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Can't believe summer is almost over and school stuff starts again. Not

looking forward to packing lunches myself. It's a pain because they don't

make lunch boxes big enough to fit the lunches I pack for Josh. I almost

need to send him with a cooler. Of course those are the days that he has hot

dogs,meatballs, or french toast and I need to pack the thermos I found that

I can heat in the microwave before I put the warm food in. I also send in a

container of cut up fruit and some kind of cookie snack. Last year his lunch

wasn't until 1:00 so the teacher gave them time for a working snack. He had

to have an additional snack to eat at his desk. Mostly for a drink I send in

water. I use the small 8 ounce lunch box size and change it to a sports top.

(of course the companies are making the bottles different sizes to not make

that easy, but I've been figuring it out among the different brands)

I occassionally will put Minute Maid Lemonade or Motts Orange juice in for a

treat. If the weather is real hot I pack extra water bottles in their back

packs. To keep it cold, I'll fill a washed out bottle with about 1/4-1/3 of

water. Freeze it and then in morning, fill the rest with water. By the time

they have lunch, the ice has mostly melted and the water is still cold.

Helps to keep the lunch cold too.

I've made extra pancakes. (small 1/2 dollar size or cookie size) I put those

in their lunch instead of sandwiches since bread is not a easy thing to

make. Depending on the weather, my bread maker flops. sigh. My kids don't

mind the pancakes at room temp, especially if I add gfcf chocolate chips or

blueberries. One of my sons actually doesn't want syrup if I add the

chocolate chips. I sometimes get sneaky and add extra protein powder or

calcium powder into the pancake batter.

I've also used pancakes in place of bread for PB & J sandwiches.

My children are older so I don't have to much issues with the art supply

stuff. I send in model magic and we haven't really had much problems with

paint, but then again, I haven't worried a lot about it.

My boys love the Cool Fruit-fruit leather so the teacher has a supply in her

desk. I also send in little bags of potato chips and they have given me some

freezer space in the teachers lounge. I keep some cup cakes and cookies in

the freezer for those surprise birthday treats days that get brought in.

Yes, when they have pizza parties and Ice cream things at school, I run up

there with my guys stuff. We have been lucky because my guys don't get

offended if they have to have a freezer snack instead of what the other kids

are having. HOWEVER, because of the wonderful people on this listserver,

there hasn't been anything that my kids have gone without. I have made

" twinkies, hosts cupcakes, pop tarts, pizza, fruit dip, holiday cookies,

birthday cupcakes...... " the list goes on. Now that my husband is on the

diet for health reasons that ruin family fun if he is not, I have made beef

stew (I should say he did that one) chicken stew, chili, chicken fingers,

onion rings, eggplant lazagna, zucchini bread and the list goes on here too.

Oh before I ramble forever (I hope someone find this encouraging instead of

annoying) when my son wants a cheese sandwich for lunch, I make the bread

recipe from www.twinvalleymills.com and we use toffutti cheese. I wrap his

sandwich while still warm in paper towel, then put it in the aluminum foil.

The paper towel obsorbs the moisture and the aluminum holds some of the

heat. Anyway, he has eaten it so I guess he is happy because he keeps asking

for it. I've also ordered crackers from Miss Roben's and put cheese or pb & j

in between. Oh, we have also taken jet puff marshmellow for the occassion

treat and melted them in the toaster oven while on bread or crackers and

added some peanut butter on the other side and made marshmellow crackers or

sandwich.

One last one, we have made nutbutter balls as suggested in Karyn S's book

and froze them. Then put in a small container inthe lunch box. They are a

bit melted, but the kids don't care.

So I hope that helps a little. Really you only have to come up with 2 or 3

lunches and just rotate them during the week. I think sometimes I just

complicate things by thinking too much. Glad I wrote this out. Gave me some

ideas of what Ineed to do to prepare for those up and coming quick school

days. I am also taking the kids to family day camp next week so I'll have to

be packing lunches then too.

Good luck to all.

Joyce

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