My family is big, sort of. When I’m in public people stare, but when I’m at homeschool coop I can say I “only” have 5 children. Most of them have 7-12. The point is, leftovers are becoming scarce. Leftovers used to be my lunch stand by, just warm it up and eat. Lately, I’ve been cooking a brand new meal for lunch. Now that our homeschool has started, it needs to be fast and filling. Here are 33 ideas for lunches that I can make quickly or start the night before in the slow cooker. Do you have any ideas to add? Please add your favorite lunch as a comment.
1 Egg Sandwiches with fried egg, bacon, and cheese
2 Egg Salad Sandwiches on bread, pitas, or buns
3 Egg Burritos plain or with sausage
4 Creamed eggs over freezer biscuits
5 Frittata
6 Breakfast casserole
7 Southwest grilled chicken salad pitas
8 Chicken salad in cheese puffs
9Tuna salad on bread, buns, or pitas
10 Banana dogs, banana with peanut butter and jelly on a whole wheat hot dog bun
11 Hot Dogs
12 Macaroni and cheese, plain or with tuna or hot dogs stirred in
13 Chili over baked potatoes
14 Baked breaded vegetable nuggets
15 Crumb coated cheese and rice balls with marinara dipping sauce
16 BBQ meatballs and baked fries
17 BBQ beef baked in biscuit dough in a muffin tin
18 Pizza toppings baked in biscuit dough in a muffin tin
19 Hamburger bun or English Muffin mini pizzas
20 Homemade chicken nuggets
21 Ham and cheese pockets (with small rounds of pizza dough folded in half and baked
22 Jack Mackerel Patties
23 Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
24 Grilled burritoes
25 Tostadas
26 Quesadillas, cheese, bean, pizza, or ham and cheese
27 Ranch veggie pizza
28 Croissant roll chicken pockets
29 Sausage gravy over freezer biscuits
30 BLTs
31 Submarine sandwiches, baked
32 chili
33 Potato soup
I also like sliced fruit, steamed peas, yogurt with granola and a slice of fresh bread as a quick lunch. We also mix sweet potato purée or white bean purée into the sauce for mac n cheese to add some nutritional value, and my kids like steamed peas mixed into their macaroni. For quesadillas we add chopped spinach leaves with the cheese and black beans, and I’ll spread white bean purée or hummus on the bottom of the tortilla before adding the other ingredients.
We usually have these ideas for dinner, but they’re pretty quick so they would work equally well for lunch I think – broccoli cheese soup & baked potatoes, sweet potato and black bean quesadillas or burritos (I usually bake the sweet potatoes in the crockpot while we’re at work). Good luck!!
I like to bring butterbeans. I know that sounds strange but I love them with a few pieces of ham or pork and some vinegar. As you can tell, I have a private office at work. My co-workers might not enjoy the aroma but they are low fat, high fiber, very inexpensive and give me energy midday.
We have 8 children,seven thet eat solids.We take a box of pasta-1lb. one can of inexpensive spaghetti sauce(I can usually pick that up for about $.69 about 3 times a year and I just stock up)Pour pasta into a greased casserole dish,pour in the sauce,add a can of water,some garlic salt,stir,cover and bake @ 350 for 45 min(while you are doing something else)Remove foil,sprinkle some cheese on top,return to oven and bake til melted.This feeds all of mine.Enjoy!!
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