Fresh & Healthy: Lunch Box Meals
Karlie is ready to pack up her lunch!
I found fresh strawberries marked down at the grocery store last week and after picking out 1 bad strawberry the rest were perfect. The girls were excited to get strawberries in their lunch this week for their fruit. 🙂
Lunch Box Meal:
- Peanut Butter & Jelly or Almond Butter & Jelly Sandwiches
- Fresh Strawberries
- Fresh Carrots
- Cashews or Peanuts
- Strawberry Yogurt
- Ritz Cheese Bits or Elf Grahams
- Bugles or Corn Chips
- Whole Grain Crackers
- Cherry Kool-Aid Jammers or Yahoo Chocolate Milk
Fresh strawberries, carrots and more!
The girls are always excited to help with their lunches and they do a great job. This year we have a lot of extra activities going on after school so it has been hard to get all the activities, homework, dinner, baths, lunches made, and everything else done after school so I have been pitching in to help them when it is getting too close to bed time. If they don’t get a chance to pack their lunches before beds they are always eager to find out what is in them. Many times I catch them sneaking a glance in their lunches at breakfast or on the way to school.
Fresh & Healthy: Lunch Box Meals
School lunch is ready!
Today the girls chalkboard note read “You’re the BEST!” A lot of their lunches consist of leftovers from the evening meals together as our family. They love it when they get a roast beef sandwich from the roast we had the night before or something similar.
Lunch Box Meal:
- Roast Beef & Mash Potato Sandwich
- Fresh Grapes
- Fresh Cherry Tomatoes
- Cashews
- Peach Yogurt
- Chocolate & Vanilla Oreos
- Teddy Grahams
- Reduced Sugar Orange or Fruit Punch Juice
Fresh grapes, cherry tomatoes, roast beef sandwich and more!
The girls really do eat most of the items in their lunch bags! I have found that the food I pack them hold them longer than when they eat lunches at school. Part of the reason may be because students that bring lunches get a few extra minutes to eat, plus they can eat any of the leftovers for a snack on the way to our after school activities.
Goodies are ready for the girls to packed up.
Fresh & Healthy: Lunch Box Meals
1 Cool Kid + 1 Yummy Lunch = 2 Much Fun
The chalk board on the inside of the lunch boxes has been a huge hit with the girls. Most days when they take these lunch boxes to school they cannot wait until lunch time to check out their chalk drawing or message. Every once in awhile the girls will get a special treat in their lunch boxes. Today they got a Lunchable and a variety of vegetables with ranch dip.
Something “special” in the lunch today!
Lunch Box Meal:
- Chicken Nugget Lunchable
- Fresh Banana
- Fresh Carrots
- Fresh Cherry Tomatoes
- Fresh Celery
- Ranch Veggie Dip
- Mozzarella Cheesestick
- Fresh Popcorn
- Chocolate Mint Swirl Marshmallows
- Sunrise Juice Bag
Lunch is packed and ready to go!
The girls love taking their lunches to school. I like that the girls get a few extra minutes at lunch to eat since they take their lunches to school. It is nice having not only their lunch but a snack already packed so they can eat on the way to the after school activities.
Fresh & Healthy: Lunch Box Meals
Lunch box goodies
About once a week I pack a special treat for the girls. This week in their little container I put two Hershey Bliss Milk Chocolate Meltaways and one of each color of M&M’s. The girls love getting these goodies and enjoy sharing with their friends as well. Here’s what they had today:
- Peanut Butter & Homemade Strawberry Jam
- Fresh Red & Green Peppers
- Fresh Strawberries
- Pita Chips or Quaker Granola Bar
- Yogurt
- Banana Muffin
- Juice Bag or Container
- 2 Hershey Bliss Chocolate Meltaways
- 5 M&M’s
Special treats in their lunch today
Fresh fruit & veggies
