school lunches ?

[tcufrog]

I use Bento boxes for my kids and just pack different items in each compartment. My prek kid had today a slice of ham cold cut, a stick of string cheese, Greek yogurt, a peeled clementine and a homemade oatmeal raisin cookie. My 3rd grader is allowed to buy his lunch twice a week and he keeps track of the days he wishes to buy in his planner. The other days he makes his lunch or pays me a salary of a quarter to make it for him. He also has a bento box and will put ants on a long in it (celery with soy nut butter in it with raisins on top), homemade tuna salad (he makes it), fruit, apple sauce, yogurt, cold cuts, dipping containers filled with hummus or ranch dressing with veggies to dip in them, cheese and crackers, quesadillas, leftover homemade pizza, etc. Occasionally he'll include a sandwich but he's not a big fan so not too often.

I've found that making lunch goes a lot quicker with the bento boxes than it did when I used to use a hodge podge of containers and ziplocs. It takes me 5-10 minutes to fill up each compartment now that I know what fits in each compartment. My older son uses this one and my younger son uses this one with a smaller container inside for his yogurt or applesauce. Both of them easily fit in my dishwasher so clean up is easy.

 

[bsblady01]

guys thanks for all the tips. I am glad this is also giving other mom's ideas.

 

[Dawnlight]

guys thanks for all the tips. I am glad this is also giving other mom's ideas.

this post is to help other mom's as well. why do you care what I post. I was looking for ideas.

I'm sure some other moms will be able to use some of the suggestions posted.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

I'm sure some other moms will be able to use some of the suggestions posted.

It might help a dad or two as well.

 

[declansdad]

this post is to help other mom's as well. why do you care what I post. I was looking for ideas.

As a teacher I'm sure you have some you could share. Being in the classroom I would think you would have seen many different ideas.

 

[bsblady01]

As a teacher I'm sure you have some you could share. Being in the classroom I would think you would have seen many different ideas.

I don't eat lunch with my students so I don't see what they bring

 

[bsblady01]

I saw an idea today for fruit kabobs, I think I will try something like that since she loves fruit.

 

[carissa1970]

As a teacher I'm sure you have some you could share. Being in the classroom I would think you would have seen many different ideas.

I am a teacher and I have no idea what my students are eating since I am not in the cafeteria with them.

 

[Dawnlight]

I saw an idea today for fruit kabobs, I think I will try something like that since she loves fruit.

How about some Bento lunches?

 

[bsblady01]

How about some Bento lunches?

love this idea

 

[declansdad]

I don't eat lunch with my students so I don't see what they bring

I am a teacher and I have no idea what my students are eating since I am not in the cafeteria with them.

You have no lunch duty where you have to supervise your students?

 

[bsblady01]

You have no lunch duty where you have to supervise your students?

no I have 45 mins to do what I need to do. we have lunch ladies in our school they also do playground duty.

 

[wishesuponastar]

She doesn't see what her students bring so she's asking for ideas what to give her children.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

It might help a dad or two as well.

Dads already have it covered. Give em a slice or two of pizza. It's what they want.

 

[bushdianee]

First grade teacher here. I get my 30 minutes the same time as my kids get their 30 minutes for recess and lunch. I don't take them into lunch as the recess para does and I meet them in the hall after. I never see what they bring for lunch. A few years ago we were allowed to have microwaves in our rooms and I

 

[bsblady01]

Count yourself lucky then. Still surprised that as a teacher of young kids, you have to ask what to send with your kids for lunch.

why does it matter. my five year old is very picky and is in a nut free class. god I asked for an idea what is your problem

 

[bsblady01]

She doesn't see what her students bring so she's asking for ideas what to give her children.

thank you

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

I just packed lunch money for them and they ate what the cafeteria served.

 

[bsblady01]

Just surprised that's all, although you do seem to ask many school related questions and as others have pointed out in the past, it seems strange. You obviously have a different system than we do. I have many teachers in my family as well as friends that teach and at the k-8 levels in most schools, students who bring their own lunch eat in the classroom and are supervised by a teacher. In schools that have cafeterias that are large enough to seat the entire population teachers are still responsible to supervise their students at the tables.

High school is different, students are on their own in the cafeteria with minimal supervision.

I eat lunch in the teachers room or in my classroom. this was also the way it was when I was in elementary school. the school pays the lunch ladies to watch the kids during lunch. all students eat in the lunch room

 

[BearFamily]

Meh - I've had it lots of different ways. On supervisory lunch duty one day a week rotating with other teachers, eat in the teachers' room while hired lunch ladies are on duty, have your own lunch period to eat and then supervise daily during a second lunch period....at the Nursery-12 school I'm at now basically all teachers eat in the lunch room with the kids - K-2 sits at tables with kids and 3 and up sits elsewhere in the room. Nursery eats with teachers in the classroom. No paid lunch ladies.

I guess not everyone in an entire state does everything exactly the same in all of their schools.

Our school lunches are quite good, so I never pack unless my kid is at a camp. Then she pretty much gets what she'd usually have at home for lunch in summer. Sandwich, yogurt, fruit.