Lunch Ideas for Kiddos

Setup

• https://thermos.com/pages/food-storage

  • Always warm the container with boiled pasta water, or hot water to warm the container before putting hot food. By the time they eat lunch, it will still stay lukewarm

• https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Snack-Bags-Pack-90/dp/B01FXMD7KY/ (For snack size, chips, grapes)

• https://www.amazon.com/bento-boxes/b?ie=UTF8&node=2457292011

• https://www.amazon.com/FIRETREESILVERFLOWER-Sandwich-Decruster-Vegetable-Dinosaur/dp/B09YP943WT

  • Something similar would do; this is useful for the PBJ Cuteness!

Lunch Ideas

Often, as working mothers, we are pressed for time, but making a nutritious meal for our kids is a way for us to express our love and care for the most precious gift in our lives.

Fruits

• Honeycrisp Apples

• Sliced Strawberries

• Grapes

Staple Carb

• Rice with butter, salt, fresh cracked pepper

• Pasta with pesto sauce

• Multigrain Bread

Staple Protein

• Chicken 65 

  • You will get in Indian Stores Chicken 65 Paste.

• Leftover Chicken Curry

• Chicken sauteed with taco seasoning

• Salmon Burger (From Costco)

• Turkey Slices

Miscellaneous

• Maggi

• Mac & Cheese

• Cold turkey slices

• Living Lettuce (stays fresh for the whole week)

Helpful Tips

• Use chicken thighs, and they never get dry, even if you overcook them.

• Have lots of spice mixes like taco seasoning, rosemary, thyme, garlic salt

• Use Mexican cheese to make mac & cheese.

• Prep chicken on Sundays for quick cooking in the morning or the night before.

• Buy Pesto Sauce from Costco or Sams club, put it in icecube trays and freeze them and use them

Lunch Ideas

• PBJ Cute shaped, Chips in a snack pack, and a choice of fruit.

• Chicken Curry, with rice and a choice of fruit.

• Chicken 65 with buttered rice, fresh cracked pepper and salt, and a choice of fruit.

• Sautee Salmon Burger and give it with buttered pasta and a choice of fruit.

• Sauteed Salmon Burger with Rice with butter, fresh cracked pepper and salt, and a choice of fruit.

• Multigrain bread, turkey slices, add pesto sauce or chipotle mayo on the bread, tomato slices, living lettuce, and pepper jack cheese. Slice in half and add chips in a snack bag and a choice of fruit.

• Chicken Chowmein