A nutritious, healthy and delicious Lunch for their child is something that any parent attempts and as soon as our children start school, every fall, we remind ourselves of this goal, everyday we have to pack a little treat for the little ones, it should be something that they would really like to eat, something that they would hurry to eat, full of enthusiasm, a lunch that in return will offer them energy for the day ahead. We are here to help, a list of excellent kid-approved school lunch ideas follows.

School lunches have to be more than delicious, they need to be diverse, interesting, even playful, if we cannot eat sandwiches all day, kids surely cannot, we need to create very balanced meals, every meal ought to contains fruits, veggies and sweets alike. We have curated a list of really exquisite and yet easy to do lunches that vary a great deal in ingredients and preparation method yet they are all balanced, delicious and super healthy !

Cast a glance and surge inspiration, you will surely find a couple of these appetizing !

1. Black Been Burritos Teamed with Sweet POTATOES

 

In this Recipe the sauce can make and break the lunch for the child. All ingredients are extraordinary taste and healthy yet make sure you have the sauce of his/her choice at hand, he`ll simply love it.

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2. legendary beef jerky bowl

 

A really hearty lunch, greens are balancing the dense mix, almonds make it really crisp and everything simply shouts “healthy”.

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3. Chicken and Veggies Pasta 

 

A swift solution that will help the little one take a break from sandwiches and wraps, break the pattern, mix and match, pastas are opening great possibilities.

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4. Exquisite Broccoli Pesto Pasta

 

The broccoli is in disguise, thanks to the pesto they`ll hardly ever notice that it is there, the benefits are immense, a healthy snack that the child will truly enjoy.

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5. Epic Pizza CRACKERS

 

The little league will surely enjoy pizza crackers regardless of the ingredients used. It is your duty to make the snack healthy as well, the small number ingredients makes this a really easy task.

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6. Baked TORTILLAS Cheese Dogs

 

A true hit with all kids, regardless of age. These cheese dogs will be eaten in a glance and they`re super easy to make, attempt to choose healthy ingredients however ! Give them a chance, you will win the day !

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7. Rightful CHEESY SANDWICH combinations

You can mix and match numerous ingredients and win every single time, a great selection lies below, choose the one that you think your child will like the most and slowly try to improve the recipe from there, new elements can enter the sandwich every other week.

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8. Neat Cauliflower Pizza Bites

 

From time to time, leaving bread out of the school lunch can help and the recipe below, above illustrated will surely make wonders in that regard. The epic bites of pizza can be a great solution for your next kids party too.

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9. joyful pepperoni panzanella 

 

A really practical lunch idea as it can used leftovers salami, vegetables and crusty bread, simply make sure not to skip the tomatoes and spices, basil can be a great addition !

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10. Pizzadillas, pizza quesadillas 

 

Adults and children alike love pizzadillas, they can make a great snack; the funny name will also make them catch on quickly.

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11. Super Simple Classic Tuna salad

Super simple to realize, super fresh and insanely healthy, just make sure you drain the tuna can really well by pressing the lid over as much as possible, the great texture will remain and you`ll kid will have an immense smile in the lunch break.

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12. Bagel, peanut butter and fruits

Sandwiches can be replaced with individual components that work brilliantly together; in this discussion, fruits ought to be always present, peanut butter is also an extraordinary treat loved by children worldwide that can go pretty well with a bagel. We would suggest replacing the bagel with something healthier based on cereals, a healthy oatmeal bar for example.

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13. Delicious Spanish Tapas 

Spain`s legendary tapas can take many shapes and a great deal of them can be nestled in your child`s lunch, in these tortillas there is always room for variation, play with it.

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14. Quinoa Pizza Bites

The taste of pizza is beloved by the entire world, imagine this awesome taste infused in these small bites, the kids will love it ! These too can make great snacks during a party with ease!

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15. Easy Fiesta Chicken Taco Salad

Happiness is indeed homemade and the image above clearly portrays how you can have it to go too ! A quick homemade salad for your kid`s school lunch that surely cannot wrong you, give it a go !

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16. Cheesy Chicken Meatball Burgers

Leftovers from your meal can make extraordinary lunch options for you little one, especially if the dish is one of his favorite. Simply get some good bread and prepare a healthy burger.

