Comments on: Sandwich-less, Nut-less Lunch Ideas

By: sarah a.

sarah a. — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:01:41 +0000

Thanks for a great post, Jesse. We have to start sending lunches with Kai this fall, and I’ve been starting to make a list such as this one to reduce the thinking some evenings/mornings…

By: justin

justin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:24:37 +0000

I’ve heard of people smuggling small, personal-use amounts of various pharmaceuticals onto airplanes and buses by hiding the bagged stash in a jar of peanut butter. Perhaps an opposite approach is in call to sneak peanut butter into the cafeteria.

Then again, maybe this gets filed with Greg’s “hot sauce and a beer” recipe.

By: Martha

Martha — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:26:44 +0000

Oh yeah, and if you replace the liquid ingredients in a batch of brownies with pureed black beans (and I mean pureed until any semblance of chunks are gone - mix in a little water) are really good and bulk up a little fiber. While I don’t generally approve of pureeing vegetables to hide them in food a la Jessica Seinfeld, these are really good. I learned the recipe while following a popular diet program which uses the concept of “points”

By: Martha

Martha — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:22:47 +0000

Soy-nut butter is not bad and with honey is tasty — roll it in a tortilla or a nice piece of bread. Anything that can be dipped — mix cream cheese with olives, and/or raisins and/or cinnamon and/or maple syrup etc. then send nice chunks of things to dip in it like carrots, whole grain crackers, chunks of lunch meat etc. If you cut up an apple and dip it in some sort of acidic juice, like pinepple then put it in tupperware it doesn’t get brown. Some kids like edamame (the kind in the shell you have to pull out with your teeth - very cool)

Leftovers in a thermos, I’m told, are “like barf” and should not be sent.

That said, all my kid (11 y/o, 6th grade, afraid of the lunch line but don’t tell her I told you) has been living off of peanut butter on graham crackers, yogurt raisins and carrot sticks dipped in ranch dressing for the past few months.

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:20:11 +0000

My son loves “hummus quesadilla”, which is just hummus inside a tortilla, cut into triangles. That and a little applesauce is pretty much lunch on most days.

I plan on trying some Cous Cous salad- just Cous Cous with some veggies and feta. Also, we like a garbanzo bean salad- beans with shallots, feta, and lemon juice. Make some for a few day’s worth.