School Lunches, or What Am I Sposed To Do Without a Fridge?!

i wonder how many cooks were needed to poke the little sticks through the sandwiches ? GRIN

i do watch cooking shows sometimes - at least peek at it - , i never see anyone doing the dishes , and i've kidded mrs. h occasionally , asking her why we can't always have "a perfect kitchen" .
i guess the cooking shows have have some gremlins (heinzelmaennchen) to do all the cleanup .
hbg

here i've caught them baking the bread for the day !



cj :
your daughter might enjoy this "heinzelmaennchen" site - great fun , even for adults .

http://www.giselmut.de/die_heinzelmaennchen-sage.htm

aaww, it is cute, hamburger - thank you! Actually, I had bought her some
sweatshirts with all the Mainzelmaennchen at front (ZDF) - she used to love
them.

They're called "elves" in English when they do good stuff, Hamburger....

Gremlins are right bastids.

"Gremlins are right bastids. "

yea , they are the ones poking those little sticks (that get stuck between my teeth) into those mini-sandwiches .
AWAY with them , i say ! (both the gremlins AND the little sticks)
and bring on the "heinzelmaennchen" !
hbg

Reviving this one again -- I'd gotten away from making lunches and now want to get back to it. (School lunches are expensive and they're crap.) Will re-read, but if anyone who already posted to this has new ideas, or if someone is seeing this for the first time and has ideas, lay it on me.

Sozlet's a dream to prepare food for in general -- she'll eat almost anything -- but the downside is that she really craves variety. If I make something too often, she gets tired of it. (As in, no way I can get away with PB + J sandwiches 5 days a week.) I'd need a stable of at least 10 lunches/recipes I think.

wraps, with apple slices and sharp cheddar cheese?

I did see something the other day, I haven't tried yet, but definitely will in
the near future, as my daughter loves Prosciutto (but I guess any cold cut will do). Buy philo dough and cut the sheets in squares, mix 4 spoonful olive oil
and one spoonful mustard and spread on the squares, top with a slice of
prosciutto and roll up. Bake for 5 min in the oven, let them cool down and
they're ready to eat. Perfect finger food!

These are pretty easy to make, and you can use whatever you want - cheese,
ham, pastrami, cucumber, peppers, cream cheese and bread. Top it with a
piece of fruit and it's a perfect finger food too.

careful, might get in trouble with the skewers

zero tolerance for weapons

Oh yes, these days one has to be careful, thank you djjd. Well the cream cheese
should function pretty well as a glue to hold things together.

Another thing we used to do a lot in the winter time - my daughter took a thermos of hot water and a cup a noodle for lunch and just poured the water
over the cup and had it sit there for a few minutes and it was ready to eat.

I don't know though if you want her to handle the hot water though (well it's not that hot by the time lunch rolls around).

Thank you, CJane and djjd! All of these suggestions sound really good.

I especially like the hot thermos idea since that's one attraction of the school lunch -- it's hot! (Already plan to do other stuff like chili and tomato soup right in the thermos.)