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Once a month, our family spends a day with the Franciscans. We could really use some suggestions for what to pack for lunch. We bring cold cuts, but, month after month? 
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Hi Helen, how about Teriyaki Chicken Wraps?? You can buy pre-cooked teriyaki chicken in the freezer section, just thaw, and cut into strips, wrap in a tortilla with some white rice and there you go! You can also add a little more teriyaki sauce to the rice and a little cilantro if you want a flavor boost. If it's lots of children attending, you might just try plain 
Vegitarian Note: You could also do this with Tofu if you'd rather not have chicken!
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we field trip almost every friday and after packing sandwiches that my kids are too busy to finish, i now pack finger foods like:
yogurt tubes
cubed cheese
carrots and dip
pretzel rods
fruit leather
pickles
grape tomatoes
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Hi Helen,
For a portable lunch we like "pizza bread," which is basically pizza fixings (sauce, cheese and maybe scrambled hamburger) wrapped up and baked inside calzone dough. It slices nicely and is delicious cold .
You can buy the dough pre-made, although it's not hard to make yourself, especially if you have a bread machine.
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Hey Helen!
Some of our best on-the-road lunches have been the most impromptu. The kids immediately recalled our afternoon on the Erie Canal. We finished the boat tour, then drove over to lock 18 to watch the boats go through from the edge. We had no food in the car (or so I thought), but no one wanted to leave for lunch. The kids looked in the cooler, and found peanut butter, jam, and Ritz crackers, which meant a long leisurely lunch as the boats floated up and down the lock.
I would not do that every day, but as an occasional treat, everything fits on a Ritz (but not all together at the same time  ):
cream cheese, cheddar, jam, cucumbers, small shaped cold cuts (the kids can use cookie cutters to shape them), nutella, almond butter, apple butter, fruit slices, sardines, salmon or smelt roe (my kids will eat the strangest things, but often shun the ordinary), tuna, egg salad...
Also, on cold days, a large thermos or two with soup, ramen or hot steamed rice would be a nice treat. One night at Jones Beach I just brought my Coleman stove and made soup. Alice brought the bread. It was a feast.
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Thank you!
All the suggestions are very helpful.
I am delighted. (Does this emoticon look delighted or over caffeinated?)
(Let him blink once or twice before you decide.)
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MacBeth wrote:
| Also, on cold days, a large thermos or two with soup, ramen or hot steamed rice would be a nice treat. One night at Jones Beach I just brought my Coleman stove and made soup. Alice brought the bread. It was a feast. |
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That really was fantastic, MacBeth--soup on a chilly, yet comfortable, beach with a telescope and an enthusiastic group of young astronomers!
Helen, one of the things I like to do is bring a hunk of cheddar cheese, French baguette, butter, grape tomatoes, crackers, mustard, and apples, pears or grapes. There is absolutely no preparation involved apart from throwing it all in a basket and remembering a knife. When we arrive at our destination, we all share this feast at our leisure, usually with plenty to share with friends. On chilly mornings, a thermos full of tea is a comforting addition, especially if I have time to make vanilla milk to go in it.
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Helen,
I don't know how old your kids are...this may be too "immature". But I like to pack a lot of the finger foods mentioned above in foil cup cake pans. I get the kind for six cupcakes (they usually come in packs of 3) fill each spot with a different fingerfood (I try to make sure there are peanuts or cheese cubes or something that has protien) and cover it with foil. The kids think it's a great thing! Sort of like a home made "lunchable"!
(P.S. - I love your "Castle of the Immaculate" site!!!
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| On chilly mornings, a thermos full of tea is a comforting addition, especially if I have time to make vanilla milk to go in it. |
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Oooh, vanilla tea! I have to ask how you make this delicious-sounding tea, Alice! I've used vanilla sugar before, but what is the vanilla milk you to add it?
Helen, another nice lunch-on-the-go meal is muffins with meat and cheese, like a cheddar/corn muffin with bits of diced ham or chicken. I used to have a recipe for these, but I would think a basic corn muffin recipe would be easy to adapt.
