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Chit Chat / Lunchbox ideas
« on: March 03, 2014, 02:44:23 am »
Hi all
I know there is an old thread about this topic in the forum, but I thought maybe I would start a new one for 2014.
One of my resolutions for this year is to try to make more interesting lunchboxes for my kids - they get bored and I get bored! I thought perhaps the lunchboxes would be less of a chore if I tried to make them more varied. And then there is more likelihood that the lunch would get eaten.
So far I have tried:
* Steaming and then shredding chicken in the TM - freezing this in portions and then using it to make chicken mayo wraps/pitas
* Making and freezing the bolognaise rolls from the 'more munch in your lunch' recipe booklet - these are a big hit, and my kids don't seem to mind eating them cold (I wouldn't want to, but it doesn't seem to bother them!)
* cooking chicken shnitzels (not in TM ) and then freezing these and popping a shnitzel in the lunchbox
* making TM hoummous and packing a small container of hoummous with some crackers/cucumber sticks
All these ideas are working well, but I am looking for more good ideas, esp for things that can be made in the TM and then frozen in portion sizes.
Neither of the children have facilities for reheating, so it needs to be things that can be eaten cold.
Thanks!
I know there is an old thread about this topic in the forum, but I thought maybe I would start a new one for 2014.
One of my resolutions for this year is to try to make more interesting lunchboxes for my kids - they get bored and I get bored! I thought perhaps the lunchboxes would be less of a chore if I tried to make them more varied. And then there is more likelihood that the lunch would get eaten.
So far I have tried:
* Steaming and then shredding chicken in the TM - freezing this in portions and then using it to make chicken mayo wraps/pitas
* Making and freezing the bolognaise rolls from the 'more munch in your lunch' recipe booklet - these are a big hit, and my kids don't seem to mind eating them cold (I wouldn't want to, but it doesn't seem to bother them!)
* cooking chicken shnitzels (not in TM ) and then freezing these and popping a shnitzel in the lunchbox
* making TM hoummous and packing a small container of hoummous with some crackers/cucumber sticks
All these ideas are working well, but I am looking for more good ideas, esp for things that can be made in the TM and then frozen in portion sizes.
Neither of the children have facilities for reheating, so it needs to be things that can be eaten cold.
Thanks!