Sharing some of my favorite ideas for teenage!
Hi friends! What are you doing? I hope you have a wonderful morning until now. I have packaged this week with podcast and customer calls – here we are gooooo – because the pilot is home and can assume Homeschool duties.
For today’s post, I wanted to share some ideas for teenagers. I do the girls’ meals every day and I like to put them together. The LIV school offers a warm meal, which is an excerpt from different fast food restaurants, but is extremely expensive (such as $ 20 for chick-fil-a) and do not even keep the food warm before serving it. So, for quality and cost reasons, I continue to make their food here at home.
Last year, I will sometimes open the Liv’s Lunchbox to wash it, and enough of it would still be here.
“Why didn’t you eat lunch? Aren’t you hungry at noon? “
“I’m a little hungry, but sometimes I don’t really want a bagel or sandwich … I would like a meal.”
‘A meal? As you mean? “
“Like Ramen, chicken or salad or something.”
That threw my mind. I was still a kind of packaging of “small kids”. Don’t get me wrong, they still look good and had a lot of tasty and healthy ingredients, but they wanted a real meal instead of a bagel or pb & j. It was a huge moment of the lamp for me because I would feel the same way. I don’t like to eat the same cold things every day, and for lunch, I often prefer a * meal * instead of a bagel or pb & j.
[And for the friends out there who might be wondering why she didn’t pack her own lunch, she was dancing 10+ hours a week last year across town and had hours of homework each night. It’s also one of those things that I’m happy to do for them – I enjoy it!]
I started asking her about lunch ideas and take her to Costco and Whole Foods with me to choose things that look good on her. Now I do * for lunch that is still just as fast as making a pb & j or bagel, but they are more satisfying and pleasant.
Here are some of the things that are in the rotation:
Packed ideas for lunch for a teenager
Main course:
Pasta salad
This is the best pasta salad in the world and you can do it in advance to enjoy all week.
Chopped salad with homemade dress
LIV loves a chopped salad and I will usually add different types of grass, protein (such as remaining chicken or sliced deli turkey), Garbanzo beans, edamame, artichokes or asparagus, grated cheese, olives, vegetables and homemade dressing.
Jennifer Aniston Salad
We all love this salad And it’s so easy to pack for lunch with roasted chicken on top.
Egg
These can also be done in advance and frozen. We all love these Mediterranean eggs or these Starbucks Copycat egg bites.
Ramen or buldok
He loves Ramen and it doesn’t matter to eat it cold/room temperature, so I’ll do it the night before and hold it in a glass container.
Chicken roast in slices with sauces and rice
I will often have lunch for preparation chicken or meatballs and pack them at lunch with a ranch or barbecue sauce for a dip.
Ravioli with olive oil and grated cheese on top
Pre-squabble the ravioli, olive oil at the top and grated Parmegiano reggiano.
Pizza
It is so easy to complete and pack a few pieces of pizza
Leftovers
It’s funny because I hate the remains as a child, but the girls love them. Sometimes after dinner I will ask Liv what I can pack it for lunch and ask if we have residues from our meal. If we do it, I’m just packing them to go. Things such as lasagna, enchiladas, grandfather, chili or beef and mix potatoes are all the options he wanted to pack and get for lunch.
Greek cups with pie bread
Rice, chicken, hummus, Greek salad, grapes and pie leaves
Sides:
Homemade energy balls
Fruit
I will wash, cut and prepare a ton of fruit for the week, since we all love the snack in it. I usually buy what is in season, so it’s recently berries (strawberries, raspberries, raspberries), grapes, some types of melon and pineapple. I dip the berries in vinegar and water for 2-5 minutes and let them dry completely before storing in glass containers. Also cut the melon and pineapple and stored in glass containers.
Spasmodic
Chips-Boulder, Siete, or Jackson’s is Go-Tos, but also loves Taki’s sometimes or Trader’s Copycat Taki
Dried fruit or fruit strips
Poshi veggie packages
Sliced vegetables with hummus
Cheese
Yogurt with fruit on top
Homemade cookies, brownies, bar or some chocolate for dessert
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So tell me, friends: What do you like your teens to eat for lunch? How’s the hot lunch situtaion in your school?
At LIV Kindergarten in San Diego, they had the best hot meal choices. You could order sushi (!), Acai bowls, caesar salads, soups, sandwiches, it was ridiculous.
xo
Tiger
