Making lunches for school every day can be a parenting challenge. How to make them healthy? how to make them tasty so they’ll eat them? It’s a balance between making them healthy, easy ideas, and something they will eat.
Now that my son is a teenager, I don’t make themed or cutesy lunches but I still use some of the ideas I learned when I started researching ideas. He’s never been much of a sandwich kid (though when younger it helped when I used a fun sandwich cutter) so we do a lot of ‘lunchable’ style or food on a stick for lunches.
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The BEST cookbooks for kids’ school lunches
- The Top 100 Recipes for a Healthy Lunchbox, Nicole Graimes
- Lunch Boxes and Snacks, Annabel Karmel
- The Lunch Box
- Lunch Lessons, Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes
- Cooking with Trader Joes and Easy Lunch Boxes, Kelly Lester
Also, check out these Instagram accounts for more ideas and inspiration:
- @lunchboxdad
- @100daysofreallfood
- @easylunchboxes
And don’t forget to order some of our favorite Easy LunchBoxes
