Cold Lunch ideas please!?

ferriswhee

I'm a high school student and i am determined to bring cold lunch this year. Our school lunch is terrible and overpriced. But, I don't want to end up taking the same old sandwich every single day, so if you have any non-sandwich lunch ideas, i need all the help i can get!

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Gogurts: MYO
Hard Boiled Eggs
Juice Bags
Muffins: Any kind (make'm, wrap'em in saran wrap & freeze'm, they reheat in the micro in 15-20 seconds) or thaw in a lunch bag by lunchtime
Fruit & Yogurt Parfait- layer yogurt, then slices of fruit or berries, more yogurt in a 1 c. container. Cover. These freeze great and with slowly thaw by lunchtime.
Fruit Dips
Grilled Veggies
Pasta Salads- add cubed cheese or ham for variety
Make Freezer Packs or Freeze kids Juice Boxes to keep items cold until lunch.
Salads with lunch meat cut into slices, cheese
Cottage Cheese with Fruit Slices or Berries
Cereal Bars

Hope i helped! ;D

More durable/ rugged Ziplock freezer bag alternatives?

VeganPothe

Hello, basically my freezer is dedicated to storing frozen vegetables and i find that the freezer bags i use dont last veryh long at all. Infact im pretty sure they are designed to fail. Actually of course theyre designed to fail, silly me! They break in the same spot every time rendering them utterly useless, thats if they dont flat out get a hole poked in them. I Do not want to keep buying plastic over and over and over, theyhre not cheap either. WHy cant i buy a freaking heavy duty military freezer bag? hmmm military freezer bag, i think im onto somthing. Or maybe i should check with NASA see if they got somthing that can handle the harsh rigors of my freezer and my abusive frozen vegetebles. THank you. I posted in this section because i know yall are a thrify bunch. Buyng ziplocks aint thrify lol

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To the person above me-- I'm only 35 and some of my Tupperware containers my mom had when I was a kid and she passed them on to me. We have a couple of the old Sandwich Keepers that my sister and I used in our school lunches in grade school. I even have a couple of the cereal containers that my mom had too. Since I was the last to move out, my parents didn't need six of them so she passed them on to me.

Ziplock bags are a waste of money. I find the Ziplock commercials saying that people waste money on food and then say they should buy the expensive, one-time use, non-recycleable, disposable bags. Another commercial for lemmings.

We use Tupperware, and ohter good quality plastic storage containers and glass containers (such as Pyrex) and even Corning containers. Cheap after the initial investment (though most of our Tupperware containers and others were found in rummage sales and Goodwill or what my mother found at rummage sales), wedding gifts, etc.

We do have plastic storage bags, but they were bought years ago and we even have the large bags that I rescued from a trash pile. (We live near a university town and I like to go "treasure hunting" when the students move out. While the Ziplock bags are essentially trash, I thought we'd get some use out of them.) Generally, when we do use one, we try and REUSE it when we can before throwing it away. We use one of the large storage bags for our coffee bags-- It's big enough for two. (My MIL uses them in lieu of storage containers and she probably put it over a foam plate of her cookies and candy that she makes at Christmas. Utterly wasteful, but they use foam plates for daily use as well. Then they complain they don't have much money....) Anyway, when we started to buy the "fancy" coffee, I found the bag and thought it would work.

Anyway, it sounds as though it would be good for you to go to WalMart or Target, etc. and buy a box of different size Rubbermaid containers and also look on the Tupperware site as well.

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What will you do in my situation? Please help me!?

Q. Hi. Iâm a 30 y/o Libra gay man. Iâm the only child of a single mother (my father died when I was like 2 y/o and she never remarried). I live with her (FYI, I live in a Latin American country; people usually live with their parents until they marry), but Iâm planning to moving in with my ex-boyfriend/best friend. Hereâs my problem:

Two years ago I came out to her. She, understandably, didnât take it very well, and she told me to move out. Problem was that my BF didnât want to move out, and I didnât have the money to live by myself. Besides, my maternal grandmother was very sick then⦠so I stayed to help my mother assist her (BTW: my mother is also the only child of a single mother).

My grandmother died one year ago, and her passing, affected my mother profoundly. I being gay didnât help, of course. Not having anyone to care for (mother or grandchildren) make her lost her purpose in life. She is 62, and had to retire from work to take care of her grandmother. So coming back to the workforce is not an option.

