My daughters preschool is nut free please help me come up with great things to send her to school with besides sandwhiches, she doesn't eat them.
Thank you all so much, you are all obviously much better in the kitchen then myself. I appreciate your recommendations.
There are so many options! I do lunch meat and cheese rolled up, tortillas with cheese/and or meat, raw veggies and fruits, soup, pasta, leftover chicken, pizza, or stews. If you look on Pinterest or Google for lunch ideas, you will find tons!
My first grader gets pasta in a thermos, homemade muffins, homemade frozen smoothies, fruit, veggies, chips, quesadillas or burritos (with bean and cheese), mini pizzas (cold), and ham and butter sandwiches. She also has taken sunbutter (sunflower seed butter) and jelly sandwiches. Seeds do not fall into the same allergen category as nuts. (Peanuts are differently botanically from nuts, too. But that's another matter.)
You could also do rolls of ham or ham and cheese, crackers and cheese.
I was at a bit of a loss hearing she wasn't allowed any nut products at all due to a classmate with severe allergies, but it's been fairly easy. I even send pesto pasta, but I make the pesto without pine nuts.
Good luck!
Cheese and crackers with some garlic sausage and raw veggies.
put her favorite lunch meat in a tortilla shell or large lettuce leaf!
If she likes egg salad or tuna salad - those work GREAT in lettuce or tortillas.
Expand her horizons. Take her shopping to help pick out foods she will like in her lunch and go from there.
Oh, just about any leftovers from home will be fine if you get a thermos. Cheese and crackers and salami
Veggies and couscous
Salad greens and a little cup of dressing to dip them in
Fruit slices
Cheese wedges
Bread and butter with honey(don't call it a sandwich)
Silver dollar pancakes
corn muffins and chili
Soup
Pasta and parmesan
Spaghetti
Hummus and pita, veggie sticks
Cold pizza
Applesauce cups
Yogurt (with a cold pack and spoon)
Those are some of the things my son might like to take to school...
turkey wrapped in cheese (and maybe with cream cheese in the center), veggies and hummus, cold cheese quesadilla, cashews/string cheese and veggies with pita squares... cold pasta salads..I hope this helps!
Cheese, grapes, apples, carrots, lunchmeat and cheese slices rolled up, salad, crackers and hummus...
Another mom here directed me to this website:
http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/2011/08/12/real-food-tip...
Instead of peanut butter, you can substitute sunflower seed butter, which is just as good.
Something my kids have loved in their lunches lately is homemade pizza bread. Bread, pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese (toasted).
Do a search because this question is asked frequently.
Send what she likes to eat, think healthy snacks....
crackers
cheese
granola bars (a variety without nuts)
veggie sticks with dip
wraps
pasta salad
chicken
grapes
oranges (peeled and separated)
black olives
If you get a thermos, you can send
mac and cheese
ramon noodles
chicken nuggets
pizza rolls
My daughters class is nut free as well. I send sun butter on crackers, yogurt, fruit, cheese sticks, edamame, mini carrots, popcorn, cheese quesadilla, apple sauce... Pretty much anything that I know she likes I send but I make sure to balance a protein a fruit/veggie and a carb. I bought a tuppaware that is split in to 3 sections and I just put something in each. Tomorrow she is getting leftover pasta and sauce, and maybe apples/strawberries and a cheese stick or something.
Do they warm up foods? My preschool age daughter likes to take in quesadillas, grilled cheese, soup, mac n cheese, spaghetti and meatballs. She also likes a wrap with hummus and veggies and feta. Or a wrap with pesto, veggies and cheese. Leftover pizza. Crackers, pepperoni, and cheese. Any kind of cut up fruit or veggies. Lunchmeat rolled up and held with a toothpick. She likes bread and butter. Cottage cheese. Beanie weenies. Leftover roast chicken. She loves a dipping sauce in a tiny container for pretty much anything. Pasta salad. Rice salad. Good luck! My school age son is very picky...he has about 3 main things he eats over and over each day.
Cut up veggies and fruit and put it in thermos. Cheese and crackers. Wraps.
Pack her whatever she eats for lunch at home, fruit, cheese, crackers, veges/dip, bagel/cream cheese, pasta, rice, yogurt, sushi, bean burrito or cheese quesadilla, leftovers, almost anything really!
my daughters like hard boiled eggs (peeled and salted), salami with cream cheese, string cheeses, z-bars (kid clif bars), olives, graham crackers "sandwiches" with spread (PB or nutella, but you cant do those) cut up fruits/cheese, raisins
