Cooking Games – Tips for a Perfect School Lunch

These days I’m relegated to making school lunches instead of playing real cooking games. Of course, school lunches need love, too, and I’ve come up with a few plans of attack on how to pull together a nice lunch in a pretty speedy way.

To make a school lunch, I always start with a frozen juice packet. The frozen juice acts like ice to keep the rest of the lunch cool, but it also melt over the course of the morning so that you have nice, cold juice to drink at lunch time. This works with a small water bottle as well.

I then include something easy to eat with your fingers. I’ve discovered that packing something that resembles a real meal often means I forget to include silverware, so I’m stuck. Better to throw in some cheese and crackers or a sandwich than risk having pasta without a means to eat it.

Finally, I always include a sweet snack. Even if it’s just a single cookie or a small candy bar, it’s important to have a little treat throughout the day. It’s just as important, of course, to find a treat that is small – you don’t want to ruin your supper, after all.

Cooking Games in 10 Minutes or Less

I need to start some new cooking games in my household. By the time I get two boys home from gymnastics, I’ll be looking for something to fix very quickly before it’s time for some homework and bed. Our days fly by during the school year, but I don’t want to always eat out for simplicity’s sake. I want to be able to feed my children something that is at least mostly nutritious at home, although I’m sure I’ll forsake cooking games at least once in favor of take out.

But I can at least try to make some 10 minute meals for the kids. The best bet are things that are simple foods. Pasta is a simple food and goes over well in my household, especially since the boys don’t like sauce. Basic meat dishes are easy, too, since they don’t need to roast. A baked chicken breast feeds us easily and a steak can actually be pretty quick, too. The trick will be to do the prep beforehand as much as possible so that I can just throw everything together as I walk in the door. Tricky, but it can be done.

Cooking Games and School Lunches

I recently realized that I’m overdoing my cooking games to make school lunches by actually making them. To make school lunches, you’re apparently supposed to buy everything preassembled and chunk it into the lunch box. I’ll admit I like this idea a lot. I also think it will work well for my two kids – or at least one of them. One of my boys would love a packaged lunch every day. The other one is a bit of a picky eater. He wouldn’t eat anything in those packaged lunches.

So that means that at least my morning cooking games for school lunches is simplified by one. I can grab something and chunk it into the youngest’s lunch box. And then I can take the few minutes necessary to assemble the food items my oldest requires to eat at his lunch time. Once everything is there, it will be delicious and hopefully at least marginally nutritious. But then, you just never know how these things will turn out. You can use your cooking games to make a very special lunch and the kids wind up drinking the juice and eating chips. It’s always a gamble.

Cooking Games and Chocolate Bars

There are so many ways you can use a chocolate bar. For such an innocent piece of dessert, that lovely chocolate bar has brilliant existence in some of my favorite dishes. When you’re playing cooking games and making desserts, consider if a crushed chocolate bar or other candy bar could make the dessert even tastier. Here’s an example:

You’re making a mousse. The mousse is lush and rich and you’ve topped it with a layer of whipped cream for effect. While beautiful in a triffle dish, it would be even lovelier if you were to take a Heath Bar or even a regular chocolate bar and beat the dickens out of it. Then take all of those delicious chocolate crumbs and sprinkle them over the top of the dish. The final effect is one of a complete dessert that also has the added bonus of a bit of extra delicious flavor.

Cooking Games: Hot Dog Grill

Last night we pulled the grill off the patio and make hot dogs. While not a glamorous meal, it was yummy and it reminded me of all the fun cooking games you can do with the grill. There are many, or perhaps even more, ways to cook over fire than there are ways to use your stove or microwave. When you make hot dogs on the grill, you’ll want to follow all basic fire safety rules.

- Your grill should be away from the buildings and away from major traffic patterns.
- The grill should be cleaned before starting the fire. If you leave grease or bits of old food on the grill, you risk the chance of a fire.
- The grill should always be watched. Never leave the grill alone while you’re cooking, you’d be risking a very serious situation with an out-of-control fire.
- Always cook food thoroughly. Use a meat thermometer to be sure that anything you cook on the grill is hot enough to kill off bacteria and is safe to eat.
- Let the grill cool off before touching it. There’s no need to get a silly burn by trying to pull the grill over too soon.

Cooking Games Online and Sheer Boredom

I’ll admit that there have been times in the past that I was bored. I was bored trying to find things to for entertainment, but those days are past. The cooking games I’ve been playing have livened things up for me considerably. I like anything to do with food, of course, but playing cooking games online lets me put a bit of my brain to use trying to keep the games organized and it lets me use some memory and balancing skills to get orders right without actually having to get up and soil my own kitchen (that would require clean up.)

To play cooking games, you simply try to keep up with orders as they come in. The “customers” in the cooking games will ask you to make things like barbeque or pizzas and you have to work the grill or the ovens to get the orders right each time without fail. The cooking games let you practice your hand-eye coordination and require you to be organized or you’ll start burning the food that you’re supposed to be preparing. All in all, the cooking games online are addicting yet still more than amusing to play.

Cooking Games and a Clean Kitchen

If a kitchen is clean, it’s not being used properly. Should a kitchen be clean at the end of the day? Sure. But if you have a kitchen that stays clean all of the time, you’re not putting it to good use. Try some cooking games to liven things up in your own kitchen and you’ll see just how much fun you can have with a few mixing bowls and spoons.

Start small if you’d like by choosing some cooking games that are low key – perhaps some fruit salad that just involves cutting things up rather than actually cooking anything. But then move on to something better – perhaps some cookies or a pan of brownies that will let you mix, bake and then eat. Cooking games don’t have to be complicated to enjoy them, and once you start experimenting with the different cooking games, you’ll realize just how much fun it is to create delicious things and you might just branch out into using all of your appliances.