Ideas for a Good-for-You Lunch?

ALJ

I need ideas for lunches. I bring my lunch to work everyday. It must be healthy and not too complicated. I usually do salads but I want something warm (or at least room temp) now that it is getting cold outside. I have done those Campbells "Soup-at-Hand" and they are good but the sodium in them is insane! Please help - I hate trying to think of lunches!

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You can heat and use your own soups if you buy a simple, single-serving thermos. My kids take home lunch (dietary concerns & allergies), some of their favorite healthy thermos lunches for this time of year are:

- chicken noodle soup (take the soup in the thermos and add the noodles from a ziplock bag - the soup will still be hot enough to warm the noodles in a few minutes)
- chili - bag your own sides like baked tortilla chips, cheese or nonfat sour cream and make sure you put lots of veggies in the chili
- veggie pho (a vietnamese broth based soup that you add in fresh, raw flavors before eating like lime juice, cilantro & bean sprouts).

Other options they like are kolache type sandwiches which stay hot in foil (bread dough wrapped around sausages for example) for quite a few hours. A good recipe is here: http://www.recipezaar.com/Ham-And-Cheese-Kolache-39168.

For me, during the fall, I generally take a baked potato once a week. Wrapped in foil and fresh out of the oven (I roast overnight and use the rest for twice-baked potatoes at supper time), I put it in an old "drink cozy" and then in a ziplock & paper carrier. Generally the potato is still hot enough to melt my toppings when I cut it open at lunch.

Hope this helps.

what are the best healthy cookbooks specifically for lunch?

wendy!

i am looking for the best cookbooks for a healthy lunch.
no online recipes please.

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I swear by the Brown Bag Lunch Cookbook by Miriam Jacobs. The recipes are adult friendly, and actually quite good. There are creative ideas in here which have inspired me to think of other lunch ideas.

For the kids, I go with The Top 100 Recipes for a Healthy Lunchbox: Easy and Exciting Ideas for Your Child's Lunches by Nicola Graimes. The recipes in this book are interesting and innovative, and most of the recipes are sure to be kid-pleasers.

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Does anyone have any good recipes that are easy for kids to make?

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crailovesm

You see my kid is at home without me while im at work and she wants something other then a lunch-able so I need some recipes for foods that a kid can make and like. Thank you all :]]
She is 12 years old and is excellent at cooking and can use the stove

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Pasta is easy for kids as long as they don't use more water than they can easily carry to the sink to pour into the colander to drain.

jarred sauces are easy to pour what you need and store the rest for the next day. ragu makes a cheddar sauce, many brands make alfredo, and marinara. even dressings can be used, like ranch or Italian or cesar, for a pasta salad effect. get a couple of different pasta shapes and she can have spiral pasta with marinara, or wagon wheel pasta and cheddar, ziti pasta with italian dressing etc.

and of course chopped fresh veggies can be added. or she could add chopped meat. the little bags of budig brand meat are good for single serve purposes like that, or any lunchmeat could be used. and bacon comes precooked now. add salami or pepperoni to the marinara pasta or ham to the mac and cheese, chicken in the alfredo pasta, or perhaps a slice of precooked bacon crumbled into ranch pasta. whatever she can imagine.

kids can easily cut lunchmeats with a table knife, so no need to worry about her using a sharp knife when your away.

What foods and drinks should I serve at my 13 yr old son's birthday party?What type of decorations to put up?

Rite

The activity will be baseball in our backyard and they will be eating in the veranda. There will be about 15 kids in the party.

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Make a "Concessions" sign for over the food area.

Get a good cream cheese ball recipe http://www.grouprecipes.com/cream-cheese-ball and make the "stitching" on the ball using red pimentos (find a recipe that's flavorful as cream cheese tends to be bland).

Hot dogs and burgers are the foods of choice...can wrap in foil for effect.

Take ordinary brown lunch bags, roll down the edges and serve peanuts in them (or if you're avoiding nuts because of potential allergies...fill them with chips. (You're going for the "Ballpark" look here..lol)

Popcorn in those cardboard containers.
Boxes of Cracker Jax
Nachos and cheese
Cotton candy
Probably cans of soda for the party as well as bottles of water

Serve cake and ice cream in those little plastic baseball helmets

Hang a "GATE (son's initial)" sign up over the entrance....did you give them admission tickets to enter the party in their invitation?

Use a green tablecloth and angle it to look like a baseball diamond and put bases on it.
Hang up team pennants, foam hand #1 with his pic on the hand or finger pointing to it around the area with posters of great players.

Have all the kids sign a real baseball for him to keep as a birthday souvenir!

Table centerpiece : black and white helium balloons held down by a CLEAN pair of cleats ;)-...will be hovering over the "pitcher's mound" on the table

Have grown-ups dress as Umps for the party


for kicks.....run the old comedy clip by Abbot and Costello: "WHO'S ON FIRST" (it's on DVD)...look on youtube...it's a classic!

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What are some tasty but healthy recipes i can make?

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Titanic

My dad is concerned about his health so he asked me to find some healthy recipes. Do you know any that taste great but are healthy?

Thanks.
P.S I already know fruits and veggies and water are good for you. But what else?

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The main thing is to eat balanced meals.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal is GREAT for getting rid of cholesterol.
100% Orange juice (no sugar added-red the container), or grape juice (no sugar added).
One piece of toast.

Lunch:
Healthy sandwiches.
Hot stews or soups in wide mouth thermoses for at work (don't forget the spoon).
Cold chicken salads in wide mouth thermoses for work/school (don't forget the fork and crackers).
Fruit for dessert.

