What do you send with your kids to babysitters for lunch?

Silver Member Joined: Oct 28 2009 Posts: 788

I find snadwiches to be the most convenient, to make and to feed to him. but, I fell kike I'm amking the same things every day. what can you put in a sandwich or what else is clean and neat to send? I usually send a sandwich with cream cheese, pb &j, mayo and sliced eggs. also, cut up fruits, some crackers, pretzels, raisins. sometimes, for a change I'll send a yogurt. but I;m really looking for different options of what to put between two slices of bread.

Bh my sitter provides food. (soups, sweet potatos, cereals, breads, etc) would u try like an American cheese or turkey sandwich? Avacado? Egg or tuna salad? Salmon or lox spread?
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Gold Member Joined: Jun 24 2010 Posts: 1311

main courses:
omelet sandwich (spinach, mushroom, onion, pepper, whatever you may have...)
"pizza"- sauce, cheese, bread- toasted
different varieties of veggie burgers
salmon croquettes
avocado sandwich
hummus sandwich

sides: peas, mixed veggies (the frozen variety), cut fruit, yogurt, tomato-olive-cucumber-avocado salad, baked sweet potato slices spritzed with olive oil and sprinkled with inion powder.

I understand that your kid might not like all of these things, but they are just some ideas.

Posted: Tue, Nov 09 2010, 7:43 pm Post subject:

Sandwich an/'or yogurt. Easiest to pack and she is happy.
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Gold Member Joined: Jul 26 2009 Posts: 1482

I send fish sticks, pizza bagels, raw grilled cheese, or pasta (with tomato cream sauce, or with cheese and ketchup). DS won't eat sandwiches, and his Morah has a toaster oven - so he get a hot lunch every day!

Diamond Member Joined: Apr 27 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 2535

I would love it if my DD mora had something to warm up food!!! I could do so many more things!!

Dd age 3 is so picky will only eat peanut butter sandwich or macaroni. So I alternate between those two and add side of cut apples/pears/ cucumbers.

Silver Member Joined: May 24 2010 Posts: 597

sandwich ideas: any combination of margarine, cream cheese and cottage cheese, tuna, egg, cheese and tomato, cheese and apple, cheese. I usually do margarine and cottage cheese since cottage cheese has protien and calcium and margarine makes it spread more easily. My kids know that if they want something else instead, they should tell me before I make their lunches. I also always send something else: yogurt, applesauce, baggie of cereal, etc.

Beginner Joined: Sep 05 2010 Posts: 23

Try scrambled eggs on a sandwich with a slice of cheese melted on the top, and maybe some ketchup. My kids like that!

You can also change the bread. Instead of regular sliced bread, try pita, rolls, wraps, bagel. Or using the regular bread, you can do a roll-up sandwich (best done the night before).

For fillings, in addition to all those that's posted already, smoked salmon, fallafel (cut in half), sabich (sliced boiled egg/fried aubergine/hummoous--though my kids take out aubergine), grated cheese, baba ganoush, grated carrots and tuna, tuna & sweetcorn, misc cold cuts, chicken schnitzels. Also "toasted pizza sandwich".

Aside from sandwiches, pasta salad (tomato sauce & cheese, sauteed mushroom, broccoli &tuna&sweetcorn, tuna&grated carrots). Green beans, cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes.