50 Back-to-School Lunchbox Ideas (Part 1)
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If you decide to pack a lunch box for your children to take to school, you need to make sure the food is healthy. Fill lunch box Fresh vegetables, fruit, meatballs, steamed rice as a side dish, and whole-grain bread. Arrange the food to make it look fun. The best way to do this is with special cuts; you can even use rice molds and egg stencils. And if you add marshmallows or candy, you'll create the most delicious lunchbox for your child. And you'll acquire a hobby befitting a caring parent.
1. Vegetarian roll
Prepare the pesto sauce, omitting the nuts. Take a whole-wheat flatbread and wrap it around the filling. First, line the flatbread with beet greens (chard), spinach, and watercress sprouts. Then layer the following ingredients: carrots, roasted red peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, and goat cheese. Wrap and seal in waxed paper. The veggie roll and sauce are ready.
Additionally: beet salad, cherry tomatoes, black bean crackers, chocolate candies, raspberries, fruits (apple, mango, pineapple, watermelon).
2. Chickpea pancakes
Crispy chickpea flour squares can be dipped in pesto sauce.
Assemble a lunch box using the following ingredients: sugar snap peas in pods, vegetable sticks (celery, carrots, cucumber, bell pepper, radish), orange or grapefruit slices, chocolate-covered pomegranate seeds.
3. Rice and chickpea waffles
Make waffles using rice and chickpea flour. Now fill the lunchbox compartments with vibrant ingredients: carrots, purple cauliflower, soybeans, blueberries, tomatillos, and glazed sunflower seeds.
4. Rolls with tofu, buckwheat noodles and spinach
Boil buckwheat soba noodles in boiling water for 4-8 minutes; drain and rinse. Then make the tamarind sauce and pour it into a small bottle. To make the roll, you'll need a sheet of translucent rice paper, which you'll dip in warm water. Then roll it up with the filling: spinach, soba noodles, julienned carrots, cucumber, and tofu.
Fill one compartment of the lunchbox with carrots, shaved like for Korean carrots, and arrange them with tofu rolls, buckwheat noodles, and spinach. Place a rice pillow decorated with sesame seeds in another compartment. Line another compartment with a silicone muffin tin and fill it with corn. Introduce your child to exotic fruits and place a hairy rambutan on the rice pillow. Fill the remaining compartments of the lunchbox with black bean crackers and frosted sunflower seeds.
5. Whole wheat couscous
Prepare whole grain couscous as directed on the package. Alternatively, bring 1 cup of water to a boil, add a little less than 1 cup of whole grain couscous, and simmer until the liquid is absorbed, 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, fluffing with a fork. Top the couscous with toasted paprika and sprinkle with sprouted wheat.
Additionally: oatmeal granola, edamame soybeans, fruit mix (mango, kiwi, blueberry and pomegranate)
6. Belgian waffles
Make a complete breakfast with waffles, topped with natural yogurt and lemon juice. Fill the large compartment with carrot salad.
For the salad, chop the carrots and beets, and season it with a spoonful of the same natural yogurt.
Fill the remaining compartments: top the carrot salad with bean sprouts and watercress sprouts, topped with teddy bear jelly beans, blackberries and tomatillos.
7. Golden Egg and Sunflower Seed Paste Bread
Your child will surely love this egg experiment: How to make an ordinary egg "golden." Before boiling the egg, learn how to make it "golden"—it's an opportunity to play with food.
Spread sunflower seed paste on quinoa and brown rice crackers.
Pierce the vegetables (sliced carrots, beets and cucumbers) with a wooden skewer.
Distribute the remaining ingredients into sections.: pumpkin and sunflower seeds, grapes, blackberries and physalis berries, bon-paris candies.
8. Spaghetti pasta with pesto sauce
Cook whole-wheat spaghetti pasta in boiling water for about 10 minutes; drain in a colander. Prepare the pesto sauce, omitting the nuts. Combine the sauce with the pasta, cherry tomatoes, and pea shoots.
Dip a German pretzel into melted chocolate.
Additionally: edamame soybeans; sugar snap peas and julienned bell pepper.
Place fruit mix in the remaining compartment of the lunch box.: chop the exotic fruit with black seeds (pitaya), mango and strawberries; add grapes and blueberries.
9. Brown rice with marinated tofu
Soak brown rice for a while to reduce cooking time. Or steam it. Combine it with marinated tofu in one of the lunchbox containers. Add refried beans or chickpeas to another container.
Place a couple of pieces of caramel-coated candies (Chocolate Mint Brownie Truffles).
AdditionallyPlace cara cara orange slices on chicory leaves; sprinkle with blueberries and pomegranate.
10. Fried tofu with whole grain tortilla
Make a flatbread in a frying pan with three types of flour: oat, flax and whole grain (see recipe). Here). You can wrap fried tofu in this flatbread. Place these ingredients in one of the lunchbox compartments. Add a lettuce leaf. Pour the dipping sauce—fermented hoisin soy sauce—into an airtight container.
Additionally: Romanesco florets and cherry tomatoes; orange slices; pomegranate seeds; Coca-Cola-flavored teddy bears.
11. Dumplings with tofu and mushrooms
Make dumplings filled with tofu, Swiss cheese, chard and mushrooms.
Additionally: edamame soybeans with carrots, mango with blackberries, natural fruit marmalade, nori seaweed.
