Lunchbox Ideas
60 Easy Lunches for Kids and Grown-Ups
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What you get
- 60 complete lunch recipes with servings, time and steps
- A five-part lunchbox formula for improvising without a recipe
- Warm thermos lunches for cold days
- Make-ahead muffins and bakes you can freeze
- Grown-up desk lunches and salad jars
- Food-safety basics and picky-eater tips
- A two-week lunch plan with a Sunday prep list
Packing lunches every day gets old fast, especially when you are stuck on the same sandwich and the box comes home half full. Lunchbox Ideas gives you 60 easy, tested-style lunch recipes that work for children's school boxes and grown-up work lunches alike, so one bit of prep can feed the whole family.
Every recipe is short and complete, with servings, time, an ingredients list and numbered steps. You will find fresh sandwiches and wraps, pasta and grain salads, build-it-yourself bento boxes, warming thermos lunches for cold days, make-ahead muffins and bakes, and satisfying desk lunches in a jar or tub.
You also get a simple five-part lunchbox formula so you can improvise without a recipe, clear food-safety basics for keeping lunches cold or hot until noon, tips for picky eaters, and a two-week lunch plan with a Sunday prep list. Everyday ingredients, flexible swaps for vegetarian and allergy-aware boxes, and no fuss.
Contents
- Welcome: Better Lunches, Less Effort
- Lunchbox Basics
- Sandwiches and Wraps
- Pasta, Rice and Grain Salads
- Bento and Snack Boxes
- Warm Thermos Lunches
- Make-Ahead Muffins and Bakes
- Grown-Up Desk Lunches
- Your Two-Week Lunch Plan
Read a sample
When you have no recipe and five minutes, fill the box with one item from each group. This gives a lunch with lasting energy, colour and something to look forward to. Main: fills you up, such as a sandwich, wrap, pasta salad, rice, thermos soup or savoury muffin. Protein: keeps you going all afternoon, such as cheese, egg, chicken, tuna, beans, hummus, tofu or yoghurt. Vegetable: crunch and colour. Fruit: natural sweetness. Little extra: fun and variety. Keeping food safe until lunchtime. Cold food stays cold. Use an insulated bag with an ice pack. A frozen water bottle or a frozen yoghurt tube works too, and thaws by lunch. Prepare ahead, keep chilled. Anything made the night before goes straight into the fridge, not on the counter. Cooked rice needs care. Cool it quickly, refrigerate within an hour or so, and use it within a day. Pack it cold with an ice pack or piping hot in a thermos, never lukewarm. Hot food stays hot. Fill a food flask with boiling water for five minutes, pour it out, then add food that is steaming hot all the way through.
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