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Additional Lunch Box Suggestions

Vegetable soups made with either meat stock or cream can be kept hot in a thermos bottle.

Hard-cooked eggs are frequently used. As a variation, the yolk may be removed, seasoned with salt, pepper, mixed with salad dressing and put back in the white. See Stuffed Eggs Recipe, page 32. Fruit or vegetables, such as apples, apple sauce, baked apples, peaches, oranges, lettuce, tomatoes or celery, make a good combination with sandwiches.

Vegetable salads, such as potato salad, Boston baked beans and potato chips, add variety to the lunch of the adult, but are not suitable for the child's meal away from home.

A bottle of milk should be included in the lunch boxes of school children.

For dessert, one may use nuts and raisins, a few dates or figs. Custards, with varied flavorings, cereal puddings, and gelatine puddings are also good. These may be made in individual cups and packed in the lunch box.

Plain cookies, date or raisin cookies or sponge cake may be added as a dessert. Pie, pickles, doughnuts or griddle cakes, or rich cakes should not be included in the school lunch box.