Oh I know, you've heard the whining already (if your kids started school in August), " not the same old lunch", when you're only following their wishes of what they want in their lunch!
How about a book that can make both of you happy?
A book that can suggest a dinner, and then how to use the leftovers for a great lunch the next day for your kids (or you?)
Synopsis: Longing for more than yet another limp salad?
Tired of tussling with the kids over junk food lunch kits?
Sounds like you’ve got the lunch box blues. J. M. Hirsch has the fix.
But it isn’t a cookbook. Because when it comes to lunch, nobody has time to break out a recipe to bang out a brown bag special. Busy people need lunch ideas. Lots of them. And those ideas need to be healthy, fast, easy, affordable, and delicious.
That’s what Beating the Lunch Box Blues is—an idea book to inspire anyone daunted by the daily ordeal of packing lunch. Jammed with nearly 200 photos and more than 500 tips and meals, this book is designed to save families time, money, and their sanity.
Whether you want to jazz up a grilled cheese, turn leftover steak into a DIY taco kit, or make pizza “sushi,” Hirsch has it covered. And because the best lunches often are built from the leftovers of great suppers, he has also included 30 fast and flavorful dinner recipes designed to make enough for tomorrow, too. Crazy good stuff like short ribs braised in a Rosemary-Port Sauce, Hoisin-Glazed Meatloaf, and kid-friendly classics such as Turkey Sloppy Joes and American Chop Suey.
With ideas this easy and this delicious, there’s no reason to let the lunch box blues get you down.
This cookbook is the first book to be published under Atria’s newest imprint—Rachael Ray Books, and is being released on September 3rd! Here is a video from Rachel and J.M.:
Review: One of the first things you will notice in this book is the PHOTOS! By looking at the photos alone, you will get the idea of how you can make simple lunches from what you already have in your pantry and fridge. Secondly, it will inspire to get your kids to break OUT of the sandwich routine and see how leftovers can be a super cool lunch! Thirdly, you will see how you can make a healthy lunch that is NOT full of processed foods!
The are literally hundreds of quick, healthy and delicious ideas to make mid-day meal winners within the small pages of this book! With ideas like turning last night’s Lemon-Paprika Roasted Salmon leftovers into today’s Deconstructed Sushi lunch, to Ham and Cheese Muffin cups with a side of Brown Sugar-Cinnamon Apples, this book is perfect for both kids and adults, as it expands what you think of 'lunch' to something new and better for you!
Check out a couple quick and easy lunch ideas:
Mac N Cheese
Whether you make a little or a lot, pasta takes about 10 minutes to cook. So you might as well make a lot and use the leftovers as an easy building block for lunch the next day. Toss cooked pasta (any shape) in a saucepan with grated cheese, sour cream, and a splash of hot sauce (or Tony's) for an easy two-minute mac and cheese (pack it hot in a thermos). Add veggies, like brocolli, and you've got a healthier lunch! Or toss cold with leftover vegetables (anything goes), any leftover meat (or not), and vinaigrette for an instant pasta salad.
Wrap it Up:
Get got the sandwich blues? Try wrapping leftovers in big lettuce leaves or piling deli meat and cheese between two seeded cucumber halves. Save those leftover pancakes and use them as sandwich starters, or grab some phyllo cups and stuff them with whatever you’ve got handy, even making them into mini-quiches, which are kid-hand size friendly and fun to eat!
Leftovers are Your Friend:
Many leftovers can be 'doctored' with BBQ sauce, mayo or mustard and turned into an unique topping for a sandwich or with pasta. So rethink the small hunk of roast beef into Beef Stroganoff, BBQ Beef on Bun or even Chop Suey! Left over roast chicken? Chicken salad or chicken pasta time!
Cheese and Meat Quiches are an excellent way to make use of those mini muffin pans you bought years ago! This simple recipe from the book is easy and can be made at once, and the quiches frozen and used as needed! I'm including the recipe variations for the full size quiche, in case you can't find the cups, you can make it instead and slice it for individual servings).
*** recipe removed at request of publisher ***
About the Author: Hirsch, called “one of the most influential people in the food world” by AOL’s KitchenDaily, also blogs about the trials and tribulations of his son’s lunches at his popular website LunchBoxBlues.com.
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