Since then, mentally and physically she has being spiraling down. She has chronic depression, diabetes, and hypertension; sheâs also overweight, balding, and has a disabling hernia in her spine that canât be operated that forces her to use a cane and being most of the time sit down. By mere look you canât tell sheâs in her early 60s; look more like if in her late 70s.

Meanwhile, back with my ex-BF/best friend, seven months ago we rented an apartment near our workplace. He moved in first, and I was supposed to move there two months later. The problem was that I was counting on a trip I make my mother took to Canada so she can feel better about herself, more independent and healthy⦠and it turned out all the other way around: it went horribly, she came back more sicker, more depressed and feeling even more helpless. So, I didnât move out. I moved like half my belongings, but I didnât move in with him.

We work in the same place, so we spend most of the day together, and we even go to our apartment to have lunch. We took vacations together; and go out to have dinner, the movies, sit to watch TV, do the groceries, etc.

Only thing I donât do is spending the night in the apartment. Itâs located like 3 miles away from my motherâs home so, each day, I go to sleep at her house, so I can spend a few hours with her. Sometimes I took her to dinner, sometimes to the movies. But basically thatâs all the time I spend with her; that, and a few weekends. The rest of the time I either go out with my friends, study, work, or spend time with my ex-BF/best friend.

Part of my problem is that I want to live with him. He kinda understands my situation, but nevertheless is resentful that I didnât move in, and I also feel kinda guilty for not being there with him. The other part of my problem is that my mother has been adamant in her position that, if I move in with him, she will cut me off her life. And all my life I saw her cut dear and close people âeven family- like that, and I know that when she says it is for real.

She is not forcing me to stay with her. On a number of occasions, she has said to me that if I want to move out and be happy, thatâs fine. But she wonât be on my life anymore. I know she sounds though, but deep down I know that sheâs hell scared that I move out. She even told me once, when she was very sick in the hospital, that she live in a constant state of fear that I would move out.

I know that I can move out. Cutting off is her decision, not mine. But I know that I would feel terrible guilty of leaving a sick and depressed person alone. I feel like if Iâm pulling the plug on a comatose person, or pushing over the edge a suicidal, especially since there isnât anyone else to take care of her; we have always been just the two of us.

I havenât told her about the apartment, but Iâm sure she âat least- suspects something. For months she has saw me leave with a sport bag full of stuff every morning, and sheâs no idiot. I was planning to spend a few nights there, and others in her house, but I have tentatively bring in the subject and, by this point, know she wonât compromise. With her is either stay or leave. And my ex-BF/best friend is also like that.

So, running out of options, by now I feel trapped and depressed. I look miserably, and she knows that I want to get out of her. She has told me to leave several times, from a nicely âgo and be happyâ to the hurting âyou disgust me every time you go out with HIM; get out of my house! I know this is just a dorm for you!â, but always with the same colophon: âleave me here, Iâm not your problem; Iâll be fine alone. If I die, I dieâ. I just donât know what to think anymore.

Iâve also tried to get her to see someone âanyone- about her depression: her physician, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a priest, a support group⦠but her answer is always the same âthe cause of my depression is that youâre gay. And since no one is going to change th

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Your mother needs to grow up sunshine, tell her this. Explain that we're in 2009 now and that she is acting as if it is in the 1800s. Tell her to find her own way and stop living by other peoples.

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Brown bag lunch for 17 month old boy?

jodes

I send my son to daycare full time and I need new lunch ideas....He has been loving mac & cheese and chicken fingers, fruit cups and applesauce, cheese and crackers...Im looking for new ideas. I tried quesadillas and he didnt like them at first try- I'll probably try again with that one....but I need a few new ideas, stuff I can just throw together for him every morning...any ideas? He's a big eater :)
I send him to daycare but they charge $2 per day additional to provide food...so it's cheaper for me to send him with a lunch :)

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Yogurt, Fruit, Veggies, Crackers, Dip (for veggies/crackers), Cheese (different kinds), Sandwich's (Ham & Cheese, Turkey, Chicken, Different Kinds/Colors of Bread, etc.), Wraps, Pasta Salad, Pasta, and Soup to name a few. Use different kinds/colors of bread in your sandwich's to keep it interesting. You can even cut them in special shapes to change it up. Make a wrap sandwich, put toothpicks through every so often, cut and make little pinwheels out of it.

Parents website has great recipes and they even send you an email weekly with new lunch ideas. I love it, keeps things interesting and I have gotten some fabulous ideas: http://www.parents.com/kids/nutrition/lunch/healthy-school-lunches-snacks/ . Sign up or just browse their Food & Recipe section.

