Re: Thermos-School lunches

[Guest guest]

Jody

Keep those school ideas coming! Thanks!

Angie

>

> For those of you who are pretty new to SCD, don't forget to buy some

> Thermoses for this upcoming school year. They will make packing

> lunches a lot easier.

> The stainless steel Thermos brand thermoses keep cold food cold for up

> to 10 hours and hot food hot for 5 hours, I believe.

>

> They have a really nice selection of them at Target right now and if

> you don't have a Target nearby, you can order them from target.com.

> They had super hero and cute girly ones too.

>

>

> Jody

> mom to -7 and -9

> SCD 1/03

>

[Guest guest]

" I heat the bottles for 10 minutes with hot water inside before I

use them and I heat the food up really hot before it goes in. This is

frustrating. "

,

I'm not sure what the problem is. I use ours all the time and I've

not had any trouble. I put hot soup in ours and 5 hours later, when

the bottle is opened, steam comes out the top and my boys have to

" blow " on it to eat it.

Are you putting boiling hot water in it for the 10 minutes to prime

them?

What are you putting in them?

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

" Keep those school ideas coming! "

Some fun ideas:

Make the chicken pancakes into quarter/half dollar sized circles and

send them with honey to dip them in. These will be similar to those

disgusting Lunchables, but healthy.

You can also make the chicken pancakes into slightly larger circles

and send tomato sauce and pizza toppings to make " make-it-yourself "

pizzas like those Lunchables.

Most kids like fruit salad. To keep the apples from turning brown

soak them in cold water with lemon juice in it. (About 1-2 tsp of

lemon juice per cup of water.) You can also soak the banana slices

and it helps them not to brown so much.

For " Nachos " similar to those Lunchables, make half dollar sized

chicken pancakes, then put them into the oven on low to crisp up.

Make homemade salsa or guacamole to eat with the " chips " .

(The chicken pancake and guacamole recipes can be found on

pecanbread.com.)

Homemade fruit leather is not hard to make. It can be cut into strips

(cutting the parchment paper too) and then it can be rolled up like

fruit roll ups.

If the school is not nut free, use two banana pancakes as the bread

and put nut butter between. No need for jelly because the banana

pancakes are already really sweet. To make the pancakes uniform in

size you can use a very small skillet or you can use a muffin top pan

and prepare them in the oven. I've also used my Scooby waffle maker

to make Scooby " bread " . (The other kids have been jealous of this.)

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

>>>

" I heat the bottles for 10 minutes with hot water inside before I

use them and I heat the food up really hot before it goes in. This is

frustrating. " <<<

Buy a new thermos. Some thermos' have more insulation than others.

Summer

Summer's Family, SCD 08/04 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/openblooms/

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