Lunch Ideas

[surffishjimmy]

We are taking our pop-up to the Fort for the first time (we leave in 11 days yahoo!). We've evaluated the dining plan and decided its not right for us. We plan to make breakfast at the campsite most mornings, bring lunch with us to the parks and eat out each night for dinner.

I'm looking for ideas on what to bring for lunch - trying to be somewhat healthy (to save up those calories for a good dinner) without too much fuss since we have limited space and equipment in the pop-up.

Of course we could just do cold cut/lunch meat sandwiches, but was looking for some interesting alternatives. Ideas?

 

[scboyd]

We do this all the time... we take a travel lunch with us most weekends when go cross country skiing. Apples, oranges, dried apricots, peanuts, and most root veggies make great lunch items. Along with a block of cheese pre-cut into small cubes. We try to take items that can take a beating at the bottom of a bag and still be appetizing. Really just use your imagination and you can come up with great lunch items. We always include some type of treat ie) chocolate bar and split it amongst ourselves as a sweet treat to finish off the meal.

hope this gives you some ideas... and hope you have a wonderful trip.

scboyd

 

[bama_ed]

We follow a similar basic "dining plan" as us - breakfast in the pop-up, take a lunch to the parks, and eat out if we are at the parks or eat in if we are back at the pop-up. Splurge once on the trip at HDDR or TE.

For lunches I like to use torillas to wrap up lettuce/lunchmeat/cheese with your favorite condiment which eliminates "smooshed" bread. Also pita pockets can hold a sandwich and not smoosh it.

We normally rent a locker in the parks to store lunch so we can't do much in the way of drinks. But I do use a blue frozen gel-thingy (technical term) to keep things cold and include a bag of chips of some kind, sliced fruit sold bagged or cinnamon applesauce, oreo cookies, etc. For my crew with three growing teenagers it's more a question of volume.

We are also "Goober" fans (premixed peanut butter and jelly in one squeeze container) although there is currently a war between the grape and strawberry jam fans in our family.

I'd also suggest a snack/dessert treat from the parks after lunch like an ice cream or something. You saved yourself that much money already so splurge a little.

Most of the CS meals in the parks are slop anyway (IMO) so I'm with you and save some $$$$$ .

Bama ED

 

[Born 2 Fish]

If you need any recipe ideas, there are 4 pages of recipes here,

http://www.rvusa.org/dev/forum/viewforum.php?f=42

 

[tlh0726]

Our family are a bunch of snackers not eaters when on vacation.

We use plastic pencil boxes to keep the snacks from getting squished. DH and I share one and each of the kids have their own. Works great. I prepackage the snacks in snack size baggies and all I need to do each night/morning is reload the boxes. Actually going to do the dividing out during our drive on the way down to help pass the time.

This year I am going to take a small insulated lunch bag to hold some string cheese, rolled bologna slices, etc.

When doing sandwiches, I put the meat and cheese on the bread/roll. The lettuce, tomatoe, onion, mayo, etc I put into a snack size baggie and then just dump it onto the sandwich when we are ready to eat. Keeps everything from getting soggy.

We do the individual drink mixes to put in water that we get from the CS locations.

As for examples - really can't give you healthy ones. Since it is everyone's vacation, I let the kids pick what kind of snacks they want (everything they never get at home) and then I try to throw in something to offset all of the junk.

Adding - Dh loves that the kids cannot stand the taste of peanuts/peanut butter. He only has to share his trail mix with me. The kids will not even eat the chocolate out of it, they can taste/smell the peanuts.

 

[MomofSixinSC]

This year I am going to take a small insulated lunch bag to hold some string cheese, rolled bologna slices, etc.

Most diapers bags these days are insulated. The hospitals arund here give away free ones to the new moms when they leave the hospital. Many moms have already bought an expensive one they prefer. You can pick up a cheap insulated bag at the thrft store very cheaply.

 

[sshudson99]

I had actually thought about cooking some pizza rolls in the toaster oven before we leave out in the morning because my kids like them hot or cold, but I think I am going to just do some snackable items, like cheese slices, crackers, chips, grapes, cookies, etc.