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!
Answer
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
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.
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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