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Family Lunch BoxFollow an easy plan for lunches By DAVID SCOTT If you must turn out practical, filling, nutritious sandwiches for school or work lunches every weekday evening you'll know it's a demanding chore that needs planning and organization. Here's a little of both. One way to organize is to start with a basic recipe that will let you easily vary the flavor. Simpler planning for you, lots of variety for your family. Start with low-fat cream cheese and some big fluffy bagels. The first day, stir chopped canned pineapple into the cream cheese, spread it on both slices of the bagel, then fill with sliced ham. Add lettuce, and your sandwich is fit for royalty. The next time you choose bagels, mix chopped olives with the cream cheese, fill with a mild chopped egg filling and garnish with watercress. Cheese blended with chopped preserved pimento would go very nicely with a canned salmon filling that has some added chopped celery. Cold barbecued chicken—planned leftovers from the family dinner, perhaps—makes a wonderful sandwich if the cheese has been whipped up with some barbecue sauce. And don't overlook the Tex-Mex possibilities using drained salsa in the cheese If your tastes, and your family's, run to more subtle flavors, chopped green onion or chives or fresh herbs chopped finely will do wonders for the appeal of cream cheese. Your filling might be fresh vegetable with sprouts, or just tossed salad with no dressing. And whatever you do, don't forget the great variety of pickle relish your grocer stocks. Stop me before I get carried away over the joys of cream cheese with onion relish spread on a huge poppy seed bagel with my favorite deli-style smoked meat filling. For those who carry the sandwiches along for lunch, the pleasure of this plan is obvious: tasty food to make lunch away from home a real treat. Perhaps not so obvious, is the joy the plan brings to the sandwich maker. Every couple or three days, say to yourself: "I'll do the bagels again." Within seconds the creative ideas will start to flow—or, nearly always, whatever you happen to have on hand will do very, very well.  David Scott is author of The Sandwich-a-Day Recipe Book, an ebook based on Family Lunch Box, a popular newspaper column published during the 1980s and 90s. For more free sandwich recipes or to buy a copy of the ebook, visit http://www.pixiegold.com.  Please post comments, recipes, or tips for cooking on the Home Organization Message Board   No right click Resources
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