You have my sympathies on the kid lunch dilemma. L is very picky about what she will eat in all contexts, and a slow eater, so (except for some brief months of respite here and there) school lunch has always been a struggle with her. At one point in first grade, when the only thing she'd reliably finish would be a tiny PB&J sandwich and some Goldfish crackers, she was eating lunch with her teacher (this was some reward for good behavior, to have the winning table eat lunch with the teacher), who asked, "Is that all you're having for lunch?" And L said, "That's all they give me." We had an interesting conversation with the teacher afterwards, haha.
Anyway, you've probably tried all of these things already, or they contain dealbreakers for you or for Cordelia, but the things we've had (intermittent) success with: - celery sticks, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, snap peas, small sweet peppers - easy-peel tangerines with no pits (like Cuties) - apple-sauce/apple-banana sauce you can "drink" from a pouch, like this - dried fruit (apples, mango) - trail mix - box of raisins/cranberries - fruit bars - small smoothies/drinkable yogurt (or squeezable yogurt, like GoGurt (when we lost the battle over actual healthy yogurt; this is the only form in which L will take her dairy, so we've made Compromises) - peanut-butter filled pretzels, RitzBits crackers which have cheese or PB inside (these are crap, but at least they do contain some extra protein)
On the kid-free time note, would Cordelia perhaps want to go see a nice long movie with a group of friends? :)
I didn't realize one even *could* make steel-cut oatmeal in the microwave (though maybe this example shows that one can't...) I remember B experimenting with it on the stove, and it was easy but tedious.
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Date: 2016-01-09 08:42 pm (UTC)Anyway, you've probably tried all of these things already, or they contain dealbreakers for you or for Cordelia, but the things we've had (intermittent) success with:
- celery sticks, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, snap peas, small sweet peppers
- easy-peel tangerines with no pits (like Cuties)
- apple-sauce/apple-banana sauce you can "drink" from a pouch, like this
- dried fruit (apples, mango)
- trail mix
- box of raisins/cranberries
- fruit bars
- small smoothies/drinkable yogurt (or squeezable yogurt, like GoGurt (when we lost the battle over actual healthy yogurt; this is the only form in which L will take her dairy, so we've made Compromises)
- peanut-butter filled pretzels, RitzBits crackers which have cheese or PB inside (these are crap, but at least they do contain some extra protein)
On the kid-free time note, would Cordelia perhaps want to go see a nice long movie with a group of friends? :)
I didn't realize one even *could* make steel-cut oatmeal in the microwave (though maybe this example shows that one can't...) I remember B experimenting with it on the stove, and it was easy but tedious.