12. Fritters
Mix the batter with flour, milk, eggs, and baking powder. Dip the pea pods in the batter and deep-fry. You can also add chopped pea pods and mint to the batter and fry them in a pan to form fritters. Pair the fritters with smoked tofu and thread it onto a skewer.
Additionally: carrots of different sizes and colors, pineapple and grapes, citrus-flavored jelly marmalade in a sugar coating.
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13. Avocado and Sweet Potato Sushi
Cook short-grain rice. Form square sushi rolls with avocado and sweet potato filling.
Additionally: skewered smoked tofu sheet, cherry tomatoes with celery, blackberries and mango, chocolate-coated dragees.
14. Samsa with mango chutney
Make samsa with potatoes, spinach, or peas. For dipping, try ginger and mango chutney.
Additionally: edamame and stenciled bell pepper, cantaloupe and grapes, alphabet cookies.
15. Broccoli Quesadilla
In a food processor, combine the broccoli, pistachios, and lemon juice. Take a corn tortilla, line one half with goat cheese or smoked cheddar, add the filling, and fold in half. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil; you'll need to fry two folded tortillas. Fry the tortillas for 5 minutes on each side, pressing down with a spatula and moving it around the pan to absorb all the oil. Fry until golden brown and the cheese melts, holding the tortilla together. Your broccoli quesadilla is ready; cut it into quarters.
Additionally: banana-buckwheat muffin, candied pineapple, cucumber, apple with apple seasoning, glazed seeds.
16. Salmon sandwich and salad
Place the pulp of one avocado, 1/2 cup each of cream cheese and cilantro, a tablespoon of olive oil, and a squeeze of lime juice in a blender. Blend for 1 minute.
Take some brown sandwich bread; trim off any excess to create a heart shape. Cut a small piece (200 g) of poached salmon and mix with avocado dressing. Make a salmon sandwich.
For the saladChop celery, carrots, and radishes, add bean sprouts, and serve with avocado dressing.
Fill the lunch box compartments with mandarin slices and grapes, whole grain crackers, dry biscuits with raisins and bran (biscuits).
17. Fried zucchini with cauliflower and a side dish of cereals
Boil quinoa or any grains (millet, bulgur, dagussa; wheat, spelt, barley).
Roast zucchini, carrots, leeks, kale, cauliflower, and grapes. Place them on a bed of quinoa in one compartment of a lunchbox. Fill the other compartments with cucumber, crackers, raspberries, pineapple, and chocolate-covered jelly beans.
18. Fried tofu with rice noodles
Soak the rice noodles in a bowl of warm water to loosen them. Heat a frying pan with oil and fry the tofu until golden brown, along with the kale, napa cabbage, spinach, mushrooms, and rice noodles. If the noodles are a bit dry, add a splash of water to the bottom of a glass. Season the dish with tamarind paste mixed with lime juice.Additionally: bell pepper and cucumber, lemon muffin with cream cheese frosting and raspberry filling, strawberries.
19. Grilled Artichokes and Broccolini with Rice Balls
To fill the lunch box you will need:: rice balls; grilled artichoke hearts, broccolini, bell peppers; cherry tomatoes and mozzarella; strawberries; glazed sunflower seeds.
20. Gluten-Free Pasta with Broccoli and Pesto Sauce
Make the pesto sauce, omitting the nuts. Combine the cooked pasta with the broccoli florets, sun-dried tomatoes, and pesto. (It's recommended to use red lentil pasta.)
AdditionallyBoiled carrots, blackcurrants and raspberries, natural fruit marmalade, rice crackers. Prepare an eggplant dip for the crackers.
21. Gluten-Free Pasta and Soybean Salad
For a warm saladToss cooked pasta with edamame beans and cherry tomatoes; drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice. (Red lentil pasta is recommended.)
Additionally: carrots and roasted purple potatoes; grapes with raspberries; cereal with pumpkin seeds and dried cherries; marmalade in sugar dusting.
22. Chickpeas with pie
Add sprouted peas to the chickpeas and drizzle with lemon juice. Next, arrange snacks into the lunchbox sections: cherry tomatoes, cooked carrots, celery, black bean crackers, a puff pastry pie, kiwi and tangerine, and penguin gummy bears.
23. Sweet peppers stuffed with wheat
Make a pesto sauce, omitting the nuts. Prepare a filling from boiled wheat (or any grain, such as pearl barley, rice, millet, or bulgur), cooked carrots, and edamame beans; season with the pesto sauce. Stuff fresh bell peppers with the grain mixture.
Additionally: olives, naan bread, blackberries and kiwi, glazed seeds.
24. Pasta with pesto sauce and meatballs
Prepare the pesto sauce, omitting the nuts. Cook the lasagna pasta and toss it with the pesto sauce. When making the meatballs, add the cauliflower to the ground turkey. Equip with skewers.
- Corn balls with cheese
- Corn balls with green onions
- Rice balls
- Crab balls
- Meatballs
- Chicken balls with spinach
- Chicken balls with cheese
- Cheese balls
25. Chicken breasts fried in breadcrumbs
Dip the chicken breasts in the egg, then sprinkle them with breadcrumbs and oatmeal or cornflakes. Fry in a frying pan for 3-5 minutes on each side. For dipping the breaded chicken breasts, prepare a peach sauce. Prepare dry biscuits with flaxseeds; they can also be dipped in the sauce.
Additionally: cherry tomatoes, edamame soybeans and bell pepper, raspberries and strawberries, glazed sunflower seeds.
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