Healthy lunch box ideas – Making lunches varied

Now Harry is in school 3 full days a week that means he needs a packed lunch on those days.  Of course he isn’t really fussed about what is inside his lunch box just as long as he sits with his friends, doesn’t have to drink water and hopefully gets to wave at his sister and try to embarrass her in front of her school friends.

Although he would happily eat the same things for lunch day in and day out, that would of course get very boring, he would soon stop enjoying his lunches and I may end up with a battle on my hands trying to get him to enjoy them again.

With this in mind I have been trying to make them as varied as I can without of course being too elaborate because lets face it, who has the time to do that every meal time? Once a week I may try to make shaped sandwiches etc. however if I did it all of the time he would be demanding dog shaped sandwiches for every meal, even when we are out.

I try to make Harry’s lunches as balanced as I can by adding a sandwich, pasta or crackers for instance, a fromage frais, fruit and a snack. He also has a carton of juice – while I would prefer to give him a diluted squash in a reusable bottle the school doesn’t allow and it has to be a carton.

I have taken to making up Harry’s lunch box the evening before as the mornings are rushed enough as it is, and I have also batch made sandwiches and rolls, wrapped these in cling film and popped them into the freezer.  I also freeze Munch Bunch Squashums for Harry’s lunches.  The sandwiches I take out the evening before they are needed and the Squashums the morning.

As well as sandwiches Harry has been enjoying:

Pasta with cheese and ham
Pasta with tomato sauce
Cheese and Crackers
Pitta bread with Hummus
Carrot and cucumber sticks with Hummus or peanut butter
Crumpets
Brioche

Snacks he has been enjoying are:

Baby Tomatoes
Cheese cubes
Raisins
Fromage frais
Dried apricots
Banana
Satsuma
2 chocolate coins
Grapes
Strawberries
Blackberries

Lunches don’t have to be boring and the same every day however they don’t have to be too hard to make either.

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