Building a Nutritious Lunchbox
Posted on September 7, 2010
Have your kids choose one main thing that they are going to eat every day for a week. Yes, variety is great but so is sanity. You don’t need to turn yourself into a short order cook. Heck, some kids eat the same exact sandwich every single day of the school year. I’m not advocating that. I’m saying that if your kid wants tuna salad, they can eat it for five days in a row and then have something different the next week. Trust me – this makes shopping and packing lunches way easier and I find that food doesn’t go to waste. Yeah!
Here are just a handful of lunch ideas:
- Whole wheat tortillas spread with peanut butter sprinkled with raisins or dried cherries, rolled up and cut in two.
- Hummus and spinach wrap, cherry tomatoes with string cheese, and yogurt.
- Baked corn chips, black beans, cheese wedges and fresh pico de gallo with jicama sticks.
- Whole wheat or buckwheat noodles with peanut sauce, sugar snap peas, a pear, almonds and a fortune cookie.
- Tuna salad with grated carrots, served with crackers or in a pita.
- Cheese triangles served with pepperoni and whole wheat crackers for stacking.
- Vegetarian brown rice sushi rolls with soy or ponzu sauce.
- Smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumbers on mini bagels.
- Shumai dumplings/potstickers packed cold with ponzu sauce or peanut sauce.
If you want to see the full article go to the Whole Foods website at
http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/2010/08/building-a-nutritious-lunchbox/