I Need packed lunch ideas.....?

Buy him a good thermos.

Then you can put any pasta or leftover dish in the microwave right before he leaves and stick it in the thermos, it will stay hot for hours!

Ideas for what to put in thermos...

-Canned ravioli

-canned pasta

-macaroni

-beans and wieners

-spaghetti

lots of ideas, you can put alot of different things in.

1

Chocolate Bit Lunchbox Bars

2/3 c Butter

1/2 c Sugar

1/2 c Light brown sugar

2 Eggs

1 ts Vanilla

1 c Sifted flour

3/4 ts Baking soda

3/4 ts Salt

1 c Rolled oats(quick or

-regular) uncooked

1 pk (6 oz) chocolate bits

1/2 c Chopped nuts

Cream butter and sugars till fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Sift

together flour, salt and soda. Add to creamed mixture. Stir in oats,

chocolate bits and nuts. Turn dough into well-greased 13 x 9 inch pan. Bake

in preheated oven at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. Cool slightly and

sprinkle with confectioner's sugar, then cut into bars. Makes 3 dozen. Do

not overbake.

Apple Peanut Butter Sandwiches

1 sm Granny Smith apple

1/4 c Creamy peanut butter

3 oz Cream cheese -- softened

2 tb Brown sugar -- packed

1/8 ts Cinnamon

1 Loaf

Soft white or wheat bread

Peel, core and slice apple with Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer. Chop sliced

apple with Food Chopper. Combine all ingredients except bread in Batter

Bowl. Place a scant tablespoonfulof filling in center of a piece of bread.

Cover with another slice. Cut and seal the 2 layers of bread with 3-inch

Cut-N-Seal.

Tuna Salad Sandwich

1 ts Mustard

1 cn Tuna -- drained

1 tb Mayonnaise

1 Egg -- hard cooked & chopped

1/2 ts Salt

1 ts Onion -- finely chopped

4 sl Whole wheat bread

1 tb Celery -- finely chopped

1 Tomato -- sliced

1 ts Pickle Relish

1. In a medium bowl place tuna, egg, onion, celery, pickle reslish,

mustards, mayonnaise and salt. With a fork, combine all ingredients well.

2. Spread tuna mixture on 2 bread slices, cover with tomato slices and

lettuce and top with remaining bread slices.

Cold salmon from dinner the night before or a cold chicken breast. You can add a nice salad to either of these. Crackers and cheese slices with veggies and dips. Cold pizza is always a hit too! Just try to think of things that he likes for dinner that can be good cold too! I have picky boys who don't always want sandwiches for lunch...I know how hard it is. Hope this helps.

Something different is to pack summer sausage, cheese, crackers or baguette slices, maybe a little container of mustard (spicy brown) and fruit or grapes. It's nutritious and filling and something a guy would like. Might want to throw in a cookie or something sweet too.

Get one of those wide mouthed Thermos flasks that you can give him soups, stews or casseroles.

Make you own hamburger type buns with cold meat, lettuce, egg or cheese etc (use torpedo rolls, like a sub sammie)

Bowls of salads.

You could do a pasta salad with grilled sliced of chicken and veggies. Try using Barilla's protein pasta....really good, and doesn't taste very much different from regular pasta.

salad

baguette

pasta with some vegetables- buy it in supermarket like asda

maybe just put some chicken nuggets/dippers in the oven, let them cool overnight and wrap them in foil for the next day

you can give him a salad if he lyks those kind of things or if there is something that you have in the fridge lyk leftovers you can warm them up nd stick them in a bowl with aluminum foil around it it will be room tempature though

what about tuna or chicken wraps with lettuce and tomatoe and lofat mayo . healthy . how about some fruit cups .