Batch Cooking for School Lunches: How Prepping in Advance Makes Mornings a Breeze

[beccahs]

I can’t even get my head around which days they have PE.

 

[abide_in_jesus]

I think this is fab. Thanks for sharing. I am more of a run round like a headless chicken making sure I haven't forgotten anything. Only to leave a school bag at home etc.

 

[dfqueen]

Aaah memories (and not good ones) of the terms worth of frozen sandwiches I "enjoyed" through my school years. Even better in the winter when they've not *quite* defrosted before lunch.
I bought food flasks, and make larger dinners and freeze in suitable portions (if they don't want it the next day), then they get an easy hot lunch in no time.

 

[william0157]

School dinners or a slapped together sandwich and a bruised banana for the win

 

[sparrow7]

Nothing. I leave it all to the night before just so I can do a bit more rushing around . Never make lunches the night before though. Thats done in the morning.

 

[chickenriceboy]

Could i have the recipe for quiche please

 

[eyeman]

Brings back awful memories, I was the only kid in class who had to put my lunch on the radiator

 

[clementpulaski]

@eyeman omg that’s grim

 

[eyeman]

@clementpulaski It was cheap white bread and that awful paste stuff

 

[clementpulaski]

@eyeman I actually used to like chicken paste sandwiches when I was a kid no idea the time saved on freezing paste sandwiches I mean it’s in a jar how time consuming can it be ??

 

[eyeman]

@clementpulaski put it this way, the person responsible set the table for herself and my Dad and left me out

 

[clementpulaski]

@eyeman oh dear they sound lovely! (NOT)no accounting for some people

 

[malyka]

@eyeman I had frozen sandwiches with meat paste too. I mentioned it to my parents recently and they looked puzzled, then said 'oh, the paté' ! They were sometimes still frozen at lunch...

 

[blazingtruth]

We do ham and onion (they are mine) and my husband does chicken buns (cooks a full chicken and dependable on size gets at least.a.week.sometimes more and freezes them. Take them out night before. Don't go soggy. I put salad cream on my ham and onion buns.after they have defrosted

 

[deusapps]

My 11yr old has started making her own lunch this year, she gets dressed has breakfast, finishes getting ready and packs her own lunch, although she will ask me to make her sandwich or wrap xx

 

[moses9000]

I really thought this was going to end with “and within an hour, the family had eaten the lot. Why do I bother?!” Just me then

 

[michael62]

@moses9000 nope me too

 

[blackbite10]

@moses9000 I thought she was going to say and they all hated it and moaned

 

[cerulean]

@moses9000 me too

 

[tr1ggerhappy22]

@moses9000 me too