Hey IM’s please help me out because I feel so stupid right now.
My year 2 child keeps mentioning all their friends bring thermo’s to school with warm snacks like noodles or rice etc
I have no idea how that works?
Do you cook noodles etc before school and then put it in a thermos? Wouldn’t it still stay boiling hot or be cold
I’d love to know what you put in and when you cook it?
I’m time limited and child is in before school care from 6.30 each day so it would need to stay hot until lunchtime
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I wonder this too. I really couldn’t be bothered making things like this in the mornings. I guess you zap it in microwave and put it in to keep warm.
I think you put boiled water in it for 5minutes to heat it up, then tip that out and put the precooked food in and that will stay warm until lunch.
As a teacher aide...I HATE these! Kids constantly complain its too hot, some will just throw everything in it straight in the bin or they spill it all over themselves. I'd ban them if I could lol
I use Thermos brand containers. I put boiling water in them for 10 minutes and heat the pre-cooked food in the microwave. Once the Thermos is ready I put the food straight in. It is warm at lunchtime. My kids have lunch at 1pm. I usually prepare it at 7:30am. I’ve got a Thermos for myself and the food is definitely still warm after 5 hours, but not as hot as I would normally like myself.
I put tinned spaghetti, baked beans, pasta, macaroni, fried rice, chicken strips etc.
Sometimes I send party pies and sausage rolls. Make sure you put a bit of paper towel down the bottom to get any condensation for those. I usually cook these in the oven the morning of. Everything else is leftovers, made the night before.
To cook noodles in the thermos . Fill it with hot water and empty after 10 mins.
Breakup the noodles and add them and the seasonings into it. Fill with hot water and put the lid on. I cook my noodles for golf in one. I set it up at 7:30 and by 12pm it’s warm enough for me to drink the liquid and eat the noodles no problems. But 3pm it’s barely warm.
I love my thermos and so does my daughter.