Healthy Kids Lunch Recipes & Tips

Featured Recipes

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have the familiar flavors of brown sugar and chocolate, but get a sophisticated twist from tahini (sesame paste). Tahini helps to lower the saturated fat by more than 66 percent while adding a nutty flavor to an old classic.

» Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad

This streamlined version of a northern Italian idea is perfect for a summer evening: no-fuss, no-cook and big taste. You can even make it ahead and store it, covered, in the refrigerator for several days. If you do, use it as a wrap filling for the next day's lunch.

» Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad

Buffalo Chicken Wrap

Moms and Dads like wraps because they're neat and compact--so beware: ours is messy and spicy. This fiery combination of buffalo chicken in a modern wrap is guaranteed to drip. Get out the big napkins and have a ball!

» Buffalo Chicken Wrap

Cinnamon Oranges

This simple dessert works any time of the year, but its flavors will be the best and brightest in the winter when oranges are at their peak.

» Cinnamon Oranges

BBQ Chicken Sandwich

Toss leftover cooked chicken with barbecue sauce and crunchy carrots for a quick and healthy lunch.

» BBQ Chicken Sandwich

Strawberry & Cream Cheese Sandwich

Sliced strawberries and reduced-fat cream cheese come together in a sandwich for this quick and healthy lunchbox treat.

» Strawberry & Cream Cheese Sandwich

Pizza Roll-Up Bento Lunch

This easy pizza-inspired roll-up is a kid-pleaser. Make crunchy vegetables more appealing by selecting colorful varieties like orange and purple cauliflower—and don't forget the dip! Keep 'em smiling with watermelon cut into fun shapes with cookie cutters.

» Pizza Roll-Up Bento Lunch

Easy, packable solutions for lunchboxes.

Give kids the energy they need to make it through the day with a healthy lunch. Studies have shown that if you equip your children with healthy food to eat at school, they will be better prepared to study and learn. Although there are lots of convenience products available to make packing your kid’s lunchbox a snap, those products are often loaded with saturated fat, calories and sodium. Our collection of kid-friendly ideas take little time to prepare and will help keep lunches enjoyable and healthy. Fruits and vegetables add color and crunch while providing beneficial vitamins and minerals. Foods like wraps, smoothies and dips are fun to eat. Give your kids something to look forward to at lunch every day with a variety of options they won’t trade away!

READER'S COMMENT:

"send them off with some freeze-dried fruit in snacks packages-super healthy, doesn't spoil, easy to eat and carry. What could be better? Healthy Munchy, Los Angeles, CA "

Comments

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great suggestions...thanks! appreciative, Marietta, GA	11 weeks 5 days ago
send them off with some freeze-dried fruit in snacks packages-super healthy, doesn't spoil, easy to eat and carry. What could be better? Healthy Munchy, Los Angeles, CA	11 weeks 5 days ago
Looks like healthy eating. Marvin LePage, Duluth, MN	11 weeks 5 days ago
Suggestions: -simple on hand ingredients -before-the-bus-gets-here prep time -5 of us moms read this on our friends iphone and laughed because you listed a "peanut" recipe. Most schools these days allow NO PEANUTS. Momof4, Southern Pines, NC	11 weeks 5 days ago