Keep Cut Apples From Turning Brown Before Lunch
When you want to send a cut up apple in a child's lunch, cut the apple in square pieces, leaving it together as you cut, then wrap a rubber band around it to hold it together. This keeps it from turning brown.
Save Naked or Odwalla juice bottles and fill with water and freeze. These are just the right size for a child's lunch box. When they thaw, you can have cold water to drink. These are also useful for placing in a larger cooler.
Saving Money on Packed Lunches
This is a guide about saving money on packed lunches. Packing your own lunch can save a lot of money over buying lunch. However, if you aren't careful even a packed lunch can be expensive.
My 2 girls take a bag lunch most days for school and neither cares for the crust of their sandwiches. I hated buying the frozen uncrustables from the store because of the price so I decided to make my own.
My husband used to be an auto mechanic at Firestone. Where he worked in the garage, even with the garage doors open and the huge fans blowing it got really hot in there. He liked to drink Gatorade because he said it helped to keep him from feeling dehydrated.
Pack Your Lunch Instead of Eating Out
Making lunch or dinner at home instead of "grabbing a quick bite" at work, can easily save you $20 or more each week. Take your lunch to work every day and you'll find your $1,000.00 richer at the end of the year.
I am looking for lunch ideas for hubby working on forestry gang. I have a tight budget, and he is sick of sandwiches. Any thoughts? Thank you.
Homemade Cheese and Cracker Lunch Kits
Do your kids like those expensive pre-made lunch kits? I have a better and less costly idea that works for my 6 year old grand-daughter. When I need to pack her a lunch for school or a field trip, I take all store brand essentials to make the "kit".
Buy Large Containers of Yogurt
I used to regularly buy the small 6-8 oz. yogurts for my lunch. I would spend quite a bit on yogurt over a month's time. I have begun buying a large 40 oz. container, then spooning a serving's worth into a small yogurt container.
Bring Your Own Silverware to Work
Recently, at my work, I have been on a committee that is looking at strategic planning for the next year, 5 years, and 10 years into the future. One of the issues we have been looking at is sustainability.
I save the plastic containers that cupcake liners come in. They are perfect for toting a single cupcake! The cupcake and icing are protected in a lunch bag from "smooshing."
Did you know that you can freeze peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for school lunch? It's true! Spread peanut butter on one slice of bread. On the other slice, spread a thin layer of peanut butter to act as a barrier for the jelly to avoid seepage, then spread on the jelly.
Reuse Baby Jars for Condiments
Use plastic baby food containers to hold condiments for lunch sandwiches or use to hold egg salad or tuna salad for lunch or picnic sandwiches.
Make Snack Bags from Plastic Tablecloth
Make re-usable snack bags from a plastic tablecloth. Add Velcro to the top for closure.
Make Sandwiches with Frozen Bread
This is a tip that will help anyone who packs lunches! These days, we all need to tighten our belts and packing lunches is an excellent way to not only save money, but also to eat healthier!
Save fast food bags that aren't grease soaked to take your lunch in on another day.
At work we have a "Salad Club." There are currently five participants so we have five different lists of ingredients which we rotate weekly. We include 2 types of lettuce, spinach and other various toppings and veggies.
Save Lunch Money Instead of Eating Out
Figure it up; if you spend $5 per day for 5 days, you are spending $25 per week for lunches. This amounts up to $100 a month! When you put your leftovers in the refrigerator, or you don't really have enough leftovers for a full meal, don't throw them out, use them for lunch.
Being a farmer and rancher's wife, we are always looking for ways to save. In the summer months, the men are in the fields a lot, and take their lunch. They use so much bread that I save the bread bags, cut them off a little and use for bags for their lunch items to go in.
Link: Big Red Kitchen For On The Go Food Tips
The author of Big Red Kitchen has some wonderful posts and ideas, including: freezing a week's worth of sandwiches, how to keep/care hot and cold dinners to baseball games, etc.
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