Clever Healthy Lunches Your Kids will LOVE!
Back to School: School Lunches Your Kids Will Actually Eat. Need some mom advice for quick and easy back to school lunches for your kids? Do you have a picky eater or need some non-sandwich options?
We have rounded up the best lunch ideas and healthy recipes to share today! Be sure to check out all our lunch box ideas! Also spend some time with our back to school hacks and back to school teacher gifts.
Before my daughter starting going to school, I had no idea how big of a deal “lunch” was. I mean, I guess I remember from way back in the day when I was in school the social hierarchy of lunch time.
And then I left school and grew up and forgot everything. Typical mom, right?
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As so many things in my life, my oldest daughter is here tell me everything I am missing! Both of my girls are pretty good little eaters. They love fruits and veggies. They don’t turn up their noses to healthy recipes…at least not when mom is sitting there watching.
Then little Aubrey goes back to school and I find un-eaten, un-opened food in her backpack at the end of the day. Things like PB&J…she LOVES PB&J! Why uneaten? “It didn’t look cool.” Really? She’s 4! So the solution, I have found to the uneaten food…make it look cool.
If it’s “cool”..it’s eaten. (Even when it has spinach on it!) So some mom advice to help all us uncool moms with our lame lunches…I have some amazing back to school lunch ideas and healthy recipes that will get your kids excited about eating their lunch!
Bento Box Ideas
1000 school lunches from What Lisa Cooks
This site has over 1000 school lunches that are full of kid friendly foods and creative ideas. These school lunches use a bento style reusable container.
101 School Lunches from The Dating Divas
Here are some more awesome bento school lunches. I love the variety of options and the healthy food choices. I especially love the silicone baking cups as dividers.
I love clever lunch box ideas, don’t you. Being able to use easy to wash and reuse lunchboxes to create unique lunches kids will love! Priceless!
A Year of Healthy Lunches from Easy Lunch Boxes
You never need to think to hard about healthy recipes for lunch with this list of a whole year’s worth of healthy school lunches.
These also make great lunch ideas for toddlers and homeschooled kiddos. You don’t HAVE to leave home to need quick and unique lunch ideas. They are perfect for playdates and field trips too!
30 School Lunches from Bento Lunch
Meatballs, wraps and more. Here are more amazing school lunch ideas. I love the idea of adding cute little things into their lunches too. Why not make them look cute, right?
The easy bento box ideas are great school lunch ideas for picky eaters too. If you have a kiddo who doesn’t want her strawberries anywhere near her sandwich or who won’t eat anything other than meatballs….theses bento boxes can be a LIFESAVER!
125 Healthy School Lunches from Holley Grainger
I love these awesome ideas….almost as much as I love this Bentgo box. This is great for packing things like yogurt or dips without spilling all over the place!
Hot Lunches
Thermos School Lunches from Keeley McGuire
This post has 26 meal ideas for a thermos. This is so great for cold days when your kids need something with a little warmth.
Things to Put in a Thermos from My Mommy Style
There are so many ways to use a thermos. Here are some clever, less obvious uses for a thermos in your kids’ lunches. What a great way to send healthy recipes in your kids lunch box!!
Alternatives to Sandwiches
DIY Fruit Kabobs from Creative Live
Get them excited about their food by jazzing it up!!! Use these fun little letter cookies cutters to make fruit kabobs!!! Anytime we can make healthy food look this cute…golden!
Kid Friendly Wraps from Super Healthy Kids
This post has some awesome healthy wrap ideas your kids will go bananas over! I love the idea of wrapping different foods and giving them fun and healthy foods in their lunch box.
Sandwich Kabobs from Eat Drink Love
Another amazing kabob idea. Why have a boring sandwich when you can make your sandwich into a cute kabob?? Mom Advice: These cookies cutters are perfect for little kabobs.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi Rolls by Bon Appetite
Way to make simple PB&J fun and interesting. This is a winner! You can make it bite-sized, which cuts down on the mess and they are a hit with the kiddos.
Muffins and More!
Ham and Mac & Cheese Muffins from I Should Be Mopping The Floor
Hooray for muffins you kids will love for lunch!! This is an especially great way to use some left overs too!
Corndog Nuggets from Lil Luna
This recipe for corndog nuggets is easy and would be great for lunch time! My kids will go crazy for these this year!
