recipelink.com Chat Room Recipe Swap – 2000-12-27
From: recipelink.com

Title: Kid's lunch ideas
Posted By: Janet
Date: August 4th 1997
Board: recipelink.com Cooking Club

Freeze small juice boxes for food safety, use cookie cutters for sandwiches, pipe fillings in celery, cucumber, bell pepper halves
or quarters, use various breads .. sliced, bagel, pita, English muffin, make fillings out of whatever they like mixed in food processor, shake drinks in thermos, decorate and freeze cookies (pipe melted chocolate or frosting from sandwich bag .. fun project with kids). If you learn to pipe even simple things with either frosting, cream cheese, whatever, it can make food really fun and appealing. Making individual loaves of bread is fun, too.
In my home, we were big on individually baked things so there was no hassle over portions, btw.

If you make dough or buy it frozen, make a bunch of calzone types of sandwiches to freeze. These are like bread turnovers with favorite things inside ... so easy but, for some reason, so much more fun to eat. With pureed fillings you can sneak in more beans and vegetables, for example .. they don't have to know. Refrigerated biscuit dough from the market works well for small ones, too. My son & his friends used to love it when I offered these as a snack.

Get small (1 oz., probably) disposable condiment containers from restaurant supply to send mustard, ketchup, BBQ sauce, etc.... my son used to love to be able to really flavor/dip things like that, anyway. The little cups and lids come separately and are inexpensive. Dip made me think of sending oven fries ... simulate what kids usually like in terms of fast food.

Pizza is easy with English Muffins, pita, or the calzone idea. Favorite leftovers were a hit, of course. I make burritos by the dozen, wrap them individually and freeze them .. great for lunch.