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- Baked & Cooked
- Breakfast for Lunch
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Fun with Food
- Miscellaneous
- Sandwiches
- Soups
- Topped & Mixed
These ideas all came from the Sonlight Main Forum. Cherie in Wisconsin did a tremendous job of organizing them and polishing them up; Thanks, Cherie! I have not asked anyone's permission to quote them. If you see something you wrote and want it changed or deleted, please e-mail me.
Baked & CookedReturn to the top of this page
- Baked beans with hot dog pieces and corn bread
- Buffalo wings
- Corn dogs
- Chicken Pot Pies
- Freeze single serving leftovers to be eaten as lunches
- Frozen dinners when they are on sale
- Macaroni and Cheese with hot dogs cut into it
- Fish Sticks
- Chicken Nuggets
- Veggies
- Polish Sausage
- Nachos topped with beans, cheese, taco meat, olives, sour cream, salsa, etc.
- Pizza - let them make their own:
- Pizza Bagels
- Frozen Pizza
- Pizza on a bagel, pita, tortilla, English muffin
- Quesadillas: Heat a small amount of olive oil in fry pan. Add a tortilla. Top half the tortilla with cheese, chicken, salsa, avocado, etc. Fold over when brown. Cut into small triangles and serve with sour cream and salsa or taco sauce.
- Secret mac & cheese: Cook noodles. Make a white sauce, but add 1/2 to 1 c. mashed sweet potato (do NOT use pumpkin) and cheese.
- Taquitos (frozen) - heat and serve w/sour cream, melted cheese, salsa, etc. and canned refried beans.
Breakfast for LunchReturn to the top of this page
- Cereal
- French Toast
- Hashed browns mixed with Ham, Bacon, Cheese, Veggies and served with eggs
- Oatmeal and Fruit
- Omelets
- Scrambled Eggs, Sausage links and toast
- Yogurt and Muffins
- Pancakes, plain or with diced fruit mixed in. Or topped with fruit, cherry pie filling, jam, peanut butter & syrup, fruit syrups, butter and brown sugar or powdered sugar. Also, you can add in chocolate chips or M & M's in while frying, before flipping.
Fruits and VegetablesReturn to the top of this page
- Apples spread with peanut butter
- Apples or canned pears sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon
- Bananas:
- topped with peanut butter, or
- sliced and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, or
- drizzle chunks with chocolate syrup and eat on a toothpick, or
- sprinkled with coconut.
- Carrots and ranch dressing as a side dish
- Celery & peanut butter topped with raisins
- Goldfish and fruit Burritos.
- Green salads, taco salad, Caesar salad
- Fruit salads
- Macaroni and potato salads
- Slices of pineapple, melons, and orange sections
Fun With FoodReturn to the top of this page
- 1-2-3 Lunches - Always different, but always 1-2-3. Here is an example:
- 1 bologna slice
- 2 carrot sticks
- 3 apple slices
- 4 cheese squares
- 5 tortilla chips
- 6 peanuts
- 7 M&M's (for dessert!)
- Dipping Lunches: fruit and veggie slices dipped in yogurt, peanut butter, cream cheese, or vegetable dip.
- Sculpture Lunches: Use cubed ham, cheese, sausage, apples, pineapple, banana chunks, marshmallows, and mini pretzel sticks to create structures. The goal is to build the most interesting structure you can eat.
- Sunshine Plates: heat a slice of bologna in a skillet or microwave until it curls up. Fill with cottage cheese, surround with orange and apple slices like rays of sunshine. Make a face with raisins.
- Toothpick Lunches - Cube everything and serve with toothpicks. It tastes better in cubes!
- Roll up lunch meat, with a little filling inside (cream cheese, etc.)
- Move the meal outside; it makes everything taste better.
Miscellaneous
''Healthy'' shakes and smoothies made in a blender.Return to the top of this page
- Black bean dip on tortillas or with chips. Black bean dip--mash cooked (1 pound) or canned beans (3 cans) with garlic powder and salsa--usually 1/2 jar. We prefer SAM's Choice from Wal-Mart. This tastes better if simmered in the crockpot, too.
- pork and beans with leftover roast chopped up with BBQ sauce (& garlic powder)--let it simmer in the crockpot or just heat it in the microwave. Serve plain or over noodles.
SandwichesGet creative with the sandwich fillings. Try serving fillings on crackers, in a pita, rolled up in a tortilla, or on English Muffins or Bagels. Cutting bread with a cookie cutter for interesting shaped sandwiches is also fun.
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- bagels & cream cheese (comes in all flavors)
- bagels with cheese under the broiler.
- burritos
- chicken salad
- cheese & crackers
- egg salad
- a thin omelette rolled in a warmed tortilla, with katchup and cheese
- fish stick sandwiches
- fried egg and cheese sandwiches
- grilled cheese: try adding various meats, such as ham, turkey etc., or try adding pizza sauce.
- tuna salad
- ham salad - try mixing in veggies
- lunch meat sandwiches
- miniature hot dog and cheese rolled into crescent rolls, bake as directed on crescent rolls.
- pbj or pb and marshmallow fluff sandwiches
- salmon melts
- salmon spread
- salmon spread w/cream cheese and pitas
- sloppy joes
- subs
- tomato & bacon
- tuna melts
SoupsReturn to the top of this page
- Check out Company's Coming - Soups and Sandwiches Cookbook.
- canned soups
- cheesy ham chowder
- Ramen Noodles
- Chili Soup and bread
- Creamed Vegetable
- tortilla soup and chips
- leftover soups and biscuits
Topped and MixedReturn to the top of this page
- Bake potatoes in a in a microwave, oven or crockpot, and top with Velveeta cheese sauce and veggies, chili, bacon bits and cheese.
- Macaroni and Cheese and variations:
- Add 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup, cooked mixed veggies, 1 can drained tuna; or
- Add 1 Can Chili with beans
- Pasta with toppings:
- Sauce from a jar (spaghetti, Fettuccine, etc)
- Cheese sauce with veggies
- Tossed with butter and parmesan cheese, add spices to taste.
- Salmon pasta salad
- Rice with Toppings:
- Velveeta cheese sauce and veggies
- Hamburger mixed with Cream of Mushroom Soup
- "V.G.B. Rice" - Canned beef soup according to package directions, plus add half as much rice as water.
- 1 can of black beans, chopped tomato and onion, cumin - serve over rice.
- 1 can of black beans, salsa, corn - serve over rice and top with grated cheese
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