What do your kids eat for lunch?

[Cathi]

I'm so sick of cooking and food in general. I can't get my 5 and 3 year old to eat anything I make anymore! And I'm running out of ideas, especially for lunchtime.

[DreamsInDigital]

Me too. My 7 year old, 3 year old and 1 year old are so hard to feed!

[ani'smommy]

Today we had whole wheat pasta with peas and leftover chicken mixed in and blueberries.

We mostly have leftovers.

[HollyBearsMom]

Have your tried not thinking of it as lunch? We have no "meal specific" foods in our house and that makes feeding my son much easier. Pizza or hamburger for breakfast, breakfast burritos for dinner, what ever floats our boat.

Lunches tend to be whatever is the fridge. A typical day my son might have leftovers from dinner or yogurt and fruit, hummus and crackers or veggies and dip. I focus on balanced nutrition over a period of time. Makes it easier not to stress over what they are eating!

[4evermom]

About all my ds will eat is chicken nuggets (baked in toaster oven), mac and cheese (I add a little frozen spinach that I pulverized in the food processor), pizza, toast, or waffles (homemade and kept frozen. I add ground flaxseed, ground almonds, grated carrot). Oh, I forgot he has started eating pears if I dice them and smother them in honey. So he eats one of those things for lunch.

[Zach'smom]

bagel w/cream cheese, dinner leftovers, yogurt, whole wheat toast, cheese cubes on pretzel sticks, (everything tastes good on the end of a pretzel stick!) a sandwich etc.

I add some fresh fruit and veggies (cold or steamed) with whatever we are eating for lunch.

Ds isn't a milk drinker so he has a glass of water or lemonade with lunch.

[Baby Makes 4]

Whatever baked goods we have around the house and fruit usually unless there are leftovers in the fridge that strike their fancy.

We bake 3-4 loaves of bread, a large batch of muffins and some cornbread, banana bread or zucchini bread every week so there are always lots of baked goods around to munch on.

[treemom2]

My children really like a snack plate for "lunch". I usually just throw whatever we have in the fridge/pantry on a plate around 10am and leave it out until it is all gone. It might consist of: cheese, raisins, sunflower seeds, carrot sticks with dip, nuts, apple slices, berries, 1/2 pb&j, etc. . . I do try to make it have some protein, a veggie, and some fruit.

[wanderlost]

cold cut sandwiches, mac and cheese, nuggets or other frozen crap (not to imply anything if you feed your kids this stuff, I feed it to mine and still think it's crap) or, left overs from whatever we had for dinner (this is usually the more healthy choice) I always add in a fruit and veggie like carrot sticks

[oyemicanto]

Originally Posted by treemom2

My children really like a snack plate for "lunch". I usually just throw whatever we have in the fridge/pantry on a plate around 10am and leave it out until it is all gone. It might consist of: cheese, raisins, sunflower seeds, carrot sticks with dip, nuts, apple slices, berries, 1/2 pb&j, etc. . . I do try to make it have some protein, a veggie, and some fruit.

yeah, that sounds like our lunch - carrots & cukes with dip, some soy nuggies, olives, hummus....

My 5 year old is much easier to feed - she loves mac & cheese, soups (especially lentil) and grilled cheese sandwiches. I've hit a brick wall with my 3 y.o., I never know what he will eat or if he'll eat anything at all....

[annethcz]

Here's a list of our 'usual' lunches main dishes. As sides, I usually serve apple slices, carrot sticks, salad, etc.

PB&J
Mac & cheese with broccoli
tacos
(boca) nuggets
pizza
melt sandwiches
enchiladas
spaghetti
scrambled eggs
leftovers

[OakBerry]

Pb&j on wheat
plain pasta (sometimes I get the ramen noodles and just throw the Msg loaded packets away) with butter.
Raw veggies (carrots, peppers, cucumber, tomato)
Salami or Ham sandwich
Soup
His favorite is a snack plate too. I put a piece of rolled up lunch meat, a mozzarella cheese stick, some cut up veggies and some slices of apple or some grapes, a slice of bread and butter. He will eat red or pink beans if I put them in some vinagrette dressing with cut up veggies.

[sparkeze]

bagel sandwich (w/egg & cheese)...EVERYDAY. If we don't have bagels, he'll take it on regular bread. If we have no regular bread either, he'll take an egg on rice. And we pretty much always have eggs and rice. He's starting to open up to a little more variety for breakfast and dinner but for some reason when it's lunchtime he always asks for a bagel sandwich.

[cebmom97]

Some of our usuals are bagel & Cream cheese, soups, mac and cheese, sandwichs, eggs, spaghetti, veggies and dips, ramen noodles, waffles. I have one picky kid so sometimes I end up making two differerent things.