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| Oooh, vanilla tea! I have to ask how you make this delicious-sounding tea, Alice! I've used vanilla sugar before, but what is the vanilla milk you to add it? |
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I take milk (maybe about a cup), put it in a saucepan, and simmer gently with about a teaspoon or so of vanilla extract for a few minutes. This could also be done with a fresh vanilla bean, although I've never tried it that way. The milk takes on a delicious flavor and aroma that makes the tea very appealing to kids. You still need sugar of course!
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alicegunther wrote:
MacBeth wrote:
| Also, on cold days, a large thermos or two with soup, ramen or hot steamed rice would be a nice treat. One night at Jones Beach I just brought my Coleman stove and made soup. Alice brought the bread. It was a feast. |
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That really was fantastic, MacBeth--soup on a chilly, yet comfortable, beach with a telescope and an enthusiastic group of young astronomers!
Helen, one of the things I like to do is bring a hunk of cheddar cheese, French baguette, butter, grape tomatoes, crackers, mustard, and apples, pears or grapes. There is absolutely no preparation involved apart from throwing it all in a basket and remembering a knife. When we arrive at our destination, we all share this feast at our leisure, usually with plenty to share with friends. On chilly mornings, a thermos full of tea is a comforting addition, especially if I have time to make vanilla milk to go in it. |
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both of these suggestions sound fantastic! i'm only sorry i don't have a field trip this week so that i could try them out.
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Alice,
The warm vanilla milk was a huge success today at tea time! The kid's interest in herbal teas was waning. We had some hot apple cider recently. But, the vanilla milk - has brought tea back to the table. 
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Oh, I'm so glad, Helen! My children really love it too, and it cools to the exact temperature kids love--just hot enough, but not scalding--when packed in a thermos.
You might also like two of our other favorites--"Blackcurrant" from Twinings and "Nutcracker Sweet" from Celestial Seasons. Nutcracker Sweet is seasonal, but we all loved it so much that I ordered a dozen boxes directly from the manufacturer!
Neither variety is decaf though, I'm afraid!
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Gang, I am bumping up this thread started by Helen last year because the season for packed lunches is upon our family.
I am looking, not only for ideas for good, healthy, easy lunches on the go, but also for packing supplies for a large family--what are your favorite lunch boxes, picnic paskets, tablecloths, tupperware containers, and thermoses? Please give me ideas on getting lunch out the door efficiently.
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Okay, I just read the whole way through this thread NOT realizing that it was last years Still great info.
Thanks for the tea suggestions, I was going to ask for some since we've finished the Celestial Seasonings Gingerbread and Sugar Cookie recommended by Dawn during Advent.
My boys are still at the hot chocolate stage but I think I'll try the vanilla milk for me, thanks Alice
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well since I wasn't here last year
a mexican layer dip with tortilla chips makes a nice lunch (make it with or without meat) I got two shallow rectangle tupperware type dishes to make this in.
fried chicken
cornish pasties (some sort of bread - yeast dough, biscuit dough, pie crust - rolled into circles and put a filling in the middle and pinch closed and bake. For filling you can use about anything I like something with beef, potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage all cooked up together with a bit of a gravy around it. the cabbage keeps it moist.. they're wonderful hot but still good cold)
and I just heard about but haven't tried pizza rolls. You make them up like cinnamon rolls.. use a roll recipe and roll out the dough, spread with sauce, mozzarella cheese and whatever toppings you like pepperoni for instance.. roll it up.. cut into slices and bake.
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Great to see you, Kelly, and Jodie, your ideas sound so delicious that I want a cornish pasty right this very minute. How do you find the time to prepare it? Do you have a set schedule for making lunches in advance?
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I make it for dinner and just make ALOT.. then we can have them leftover as lunches.
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Jodie, that sounds a lot like Empanadas which we regularly take on picnics around here (only watch out for strange dogs off-leashes, they LOVE empanadas too!)
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michelle they are.. quite a few cultures have similar.. pierogis are another.. I'm thinking there was an Italian one other than ravioli.
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