Easy Prepared Meals to Go for Busy Moms and Kids

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Easy Dinners To Go with Easy Lunchboxes - Busy driving your kids around to activities? Check out these simple prepared meals to go suggestions. Portable dinners make a busy mom's life easier!

My kids are busy. Really busy! The more they advance through their extracurricular activities, the more time we are away from home in the afternoons and evenings. That time away means I need to plan ahead for dinner. We usually eat dinner around 5:30pm. 6:30 is late around here. There is no way I am going to skip dinner, so that means dinner on the go! Check out these ideas for prepared meals to go.

If you’ve gotten to know me through my blog, you know I am frugal. I hate to waste money. I also try to make healthy choices, so that means we will not grab fast food. I keep some snacks in the car or in my purse, but that won’t suffice around dinner time. So I brown bag it. Actually, we take our dinner to go in a blue thermal bag, so that means we blue bag it.

About six months ago I got these great containers called Easy Lunchboxes. Many of my bento blogger friends have raved about them for years, and I finally got some myself. These are great sturdy containers, but they are a bit big for my daughter’s lunches. She’s not a big eater and usually has a very short time to eat at school, so food gets wasted. I’ve been using them for grown-up lunches and our dinners on the go. In fact, I now call them Easy Dinnerboxes! Here are some of the dinners we’ve packed this summer.

DIY Prepared Meals To Go

Healthy and Balanced Dinners

These were all packed for me and my daughter. She had 30 minutes between ballet and drama this summer, so we didn’t have a lot of time to eat in between. I would heat up a small rice heating pad to keep the food warm. Here are the meals~

*Spaghetti squash with meat sauce and Asiago cheese, cherries, carrots & dip for me

Shells with Parmesan cheese, cherries, peach, carrots & dip for her

*Pork lettuce wraps, peach, blueberries for both of us

*Chicken salad on day old JJ’s bread, carrots & dip, blueberries, and watermelon for both of us

*Beef stew, carrot mash, peaches, cashews for both of us

*Balsamic Rosemary Chicken, green beans, ranch beans, blueberries for me

Quesadilla, green beans, blueberries for her

*Cabbage meatballs, homegrown tomatoes, blueberries for both of us

Brown bagging it (or blue bagging it in our case), doesn’t mean you need to skimp on dinner OR grab some unhealthy fast food. Pack a hearty meal on your own Easy Lunchboxes Dinnerboxes and have little bit of home on the go! These boxes come in 3 different color combos: classic, urban (which I have), and brights. A set of 4 is only $13.95! I love that I can put tomato sauce in them, but they come clean in the top rack of the dishwasher with no red stains!

Which set do you prefer? What will you pack in them?

Ree

Sunday 9th of September 2018

I love these kinds of boxes for when everything is cold or everything is hot, but how do you work it when you want mixed temps? Like the chicken and ranch beans that I assume would be hot. but the blueberries, you would want cold.

Diana Rambles

Monday 10th of September 2018

I haven't had issues with putting warm food in one compartment and berries in another. We usually eat this within an hour or so of packing.

Miz Helen

Tuesday 28th of August 2018

Your prepared meals to go look great! Hope you are having a great week and thank you so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday! Miz Helen

Erlene

Sunday 26th of August 2018

I used Easy Lunch Boxes for years when my kids were younger. I love the sections, which reminded me to include veggies and fruits with their main meal. I love that you also use them for on the go dinners too. Smart!

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