Any ideas for packed lunch?

Question

i will be starting school soon and im not a very good lunch maker i need to include more variety.

The person who says something brilliant will be the best!

Answer 1

Getting started



Start your packed lunch off with some starchy carbohydrate to give you long-lasting energy. For a change from ordinary bread you could try:

pittas

bagels

baguettes

ciabatta

bread rolls

wraps

Make some of them wholemeal or multigrain, or use a mixture of wholegrain and white.

And then



Add some protein, such as lean meat, fish or cheese and a few vegetables and fruit.

Here are a few filling ideas to try, or you could make up your own combinations:

Cheddar cheese with apple slices

Cooked chicken or turkey, mustard, tomatoes, and lettuce

Cottage cheese and dried apricots

Tuna, cucumber, green pepper, sweetcorn and tomato

Mozzarella with grilled peppers

Brie and cranberry sauce or jam



You could also raid the fridge for leftovers ' some foods taste just as good cold ' such as pizza or pasta. Cook extra pasta, couscous or rice. Mix it with cut-up vegetables, a few nuts or tuna, then just add your favourite dressing.

Take a tempting dip, such as houmous, cottage cheese or plain yoghurt with some red or green pesto stirred in for extra interest; or you could chop an apple into a mashed can of tuna. Have some sticks of celery, carrots or pepper, or some cauliflower and broccoli with the dips.



Add some fruit to help fill you up (and help you reach your 5-a-day). Try to have a different type every day - you don't always need to pick an orange and an apple, why not try kiwi, mango, grapes, pear, chunks of melon, or small packets of dried fruit?

And to drink



The best drink is water or milk, but you could try diluted pure fruit juice, yoghurt drinks or smoothies if you prefer, or to make a change.

And don't forget to keep your packed lunch cool. Use a frozen carton of juice or icepacks to keep it cool, or find somewhere cool at school to keep your lunchbox.

lunch on a stick

Ingredients

For the turkey and cheese kebab:

cooked turkey, chopped

sliced cheese

cucumber, chopped

cherry tomatoes

For the fruit kebab:

strawberries, halved

peach or nectarine, chopped

kiwi, chopped

apple, chopped

dried apricot, chopped

Method

1. Thread your chosen foods onto a skewer until full, leaving just enough room at each end to hold it.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Toasted ham sandwhich, an apple or other fruit, crisps and something sweet for dessert, like a chocolate bar. Pretty easy and fast to make.

Answer 4

1.Sandwiches

2.Wraps

3.Subs

4.Pastas

Answer 5

Nothing brilliant, but I liked to make fruit salad and pasta salad and put it in little plastic containers along with a sandwich for my kids.  They liked just about anything I made.  

They had lunch bags with those frozen packs to keep everything cool til lunch.  Then when the weather  got cold, I would make homemade soup and put in a soup thermos with packages of peanut butter and cheese crackers, saltines or maybe some leftover spaghetti.   Those wide mouth thermoses we used were really good.

At times I put hot chocolate in a regular thermos.

Now my grand daughters like turkey sandwiches with  a piece of fruit and a bag of chips.  They buy their drink at school.  They make their lunches and put them in the fridge the night before and don't have to make them in the morning.  One day when one of them was sick, I ate their lunch to see if it was good, I was convinced it must me awful made the night before.  It was delicious,  I was so happy, I thought my daughter was mean to them to have to eat a sandwich made the night before.

I always liked lunch, it was my favorite period at school.I still eat tuna sandwiches with tomato soup when I'm lonely.  Which is alot lately, why don't you kids call your grandma?   Love you, Grandma