Out to Lunch (7 page)

Here’s what you do: Place the banana in the hot dog roll. Smear the banana with peanut butter just the way you would smear mustard on a hot dog. Wrap up your banana dog in waxed paper and pack it in your lunch bag.

You will need: one slice of bologna (use soy bologna slices if you’re a vegetarian like Katie), one slice of American cheese, cream cheese, peanut butter, two bread sticks.

Here’s what you do: Lay out the slices of bologna and cheese. Spread cream cheese on one side of the balogna. Spread peanut butter on one side of the American cheese slice. Take one bread stick and wrap the meat around it. Make sure the cream cheese side is touching the bread stick. Wrap the American cheese slice around the second bread stick. Make sure the peanut butter side is touching the bread stick. Now you have two inside-out sandwiches. (The bread [stick]) is in the middle. Get it?) Place the sandwiches in a sealed sandwich bag and pack them in your lunch bag.

You will need: cream cheese, two slices of white or whole-wheat bread, raisins, grape jelly, cookie cutters.

Here’s what you do: Spread cream cheese on one slice of bread. Sprinkle raisins on top of the cream cheese. Spread grape jelly on the other slice of bread. Place that slice on top of the raisins and cream cheese with the jelly-side-down. Use the cookie cutters to cut your sandwich into different shapes. Place your shaped sandwiches into plastic bags to keep them fresh.

You will need: mayonnaise, three slices of white or whole wheat bread, two slices of turkey (or soy turkey), cranberry sauce, leftover stuffing.

Here’s what you do: Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on one slice of bread. Top the mayonnaise with turkey slices. Add the next slice of bread. Spread cranberry sauce on top of the bread. Place the stuffing on top of the cranberry sauce. Top with the last piece of bread. Store the sandwich in a plastic bag.