Pizza Buns from Simple as That
Pizza that looks like a cinnamon roll? Yes Please!!! This is a fun and easy way to send pizza in their lunch.
Crescent Hot Dog Pocket from Crazy Adventures in Parenting
Let’s keep the hot dog ideas coming…your kids will love these pockets. They are functional and fun!
Pizza Muffins by Lick the Bowl Good
Ummm, yes please may I have another?? These are bited sized and yummy! And soooo much less messy than regular pizza. Winner,winner, chick dinner!
I hope you loved these back to school lunches and healthy recipes for kids!! Be sure to check out all our lunch box ideas! Also spend some time with our back to school hacks and back to school teacher gifts.
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My kids are the same way and it’s infuriating!! I make the bento box meals in the cute silicone cupcake wrappers… and it drives me nuts. I know I ate what I was given… so what the heck?! lol mom rant over.
So many great ideas! I’m a few years away from needing to pack a lunch, but this was great to read.
I love your daughters idea of not eating it if it doesn’t look cool! These all look like fantastic lunch ideas, the pizza muffins sound delicious!
Ok, my lunch never looked this cool! There are some great ideas here, I am always trying to figure out what to send to preschool with my boys. Now that my oldest is starting kinder this fall, I may have to up my lunchbox game. And I’ll confess, I want to try some of these lunches myself!
I do remember that my school lunches did not look this cool! However that being said these are some really great ideas. Before we know it summer vacation will be over and it will be time to start packing lunches again. I’m pinning this for later.
I’m pretty sure your kids they like their school pack lunch it looks delicious! Also I love sweets!!
Delicious ideas! eating a rainbow never looked so much fun!
I like that they all are so colourful and attractive. I think this is important in making sure that your kids actually eat their lunch.
Nice post and such a lot of great ideas for making food for your schooler. My daughter is such a picky eater and I think this is the best way for me to let them eat all of my prepared food most especially fruits and vegetables.
Oooh, those pizza buns and hotdog pockets will definitely be a hit with my son! Will try to make them for his next bento. :)
Kids will definitely eat more when their lunch boxes are packed like these! I love all the ideas and there’s so many that parents can copy for each day!
Thanks so much for sharing. My son gets really tired of sandwichs. This is perfect.
I wonder if my kids would ike the mac and cheese muffins. They look super easy to make
These are awesome ideas for kids lunchboxes. They get bored so easily its handy to have these really creative ideas to help us parents out.
I’m going to try sending a thermos this year. My son is all done with cold lunches and he hates school lunch. Crossing my fingers it works out well.
These are all amazing ideas! The tupperware makes such a huge difference, and putting warm lunches in a thermos always worked for me! I used to always pack soup on cold days.
These are all great tips for lunches! I plan on doing a couple.
so cool. Love the creativity for the lunches. Simple but doesn’t look typical “boring”. I like this little lunch boxes too =)
WOW! Looks so yummy! Even for adults! I will see what I can do for myself and my toddler this lunch :)
Adorably delicious and healthy lunch ideas! Dont have a kid yet but can’t wait to be such an artsy mommy and make cute bento boxes for my little one like the ones here!
Wow! This one’s a winner.I just love everything about this!My boys would both probably DIG this!
These are some great lunch ideas for even the pickiest kids! I’ll share these with my sis because my niece (5) is totally not eating an uncool lunch lol
These are great ideas. Going to share this with my brother in law for our neices.
These are all really great ideas for lunches. Especially the bento box! That’s something I’m definitely doing this year.
Wow! This is very creative. Kids will always b excited to open the lunch box everyday having the food prepared like this. Thanks for the idea.
Wow, These are all really great ideas for lunches. I just love everything about this. I am always trying to make something new recipe for my kids. Your method is also original to me. I will try it to make at my home. Hope, so my kids also love this. I want to more recipe from you.Thanks for the giving this yummy recipe.
It all looks yummy!!!
Thank you for your great ideas. These are awesome and I’m excited to use the ideas towards this year back to school lunches. I am a mom blog over at http://www.allmodernmommy.com and I loved your ideas so much I added a backlink to this post. Thanks :) Have a great day.Over 25 Back To School Lunch Ideas for Back To School