Major Frustration: I need new ideas for my kid's school lunches... please help!

[Rowena]

I use lots of those little Gladware things as DD doesn't do sandwiches.

The closest she gets to a sandwich is a breadless one of ham, cheese and lettuce, or chicken meat, cheese, lettuce with a tortilla on the side.

Her favorite thing this year is a mexican food bowl.

1 can of whole pinto beans, 1/2 drained
pinch of salt
1/2 TBSP olive oil
pinch of garlic powder

cook everything together until beans soften up a little, then mash it all up with a potato masher, and stir. (Much yummier than canned refried beans)


I usally top it with shredded cheese, lettuce or cilantro, tomatoes, black olives and sour cream. DD just want a spoon to eat this. My DS also likes this, but with tortilla chips on the side to dip into.

For those with kids who will eat sanwiches...even if you slip some sliced strawberries into that sandwich with strawberry jam is yummy. Cream cheese and jelly w/fruit is a yummy alternative to peanut butter.

Great thread, btw.

 

[snowball22]

What I do with apples is use the Pampered chef apple corer. I take an apple, pull the corer about 7/8th of the way down the apple so there are slices, but they have not separted all the way from the core. Then I push the slices back towards the core and the juice in the apple keeps the slices stuck to the core until the kids are ready to eat so there is no browning. Then the kids can just break off the slices as they eat. I usually enclose a caramel dip pack with the apple.