Don't Dread Packing Your Kids Lunch Box Anymore!
Kids Lunchbox Suggestions
Healthy and Quick Lunchbox Suggestions
The most important aspect of packing a healthy kids lunchbox is variety. Variety is key to healthy eating, so provide small servings and many choices in your child's school lunch. Providing your child with plenty of variety for their lunch is really not hard. Many lunch foods can be prepared, in advance, so just think ahead. Dinner leftovers, sometimes make delicious school lunches, too.
For simple and fast lunchbox meals, simply fill up small containers with a variety of different foods. Quick lunchbox food suggestions include the following:
- For variety, you could roll up meats, cheeses, and veggies into a tortilla or stuff them into a pita pocket.
- Cut up carrot sticks and include a little Tupperware container of ranch dressing, hummus, or veggie dip.
- Fresh fruit - apples, oranges, tangerines, nectarines (easy, easy).
- Protein or nutrition bars (pricey, but guilt-reducing).
- Make your child a nice sample tray by taking half an egg carton and lining each cup with aluminum foil (optional but this will keep the contents from spilling). Put a hardboiled egg in one, a handful of peanuts in another, dried fruit in a third, cheese crackers in the fourth, and so on.
- Instead of one boring sandwich, pack four little sandwiches.
- Juice box or pouch.
- Applesauce (no sugar).
- Cheese cubes or string cheese.
- Add a small baggie of trail mix, mixing their favorite cereal, nuts, and raisins.
- Hard-boiled eggs.
- Dried fruit is readily available at the supermarkets, and make excellent lunchbox food. Dried fruit like apricots, cranberries, raisins, and mangos are both yummy and sweet.
- Put a taco shell and a few small containers of things like chopped tomatoes, cooked meat, cheese, or chopped lettuce and let your child's lunch be make-your-own tacos.
- Bags of mini muffins, cookies, and crackers also make good lunchbox treats. Rice krispie treats are now available packaged and ready to pop in the lunchbox, as well.
Healthy Lunches for Kids
The Healthy Lunchbox
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 12/19/2009) 
Brown Bag Success: Making Healthy Lunches Your Kids Won't Trade
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 12/19/2009)
Eating at School: Making Healthy Choices
Amazon Price: $29.00 (as of 12/19/2009)
Healthy Lunch Box Treat
Krispie Treats to Go!
Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treat, 31.2 Ounce Unit
Amazon Price: $19.90 (as of 12/19/2009)
Now you don't have to make Rice Krispie treats yourself to enjoy the rich, chewy flavor you crave. Individually wrapped Rice Krispie Treats are made with wholesome Rice Krispies and marshmallows for a sweet, chewy texture. They are also low in fat and have only 90 calories per square. Rice Krispie Treats make a tasty snack for on-the-go kids.
Kids Lunchbox Suggestions
Nutrition Bars for the Kids Lunch Box
Chewy Granola-Quaker Chewy Granola Variety Pack, 48ct.
Amazon Price: $21.44 (as of 12/19/2009)
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ZonePerfect All-Natural Nutrition Bars, Strawberry Yogurt 12 - 1.76 oz (50 g) bars [1.32 lb (600 g)]
Amazon Price: $13.08 (as of 12/19/2009)
ZonePerfect All Natural Nutrition Bar, Chocolate Almond Raisin, 1.76-Ounce Bars in 12-Count Boxes (Pack of 2)
Amazon Price: $32.86 (as of 12/19/2009)
BumbleBar Organic Energy The Basic Box, Five Flavors, 1.6 Ounce Bar (Pack of 15)
Amazon Price: $22.59 (as of 12/19/2009)
Kashi-Go Lean Crunchy, 24 ct Variety Pack
Amazon Price: $34.95 (as of 12/19/2009)
Lunch Box Recipes!
My Lunch Box: 50 Recipes for Kids to Take to School!
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 12/19/2009)
So long, soggy ham sandwiches and PB&J!
My Lunch Box offers families exciting new possibilities for packed lunches. These 50 simple recipes feature inventive sandwiches, tasty salads, healthy treats, and more. With so many yummy options to choose from, parents and children will gain a new perspective on lunch-and another fun way to cook together!
Healthy Lunch Box Treats
Sensible Portions 100 Calorie Pack Multi Grain Mini Crisps Cheddar, 0.84 Ounce Bags (Pack of 80)
Amazon Price: $44.68 (as of 12/19/2009)
Snyders of Hanover 36 Bag Variety Pack Pretzel Snack Value Box
Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 12/19/2009)
Hain Pure Snax Popped Corn Mini Cakes, Mild Cheddar, 4-Ounce Bags (Pack of 12)
Amazon Price: $29.34 (as of 12/19/2009)
Sun Maid California Raisins Mini-Snacks, 7-Ounce Bags (Pack of 9)
Amazon Price: $21.46 (as of 12/19/2009)
OrgraN Mini Outbback Animal Chocolate Cookies, 6.2-Ounce Bag (Pack of 3)
Amazon Price: $16.15 (as of 12/19/2009)
Lunch Box Recipes
Lunch Boxes and Snacks: Over 120 healthy recipes from delicious sandwiches and salads to hot soups and sweet treats
Amazon Price: $11.52 (as of 12/19/2009)
Kids Lunch Box Suggestions
Cool Lunchbox A Must
Realize that your elementary school child isn't under your watchful eye at lunch anymore. You do want him or her to be happy about lunch time. What you put in the lunchbox is very important, but so is the actual lunchbox itself. Your child's lunchbox is something they will carry everyday and should be something they really don't want to loose (if you get my drift).Check out some of the coolest lunchboxes that available for your child that will have them never forgetting or loosing their lunches.
