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Margaret is doing a ballet summer intensive. Her schedule is basically 10:30am-4:30pm

30 minute conditioning class
1.5 hr ballet class
45 lunch
1 hour class (this week rotates between hip hop\ pre Pointe
45 academic based class (varies) today they studied swan lake
15minute break
1 hour ballet

Today I packed her a sunbutter/jam sandwich, cucumber slices, blueberries, a snack bag sized trail mix with granola, banana chips almonds and raisins and a Lara had plus her water bottle.. It was more food than she typically eats and was assuming she'd have extra for like snack time of car ride home.. Nope she ate every bite and said she needed more food.

School has no restrictions they just ask for a light lunch.. Which doesn't mean low calorie but nothing too heavy..for obvious reasons. She can't do gluten or dairy and we try to reasonably stay peanut free...So suggestions?

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More protein/healthy fats? Help her stay full longer.
Can she do hummus or avocado/guacamole?


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She doesn't like either unfortunately. I think your right with the protein fats but I'm unsure how.

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Will she eat salami sticks? That is my go to thing for lunches out of the house.

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That’s a very physically strenuous schedule for her to not be consuming more protein in my not expert opinion ;) Carbs and sugars burn up so fast!

Tuna, shredded chicken (I was going to say chicken salad but y’all are DF), beans, lunch meat— all things I’ve packed for my DD for lunch.


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String cheese would be good or cheese slices.

Scratch that- just re-read that no dairy! Sorry!
What about non-dairy/soy yogurt? Maybe with granola or fruit mixed in?

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I do chicken salid that is dairy free. Today my girls had tuna salid.

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We can do a chicken salad, might pick up a rotisserie tomorrow do do that. Totally agree she needs more protein...

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She's adding some soy based yogurt to her breakfast (I'm making eggs for her).

Tomorrow I have packed with her help
Sandwich with Turkey df cheese and bacon on a buttered gf roll
Cherry tomatoes and carrots
Apple/banana pouch
Kind protein bar carby still but 12g protein and 4g fat
Granola trail mix

Hopefully this will help the her over till dinner.

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Never tried them. I'll give it a go we have three weeks of this.
It's like the ultimate picky eater cure though.. For dinner was had baked chicken with brown rice roasted zucchini and green beans.. Normally she'll eat maybe 1/3 a chicken thigh poke at s slice on zucchini eat a hand full of beans and move rice around her plate..

Today she ate 2 thighs and some of one of mine.. A decent sized scoop of rice went back for seconds on zucchini and thirds on the beans and then had some Apple slices with peanut butter for dessert.

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I agree with upping the protein.

Meat sticks. Pieces of luncheon meat with gluten free crackers. a wide variety of nuts.

My kids love a mixture of nuts and dairy free chocolate chips. You're staying peanut free, but do you do other nuts? Almonds? Cashews? Cashews are high in fat so we love those.

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I'd check with the camp before sending anything with nuts. My kids' dance studio is nut-free, just like the schools. I sent them to one camp a couple of years ago and unless it had a nut-free designation on the label, the kids couldn't even open the package.

Meat sticks are much safer.

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They are fine with anything. This year their is no one in the summer classes with a peanut/tree but allergy. A sister of one has a pretty severe peanut allergy (just peanut) so just to be careful of obvious cross we are using sun butter instead of peanut butter as my daughter is good friends with her daughters.
Otherwise anything is allowed..
The sandwich from today did fill her more but she said she didn't really like it.. Honestly she not a big meat sandwich person. I'm not sure how she respond to like meat sticks..
She still saying not enough food...
Tomorrow we have packed
1.5 sandwiches sun butter with blueberry jam
Cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices
Apple slices
a Hard boiled egg
Trail mix
Water

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Does she eat a decent breakfast with protein? That should help.
(I am not a huge breakfast person, but I definitely have found that eating eggs for breakfast helps me not get hungry again so early)


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She's been having two scrambled eggs a slice of bacon and a soy yogurt cup with some frozen berries for breakfast.She says she is good till lunch. She has break around9/ 9:30am then lunch around 12:30 but then continues in classes till 4:30 (small break around 3).
I've asked if she can eat during her small break and she says yes if they have something.. I might start purposely packing her a second small snack so she'll have have something to the her till dinner.

