How many parents do you know who really enjoy making their kids lunches in the morning? Not many. Maybe it’s the OCD-planner in me but I love getting creative with kids lunches and it is now a part of my weekly meal planning. I also like to have some fun with it too – cute shaped sandwiches, colorful cupcake holders and a variety of food and flavors. I cannot wait for my girls to be old enough to read so I can add some cute lunchbox notes too…
So after a poll on Insta stories last week, so many moms requested some fun and different lunchbox ideas for their kids. Both my older girls are at school in the mornings so they both get a packed lunch snack and juice bottle each day. I try to include the different food groups (a main meal or starch, fruit and veg, dairy and yoghurt, protein and snack). I am also lucky that my girls are relatively good and non-fussy eaters – they eat all of the below. These are genuine lunches that I have packed (not just pretty pictures for the blog!)
Monday
Strawberry jam or peanut butter sandwich
Granadilla drinking yoghurt
Salami sticks
Kiri soft cheese
Carrot sticks
Green grapes
Tuesday
Mince and pasta (leftover from dinner)
Strawberry drinking yoghurt
Popcorn
Strawberries
Date and nut bar
Wednesday
Crackerbread with Bovril
Strawberry yoghurt tub
Dry worshippers biltong sticks
Banana muffins (homemade with brown bananas)
Mielie corn
Watermelon
Thursday
Hotdog roll with vienna sausage
Fruit yoghurt tube
Mini cheddar biscuits
Dried fruit stick
Apple
Celery sticks
Friday
Ham slices
Banana yoghurt tube
Dipping cheese and biscuit sticks
Cucumber
Banana
Friday treat!!! Any ONE of the below sweet treats is allowed on a Friday
I would love to hear from you.
Do you enjoying packing lunches? Do you have fussy eaters? What are your go-to lunches for your kiddies?
x
Hi Caley
What a lovely post. I wish I could live in your house! You’re an awesome mom.
My mom is amazing but was absolutely NOT into packing lunches, so we got a brown bread Bovril sandwich every day & an apple. My brother & I still joke about it.
As for packing lunch for my (super picky) 4YO son, he gets the following every single day (& he loves it so much): brown toast with no butter, grated cheddar cheese, a yogurt, water & maybe some dried cranberries or biltong (which he will only eat one in 10 days).
xxx
Oh friend, you and me both! My mom never packed my lunches – either my nanny did or I packed them myself. It was horrible!
Maybe thats why I make such an effort now x