soft foods for the lunch box...

hi - I'm hoping over from the second year to ask a question regarding my 6-yr old DS. He just had his tonsils and adenoids removed. When he returns to school next week, he will still need to be on a soft diet. I'm thinking PBJ and applesauce and pudding cups for his lunch box. Any other ideas on things I could pack him for lunch? It seem to be drawing a blank on packable items!

Thanks!! Carla

 

Both of my kids like yogurt. I have small blue ice things that go in their lunch to keep it cold. You could also send jello. Bananas are probably soft enough also. You could also look for things like fig newtons or strawberry newtons.

Marissa

 

I was also going to suggest yogurt (mine love it). Maybe a thermos of warm soup? Jello sounds good too. If he can eat pb&j maybe just a cheese sandwich or cheese and rolled lunch meat? Canned fruit like mandarin oranges or peaches might be good too.

 

what about those fruit smoothies in a bottle?

 

I would send yogurt. what about rolled up cold cuts?

 

I was going to suggest yogurt too. Other things that came to mind were spaghettios or other pasta in a thermos, hard boiled eggs, cottage cheese, canned fruit.

Honestly, I had a harder time keeping my kids from being too active for those couple of weeks. Our Dr. said that we could let them eat regular foods as they tolerated them and if it didn't hurt to much. DD1 - her first meal was french toast. That's all she wanted...no icecream, yogurt, puddng, jello. I was so irritated that the nurse in recovery wanted her to eat a graham cracker to show she could at something. Really, could she think of something more tough to eat?

 

Thanks! Great ideas!

 

Maybe a really cooked Mac N cheese (it would be squishy!) in a thermos, soup, cottage cheese, Hummus or other spread and soft bread for dipping, fruit cups (the store bought ones are often soft and in a lite syrup), a yogurt parfait, a thermos of Carnation instant breakfast to add some heft and protein, cream cheese and soft bread (think inside of French bread),milkshake/smoothie w/ added fruit,non-spicy chili, PBJ, stuffed banana (put peanut butter and chocolate chips/or marshmellows inside a banana peel), soft pretzels & dipping cheese, diced up hot dogs, cooked pasta w/ parmasan sprinkled on it (my girls will eat this cold), refried beans and cheese on a tortilla....those are some things our PreK kids have brought in post -oral surgery.

 

wow! What great ideas...i'm going to use some of these at home too! Thank you!

 

You can freeze those gogurt tubes and by lunch they will be thawed but still cold.

 

You can freeze your own yogurt too if you don't want to eat the gogurt variety or spend the $$ on stonyfield tubes.