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17. Pizza Grilled Sandwhiches

Few things can outrun this combination, it will be crisp and soft, grilled and fresh at the same time. You can wrap this sandwich in lettuce and you`ll redefine the school lunch altogether !

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18. sweets and fruits on a stick

Fruits can go great on sticks, they can be easily eaten and by using a funny cookie cutter to shape them can make them even more appealing to kids. The same principle can be used to insert veggies, meats and cheese on a stick thus creating sandwiches on a stick with funny shapes.

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19. rolls of cheese and meat

Tidy rolls of your kid`s favorite cheeses, meats, sausages can go brilliantly with crackers. A complete meal would also include the fruits and veggies of choice.

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20. Tasty Italian VEGGIE HOAGIES

Meat can sometimes catch a break, veggies rightfully combined can make extraordinary dishes and the hoagies above are simply splendid. You will probably have to play around with the proportions to create something easier to eat in the lunch break but the balance between these veggies is brilliant and should not be overlooked.

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21. Stick Fruit Cabos

Really swift and tasty solution to serve the fruit of choice.

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22. Mixture of Healthy Elements

Cucumber, rice, guacamole, crackers, pineapple, you name it ! Everything can work, all you have to is to ensure that all of them are healthy !

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23. Beans and cheese combo

Swift, really tasty and full of energy, a snack that your child will enjoy to the last bean.

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24. Cinnamon French toast bites

These are one of the least healthy snacks in our list yet one might argue that cinnamon is healthy and that sweets in increments will not harm anyone. A sweet treat every now and then will surely be appreciated by the little ones.

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25. Pizza Lunchables 

A solution for doers, a really kid friendly, playful solution that would invite the child to balance his small pizza as he pleases.

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26. Mini Pancake Kabobs 

Cast a glance at the image above, any other description would fail to make this small dish justice. The brilliant solution, while sweet, will bring immense joy to adults and children alike despite its unhealthiness. What do you think about these ?

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27. epic smashed CHICKPEAS salad

Chickpeas, cucumber spiced, pita and maybe some feta cheese if your little one agrees. Fruits can be the cherry on the top. An extraordinary tasty and healthy salad combo to pin in lunch calendar.

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28. Bacon and Cheddar Egg Salad SANDWICHES

A lunch break that includes bacon, cheddar, eggs in one phrase is a happy school lunch, an extraordinary healthy happy school lunch one might add. It is that easy !

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29. sweet potato tacos with chorizo

Your local butcher might sell Mexican Chorizo too if your fridge is not holding it already. The recipe below, illustrated above presents balance in a really tasty snack that you will surely “test” two three times whilst preparing it for the children`s lunch.

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30. the nutritionist School Lunch Recommendation 

You can find out in a couple of seconds what you ought to pack in your child`s lunch. Cast a glance !

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31. Epic Pizza Flavored Hummus 

Plenty of protein and fiber in one fun school lunch box, if one is skeptical about pizza flavored hummus, one simply has to try it out first.

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32. Ham & Cheese Lunch Bites

Small baked bites of ham and cheese will surely work a great lunch, kids will love it ! Mix them with fruits and fresh orange juice for some epic feedback.

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33. Rainbow Veggie Pinwheels

Colorful homemade delight that looks really appetizing, one that might not be every kid`s cup of tea considering the immense amount of veggies and yet again one that can be easily transformed into something really tasty with the right sauce, the right dressing.

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34. Hard BOILED eggs, CRACKERS, fruits and Veggies

A huge intake of protein in a healthy, fresh snack. In the link bellow, Camille from Growing Up Gabel included a great selection of mixed meant to satisfy the picky eater in the little league, we invite you to browse through them.

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35. tasty and colorful bruschetti

The possibilities are endless, literally, anything can do. Choose healthy ingredients, choose stuff that your child really loves and you cannot go wrong. Leftovers integrate greatly here.

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36. SAVOuRY Waffle Sticks

A neat, incredibly fast solution perfect for your child`s lunch and happily, freezer friendly. I personally would avoid the freezer at all times thus recommending fresh food yet we all know how reality works, we need that back up from time to time.

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37. Fresh Options with Kabobs

Sandwich kabobs can hold whatever combination that you see fit, the great advantage is that they simply remove the need to add bread. Use fruits, meats, veggies, choose everything that your child loves and create balanced lunches.

