I need advice on bringing my own lunch to school. Any ideas?

Question

I'm a high school student and i'm looking for ideas on lunches to eat at school. I don't like the cafeteria food primarily because of its frugality and taste. Any ideas? (No Lunchables please. That's just juvenile.)

Answer 1

lunchables

Answer 2

I take chef salads to work in tupperware.  Sandwhiches, wraps, leftovers.

Answer 3

Make salads with sliced ham or chicken and boiled eggs and dressing  in a seperate container.

Pasta salads.

a bagel with cream cheese

Whole wheat crackers with deli meat, whatever cheese you like and spicy mustard.

Cut up vegetables and hummus

Mix up some trail mix-cereal (I like cracklin oat bran), nuts like almonds or pistachios, pretzels, dried fruit (craisins, dried apples...)anything that sounds good.

Get a small thermos and you can bring leftovers, soup, heat up hot dogs, chicken nuggets, spaghettios...Just heat up the thermos first by filling with boiling water for a minute and empty the water and add your heated food-Or fill with cold water and add items you want to keep COLD.

Tuna salad or pasta with tuna.

wraps-add cream cheese to a tortilla and fill with deli meat and veggies.

sandwiches

fruit salad

Bring some plain yogurt and put granola in a ziplock and some berries in another container and put together a parfait.

Cottage Cheese

Answer 4

I've had packed lunched forever, it usually consists of:

- A sandwich or a pasta salad in a container

- A piece of fruit

- A packet of crisps

- Drink (usually a bottle that i can re-fill)

Answer 5

My kids, age 15 and 12, are bringing things like this:

Ham&Swiss Wrap

Spinach tortilla, spread with thin layer of cream cheese. Add deli ham, shredded or torn slices of Swiss cheese, small bits of tomato if you like or shredded greens, and honey mustard.

Baked chips or Chex mix in a ziploc

A container of Yogurt

Banana or Lemon-Blueberry bread or muffin

Water bottle -- fill 1/3 full of water and freeze overnight. Then either fill in the morning or in the school water fountain before lunch. Add Crystal Lights singles.

OR

Pizza sub.

Sub or other hard roll

Thin layer of mayo mixed with a splash of Italian dressing.

Big salami or pepperoni

Slice of Mozzarella

Slice of tomato.

Fruit salad

Same dessert and drink

OR

Asian salad: greens, mandarin orange, nuts or sunflower seeds, Dressing: orange juice, soy sauce and brown sugar - mix and shake.

String cheese

Yogurt

Baked chips

Cookies

Drink.

If you get thermal containers you can bring soups, pastas, even hot dogs.

Microwave two hot dogs until they are very hot (1 1/2 minutes maybe)  pack in the thermos, bring buns separately and restaurant packs of ketchup, mustard and relish. Serve with chips or Cheetos, brownie, drink.

Answer 6

take sandwiches or left overs... what does it matter what you take for lunch at school take what you like to eat!

Answer 7

You can bring a sandwich with whatever cold cuts you like on it. If your school allows peanut butter you can bring that as an option as well. You can put soup in a thermos.

For snacks you can bring a piece of fruit, crackers and cheese, rice cakes, the little snack packs that are made, jello, pudding, granola bar.

You can find a way to bring just about anything that you would make for lunch at home.

Answer 8

Try making bento box lunches.  You don't have to make just asian selections to fill them.  They are pretty, usually healthy and very tasty.

Here are some links to bento box lunches.

http://www.geocities.com/lennire/BentoPh...

http://thebentogirl.blogspot.com/2008/02...

http://lunchinabox.net/

Answer 9

Sandwiches are the obvious choice for a reason - they transport easily, they're relatively neat to eat with your hands (which means you don't need to worry about silverware) and PBJs in particular don't need refrigeration.  Add some veggie sticks or a piece of fruit and you have a very healthy lunch.

If you don't like sandwiches and are willing to carry around a cooler, then you can bring yogurt, pasta or potato salad, leftover cold chicken - anything you're willing to eat cold that won't get too bruised or mashed by being carted around.

If you're willing to carry around a cooler and have access to a microwave, then you can bring quite a few different things.  I usually pack up the leftovers from the previous night's dinner and bring those.

Answer 10

a sandwich and a piece of fruit (cut or whole) and a packet of goldfish.

a salad in tuperware with fruit and some cookies

some leftovers like pasta in tuperware with some fruit and crackers