Kids• Nutrition

9 Healthy School Lunch Ideas

Time for another installment of school lunch ideas, because in my opinion you can never have enough!

Here’s what Lucy’s been eating lately…

Ham & cream cheese sandwich (Fork in the Road Ham!), Stonyfield yogurt pouch, grapes, strawberries.

Cream cheese sandwich on a cranberry orange roll, purple carrots, watermelon, pistachios, popcorn.

Lentils (cooked with veggies), rice, yellow peppers & tomatoes, string cheese, homemade apple-plum sauce, cantaloupe.

Annie’s Mac & Cheese, cherry tomatoes, boiled egg, watermelon.

Almond butter sandwich on cranberry orange bread, cantaloupe, figs, golden tomatoes (from our plant!).

Annie’s Mac & Cheese, Stonyfield yogurt, mini apple, grapes, sunflower seed/almond/raisin mix.

Whole wheat pancakes (with maple syrup & butter), watermelon, boiled egg, homemade applesauce.

PB & J on whole wheat, Stonyfield yogurt, golden baby tomatoes, strawberries.

Cream cheese sandwich on cranberry orange bread, trail mix, mini apple, Stonyfield yogurt, Japanese tomatoes.

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Allison
September 29, 2014 at 3:08 pm
Great ideas! Did you make the cranberry orange rolls? If not, where can you buy them? They look good and nice and petite for mini hands!
Kate N
September 29, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Your daughter is so cute! I love the picture with her little hand in it. These lunches have such great variety, I love it! Does she normally eat all of it?
Amelia Winslow
October 2, 2014 at 9:59 am
So sweet, thank you! I’d say she eats what I pack 80% of the time. If anything comes back, it’s usually the vegetables 🙂 I find it’s much easier to get her to eat veggies at dinnertime when I can serve them before I serve the rest of the meal (when she’s hungriest)…so I don’t worry much about her veggie consumption at lunch.
Amelia Winslow
October 2, 2014 at 10:01 am
The mini rolls are kind of like little flatbreads. I bought them at Whole Foods and I think the brand is Ozery Bakery. They are the perfect size for kids, and a good small snack for adults!