Can you give me some ideas for kids packed lunches, preferably healthy?

Answer 1

Wholemeal mini sandwiches
chicken wraps (tortilla or pitta)
baby tub of tuna and pasta
lots of fruit and veg
and my children really love the probiotic yoghurt drinks you can buy. Good luck with that though as they always come back from school with information about how so and so's mum put this and that in their lunchbox...fighting a losing battle!

Answer 2

Healthy Packed lunch ideas:

Super-sandwiches with healthy low GI bread: Be creative when it comes to fillings. Always include some vegetables as a filling e.g. tomato, cucumber, lettuce, grated carrot, spinach leaves, rocket, peppers, onion. Add a layer or two of lean meat, fish (sardines, tuna, pilchards) smoked chicken breast, eggs or vegetarian alternatives such as humus, avocado or low-fat cheeses (ricotta, cottage-cheese, light cheese spreads). Remember to use the minimum amount of butter, margarine or spreads to reduce the fat content of the sandwich.
Wholemeal wraps: These make a fun alternative to sandwiches; load with the same fillings as sandwiches.
Mediterranean Pasta salads: turn cold pasta leftovers into Mediterranean-like pasta salads by simply tossing with an array of colourful veggies, olives and covering with low-fat salad dressing, and sprinkle with a small amount of low-fat grated cheese.
Healthy Kebabs: Skewer some pieces of cheese, meat and vegetables on wooden skewers and presto you have kebabs.
Sizzling Soups: A thermos filled with a thick, tasty and nutritious pumpkin, bean or chicken soup is the ideal way to survive a cold winter’s day.
Fruit: 1-2 pieces of fruit packed in your lunch box will help curb your sweet tooth and we all should eat between 2-3 fruits a day.
Water: Include a bottle of water and if you still want something else, include one of the following; 100% pure fruit or vegetable juice; low-fat milk (no sugar) and sugar-free cordials.

Answer 3

You got lots of great answers a here! My son has packed lunch and I say away from the crisps and chocs and sweeties,it hard as my son says that the other kids have them. But I always variety the type of bread/wraps and add small fruit like grapes and mini apples. I give him a small box of raisins or dried fruit and he like these as they are like sweets. I have also done the soup in a flask. homemade soup, its quick and easy to make and you know what they are eating this way.

Answer 4

How about sticks of celery, carrot, or red pepper, combined with a low-fat cream cheese dip?

Kids love eating with their hands and this kind of food can be fun for them. Easy to prepare too.

Also give them a choice of 3 healthy sandwich fillings so they have some control over what they're eating.

My friend at primary school at least one day every week used to have a little tub of cooked roast chicken cut up and mixed up with salad cream or mayonnaise - it always looked really exciting to me as she had this little tub of stuff and a sarnie whereas I just had 2 sarnies (sandwiches).

Give them a small piece of cheese too, or cheese and crackers (such as Jacobs) might go down well too.

Answer 5

If you go onto the tesco website, it has a really good lunchbox tool, it gives you all different bread, fillings and snacks which you choose and put in your box and it then tells you the nutrition and calories of your childs lunch. Ive just discovered it and its saved me getting headaches trying to decide what to make. ( I suppose if you are in america you could still look on the website but would have to buy it elsewhere as although tesco has taken over the whole of Britian I dont think its got to you yet!!!)

Answer 6

A great idea for Kid lunches is to have a theme each day, for example have Mini day.
The lunch could include:
- Bite size sandwiches cut with cookie cutters
- mini muffins
- grapes
- small juicy juice box
- cheez it grips
- a few mini hershey kisses

Answer 7

yes, i can, if it is cold outside, Get a thermos, Make homemade hot vegitable soup, put in the little thermos, My mother always packed me celery sticks with cream cheese in the middle, on the side, maybe some crackers with peanut butter inside for dessert, or an apple, or in the spring , make up the night before, a macorni salad, with tuna fish, or fresh fruit salad, or make a mini jullianne salad, put in oatmeal cookies or oatmeal bars for dessert

Answer 8

You can do anything!
To make it fun for mine, I use little tiny tuppaware pots and in one I put bits of roast chicken, carrot sticks in another, a little thing of some kind of dip like homous, some pita bread - they love making the meal themselves from the little tubs of food.

Answer 9

gronola bars and fruit juice box and fruit pulls and things ued like to eat sandwichs just suck good luck raised 3 boy s all over 16 now healty and happy

Answer 10

Pitta breads with cheese or tuna salad,my kids love em.