Do any of yall moma's have lunch ideas that y'all use that don't need refrigerated or heated up and i could prepare on Sunday for the whole week or the night before? I don't want to keep sending my baby to school with the same old sandwiches with fruit/veggies and I'm not paying the school $10 a week for lunch. Also, they need to be healthy. I've searched online and everything is either so fancy or the food websites want you to subscribe before you see recipes/ideas and thats just ridiculous. I'm new to meal prep without fridge and microwave availability.
@hanahmarie2183 if you wanted to put left overs in they would be needing to be reheated, which would need the stove-top, crock pot, or toaster over, even a simple oven can reheat meals. I am sure schools even have microwaves in the teachers lounge, you could always tell your teacher your sitauction and ask if there is anyway you can have your daughter have her food heated up. Sometimes being creative is the only way, it's just heating up a meal, the teacher shouldn't get frustrated, she will go on lunch the same time the kids will so it's two birds with one stone.
@kami24706 left over dinners would need to be heated up, right? I've never ate cold left overs so i worry sending her with left overs and then itd upset her belly.
You could make soups and pack them in a thermos or give them crackers as a snack. Even give them sandwiches or yogurts? My mom used to freeze water bottles over night and pack them as ice packs in our lunches too keep certain foods cold and a lot of the time the ice pack is thawed enough to drink by lunch time. You could even pack spaghetti, Mac n cheese, etc. In containers for them to eat, I usually always took left overs for my meals at school. Mashed potatoes work too.