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Comments

[mekkio]

Who is going to school on Monday, is already going to school at this moment or has kids starting out?

What are you doing for school lunches? Buying, making or skipping?

I need ideas for boxed lunches! I love bento style lunches but I have never tried my hand at them. Does anyone here do them? What do you suggest? Tips? Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in Texas and my kids started two weeks ago. I wish I had lunch ideas for you but kids have to eat school lunches here. I take my lunch to work with me but I just always eat whatever is left over from the night before.

[mekkio]

Two weeks ago? Wow. When were they let out for vacation?

[(Anonymous)]

We moved here over the summer but I think they got out in late May. My kids had their last day June 21st so they had a very short summer (as they've reminded me countless times already).

[deadtree]

weird! I'm in Texas also and school starts Monday.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait.

Kids have to eat school lunches? As in...it's compulsory?

And you're in Texas?

What?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going back to school not this Monday but the week after, after a two-year interruption. It already feels weird...

I plan on making my own sandwiches, maybe packing a salad, but nothing as fancy as a bento, alas.

[(Anonymous)]

I make my own lunches. I'm not very creative about it tho. I always pack a small salad and put some extras for it in little containers, like almond slices and dressing. I usually have a small grilled chicken breast that I cook the night before but if I don't I take a hard boiled egg with me. I don't like sweets but I like yogurt and fruit, so I take little containers of that with me. I just buy the big things of vanilla yogurt and in the morning I cut up fruit to be added in later or I pack some berries.

[morieris]

I started on Tuesday...starts at 730 AM, but I get out at 1215.

Usually I just take some homemade iced coffee and a snack and eat at home.

[(Anonymous)]

How do you make your iced coffee? I thought it was just normal coffee + ice but then someone told me that was wrong, so I'm all confused.

[morieris]

I make the coffee and then stick it in the fridge overnight with some vanilla or hazelnut creamer.

It's cold, and there's ice in it, so it's all iced to me!

[tamabonotchi]

I just had my first week.
I usually pack a sandwich + fruit (especially since my schedule is short this semester) but I bought food twice because I forgot to pack food and my friend kinda forced to go out to eat.
For bento-style stuff, you can do things like rolling sandwiches, octopus hot dogs, leftovers if you can microwave...

[(Anonymous)]

I am going to start taking lunches next week. I'm planning on things I can make/eat easily. Fried rice, bagel sandwiches, veggie salads, meat salads, crackers & cheese. I want to do bento, but I'm too lazy to cut carrots into cute designs, so I just shred everything together and call it done.

[nan]

I just had my first week and I usually go home to eat (or if I'm going straight from school to work, grab some fast food).

[(Anonymous)]

Does college count? 'Cause I'm gong back to that Monday.

And...I generally just go home between classes and eat there.

[fandomonymous]

It's my first day teaching! OH GOD.

[tabaqui]

My daughter starts school on monday (Jr in high school) and she *needs* to take lunches, but she can never seem to think of/decide on anything she really likes. And she *cannot* skip lunches, she did that a lot last year and ended feeling sick and getting headaches because of it.

It's very frustrating. And she says the school lunches are gross and won't eat them.

[(Anonymous)]

Getting sick and headachy from lack of food sounds like a blood sugar issue. Might be time for a check-up with your physician to make sure your daughter isn't borderline diabetic. In the meantime, maybe an assortment of snack foods? Lighter on carbs, plenty of protein/vegetables to keep her going.

[(Anonymous)]

Late to the thread, but hopefully you will get this in your notifs.

http://m.recipebridge.com/r/bento-recipes

http://justbento.com/recipes

This was a good blog, but hasn't been updated in a while, the older recipes are good though:

http://www.aibento.net/

Tumblr has nice pics, dunno about recipes:

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/bento

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going back to school next monday. I haven't been in school for three years, I'm in a new city, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, and I'm just. terrified.

[pantswarrior]

I work for a college and our summer hours end today. Which means no more mandatory Fridays off - they give us three-day weekends all summer to save costs on air conditioning the campus buildings. ;)

I'm actually glad about this though - I'm part-time flex, so I can still give myself a three-day weekend every week as long as I get my work in earlier. Or if something happens and I can't work on, say, Tuesday, I can make up the hours on Friday. Whew. Also hoping that once classes actually start, we'll be busy enough that they'll give me more to do than bum around looking for broken links on the website. :D

Lunches... I have always been boring and just made a peanut butter and [jam/apple/banana/raisin/nutella/whatever] sandwich, so I'm kind of useless in that department.

[(Anonymous)]

My kid starts in another week or so, and eats school lunch (and breakfast.) At one time she took brown bags or a lunch box to school, with the classic brown bag fare. PBJ's, ham and cheese, apple, juice box, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

In college (first 2 years) I made sandwiches and brought those, fruit, granolas bars. I lived at home so I tried to bring leftovers when I could.

I switched to a bigger uni in a different city and still did the sandwich/fruit etc thing. Boring, but cheap. Went home for lunch a lot too. I saved leftovers for the next night's dinner so I'd only have to cook every other day.

[(Anonymous)]

For bentos, start off simply just to see if you'll like it. Resist the urge to buy a fancy bento box off Jlist or something silly like that, because they're expensive and not always practical. Your basic plastic tupperware-style container with a tight-fitting lid will work fine for your first attempt. Lots of places sell these types of lunch boxes now for less than $10, some with removable ice packs.

I tend to think of a bento as a tiny dinner with protein, starch and vegetable components. It doesn't have to be all Japanese, of course, but a lot of people like to be traditional like that. Feel free to start off with a sandwich + some extra goodies: deviled egg, a bit of hummus and carrot sticks, some edamame, candy/chocolate, etc. For a more Japanese-style, maybe pork/chicken nuggets (rolled in panko!), rice, some tonkatsu sauce in a little side bottle (or drizzled over your rice), some steamed sugar snap peas tossed in a bit of soy sauce/sesame oil, etc.

It can be a bit more work, but a lot of fun. Personally, I find it's easier to pack it the night before, but that depends on what you want to put in it. Have fun! :)