Fun Back To School Lunches

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Back to school is coming up fast - and that means making lunches again....5 times a week, for 2 kids. Any other parents out there groaning with me? I shouldn't complain too much, Mr. J is 8, and started taking over his own lunch making towards the end of school and I expect that to continue.  That means I am responsible for buying the food that goes into our cupboards/fridge and for supervising him to make sure he has good choices in his lunch box.  It also leaves me making Mr. K's lunch - although I let him pick his snacks from appropriate options, and I make the "meal" portion.


Our school is set up to have a morning snack, lunch, and then an afternoon snack.  The school is also peanut, tree nut and sesame free.  This means that if I am buying pre-made goodies, I need to check labels carefully.  I try and send in whole fruits and veggies, and home made goodies as much as possible, but every now and then it's a super rushed morning and we reach for granola bars or other packaged goodies.

The boys and I headed off to walmart to pick up some back to school lunch items.  We always start in the produce section, since that is where we enter the store.  We then make our way through the bakery and grocery aisles, ending up in the dairy section at the end.

I like to send the kids a treat in their lunches, and a fun way for me to do this is to send them yogurt tubes.

yogurt tubes are found in the
refrigerated aisles.

The kids LOVE them and to make it fun I freeze them first! If they have it for first snack, it's still pretty frozen, or by the time lunch comes around, the yogurt tube has thawed slightly but is still fairly firm and slightly less messy than eating it straight from the fridge.  By freezing them, they also help to keep other items cool.

they are located next to the other individually packaged yogurts and yogurt drinks

Mr. K is pretty easy to please when it comes to food.  Often times he will take leftovers from dinner the night before, but sometimes he wants quick, easy to eat snacks and lunches. This is similar to what he would take on a quick day:

• a tortilla with cream cheese, salsa and green pepper; rolled up and sliced
• fruit skewers with grapes and strawberries
• school safe banana loaf (or home made muffin if I had any)
• maple leaf shaped turkey sandwich
• selection of raw veggies (with tomatoes fresh from our garden!)
• frozen yogurt tube

What types of lunches do your kids take to school? I am always on the hunt for new ideas - I would love to hear yours!