Girls Lunchbox
Stephen Joseph Lunch Box - Ballet - Girl's Lunchboxes - Girl Lunch Box - Ballerina - INSULATED!
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Bratz Girls Pink Soft Lunch Bag
Amazon Price: $11.99 (as of 12/19/2009)
Stephen Joseph SJ4225 Snack Sac Soft-Sided Lunch Bag for Kids, Butterfly
Amazon Price: $13.29 (as of 12/19/2009)
Hannah Montana Orange Kids Tin Lunch Box
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
Disney Tinkerbell Fairies Girls Insulated Double Lunchbox Lunch Box Tote Bag
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
Boys Lunchbox
Boys Lunchboxes
Spiderman Spider-Man Blue Kids Tin Lunch Box
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
Tomb Raider - Lunchbox & Thermos
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 12/19/2009)
Batman Small Lunch Bag
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
Disney Cars Backpack with Attached Lunch or Snack Box
Amazon Price: $24.59 (as of 12/19/2009)
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Bumblebee Large Backpack
Amazon Price: $21.00 (as of 12/19/2009)
Lunch Box Memories
Do You Remember Your Lunch Box?
What was your all time favorite lunch box as a kid? Post it here by clicking on the blue caption button. If you see it listed, vote for it with the up arrow.
School Lunchbox
Kids School Lunchbox
How To Pack a School Lunch
Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/19/2009)
School Lunch
Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 12/19/2009)
Lots of Love in a Lunch Box (Standard kids)
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Kids Lunches (A Picture and text reference)
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Ideas for School Lunches and After School Snacks
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Lunch Snacks
Revolution Foods Organic Jammy Sammy Snack Size Sandwich Bar, Grape Jelly & Peanut Butter, 5-Count Boxes (Pack of 5)
Amazon Price: $16.46 (as of 12/19/2009)
Revolution Foods Organic Jammy Sammy Snack Size Sandwich Bar, Apple Cinnamon & Oatmeal, 5-Count Boxes (Pack of 5)
Amazon Price: $16.46 (as of 12/19/2009)
Betty Crocker Scooby Doo Fruit Flavored Snacks 46 Pouch Box
Amazon Price: $13.95 (as of 12/19/2009)
Revolution Foods Organic Mashups Squeezable Fruit, Tropical, 3.17-Ounce Squeezable Pouches (Pack of 24)
Amazon Price: $26.31 (as of 12/19/2009)
Jungle Grub Snack Bars Variety Pack, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter Groove, Berry Bamboozle, 5-Count, 4.4 Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
Amazon Price: $28.52 (as of 12/19/2009)
Lunch Containers
Lunch and Sandwich Containers
Fit & Fresh Lunch on the Go
Amazon Price: $9.75 (as of 12/19/2009)
Tupperware Sandwich Keeper Set of Two. Orange
Amazon Price: $10.95 (as of 12/19/2009)
Marvel Spider-man sandwich box - keepsake plastic container with lid
Amazon Price: $8.90 (as of 12/19/2009)
Drinks for the Lunch Box
Santa Cruz Orange Juice, 8-Ounce Aseptic Boxes (Pack of 27)
Amazon Price: $25.77 (as of 12/19/2009)
Apple & Eve Juice Frt Punch, 3 Count 6.75-Ounce, Aseptic Boxes (Pack of 9)
Amazon Price: $21.47 (as of 12/19/2009)
Juicy Juice Nestle, Juicy Juice Fun Size-punch 4.23oz 40 Boxes
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
Santa Cruz Grape Juice, 8-Ounce Aseptic Boxes (Pack of 27)
Amazon Price: $25.77 (as of 12/19/2009)
Horizon Organic Reduced Fat Milk, Chocolate, 8-Ounce Aseptic Cartons (Pack of 18)
Amazon Price: $23.00 (as of 12/19/2009)
Fruit Snacks to Go!
Funky Monkey Snacks Variety Pack, Freeze-Dried Fruit, 1-Ounce Bags (Pack of 12)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
Brothers-ALL-Natural Variety Pack Crisps, Fuji Apple, Asian Pear, Strawberry/Banana, 24-Count Bags
Amazon Price: $20.31 (as of 12/19/2009)
Sun Maid Mixed Fruit, 7-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 6)
Amazon Price: $14.68 (as of 12/19/2009)
Brothers-ALL-Natural Fuji Apple Crisps, 0.35-Ounce Bags (Pack of 24)
Amazon Price: $20.31 (as of 12/19/2009)
Peeled Snacks Fruit Picks and Nut Picks Gift Tin (40 snacks)
Amazon Price: $129.99 (as of 12/19/2009)
Vintage Lunch Boxes
You Might Have Had These Kids Lunchboxes
A retro vintage lunch box for your child would really have them carrying the most unique lunchbox at school! It might the same lunch box you carried?
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- newbornwiki newbornwiki Sep 28, 2009 @ 8:32 am
- I would like to buy lunch box for my daughter to fresh fruites.
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- mulberry mulberry Jul 21, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
- These are wonderful tips, especially for busy mom's! I have to admit that when I'm at home alone I skip things sometimes. For instance I was going to make a sandwich wrap one day, but I get tired of bread, tortillas and so forth...I ended up wrapping my sandwich in a large leaf of romain lettuce...won't work in a packed lunch but it worked for me.
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- The_Homeopath The_Homeopath Jul 9, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
- Great tips! I always look for ways to make lunch fun for my kids, especially since my son has food allergies, so buying a lunch at school isn't even an option for him.
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