One of my children will be attending a fantastic day camp this summer - the director assured me that the children always go home "tired and dirty at the end of each day". Which: PERFECT.
This camp, however, does not feed kids. There is no cafeteria. They require that each camper pack a lunch and two snacks every single day. So, basically, any food that the kids eat has to be prepared and sent from home. For 8 weeks.
Help. Oh, help.
I purchased one of those many-compartmented lunch cooler thing doohickey-mabobbers yesterday, so we have the containment unit handled. I will soon be purchasing some of those cold-brick things to include.
But what to pack? Please (oh please!) share some of your household's lunch-packing standards in the comments. Thank you!
Things my kids will eat:
ReplyDeleteMeat & cheese rolled into tortillas.
PB & honey.
Cold fried chicken.
Strawberries with powdered sugar or brown sugar.
Veggies with ranch dressing.
Fig newtons.
Goldfish crackers.
Kabobs of cheese & smoked sausage cut up.
GS cookies.
Sometimes they will each salty snacks like pretzels & chips.
Hope that helps!
My kids are very tolerant of the same lunch every day, more or less, in all probability because they never know what's going to hit them for dinner. Sammich, sunflower seed butter or butter, and honey or jam, a dairy, either yogurt or a cheese, fruit, and a pumpkin muffin (you know the ones).
ReplyDeleteHowever, these are a few different things they like (remember, we're limited because of the no-peanuts, and the kids don't really like meat for lunch all that often).
Homemade baked samosas.
Leftover homemade pizza -a great favourite-
Leftover salmon smooshed into cream cheese with capers.
Cream cheese and olives (my kids are nuts about olives)
Homemade "muffuletta" (I can write up a "recipe" if you want. Nothing like New Orleans, but close enough for happy kids).
I refuse to do anything with ranch dressing because the smell of the container makes me want to puke! :P
Sometimes I bake cookies (no chocolate) and these are a recipe I just found and that everyone likes: whole wheat cookies
apples and cheese
ReplyDeletepeanut butter and apples
carrot sticks
grapes
watermelon chunks
string cheese
crackers and cheese
turkey and cheese roll up
raisins
rice cakes
goldfish crackers
graham crackers
yogurt
juice
water
GOOD LUCK!
My kids love fruit leathers and Z-Bars (Clif bars for kids) for snacks. For main dishes they like:
ReplyDeletemini-bagels with cream cheese (soy in our case)
peanut butter sandwiches (with jelly for Sabrina), especially if the bread is toasted
tortillas with peanut butter wrapped around a banana
umm, that is mostly it...
Leftover pizza would be a hit if we ever had leftover pizza. I may start making extra next year.
For sides, S will eat any kind of fruit, but M only likes grapes, bananas and melons. M does like dried fruits and nuts, S not so much. We get soy string cheeses, but S doesn't like those as much as she used to. They would both take soy yogurt or soy pudding every day if I let them. They would love it if I would buy chips and junk, but I generally do not, although I do get pretzels quite a bit.