forum: Food, Wine and Gardening
#1 Mon 15 Oct 12 11:02pm
Grandmadamada

- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
lunchbox
I know there are many threads about this, but what I'm looking for is what to avoid if I have to put together a meal that has to be eaten without reheating, not cooked in the morning, I mean something left from supper and stored in the fridge ...... which doesn't become dangerous if kept at room temperature.
for example no fresh cheese??
no rice????
or a pie filled with ricotta?
what' happens to a frittata ![]()
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#2 Mon 15 Oct 12 11:16pm
Kye

- Member since Fri 04 Apr 08
Re: lunchbox
Quiche
Sometimes the boys have left over quiche from the night before, kept in the fridge overnight and alone in a lunch box, a plastic sachet of clean salad leaves apart and a small bocal with vinaigrette.
The salad and the sauce is added to the quiche at mid-day.
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#3 Mon 15 Oct 12 11:18pm
Grandmadamada

- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: lunchbox
it seems I have to learn this too, grazie kye!
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#4 Mon 15 Oct 12 11:46pm
SherylS
- Member Occupation Totally food obsessed bookkeeper
- From Melbourne, Australia
- Member since Wed 13 Aug 08
Re: lunchbox
I find that just about any leftovers can go in the lunch box the next day if it is an insulated one and a small cold pack is pack inside with the lunch. My boys have had enough of sandwiches so I pack their lunches for school like this all the time (you wouldn't want to leave the lunch box in the sun though!!).
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#5 Tue 16 Oct 12 7:55am
Grandmadamada

- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: lunchbox
I wondered if cooked chicken breast in a panino has problems
it's raining SherylS ![]()
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#6 Tue 16 Oct 12 12:54pm
SherylS
- Member Occupation Totally food obsessed bookkeeper
- From Melbourne, Australia
- Member since Wed 13 Aug 08
Re: lunchbox
Yes grand ma, my sons favourite roll is roast chicken with cucumber. As long as the ingredients are cold and the lunchbox is insulated and a cold pack (frozen drink bottle etc) is packed with it everything is ok. I send sushi, salads and lots of other things this way and everything lasts really well.?
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#7 Tue 16 Oct 12 2:21pm
Birdymum

- From Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Member since Thu 23 Oct 08
Re: lunchbox
I even send the rice cooked with veggies, to be eaten cold as a salad for lunch. My daughter packs immediately it becomes left over after dinner, refrigerated at .5C which is our really cold fridge then strait into the fridge at the college where she attends. She has never had a problem with it. She won't take chicken though because she would like to heat that up and she isn't sure about the heating facilities there.
Like SherylS said a frozen cold pack in the lunchbox keeps most things good.
Cut up fruit salad isn't so nice though if left in the school bag for too long. The fruit tends to go mushy and it doesn't like frozen cold packs.
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#8 Tue 16 Oct 12 3:52pm
Grandmadamada

- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: lunchbox
grazie signore
I had a short double speed talk with my trustful cuoco Roberto about theis and wrote some notes I'll share with you thanks again
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#9 Tue 16 Oct 12 10:12pm
Grandmadamada

- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: lunchbox
it's a phyllo pie with spinach and ricotta, with carrots, celery and challot stirfried, some little ribbons of speck on top, the size of a pizza sealed like a calzone ........... many things and none
a mix of spelt, millet and rice boiled and sauté in peperoncino garlic evo oil and cherry tomatoes, some sprigs of fresh oregano
this will be stored in a little fridge with a cold brik
(???)
the more I write and read the less I know ![]()
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