Healthy On-The-Go Lunch Ideas For Your Kid’s Lunchbox
When you’ve got kids and you’re also working, it’s tough to pull together healthy meals all the time. But luckily, the idea of meal-prepping has gotten popular. No matter what…

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ThitareeSarmkasat / ThinkStockWhen you've got kids and you're also working, it's tough to pull together healthy meals all the time. But luckily, the idea of meal-prepping has gotten popular.
No matter what meal, it's going to be the most helpful to tackle the lunches all on a weekend, so you can just grab them and go when ready.
Digging through the internet, here are some of the best ideas we could find, which will be perfect for your growing child.
Mimicking A Starbucks Bistro Box

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Now, we don't expect your kids to eat English Muffins and whatnot, but you can easily cut up some Cheddar Cheese, a small container of peanut butter, apple slices, grapes, and a hard boiled egg as a protein packed snack. The Skinny Fork's recipe uses the Whole Grain English Muffin and also a Babybel cheese, but you don't want to give your kid TOO MUCH cheese. Check out their recipe here.
When you've got kids and you're also working, it's tough to pull together healthy meals all the time. But luckily, the idea of meal-prepping has gotten popular.
No matter what meal, it's going to be the most helpful to tackle the lunches all on a weekend, so you can just grab them and go when ready.
Digging through the internet, here are some of the best ideas we could find, which will be perfect for your growing child.
Bento Boxes

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EatingWell.com offers a couple great ideas for a lunch box, which include some great combinations. A Breakfast-For-Lunch box which includes Tomatoes, Boiled Egg, Grapefruit, Ground Cinnamon, Cottage Cheese, and an Apple and Waffle sandwich with Sunflower Seed Butter (can also be peanut butter, because I've made that before and it's delicious!), or the Pizza Roll Up Bento, which uses Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas, Pizza Sauce, Baby Spinach, and Mozzarella to create the rolls, paired with watermelon pieces, Oreos, and some cut up veggies. The combinations are endless! See the recipes by clicking the names.
When you've got kids and you're also working, it's tough to pull together healthy meals all the time. But luckily, the idea of meal-prepping has gotten popular.
No matter what meal, it's going to be the most helpful to tackle the lunches all on a weekend, so you can just grab them and go when ready.
Digging through the internet, here are some of the best ideas we could find, which will be perfect for your growing child.
Chicken Salad Pitas

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100 Days Of Real Food shares a Chicken Salad Pita with a slice of cheese (probably mozzarella or swiss), with some spinach inside the wheat pocket. This paired with apple slices and a bean mixture will fill your kid with the right kind of energy for the following work at school.
When you've got kids and you're also working, it's tough to pull together healthy meals all the time. But luckily, the idea of meal-prepping has gotten popular.
No matter what meal, it's going to be the most helpful to tackle the lunches all on a weekend, so you can just grab them and go when ready.
Digging through the internet, here are some of the best ideas we could find, which will be perfect for your growing child.
Make Your Own Lunchable

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Bon Appetit says to "Think Beyond Bread" by using crackers and rice cakes instead. Adding Ham with white cheddar will be a great set up with a healthy form of crackers which is pretty similar to the ham and cheese packets you can get from the Lunchable variety. And if you use something like white cheddar, Swiss, or Munster cheese, you're lowering the sodium content.
When you've got kids and you're also working, it's tough to pull together healthy meals all the time. But luckily, the idea of meal-prepping has gotten popular.
No matter what meal, it's going to be the most helpful to tackle the lunches all on a weekend, so you can just grab them and go when ready.
Digging through the internet, here are some of the best ideas we could find, which will be perfect for your growing child.
Fiesta!

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Parents.com shares a Mexican-esque treat without all the calories. Bean salad, accompanied with melon wedges, a handful of chips with salsa, and some cheese cubes.
What's your favorite combo for your kids? Let us know!
Amy Cooper has been through a lot of school in the last 28 years, so she knows a thing or two about the education system.