Need some dependable, tasty, and nourishing food options that are easy to prepare and will excite the people of your household? Here are some of our surefire successful school lunch and snack ideas.
After months in the house, our kids are more than ready to head back to school. Need some dependable, tasty, and nourishing food options that are easy to prepare and will excite the people of your household? Here are some of our surefire successful school lunch and snack ideas.
Ooh, we have such a fun time with lunch! Monday is usually waffles or pancakes — we serve a big brunch on Sunday, and there’s always leftovers. That becomes Monday lunch; I think of it as our IHOP lunch. We send pancakes or waffles with a small container of maple syrup and a container of cut-up melon or fruit. It’s one of my kids’ favorite lunches!
Another good one is a hollowed-out bell pepper with either mac ’n cheese or tuna inside. My friend once told me that her husband, a rebbi in the school, always gets a kick out of my son’s lunch when he sees him across the lunchroom biting into a whole pepper. I had to clarify that there’s food in there too, and he’s not just eating a bell pepper!
The day after we serve tacos for dinner is always tacos for lunch — it tastes fine even if it isn’t heated up, so I send a container of crumbled taco meat, with containers of corn, shredded lettuce, and some other cut-up vegetables they like, and the best part of all — a taco shell. —Rachel Bachrach, associate editor
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