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Easy lunches for the busy back to school / work season

SUMMER'S OVER - The back-to-school season can feel like a whirlwind, and packing lunch often ends up at the bottom of the list. These easy lunch ideas are quick to put together, travel well, and will actually get eaten. They’re a mix of healthy, fun, and filling options that keep kids energized and make life easier for parents.

Who on the DL is going to make these over Labor Day weekend to pack those lunch bags Tuesday morning?

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by Anonymousreply 30August 29, 2025 11:55 PM

This isn’t a mommy blog. Fuck off frau or Frau best friend.

by Anonymousreply 1August 27, 2025 11:08 PM

R1 You don't pack a lunch for work ? You're not aware that there are members on this forum that have children?

You're a shut-in, aren't you ? You can be honest with us.

by Anonymousreply 2August 27, 2025 11:13 PM

R2 Im sure there is very very small minority of posters with grade school kids, mostly fraus. I guess maybe a handful of married gay men. I feel like most of the gays who post with children, are divorced and their kids are now adults. Most of the lesbians who post here always say they’re childless.

I am most definitely not a shut in, you dumb cunt. Shall we take a poll?

by Anonymousreply 3August 27, 2025 11:19 PM

Anyone who needs a recipe to fix any of those lunches should probably stick to buying their lunch.

by Anonymousreply 4August 27, 2025 11:22 PM

The shrimp in particular will travel well in the lunch sack.

by Anonymousreply 5August 27, 2025 11:32 PM

R5 In one of those temp controlled lunch packs it would. No one uses a brown paper bag anymore. Lunch sacks have come a long, long, way and it's a big business.

by Anonymousreply 6August 27, 2025 11:46 PM

Am I reading my mom's Good Housekeeping from 1982?

by Anonymousreply 7August 27, 2025 11:53 PM

R7 Why would you be reading your Mom's GH magazines at all ?

by Anonymousreply 8August 28, 2025 12:02 AM

Kids loving eating shrimp and rice in their school lunches.

by Anonymousreply 9August 28, 2025 12:20 AM

Are you trying to kill the children?!?!?!

by Anonymousreply 10August 28, 2025 12:41 AM

I memba when I changed form private to public elementary schools. My bougie ass was stranding my lunch with the projectish chirren’. Though most of the student body was more upper echelon than me, on paper.

by Anonymousreply 11August 28, 2025 12:42 AM

Trading not stranding

by Anonymousreply 12August 28, 2025 12:42 AM

Office workers love reheating shrimp in the break room microwave.

by Anonymousreply 13August 28, 2025 12:42 AM

If you're packing shrimp for lunch, thank God Labor Day is upon us and the controversial no white pants after kicks in.

by Anonymousreply 14August 28, 2025 12:43 AM

Back to school? Really?

by Anonymousreply 15August 28, 2025 12:43 AM

I fondly remember preparing zip-lock baggies of hearty soups and stews for my son Blairedon.

Sure, some kids made fun of his endive salads, but his poops were judged the healthiest by our school nurse!

by Anonymousreply 16August 28, 2025 12:45 AM

This Megan

by Anonymousreply 17August 28, 2025 12:46 AM

OMG thanks SO MUCH for all these super helpful kiddo lunch ideas!! I can’t wait to try them!!

by Anonymousreply 18August 28, 2025 3:27 AM

As a child, I carted lunch meat sandwiches to school in a lunch bag, slathered with mayonnaise, and completely unrefrigerated for hours until lunchtime. Strangely, I don't remember any cases of severe stomach consequences. Now I don't dare. I don't work normal hours, so I do brown bag it, but almost always something that can sit out, such as a PB and J sandwich and an apple.

by Anonymousreply 19August 28, 2025 5:29 AM

My sister froze juice boxes to act as refrigerant in her kids' lunches

by Anonymousreply 20August 28, 2025 5:55 AM

R19 Same with me ! Life was so simple back then.

by Anonymousreply 21August 28, 2025 11:37 AM

Most kids will throw that stuff in the trash, claim they ate it, but just cadge pizza and snacks from their friends.

by Anonymousreply 22August 28, 2025 11:49 AM

You'll have peanut butter and jelly on Wonder bread and you'll LIKE it.

by Anonymousreply 23August 28, 2025 3:55 PM

Not a single one of those recipes looks like anything that would be appropriate for any school-age child's lunch.

by Anonymousreply 24August 28, 2025 3:56 PM

Sounds like leftovers. When I was given leftovers my grandmother slipped me a dew bucks to buy some cafeteria food.

by Anonymousreply 25August 28, 2025 4:28 PM

Not even rice looks like couscous. Awful dragging stinky shrimps out on a communal table.

by Anonymousreply 26August 28, 2025 9:19 PM

Stealth Gerg thread.

by Anonymousreply 27August 28, 2025 9:22 PM

Are you a mom who's always on the go? Grab a line of cocaine and suppress that appetite until dinner time. You can fix your husband a drink looking slim and healthy!

by Anonymousreply 28August 29, 2025 10:22 PM

Lunchtime favorite

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by Anonymousreply 29August 29, 2025 10:47 PM

Tell me, what is this thing you call “lunch”? Will it bring my mama back? Please!

by Anonymousreply 30August 29, 2025 11:55 PM
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