Just to show how I fall into the "too many choices" chasm, here is what I was doing for "summer" earlier today:
Lunchmeat, cheese, mustard and mayo, lettuce
Pringles singles
Potato salad, macaroni salad, tabouli; chicken/pasta/celery/bell/peas/ranch;
Salad-in-a-jar: taco salad; ceasar; cobb; layered; Nicoise:
http://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-id ... d-recipe/; mixed lettuce, berries, shred carrots, sl almonds, mandarin oranges, vinaigrette; feta, walnut, romaine, pear and pepper; romaine, pink lady apple, scallion, feta w 1T evoo, ½ lime, 1t honey, s and garlic pdr; “Staple” salad: romaine, baby toms, cuke, scallion, avo, bell, w 1T evoo, lemon/lime, s,p,garlic pdr – can add corn, chickpeas, black beans, feta, other cheese, chicken, tofu, chopped deli whatever…;
Cookies
Frozen sandwiches: Pb&j – jelly goes between 2 pb; buttered bread filled with chicken, sh cheese and a little mayo; buttered bread with ham, mayo, mustard, then cheese; (keep “sandwich kits” of lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, to throw in)
Sandwich kits: containers with fresh spinach, lettuce, sliced bells, sl scallions, sl zuch, sl cuke, msh,
Other containers w: handful of grapes, carrots, celery, radish, hard-boiled eggs, crackers, pretzels,
Cold fried chicken or meatloaf with coop kale salad
Cucumber water; lemonade; limeade;
Broccoli, bacon, almond,
Wraps: chicken, yogurt/mayo, mustard, toasted pecans, dry crans, celery, onion, lemon, sprouts; BLT w chicken; turkey, moz, baby toms, basil or romaine; Italian sub sandwich pinwheels#;
Cottage cheese; cheesestick; individual yogurts;
Pickles, picnic eggs,
Coleslaw, carrot salad,
Hot dogs
bread on a stick, bedder chedder,
tomatoes, red onion, mayo (or hummus) sandwich; avo, sprout, red onion, hummus, tom, cuke sandwich; chicken salad; egg salad; cuke and butter on plain bread; avo, mini toms, romaine leaf, feta crumbles;
crackers, chicken salad, grapes
cold soup: borscht, cucumber,
kabobs: meat, toms, bells, onions, mshr,
melon, berries, fruit salad, rainbow fruit kabob: rasp, grapefruit sq, orange sq, banana, kiwi, blueberry; watermelon, blueberries and pineapple chunks; (use straws or coffee stirrers or skewers); watermelon, pineapple, berries, red grapes, lemon jc;
cold pies like chocolate cream; lemon meringue;
popsicles
watermelon jello or pie?
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/cool ... pie?cpi=36dips with raw veggie and chipss: ranch, spinach, salsa, bean
M&M’s, cracker jacks,
Smoothies: berries, vanilla yogurt, lemon jc, berry juice, cinnamon; berries, carrots, almond milk; any fruit, plain yogurt, apple or pineapple jc;
Breakfasts: overnight oats (1/4 c oats, ½ c yogurt/milk/water, ½ banana, blueberries/str, honey; frozen waffles with berries/jam;
Trail mix: 1T dry cran, 10 peanuts, 1T choc chips, 10 almonds, 10 cashews, 2T pepitas, 1T sunflower seeds
Grab and go 3 holed containers: fruit, salad, main
* nectarine slices and grapes; garbanzos and baby toms; slices of chicken w crackers and cheese
* pb&j triangles; baby carrots; fish crackers
* crackers with laughing cow cheese triangle; trail mix; fried chicken/ toms/ sliced cuke or zucchini
* fruit salad (no whip); hard-boiled egg; crackers/cheese kabobs on toothpicks: cheese, meat, cheese
* “baby” hot dog octopi with fruit skewers on bed of let; pretzels; brownie
* crackers, meat (summer sausage) and cheese slices, tube of trail mix or granola bar, fresh cuke slices, pasta salad
* bbq chicken legs, bell and carrots strips, baked potato!, cookie
* sandwich, carrots, grapes, pretzels, cookie
* tortilla/s, taco meat (w corn, black beans, green chilies),let, sh cheese, salsa; tortilla chips
* cheese quesadilla, cuke and carrots, granola bar, frozen yogurt squeezer
* Frozen pb&j, granola bar, grapes, pretzels
* cheese and bacon quiches, mini blueberry muffins, strb and yogurt
* “baby sub”, pretzels, veg sticks, granola bar, fruit
* ravioli, carrot and bell sticks w dip, garlic breadsticks
* baby pancakes (sweetness cooked in), bananas and strb, sausage bites
* meatloaf, potato salad, watermelon
* cheeseburger wraps,
* corn dog muffins!, Wrapped salad (romaine leaf w lunchmeat and cheese strips)
Throw in tangerines, grapes, watermelon, apples
MANLY LUNCHBOX:
* chili w cheese or hotdogs; oatmeal or pb cookies
* chicken sandwich w cheese and hot peppers, baby toms, berries/watermelon, chips
* fried chicken, baked pot, corn on cob; pineapple chunks
* Leftover pizza, celery w pb, dried papaya
* Veggie PR Special w rice, baby toms, ch onion, banana chips
* pepper jack cheese with cotto salami, trail mix, crackers (bagel bites)
* fried chicken, potato salad, watermelon, hard-boiled egg (picnic), oreos
*egg salad sandwich, pickle, cheese and cotto salami