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Easy & Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids (and Kids at Heart)

Need some new, easy ideas for packing lunch with fun? Here’s a whole week’s worth of creative, timesaving, healthy recipes that meet picky parents’ nutrition standards, and pass picky kids’ taste tests.

MONDAY:

Baked Oatmeal With Blueberries and Almonds

With just ten minutes prep time, you can bake this protein-filled bowlful on Sunday, and pack it with fresh berries and yogurt to go Monday morning. Easy to modify for any food sensitivities.

TUESDAY:

Apple Cheddar Pita Pockets

Just when you thought you’d run through every sandwich possibility out there, here comes a new packable, snackable, sweet, neat, meatless lunch idea that appeals to practically everyone.

WEDNESDAY:

Taco Pockets

Bored with bread slices? How about a pie crust instead? This fun, easy lunch idea makes tacos packable and turns leftover Taco Tuesday fillings into a new Wednesday sensation.

THURSDAY:

Spam Musubi

Tuck this classic little taste of Hawaii into your kids’ lunch, for a mid-day vacay from the same old same old. With the musubi molds in our housewares department, shaping these fun sushi-like bites is so easy, even kids can do it.

FRIDAY:

Bento Box

At the end of a long week, why not try something new, by making lunch out of a little bit of whatever’s in the fridge? We love to combine things like Mamnoon dips, Fresh Prep Veggie Sticks, Deli Meat Slices, Pre-cut Fruit, Pretzels or Crackers and Cheese Slices (choose your own faves.)

And that’s a wrap on easy, healthy kids’ lunches for the week. But speaking of wraps, our veggie-and-hummus filled Rainbow Collard Wraps paired with your favorite dipping sauce make a super-healthy lunch, dinner, or happy hour snack for the weekend!

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