Lunchbox ideas for kids
Last Updated on November 8, 2024
Coming up with lunchbox ideas with food our kids will actually eat can be challenging.
If you’re looking for some ideas to make this part of preparing for school easier, here are some delicious lunchbox ideas that you can try.
If you’re also on the hunt for snack ideas, here are some quick and easy snacks for school lunches, as well as other types of snack ideas including road trip snacks for kids, toddler snack ideas, and even snack ideas for mums.
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Sandwich and wrap lunchbox ideas
- Almond butter and jam
- Cheese
- Cream cheese and smoked salmon
- Egg salad
- Ham and cheese
- Ham, cheese, grated carrot, mayonnaise
- Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, grated carrot
- Smashed chickpea
- Tuna, avocado, lettuce, cucumber, mayonnaise
- Turkey and cheese
- Turkey, cheese, avocado
- Turkey, cheese, hummus, lettuce
- Turkey, pepperoni, salami
Salad and pasta lunchbox ideas
- Carrot salad
- Chopped salad
- Grilled chicken, lettuce, carrots, cucumber
- Pasta salad
Side dish lunchbox ideas
- Apple slices with nut butter
- Baked apple chips
- Banana
- Berries
- Berries with Greek yoghurt
- Carrot bliss balls
- Cereal / Muesli / Granola bar
- Cheese and crackers
- Guacamole and crackers
- Cheese stick or slice
- Cookie
- Edamame
- Flapjacks
- Freeze dried fruit
- Fruit and yoghurt pouches
- Fruit in juice
- Fruit leather
- Fruit or yoghurt tubes
- Grapes
- Hard-boiled egg
- Mandarins
- Melon balls
- Muffins
- Pita with hummus
- Popcorn
- Pretzels
- Pumpkin seeds
- Raisons
- Roasted chickpeas
- Sliced carrots
- Sliced cucumber
- Sliced oranges
- Sliced red pepper
- Sliced watermelon
- Snap peas
- Tortilla chips and salsa
- Trail mix
- Vegetable sticks with hummus
- Yoghurt covered rice cakes
- Yoghurt pretzels
How to pack school lunches
When packing school lunches, my favourite way is to pack them in a container that has components, so I can pack different items separately.
This means that cut up fruit, or even sliced vegetables, can be kept separate from sandwiches or wraps, so nothing gets soggy.
There are many different lunchboxes that you can buy, the two that I rotate between are a Sistema lunchbox, and a Bento Lunchbox, which I love because both of them have a lot of space to add as much variety as I can, so my kids will find at least a couple of things that they want to eat.
I hope there’s some lunchbox ideas here that will make school lunch prep simpler for you.
Is coming up with lunchbox ideas something you struggle with?
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