Back to School Lunches
- Cheapie
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From 8-29-2001
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RE: Back to School Lunches
I have the pickiest son ever. He does not like sandwiches of any kind. He says the bread gets soggy. So since he does not like much lunch meat, I give him either Salami or pepperoni in a plastic bag. Then give him sliced cheese cubes in another. He buys his milk. For Snack he has pretzles. You can also get Go-Gerts and freeze them and put the in their lunch.
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My daughter was a picky eater when she first started school then the nurse gave me an idea. Let them fix their own lunch. It worked I would let her decide what she wanted for lunch (within reason, no junk food) and I have never had a problem. She also did not drink enough water so I bought her some individual packs of crystal light to put in her bottled water.
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Make a fruit smoothie with milk or yoghurt and put it in a thermos to keep cool
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how about cereal? My son( who is also picky) often asks for a bowl of cereal for lunch of snack. Put it in a bowl send a container of milk and a piece of fruit!
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I also feed picky eaters. I often pack hot dogs, pizza, chicken nuggets, and hot pockets. I invested in several bowls that you heat with hot water, they help to keep the food warm. When ever we do fast food, I save the packets of ketchup for the lunch box.(some times I ask for extras) I buy the snack size pudding and jello that does not have to be refrigerated. And I try to pack a peice of fuit. If I have a melon, I'll put it in a bowl with a ice pack under it and send that. Her best friend told me to be sure to send enough melon for her on melon days.I hope some of this helps, Lisa
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tell her that she eats what you pack or she doesn't get lunch! our picky son knows that if he doesn't eat what we feed him, he doesn't eat. I mean, come on, doesn't like any sandwiches? way too spoiled!
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Got some good advice for Cheapie and the lunches even though it's probably not what s/he wants to hear. I also have a very picky eater in
my family and my solution has always been this: He eats what the rest of the family eats or he does without. He's welcome to make a sandwich and take some fruit for his lunch (I always keep plenty of fixin's on hand), but if he doesn't want that then he can go without. He's 16 years old
now and has skipped many meals over the years because of his own stubbornness, but he turned out okay and is as healthy as ever! Just
something for Cheapie to think about - it's really not necessary to knock yourself out over a picky eater because I've been there and I know! Good
luck!
- Tracy
RE: Back to School Lunches
I've been making my own trail mix to take to work for lunches. Finger food ought to appeal to a six year old as much as it does to me, even though I'm somewhat older.
Mix up a batch in a canister or tupperware like container from which the youngster can fill a zip loc bag to take to school for lunch.
Some suggested ingredients: cashews, raisins, M&Ms, chocolate chips, Cheerios, dried banana chips.
A mix with any or all of these ingredients will be quite filling and provide an energy boost. Be imaginative. There are probably a host of other ingredients that might be appealing.
- Dineen
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How about a thermos of spaghetti, stew, chili, chicken and dumplings, or hot dogs and baked beans.
Does he like tacos? Mix everything [meat, tomatoes, lettuce etc] up together in a container to eat along with a bag of taco chips.
You can always try scaling down the amounts on some of the things he likes eating for dinner.
- KayD
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My daughter was the same way. She's 18 now and off at college. Still pretty picky! Anyway, I found I had to move outside the mind-set of normal "lunch" foods. She liked some breakfast items, like biscuits, bacon, etc. She got those some days, in little biscuit type sandwiches. She liked cottage cheese, so I often packed that in a small tupperware container. I sent little apple juice containers, frozen (my only real lunch splurge for her), and the cottage cheese stayed cool 'til lunch. She liked macaroni and cheese at room temp, so I did the same thing with it. Peanut butter sandwiches worked with her. She didn't like any other kind of sandwich, but would eat cheese cubes and hotdog pieces , cold pigs in blankets, homemade trail mixes or granola, If she liked what we ate for supper the night before, she took some leftovers for lunch.
It took time, but after a while she got pretty good about eating a slightly wider variety. She also was quite a hit with the other kids, who saw her fussbucket lunches as cool. Basically, just think outside the normal lunch time fare, and send whatever she will eat.
Kids are smart....they will eat when hungry. Her pediatrician always told me not to sweat it so much, just make a variety available, and over time she'd widen her likes..
- Lauri
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Here's a great article we had submitted that gives lots of ideas.
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