Weekly brown bag lunch ideas

Peanut Butter. Most kids love it. Many will take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school every single day from kindergarten until college if they can. But we Moms and Dads get tired of making the same old sandwich every day! Here’s some ideas for putting a twist on the traditional PB&J.

Breads: [...]

Kids Lunch Box Cards

KidsLunchBoxCards are the newest kid-tested and Mom-approved way to drop a goodie into a lunch that adds laughter and excitement. KidsLunchBoxCards are like giving hugs and kisses in the middle of a school day. What could be better than that? Elaborately illustrated, they grab the whole lunch table’s attention.

The pack of five I got [...]

Check out some amazing cakes!

FamilyFun.com is hosting a “Best Cake Face Off” where everyday bakers have submitted their most creative, crafty and delicious cakes and put them to the test. These one of a kind cakes stretch from Princess Fun to Incredible Edibles, and everything in between but in the end only one cake can be the fan [...]

Menu Monday September 1-5

My boys start school tomorrow, which means my weekly menus will now include a brown bag lunch meal. Kaitlyn and I will eat the same things as the boys, just at home. My lunches this week are coming mainly from the book “Brown Bag Success-Making Lunches Your Kids Won’t Trade”, by Sandra K. Nissenberg, MS, [...]

Brown Bag Lunch Tip-A twist on traditional sandwiches

There’s no rule that says sandwiches have to be made on bread. Any kind of sandwich filling, from meat and cheese to peanut butter and jelly can be made with the following:

Flour tortillas-spread with fillings, roll up, then roll in Glad Press N Seal or place in a baggie

Pita Bread-Fresh pitas are better [...]

Brown bag lunches your kids will eat! (2008 edition)

The first edition of this post was so popular last year, and is still bringing me search traffic (hi Googlers! Welcome to MomCooks!) that I am reposting the recipes along with some new information. Ever since my oldest son started all-day kindergarten, I’ve been on a quest to find brown bag lunch ideas that are [...]

Keep lunches organized with Labels!

Well, whether we like it or not, summer is coming to an end and it’s time to start thinking about back to school plans, including the dreaded (at least for me) routine of packing school lunches. This year I am determined to make school lunch packing easier on both myself and the boys by [...]

Funky Monkey Freeze Dried Fruit

There is so much to love about the new Freeze Dried Fruit packs from Funky Monkey Snacks! I admit, I am terrible about remembering to eat fruit, even though I do love the taste of most of it. Funky Monkey takes delicious fruits and freeze dries them to make them easy to pack, easy to [...]

Pretzel-Crusted Chicken Fingers and Zucchini Sticks

From the March issue of Everday With Rachael Ray (on newsstands February 12th) comes this kid-friendly recipe! Rachael says:

“My Pretzel-Crusted Chicken Breasts, published in Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats is on of the most popular recipes I’ve ever written over in the last decade (and I’ve written literally thousands!). Here, I’m turning the [...]

Make your own Lunchables!

I saw this post on Simple Daily Recipes from Jill, who served her kids crackers, meat, cheese and a squirt of cream cheese on top, and called them “Mom’s Munchables”. Her kids loved them! And it got me thinking, why not make my own Lunchables? What I think kids like most about those is the [...]