You are so right. That is such a cop out. I spend my Sunday afternoons cooking up good, quick stuff for the rest of the week. Do a whole package of bacon on the griddle and box it up (it'll be good cold or warmed up), wash and rip up some romaine and store it in a bag, slice up some tomatoes, hard boil some eggs and keep them in a bowl in the fridge, put a couple of chicken breasts on the Foreman grill and slice them up... then in 5 minutes in the morning, toast some bread or just grab a tortilla and you can pack up a BLT, or a Chef's salad. Salads can be packed up the night before, just pack crunchies and dressing separately or they get soggy. I cook up batches of turkey meatballs and keep them in the fridge or freeze them.
It is so easy to make good lunches, you just have to plan ahead. And there are so many healthy convenience foods now that there's really no excuse - bagged salad mixes, even individual dressings, mini envelopes of tuna or salmon... I could go on and on. That stuff gets expensive though, so I just make up my own dressings, etc. If you go to Smart & Final, they have all the little containers.
I also do homemade Belgian waffles that can be frozen. Pop them in the toaster oven for ten minutes, shmear 'em with some almond butter and grab a piece of fruit and you're out the door. A cup of Greek yogurt, throw in some blueberries and granola and you've got a great, portable breakfast.
I got really good at packing my own lunch when I worked for an airline because I did not want to eat that plane food all the time. It's even worse for those flying now... they don't get served anything at all.
Those are great ideas. I’m not creative, and my daughters hate plain sandwiches.
Maybe we should have another thread that gives ideas for lunches.
My wife gets up earlier at half past five to make all the kids lunches and hse takes great pride in it.
I've come across women, mothers, sorry who actually have the nerve to say they have no time and they don;t even work, they don't make their kids lunch, they are late either dropping off their children or meeting the school bus for dropping off.
I will never forget one supposed childs party, a woman, lets say Nat asked up to come for her childs party and bring my kids.
Her kid was going to be 5.
We drove up and saw the poor boy crying outside by himself.
My children got out and stayed witht he child whilst my wife and I went up to their house which has the garage down stairs and her living place up stairs.
Her, her husband, two other couples were all there sipping wine, twirling their glass in a circle and looking all stuck up.
I asked seeing my kids did not eat what time should I tell my children and yours the time they eat and cake.
This was after of being a hour there and not once did they bother with their son.
One Asian couple were acting so stuck up thus the other couples tried to out do them with conversations like this.
I never let my children eat junk food, no I never either, OMG I let them have a chicken burger once .
Now the party mother tells us all that she wished the school would give more healthy meals to which I then spoke up as we stayed silent all this time and said “why does one need the school, my wife has always made lunch for our children “ etc etc etc
The Asian woman asked my wife what does she give our children and she said turkey, cheese, yogurt, cooked meals as the school as a microwave and sometimes Tuna.”
The Asian woman said Tuna in a tin you mean, what a novel idea, HA HA.” to which they all laughed.
I asked about the kids food and the Asian woman and the boys mother told us that there were strawberries and blueberries.
My kids were stunned, this for a kids party.
The reason I;m saying some of what went down is because these liberals tell each other how smart they are, they tr and act all posh, they try and out do each other but when their actions come into play they show their true colors.
Good for you and what you do , you are a good mother and the kids are lucky.
I am so proud of my wife but that party certainly told us how stupid liberal parents are and trust me that was not even half of what went down.
I'm sorry if there is mistakes I'm on my phone and can hardly press these little buttons with my big fingers.