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Freezer-friendly sandwiches, thermos-ready soups, and more easy school lunches for busy weekdays.
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These new school lunch ideas, from sandwiches to snacks to hot meals, will reinvigorate your daily routine—and your kids will actually like them
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Two words: Lunch nachos!!!!
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From NYC and Portland to Tennessee and Minnesota, school districts are relying on local ingredients and recipes to make school lunch healthier—and yummier
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Puppy chow, sloppy Joes, and one elaborate Jell-O mold.
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The new #Cook90 cookbook is full of meal inspiration to carry you from breakfast to lunch to dinner—to tomorrow.
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Until the 20th century, school children were lucky to get lunch at all. Today school lunch is highly politicized and hugely important. How did this happen?
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This is not the time for standing over a pot of risotto.
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They’re the kind of meals you’ll want to enjoy again—and again.
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Leftovers are the key to packing lunches easily—and this recipe is perfect for that. Plus it freezes well, too; if you freeze in small portioned containers, all you have to do is reheat and go.
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Meal prep was the name of the game.
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Savory galettes, cold roast salmon, two-bite desserts, and more handpicked recipes from our Dear Bon Appétit column.
Emma Laperruque
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PB&J every day won't suffice? Here are ten fun lunch recipes, just in time for back to school
Danielle Walsh
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Check out our kid-friendly ideas for on-the-go breakfasts, healthy brown bag lunches, and nutritious after-school snacks.
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Whether you spend all day in the break room or only have time for lunch al desko, these lunches satisfy.
Alyse Whitney
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On this episode of Dinner SOS, Chris and Ali Slagle share easy breakfast recipes perfect for back-to-school season.
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We asked chefs across the country what they feed their toughest audience, and came back with great ideas.
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These 5 bring-from-home lunch ideas are sure to stir up your meal prep routine. Warning: your coworkers might ask to trade you...middle school-style.
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We had a panel of school lunch experts (a.k.a. kids) taste test sack lunches from 1900 to today. Here’s what they thought about spam, tuna wraps, Lunchables, and everything in between.
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Join Chris Morocco as he makes baked lunch nachos. Chris relies on some version of these lunch nachos at least once a week as he brainstorms what to feed his two young kids. It’s worth it to commit the formula to memory: a bag of chips, a can of refried beans, maybe some leftover meat or roasted veg from the night before, shredded cheese, and some kind of quickly cooked, spiced veg like cauliflower or brussels sprouts. It’s a lightning-fast lunch (or dinner) that can be tweaked to suit anyone’s preferences.
Read more: The Best Canned Refried Beans for Nachos, Enchiladas, and More
Read more: The Best Canned Refried Beans for Nachos, Enchiladas, and More
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“Brigaid is a company that hires professional chefs to work in school kitchens. We get to work with real ingredients and limit the amount of processed food that kids get on a daily basis.” Today, Bon Appétit spends a day on the line with Chef Persefoni Vordokas, a Brigaid program chef at Dream Charter School.
Read more: 41 School Lunch Ideas That Deserve an A++
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Bon Appétit spends a day on the line with chef Salvatore La Rosa at Salvo’s in NYC. What started as Sal making sandwiches in his home kitchen, delivering them himself, has now evolved into a brick-and-mortar shop making 100+ sandwiches a day. From eggplant parm and fried mortadella to slow-cooked Neapolitan ragù, see how a one-man operation became a neighborhood favorite.
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Watch as kids try and react to 100 years of school lunches! Which decade featured boiled steak in school lunches? When were kids routinely served liver loaf?