A child’s palette and taste preferences can be difficult to predict, but that doesn’t mean you have to serve them the same lunch options every day. Kid’s get bored easily! With that in mind, here are 15 quick and easy lunch ideas that your kids will love!
15. Hawaiian Chicken Salad with Pineapple – Healthy Snack or Lunch for Kids!
This Hawaiian Chicken Salad with Pineapple makes a great healthy snack or lunch for toddlers and kids, and is a perfect after-school snack! Make this super easy chicken salad on a busy day with just 5 ingredients. This recipe has no raw ingredients so you can have your kids help you make it! See also Freezable Meals For Toddlers.
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14. 3 Ingredient Tuna Salad – Cooking with Toddlers
Tuna salad is an incredibly easy recipe to make with toddlers, and this 3-ingredient tuna salad is as easy as it gets. It uses 3 simple pantry ingredients: canned tuna, mayonnaise, and salsa. YES, that’s it! This 3-ingredient tuna salad is surprisingly so good for such a simple recipe. Check more WW Tuna and Home Canning Recipes.
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13. Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwich with Banana and Strawberries
Get ready for the best peanut butter sandwich you will ever have! These Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwiches with fresh Bananas and Strawberries are absolutely amazing. The crispy toasted bread, melted gooey peanut butter, fresh fruit, is so good together with a drizzle of honey for a touch of sweetness.
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Lunch making has been an ongoing struggle for me since my kids started school. I look forward to our school’s ‘fun lunches’ like a kid looks forward to Christmas morning; they get a great lunch and I get a break!
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A good lunch is filling, flavorful, and easy to make. And this Chicken Bacon Ranch Wrap checks all of the boxes. Enjoy a healthy and refreshing lunch that’s economical and simple to make using leftover chicken.
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This quick, easy and healthy Vegan Rainbow Vegetable Tortilla Wrap is packed full of colour veggies that kiddoes, big and small, will love. This vegan wrap is perfect for school lunches, brunches and when you are out and about.
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9. Peanut Butter, Strawberry And Banana Quesadillas (Gluten-Free, Whole Grain Options)
In continuation of back to school week, I have some fun quesadillas for you. Instead of a boring old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, we have peanut butter, banana and strawberry quesadillas! Opening your lunchbox to that is surely more exciting than a PB&J, isn’t it?
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8. Mediterranean Penne Pasta Salad (Meal Prep)
Looking for an interesting make ahead lunch option that’s nutritious, filling, and easy – and that isn’t a sandwich? Then this meal prep Mediterranean penne pasta salad is for you!
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7. Sun-Dried Tomato, Parmesan & Rosemary Palmiers
Do you bore yourself with your lack of ‘pre-dinner nibble’ imagination when you have guests over? I certainly do, so I thought I’d replace those dull dishes of crisps & nuts with something a bit more impressive … these easy puff pastry ‘palmiers’ stuffed with tasty sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan & fresh rosemary. Mmmm!
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So…sometimes, it’s the simple things that make for the yummiest of lunches. These are literally the easiest ever ham and cheese pizza scrolls, ready in just 20 minutes! Perfect for the lunchbox, freezer friendly and so easy to make!
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Masala Vegetable Quesadillas loaded with veggies, warm Indian spice and mexican style cheese tucked in a pan fried tortilla. This Indo Mexican style quesadillas are so easy to make and makes for a quick weeknight dinner.
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Simple and tasty spaghetti made with Rao’s popular homemade marinara sauce. Serve with a salad or some protein to make a complete meal.
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3. Cucumber and Cream Cheese Sandwich Rolls (with Lavash Bread)
Cucumber pinwheels, or cucumber and cream cheese sandwich rolls, are always a huge hit, no matter where or when you serve them. Great for picnics, bbqs, school or work packed lunches, afternoon tea or even a light dinner!
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2. Easy, Step by Step Potato and Salmon Fish Cakes (Salmon Patties)
Potato and salmon fish cakes (otherwise known as salmon patties) are not only a quick and easy dinner idea that everyone will love, they’re also inexpensive and very nutritious!
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1. Mini Broccoli Quesadillas – Healthy Toddler Recipe
Mini quesadillas are perfect for toddler and kid hands! These mini Broccoli Quesadillas are nutritious, easy to make in under 10 minutes, and a great healthy kid-friendly recipe to make together.
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Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids at Home | Healthy Lunch Recipes
Here are 15 delicious simple lunch recipes that your kids will surely enjoy!
Ingredients
- Hawaiian Chicken Salad
- Tuna salad
- Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwiches
- Chicken Bacon Ranch Wrap
- Vegan Rainbow Vegetable Tortilla Wrap
Instructions
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