Lunch Ideas that won't spoil for field trip?

[Spinning]

We are in a peanut free classroom. SInce we are going by bus we can't have any peanut products. So what do I send and how to I keep it from spoiling?
The class is leaving at 6:30 AM not eating till noon. Food will be kept under the bus for about an hour drive. Then put into a building which I would assume will be AC.
I will freeze a juice box but will that be enough to keep a ham and cheese cold?

 

[Kimberle]

Cereal Bars
Crackers & string cheese
apple/grapes/berries, fruit that can be eaten w/ hands
pop tarts
jelly sandwich (or apple butter, etc)
trail mix
carrots/celery sticks
cherry tomatoes
applesauce cup
wheat thins/graham crackers, or similar

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Just not the chocolate milk (real chocolate milk--Lucerne brand) that someone brought on my son's kindergarten field trip today. they were supposed to bring things that didn't need to be kept cool and could be thrown away and one girl brought the choco milk, a big bag of chips (my DH said a BIG bag) and other stuff that there's no way she could come close to finishing. Your post reminded me of the choco milk, though.

 

[CEDmom]

I'd nix the ham but cheese alone would be fine. You could do a trail mix with cereal, dried fruit, pretzels etc. How about those packaged crackers and cheese - not the healthiest but it'll be filling.

 

[Stacerita]

Personally, I would send whatever I would normally send any other day of the week. When I young (not that long ago) having cool packs or ice packs in our lunches was just not done. Heck, mom didn't even put your sandwich in tin foil to keep it from squishing, just a baggie. I dont recall my mother worrying about something spoiling in my lunch. Most days I dont send an ice pack in the sweetpea's lunch either. Only if she has ranch dip for her carrots or yougurt. I would skip anything like mayo though. But most anything else should be ok. Nothing ever spoiled in my lunches when I was young, and I haven't had anything spoil in the sweetpea's either.

 

[snowwite]

Bagel w/cr cheese
Fruit
Cheese and crackers
Cold Pizza
Cheese and tomato sandwich
Tuna salad lunch pack if child is old enough to open pull tab and put tuna on crackers
I think a frozen juice box or water bottle should keep it all cold enough
DD takes mini hummus,mini cukes,mini tomatoes and baby carrots and pita pockets

 

[Christine]

My son just went on a field trip on Thursday and it was 92 degrees. He also has a peanut allergy so we can never pack PB&J (although the field trips are not peanut free).

Anyway, we do things like Special K cereal bars, I get breadstick twists from Target, I freeze a juice pack, send in applesauce, etc. My son doesn't seem to mind.

I also agree with what another poster stated, I took my lunch for YEARS before the invention of ice packs . Tuna made with mayo, bologna, ham, you name it. Never got sick. Plus the mayo and dressings these days are made with so many preservatives that it takes them a LONG time to spoil, even when sitting out. It is the homemade mayo, dressings, and milk you have to watch out for.

 

[arminnie]

Are you aware that butter does not spoil?

Ask me how I know. I had a pound of butter in my freezer in New Orleans during Katrina - no electricity for weeks. The butter did not spoil.

I did not have to get a new frig.

 

[Pop Daddy]

Sour Creme

 

[mommytotwo]

Bagel dogs and hot dogs, carrot sticks, and a bag of chips. Freeze a capri sun and by the time it is time to eat, it will be nice and cold.

 

[Spinning]

Thanks for the replies.
I do worry about the peanut problem. And field trips kind of freak me out with lunches anyway as the spoil issue. As kids mom packed only P&J.....
Our school isn't P&J free. Just the class room so you can pack it for everyday lunch. They have a seperate table and make kids wash before coming into the class room.

 

[RadioFanatic]

Personally, I would send whatever I would normally send any other day of the week. When I young (not that long ago) having cool packs or ice packs in our lunches was just not done. Heck, mom didn't even put your sandwich in tin foil to keep it from squishing, just a baggie. I dont recall my mother worrying about something spoiling in my lunch. Most days I dont send an ice pack in the sweetpea's lunch either. Only if she has ranch dip for her carrots or yougurt. I would skip anything like mayo though. But most anything else should be ok. Nothing ever spoiled in my lunches when I was young, and I haven't had anything spoil in the sweetpea's either.

it's funny you say this b/c dh and I were just talking this week about how lucky I am to be alive as mom would pack tuna with mayo which I actually loved and never got sick from, in spite of the fact that our schools had no AC and I didn't have a cooler or anything. I have to say that's really tough though to make such a requirement for lunch - too bad not a place to buy lunch from.