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Jazzed Up Bag Lunches - 13 Ways to Turn
HUM-DRUM into YUM!
by Maxine Sprague
Description: Bag lunches get boring when they're the same day after day. Spice them up with one of these creative additions and make your child's day.
100 lunches into the school year and you've run out of ideas
to pack in them and your child has run out of enthusiasm to eat
them. Don't give up, you are halfway there. Use these quick and
easy ideas to perk up the old brown bag.
1. Include a tricky food riddle. "What did the tomato say to
his friend? You go ahead. I'll ketchup."
2. Write a special note. "Thank you for cleaning your locker
and returning all the containers and spoons from last month's
lunches."
3. Pop in a funky new pencil, cool gel pen, eraser or shaped
notepad.
4. Round up some unusual eating utensils such as measuring
spoons, baby spoons
or chopsticks.
5. Slip in a colorful paper or cloth napkin to celebrate a
special day such as Valentines Day.
6. Personalize a paper lunch sack with colorful stickers and
markers centered around a theme of interest to your child such as
animals, sports or hobbies.
7. Make a fabric lunch bag using colorful cloth cut in a
holiday shape such as an Easter Egg or heart.
8. Bake pizza in a square shape. Add sauce, cheese, green
pepper strips for X's, and Pepperoni for O's.
9. Make millennium bugs using celery spread with cheese.
Stick in shaped pretzels for butterfly wings, raisins for eyes
and dry chow mein noodles for antennae.
10. Mix cinnamon and sugar in a salt shaker and shake onto
buttered toast. Cut the toast into wedges, long thin pieces or
use a cookie cutter to cut out a holiday shape from the center.
11. Celebrate 100 days of school by stringing 100 doughnut
shaped dry cereal pieces onto a licorice lace and tie in a knot
to make a yummy necklace.
12. Bag up a bunch of grated carrot, slices of celery,
cucumber, green pepper and a handful of raisins. For a dressing,
mix a small amount of cream, a dash of vinegar, salt, pepper and
sugar to pour into the bag and toss before eating.
13. Ask your child to suggest something they would love to
find when they open their lunch bag and add it to your grocery
list right now before you forget.
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