I got some bright kiddie ones from the supermarket the other day and DD is very excited about them. I think half the time it's all in the presentation - the more lurid the better!

[eirual]

I love the fritatas in a muffin cup idea- brilliant!

[guestmama9904]

subbing. my kids are in k, 1st and second grade. im sick of packing sandwhiches, it just seems dull, though my kids do love this great sourdough bread i found at a local bakery.

what i pack every day is...
a kleen kanteen bottle of water or milk, but milk tends to warm up even with an ice pack and ds aged 7 says its gross

a dessert of some sort, this week we had homemade tf cc cookies made with ww spouted flour, yummm. sometimes dessert is chocolate yogurt or dried fruit bar or something non tf but organic.

a fruit- cut up oranges or apples and peanut butter/other nut or seed butter.

a main protein often a sandwhich on sourdough bread with either lunch meat, egg salad, tuna salad or pbandj.
my kids like salami and parmiseano regiano as a protein too or grassfed meat sticks that are nitrate free.

[pandora665]

Originally Posted by arismama!

subbing. my kids are in k, 1st and second grade. im sick of packing sandwhiches, it just seems dull, though my kids do love this great sourdough bread i found at a local bakery.

what i pack every day is...
a kleen kanteen bottle of water or milk, but milk tends to warm up even with an ice pack and ds aged 7 says its gross

What about a Foogo Thermos bottle for the milk (the only plastic is the top - I can put iced water in DD's and it's still icey later in the day)? Just a thought if you really want to put in milk for their lunch. It might be a little fussy to clean, but we run ours through the dishwasher.