Dinner:
A balanced plate such as:
One meat/or fish/or chicken/or turkey (no to sausages).
One vegetable.
One starch which can be rice, or potatoes, or beans, or corn.
Fruit for dessert.
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1. At your grocery store, buy the sealed PRE-COOKED meats that come is small packages such as the following. You can make two or three meals out of them:

Beef tips with gravy,
Roast with gravy,
Pork roast,
Chicken,
Baked ham,
Pork chops,
Meatloaf,
etc.

Just heat in your microwave; directions are on the packages. You will find these packages in the cold section (not the freezer). Ask a clerk to help you find these. They are delicious.

Use these for your meat dish with a side dish or two of canned or frozen vegetables, beans, potatoes or sweet potatoes which can all be found on shelves or in the freezer section and they are already cooked.
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You can now buy bags of different flavors of precooked rice that you put into your microwave for a minute or two. These are on shelves at the grocery store. We like the chicken flavored best of all. Have a clerk help you find them.
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Real mashed potatoes that come in a bag...add water, butter, milk. Delicious. Read the directions.
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Buy top brand cans of stew for each person. Serve with cornbread, crackers, or toast.
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Soup and a grilled (fried) cheese sandwiches. Go to this video to see how to make a quick grilled cheese sandwich:
http://startcooking.com/video/326/Grilled-Cheese-Sandwich
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Omelet with Cheese - Video:
http://startcooking.com/video/326/Grilled-Cheese-Sandwich
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You can buy all types of salad greens in large packages now. Buy the ones that have been pre-washed. Add your own dressing which you can buy in bottles.
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2. The top brands of microwave frozen dinners are very good now. These come in single servings or in family sized bags. Follow directions. Look for the words "No Preservatives" marked on the box or package.
Just add a canned or frozen vegetable as a side dish.

Top brands of dinners that are found on shelves. No fridge needed. Add water, microwave. These are good to take to school or work. Follow directions on the containers.
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3. Video On How To Cook A Rib Eye Steak on Stove Burner (turn on your sound), click this link:
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-rib-eye-steak
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4. Supermarket deli's have pre roasted chickens, fried chickens, roast beef, and side dishes. You can stop in on the way home and grab a quick dinner to take home. I buy their roasted chicken often...they are delicious.
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5. Buy a crock pot. You put everything into the pot in the morning, set it on low for 8 hours, and your dinner will be ready for you when you come home in the evening! I kid you not. Be sure to read the instruction booklet.
There is a recipe booklet that comes with the crock pot. You can buy crock pots at places such as your grocery store, Walmart, and etc.

Here are 1,160 crock pot recipes:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search?q=crock+pot

DON'T FORGET TO PLUG IT IN! This happens more than you would think. lol

6. Salads. All types:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/saladrecipes/Salad_Recipes_Salads_and_Dressings.htm

What are some good fundraising ideas for a small group of kids?

Lora

We are a church youth group planning on going to Oaxaca, Mexico to work on building a school. Its VERY important to us. We need to raise approx. 1000 per kid. If you have and ideas on fundraising events, or and businesses that may be willing to sponsor us. Please, let me know.

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My son's French club raised $1,066 per student for a trip to Quebec City by selling 6-inch hoagies (subs) for $3.50 each. The sales were phenomenal. Nearly everyone asked was happy to purchase a sandwich. At $3.50, this was something affordable to all. On the day the sandwiches were to be distributed, the students gathered in the school cafeteria to make them assembly-line style, which took only 2-3 hours. This is one of the most successful fundraisers we have ever participated in.


Another popular fundraiser is a cookbook sale. Perhaps the women of your church could help in soliciting and gathering recipes, with an equal amount from total sales being deposited in each child's account. This would also work well for church bake sales, quilt raffles, rummage sales, spaghetti dinners, etc.

The members of a local church are often seen in front of our Walmart selling bags of various flavored Tootsie Rolls for $2 each. They do this each year, to fund trips to South America.

Another successful fundraiser in our area has been the ever-popular candy bar sales through a local candy maker. Ask at your school for the names of the candy salesmen they use. We also have a pizza shop that participates in $5 cheese pizza sales, as well as a convenience store that offers coupons for a sandwich, chips and drink for $5. As with the hoagie sales, these are enormously popular. Check with the pizza shops and convenience stores in your area to see if they offer similar fundraising opportunities.

Last but not least, a local public school teacher found her calling in Uganda, where she eventually settled to set up an orphanage. Through the generous donations of the students who deposited the change from their lunch money into a jar each day, an orphanage, clinic, and school were built and furnished in just over three years. Where there's a will...

It is my hope that you are able to utilize some of these ideas. Good luck to you and your group.

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Where can I get individual sized frito chips?

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No Name

I am making a recipe and I need to buy the individual size and can't find that at my grocery store.Have you seen them anywhere?

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Sam's club and Costco sell 40-50 individual bags at great prices-use others for lunch for the kids or for snacking

What are some good ideas for a lunchbox/bag for a teen girl?

Rose

School starts soon and I need a lunchbox. I don't want a normal lunchbox like younger kids. Some people use those little bags from stores, like Abercrombie and Fitch mini bags. Other people use recyclable bags and brown bags. I don't really want to use any of these. What are some of your ideas for a lunchbox/bag for teen girls?

**Not recipes or lunch ideas**

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I like Vera Bradley ones! They're so pretty, theres numerous designs and styles to choose from, they fit a lot in them, and I always get compliments on mine!
http://www.verabradley.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&keyword=lunch&x=0&y=0

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