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38. Sweet Fruit Wraps

Colorful, healthy and as fresh as it can get ! These fruit wraps can be extraordinary deserts that you and your little one will definitely enjoy, it goes without saying that they are also super easy to make !

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39. awesome chicken souvlaki

Grilled chicken and everything else you feel it fits in a fluffy pita and you are good to go. A really easy way mix and match elements, simply make sure that greens are present along the grilled chicken and everything will work; feta cheese and tomatoes would do great in the mix too !

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40. Pizza Pinwheels or Pizza Rolls

These really appetizing rolls need no introduction, they are easy to realize and they make great great lunch snacks, they can be paired with the veggie and fruit for a complete, healthy meal.

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41. Fresh Croissant SANDWICHES 

A fluffy, freshly baked croissant is able to transform that regular sandwich into something really unique, extraordinary tasty.

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42. Brilliant Veggie Taco Wraps

Whether they`re vegetarian or not, taco wraps make great great sense in school lunch, they are easy to do, they`re super healthy and they`re loved by kids everywhere. Pair them with fruits and you will have a great lunch. In the meal above mini muffins are also included, an additional sweet that one might to overlook due to the sugar contained.

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43. Antipasto Loaf

It contains cream cheese, spinach, pesto, artichokes and sun dried tomatoes, a really rapid sandwhich for vegetarians that can happily be nestled into the little ones lunch box.

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44. Spaghetti pie – One complete Muffin meal

These little wonders contain a complete meal into a really small dense, complete school lunch package. If need be, they can become sweets as well !

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45. Epic Chicken Noodle soup

In truth, soup is harder to serve as a school lunch meal, that is true, yet there are elegant solutions around it and a ton of adopters, naturally, as it`s a really health meal, one that many children actually enjoy. It is full of nutrients and it can even be served warm, another extraordinary advantage.

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46. Veggie Tacos 2.0

A really health combination of veggies, a green taco if you will. Greatly balanced, easy to make and eat, cast a glance !

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47. Adorable Tasty mini Buritos

These little snacks contained season meat, beans and cheese, these are the main components around which you can play with absolutely everything. Leftovers can be easily used in these little packages and they can always surprise your little one every time if you are to change the components.

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48. turkey and cheese SANDWICH 

Use rolls to make mini sandwiches, in the example above turkey and cheese are the main ingredients, gracefully served with the world renown goldfish crackers, green pepper and last but certainly not least, fruits.

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49. Grilled Cheese Rolls 

Colorful and really taste these grilled cheese rolls are ! They go great with a thermos filled with tomato soup, the little league will simply love them !

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50. Apple and Cheese Wraps

It may look odd yet the combination of sweet crisp apples with salty cheddar cheese and ham or turkey will definitely contradict you. It will refresh the children`s day and it is extraordinarily healthy.

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51. Adorable Mini Pumpkin Pancakes 

Wiped cream, syrup, fresh fruits, extraordinary complements to mini pumpkin pancakes. How extraordinary does that sound ? The mini pancakes can also be spiced with all kind of condiments and paired with sausages, meats, cheese.

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52. Crescent Roll Hot Dogs Pockets

The sandwich maker can do wonders, they can help you create these epic small hot dog pockets. Keep in mind that you control the ingredients, play along with them, this solution can have different outcomes thus allowing you to break the pattern whenever you need it without changing the method itself. Ketchup, as always, helps and, naturally, so do smiley faces.

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53. Brilliant Ham & Cheese Quesadillas

A fresh snack filled with everything a child might need, one cannot simply go wrong with quesadillas !

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54. Tasty Cream Cheese and Ham Pinwheels 

A simple, delicious recipe that is surely the ace in the sleeve of parents all around the world. It ought to be paired with fresh veggies, possibly some crunchy carrots and of-course, fruits, fruits all the way !

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55. Legendary Chicken Pot Pie Cupcakes

While this snack is not necessarily rapid it is certainly not slow or hard to do, what it is though is, legendary. These epic chicken pot pie cupcakes can easily qualify as comfort food, if you want to spoil the little one, give the chicken cupcakes a chance, you and him both will love it !

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56. Swift Fried Rice

Veggies nestled in fried rice can be a treat, this a treat that will not entice every child indeed yet one might argue that is worth a try as it is super healthy.

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