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OH yes! I am glad you thought of hard boiled eggs for lunch. That's a great protein booster.

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What about pasta salad? One Of my daughters plays softball, and we have found pasta salad is one thing she will eat well during long hot tournaments. I just do a quick Italian dressing over noodles and add in olives and mozzarella pearls. You could maybe adjust it for your daughter’s dietary needs by using gluten free noodles and omitting the cheese. Some noodles have added protein or you could add in mini pepperoni or even cubed chicken.

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I was planning on doing some gf pasta with some grilled chicken for tomorrow she can handle pure butter fine in small amounts so was thinking of doing buttered noodles with the chicken.

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I know you said she doesn't like hummus, but would she eat straight chickpeas? My kids like a salad of chick peas/garbanzo beans dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and parsley. Or you could toss a few into a pasta salad.

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Yes she would.

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That sounds yummy! My friend does something similar with sweet potato, chick peas and salad leaves. And would she eat falafel? I'm not sure if that can be df though. What about some kind of bean salad?

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My falafel is dairy free - chickpeas, herbage, and baking powder. Sometimes people add wheat flour, so it's not gluten free, though or fry it in peanut oil, which my kids can't do.

My kids also like roasted chickpeas - we buy them because I just can't get the texture right at home. They are super crispy and come in lots of different flavors, just like potato chips. That may be an option if you just need something to fill in.

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I keep trying to make falafel and it not going well. I am going to go start a falafel thread because it sounds amazing in the summer.

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She not been a Falafel fan in the past but I might test it again.
The pasta and chicken was a huge hit and while she was really ready for dinner when I picked her up she said the pasta filled her so that one is a keeper.
I bought some crunchy chick peas as well so I'll see if she likes those. She is off till Monday so we get a little break. I might experiment with some of these suggestions though over the weekend to see what she might be willing to try.

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pasta and chicken sounds like a perfect solution! My kids would live off that if they could. :lol

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This week we did
Monday nutbutter and jam sandwich
Protein bar
Apples
Carrots

Tuesday
DF cheese gf crackers
Hard boiled egg
Olives and tomatoes
Strawberries

Wednesday
Nutbutter and banana sandwich
Pretzels gf
Apples and oranges slices
Cucumber slices

Thursday
Brown rice with grilled chicken
Broccoli and cherry tomatoes
Olives
unsweetened Applesauce pouch
Annie gf chocolate chip granola bar

These seem to fill her and she likes. I noticed she wasn't drinking much the first week despite heavy workout classes. This week I purposely snuck it a bit of some salty stuff like olives or a few pretzels to hopefully encourage her to drink more water.. It worked she is now bringing almost empty water bottles home.
She is performing this weekend for the local schools back to school rodeo. She is actually doing it with a younger class ( just them and the big girls) but they needed a few filled spots and she still little enough she can pass for a first grader lol.
One more week of the intensive. She is loving it.

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Ive gotten kind of lazy and have been going for stuff I can quickly put together but its her finial week...

Monday
Breakfast
GF oatmeal and peanut butter toast


Lunch packed
PB and J (sunbutter)
blueberries
tomatoes and carrots
Kind bar
She said good but not enough

Tuesday
Breakfast scrambled eggs and bacon

Packed lunch
PB and J
blueberries
tomatoes
hard boiled egg
cashews
kind bar
was happy said enough for lunch but was really ready for dinner

Tomorrow
Breakfast Soy vanilla yogurt with granola and blueberries and sausage

Lunch
GF crackers
dairy free sliced cheese and salami
black olives
cucumber slices
hard boiled egg
apple sauce pouch
mix almonds and cashews
fruit leather

We shall see.....
this used to be what she'd eat in like an entire month LOL

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How long does this go on? I quickly discovered the time my girls have done camps that some.how puting together lunches is so much harder for me than making lunch at noon time.

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Her last day is this Thursday so we are almost over. :phew

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Yay! You made it! Good lunches, mama :tu


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