What do you pack for your kid's lunch?

Get a high quality Thermos, and you can send all sorts of stuff. Pasta, gumbo, jambalaya, and soups all stay plenty warm for my kids. The key is to put boiling water in there to heat it up then dump and it'll stay warm for hours and hours.

My kids probably eat sandwiches 2 or 3 times a week, and the other days are some sort of hot food like the above.

Usually leftover meat, sliced avocado with lime juice (freshness), cut fruit, and a pumpkin muffin (we make these every week for the kids.

Sometimes little kabobs of cheese and olives, too.

Once a week they get a giant cobb salad.

Once a week they get a sandwich of their choice.

All packed in a lunch bot.

Lunch Bots

Sandwiches, Cold cut rollups (on a tortilla), chicken nuggets, corn dogs, Spaghetti-O's in a thermos, Mac & Cheese with a little ham/turkey thrown in. Occasionally, I'll send a taco if we have some leftover.

I don't do the packaged lunchables, but I will buy some decent ham sliced thick (usually the Hormel Cure 81 Hams) and slice into squares- send a few ritz crackers and some sliced cheese, and you have a home made lunchable that's probably cheaper and definitely better quality ingredients.

All of the above come with some type of fruit or a fruit cup/apple sauce. I don't put anything sweet in my kids lunch box because they're always getting donuts, candy, and other junk food either in class or at after care.

I brought a lunch almost every day growing up, and it was a cold cut sandwich (tuna fish on Fridays in lent), fruit, a few chips, dessert and a drink.

You can send them Hi-C or Capri Sun- I found a couple of decent washable water bottles and fill them up with either water or lemonade I made at home.