If you really want to get crazy you can use cookie cutter shapes to either keep the old interesting or the new more exciting. Things like different kinds of cheese, veggies and fruit look real neat in different shapes. They do it a lot with the Bento Boxes. You can check out some of the crazy things this lady does: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30578157@N07/

*EDIT* I forgot to add this recipe. Absolutely love it and it goes great with crackers (especially ritz crackers). You can use it with veggies as well. Such a yummy dip and it keeps well in lunches. It's one of my kids favorites.
http://www.knorr.ca/en/RecipesView.aspx?ENCcmlkPTMyNTQ=

8 year old boy lunch?

ayy bay ba

I have to make my brothers lunch for tomorrow (yeah, long story..) and anyway, he is eight years old. I asked him what he wanted but he just said "surprise me." What do you think is something he would like? Oh yeah, and also he's not eating it at home, its for his lunch box to bring to school.
Thanks â¥â¥

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Apple

peanut butter and jelly OR meat sandwhich (turkey/ham/balony)

a little snack like i cookie or chocolate bar or summy bears.

a bag of chips. DEFIANTLY!!

juice box.

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Creative ways to recycle paper lunch bags?

Shamrock

I have a bunch and I want to turn them into something new!

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Barf bags for airlines. Hot air balloon experiments for the kids.

Air Bags didn't deploy in 4 flip car accident?

Dillon

'm 16, this morning me, and my 2 friends checked out of school to go eat lunch like most kids do, both of them my age as well, I was going down a road I was unfamiliar with, lost control around a curve, the car, a 2003 ford explorer sport-2 door (not sport trac). The car hit a road sign head on, then being top heavy, flipped 4 times, the seat belts didn't lock for me and the other front seat passenger, my friend in the back didn't have his seat belt on due to state laws, and stupidity, he was ejected, for the record, we are all okay except for a few stitches, we are very lucky but I was concerned because the airbags didn't deploy and the seat belts didn't lock.
okay, get the damn computer, tell me, and ford, the trooper himself didn't even give me a citation for the accident because he was in disbelief, I said the one in the back wasn't wearing a seat belt, up front we was, I am concerned that my vehicle didn't deploy the air bags in an accident that could have and should have been severe, if your so sick to think I am making it up then you have problems.

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The air bags are not supposed to deploy in a roll over collision.

Air bags are NOT nice soft comfy pillows.

They are rough membranes filled with hot gas that deploy at you at hundreds of miles an hour.

The air bags are triggered to deploy by sudden deceleration. Picture: car traveling 35 mph hits brick wall head on.

Since your car flipped 4 times - you did not have the sudden stop. The energy from the collision was disbursed as the car flipped. Air bags do not usually deploy in a roll over.

The brains of the air bag system are under the drivers seat. The Air Bag Control Module recorded the event and determined that it was not appropriate for the air bags to deploy.

Since the only injuries you and your friends have are " a few stitches" then the system did exactly what it should. Most likely the stitches were required because of flying glass and the air bags don't help you with that. Your friend who was ejected was incredibly lucky. It's possible for an ejected passenger to get rolled over by the car, hit objects (suck as trees) and be killed or even be decapitated as they are ejected.

An unbelted passenger who is not ejected can easily break their neck (hang mans fracture) on the roof of the car or even cause injury to the restrained passengers as his body is thrown around the car in the roll over. In a roll over, anything that is not belted down can become a missile and cause injury to the restrained passengers.

As far as the seat belts go - when they lock the don't lock you in the seat. There is still a little bit of play in the belt. When the car goes upside down, your bottom may come out of the seat a few inches. However, you won't slam into the roof of the car and break your neck. You won't get ejected.

A car flipping 4 times is a severe accident. There is no "could have" about it. However, the safety systems in the car performed exactly as they should have and some cuts and bruises are the only injuries.


You lost control of the car in the curve because you took the curve too fast. The posted speed limit is set so that you can travel that curve for the first time and navigate it safely. If you were keeping attention on the roadway and traveling at or below the posted speed limit - this accident should not have happened.

If the trooper did not give you a ticket - then you caught another lucky break. This accident is your fault. Period.

The best thing you can do at this point is to cooperate with your insurance company in the investigation/defense of the accident and to learn from the experience. Never start the car until all passengers in the car have buckled up. Make sure to drive with in the speed limit. And don't try to do other things while driving- that includes no texting, talking on the phone, messing around with your passengers etc. And of course, never drink and drive.

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