Building a Nutritious Lunchbox

Providing nutritious choices sets them up for success. They get control over choosing and you get the piece of mind in knowing that they are more likely to eat the good food you’ve packed.

Another favorite lunch tip is to do the lunch selection and prep work on the weekend, or at least the night before. Anything to avoid morning meltdowns, right?!

Now, here’s my personal favorite tip: 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.

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