*Turkey & Cheese - we made turkey roll-ups (take a piece of string cheese and cut it in half, then wrap 2 pieces of turkey around each half and roll!), turkey & cheese subs on hoagie rolls, Hawaiian rolls, flatwiches, and tortilla wraps.
*Ham & Cheese - we had cubes of ham and cheese for kabobs, and also deli-sliced ham for sandwiches, hoagies, flatwiches, etc.
* Salami & Cheese - we made roll-ups (wrap the salami around sections of string cheese) along with sandwiches and Italian tortilla wraps.
* Peanut Butter & Jelly - we put this on tortillas (I swear that tastes better than you think, your kids will love it!), Hawaiian rolls, hoagie rolls, and flatwiches.
*Mom Poweritos! - For working moms, or moms who just like a quick, healthy, pre-made lunch, these are full of fiber and protein and are made ahead! We used diced smoked chicken, refried beans, black beans and cheese in high-fiber/low carb tortillas. Mmmm!
List of Supplies/Shopping List: Ham steaks (cube up ahead of time), cheese cubes, deli ham, deli turkey, salami, various cheese slices, string cheese, peanut butter, various jellies, wheat flatwiches, Hawaiian rolls, hoagie rolls, tortillas, cooked/diced chicken & various beans for the Poweritos with shredded cheese, snack-sized ziplock bags, plastic wrap, gallon-sized freezer bags, and stickers for sealing.
Freezer Lunch Tips:
~ Wrap/seal everything tight. You'll go through a lot of plastic wrap and a lot of snack-sized plastic bags, but this will help them not to get freezer burn. Wrap each lunch portion tight, then store altogether in larger freezer bags and label them.
~ If you want condiments on your sandwiches, put them BETWEEN pieces of meat/cheese. You don't want the condiments on the actual bread or it will make the bread soggy when it thaws (the other option would be to spread butter on the bread first, then put your condiments on and that will also prevent it from getting soggy, but I wouldn't want that much butter on my kids' sandwiches if it's not necessary).
~ For little ones, use a sticker to seal the plastic wrap - this helps them open it come lunch time (otherwise if you give a 5 year old a tightly plastic-wrapped sandwich, it's going to take them 12 minutes to find the opening to unwrap it... ask my daughter, lol).
~ Label the bags - these items all look surprisingly similar when they're all wrapped up and stuffed tight together in gallon freezer bags!
I'm ashamed to say my camera ran out of memory space so I don't have many pictures of the actual workshop, but this was the gist of it:
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