lunches? What do make??

[danagirl82]

I am a habitual meal planner and I always struggle with lunches. It is mostly me a my dd (5) during the day so I get in a rut. Any ideas (quick and easy-maybe fun :) )

[Jennilyn]

I usually make my daughter a deli meat sandwich, a juice pack, yogurt tube or apple sauce & a treat (Bear Paw, Rice Krispie Square, etc.). Nothing special but she never complains :)

[lovely1m]

I am only home with my son on days off, but he loves when I give him crackers, meat, cheese and some fruit. Nice and balanced, easy and he's happy.

[Tracyfish]

If we're home I try to do something different than the usual that I pack in L.J.'s lunch. We've tried and are going to try some of the more fun ones off this site...
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/lunch-ideas/

[lltheo]

Have you tried any of the muffin tin meal ideas?? I think they are soooooo fun and my kids (6 & 5) looooove them! Plus, they make me feel waaaaay less guilty about adding in a little helping of chocolate chips or just random "fun stuff" to our meal plan!!! LOL!

Muffin Tin Monday (http://michellesjournalcorner.blogspot.com/) has some great ideas! Just click on the Muffin Tin Monday tab at the top to skip all the rest of her stuff if you want!

HTH!
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[livelys]

Oooo love that Muffin Tin site, Leigh! ...though my son would kill me for putting yucky veg in his lunch (I have to 'hide' all things veggi).

I also have a set pattern to my lunches for Alex: a bready/ pasta thing, fruit, yogurt, water, treat. Sometimes I deliberately make the bready part quite small so I can add a homemade muffin, or slice of fruit cake, as they can be quite large.

Other non-sandwich, prepare-the-night-before-if-i'm-organised things I sometimes make are:

Alex particularly loves pasta with green pesto and then pretty much whatever I choose to add to it - its good hot or as cold leftovers even.

He'll also eats fritatta (no idea how to spell it!) - which is basically a potato omlette, with a little ham, onion etc thrown in.

Sometimes I do tortillas with cheese, ham, onion, +/- sundried tomato, folded in half and then grilled until melted together and toasted on the outside, then left to cool and sliced into triangles.

After that I totally run out of ideas! I'm definitely watching this thread :)