Kid friendly sandwich lunches?

Paper Wing

What are some simple lunchbox sandwich lunches I can do for kids besides pb&j, grilled cheese, and ham&cheese that does require a lot of time in the morning? (or I can set up the night before :) )

Thank you!

Answer
Cut some cheese so it resembles a stick of butter and cut slices. Bag them in ziploc and do one in crackers. Then cut slived ham with a biscuit cutter and bag it too. Put the 3 bags in a paper bag and put it in the frig for in the morning. Paper lunch bags can be bought as a bunch in plastic in stores.

Good outdoor kids games?

Chrissy

During the summer we get the kids together in the neighborhood and "teach" them the games we played as kids. You can imagine my surprise when none of them had even heard of RED ROVER! So I need a list of outdoor games, so far I've got:
potato sack races
3 legged races
egg toss
egg race
simon says
Red light, yellow light, green light go.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Answer
http://childparenting.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=childparenting&cdn=parenting&tm=12&gps=79_359_1276_818&f=20&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.gameskidsplay.net/
(Good reference site)


(Use the site below to find out how to play the games listed below)
http://childparenting.about.com/cs/kidsgames/a/gamesindex.htm

Capture the Flag

Chain Hide and Seek

Flashlight Hide and Seek

Four Square

Hop Scotch

Horse

I Spy

Kickball

Kick the Can

Red Light Green Light

Red Rover

Sardines

Shadowing

Sneaky Sprinkler

Swing the Statue


These easy outdoor games are competitive, so they are just right when you have favors and prizes to award. They work at family picnics, birthday parties, and other outdoor group events. The best part is you can set them up at a cost of next to nothing!

1. Balloon Stomp
Supplies Needed: Balloons, string
Let the kids blow up their own balloons and tie one to their ankle with string. At the 'Go' signal, everyone runs around trying to stomp on and bust each others balloons. The last person with an intact balloon wins.

2. Jump Rope Relay
Supplies Needed: two jump ropes
Form two teams and set the boundaries of the race. At the 'Go' signal, the first two players race to the goal and back, jumping rope. The next player goes, and so on, until the winning team is declared.

3. Hot Potato
Supplies Needed: boom box; bean bag or at your outdoor picnic, use a real potato!
Players stand in a circle, and a parent or teen starts the music. Players pass the potato around the circle until the music stops. Whoever is holding the potato when the music stops is out. Play continues until one winner is declared.

4. Hula Hoop Contest
Supplies Needed: Hula hoop for each child
Great for a small group of children. Play music to make it more fun. At the 'Go' signal, players begin 'hula hooping' as long as they can. If the hula hoop drops or players touch it with their hands, they're out!

5. Outdoor Scavenger Hunt
Supplies Needed: printed list of nature items for the hunt; a location where nature items such as rocks, bugs, leaves, etc. can be gathered
Give players or teams the printed list of nature items to find. Some suggestions are rock, leaf, bug, pine cone, twig, something red, yellow, orange, or other color. The first player or team to report back with all of their items wins the prize.

6. Water Balloon Toss
Supplies Needed: balloons filled with water
Divide group into teams of two players and give each team a water balloon. Line the teams up an equal distance apart. Players toss the balloon to their partner; and, then, everyone steps back one step. Keep tossing the water balloon and taking a step back, until one team is left with an intact water balloon.

7. Freeze Dance
Supplies Needed: boom box
Play some wild music and let all the kids dance. When you stop the music, everyone freezes. Any movement, and you're out. Award the prize to the last dancer standing, or to the best dancer.

8. Bingo
Supplies Needed: Bingo set and lots of prizes
Cool down at the picnic table with Bingo. Adults and kids love to play, so you can use it during lulls before or after lunch, or when it just gets too hot to run around.


This site has an abundance (too many to list here)of different games along with "click" references to tell how to play

http://childparenting.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=childparenting&cdn=parenting&tm=9&gps=50_331_1184_810&f=20&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.partygamecentral.com/

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What is your opinon on food allergies as a disability needing accommodations?

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SpicyIcy

Many schools these days are forced to demand or even ban that there be "peanut free" classe rooms or entire schools. I know many people have mixed reviews. What if only one child has a peanut allergy. Do you think that WHOLE school should accommodate by not be allowed to bring peanuts or peanut containing items? Do you think school have a right to search the other child's items just in case someone didn't sneak peanuts inside? Is this a reasonable accommodation?
What about the autistic child who refuses to eat anything BUT peanut butter and child? What about colleges that do not offer gluten free menus. Do you think the kids parents have a voice to sue that school (these things are really happening)

I really don't know what to say bout it myself

Answer
1) I think it is unfair to ban peanuts in a school because what about all the other foods people are allergic to? Are we going to ban all of them too? A girl had an allergic reaction to kiwi served in the cafeteria where I worked last year. They had to call out the paramedics. They didn't ban kiwis from school. If we ban all the foods people are/can be allergic to, then what are we going to eat?

2)Banning these foods does not teach the child to make responsible choices. If we ban peanuts at school, are the parents going to push for bans everywhere the child goes? Are they going to ban peanuts at the job the child will work at one day?

3) I think the schools are setting themselves up for lawsuits saying their school is peanut free. How are they really going to enforce that? Who has the time? With all the new school cirriculum guidelines and state testing, who is going to have time to check bags, lunches, and make sure kids don't have traces of peanuts on their person. Do most schools have money for peanut sniffing dogs?

How can I make my cookie business grow?

GnatClappe

I'm only a kid and I sell great cookies to my classmates at lunch. I'm making a good profit and I get sold out each day. How can I make a larger profit and get more people to know about it?

Answer
I work for a local pizza shop in town, they have ohhh around 42 shops now. They buy local cookies from a small company in bulk bags of 15 per bag. We then saran wrap each cookie and put a sticker on it and put it in a bin on the front counter. We sell the cookies for 99 cents each. They are soft ball sized chunk chocolate chip cookies. I would guess they are buying the cookies for around 50 cents each but in bulk.

You could talk to your local pizza shops about doing something similar. Or your local gas station and carryout places (quick marts). You could sell them in small gift baskets on a small web site. You could make the web site from a blog (www.wordpress.com) and then get a dot com (godaddy.com) and a shopping cart (paypal.com) and have your own small biz there as well. The site would cost you $10 + time and the shopping cart I believe is a fee per sale.

You could go door to door in neighborhoods like the girl scouts and others do. You could even hire on a few friends and say give them 25 cents per cookie sold. If you sell them at $1 each and costs you say 30 cents to make. You still make 45 cents for doing nothing but letting them sell. And you sell as well to make that much more.

You could talk to the local grocery store (manager) and ask them if you can set up a table outside the door on a saturday or such to sell cookies. Remind them that they allow girl scouts and such to do the same. Then get a $20 card table off craigslist and sell your cookies to those coming out from grocery shopping.

You could talk to your church and sell them in the lobby in baskets w/ a change box next to it so people just put the cash in. Honest system being a church, no person needed to tend to the cookies. Then in return for allowing them to let you sell them there. Give 10% donation of the sales to the church or the youth group or such. You get, they get, win win situation.

Set up a few baskets nice w/ cookies and such in them. Then find a few cute girls at school to work for you and to go to local office buildings after school. Let them go around and take orders for the basket from office people. Give them like 10-15% of each basket order as their pay. If they sell, they make money, if they don't, they make nothing. So say they go around to two office complexes and get 30 basket orders. The following week you deliver those basket orders and collect the money. Giving you a week to get the orders set up, cookies made, etc between time of order and delivery.

There are many ways to sell cookies, the biggest thing is getting them in front of people. After that their stomachs take over.

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