22 vegetarian lunch box ideas to get you pumped up
about lunch packing and ready for the school or work week ahead.
If you answered yes to any of these questions you should take a few minutes to read the guest post that our own Family Friendly Cincinnati contributor Katie wrote
about lunch packing in her home.
Not exact matches
I nursed the baby in the old rocking chair, knowing full well I would be back there again in
about three hours, I bathed small bodies and clipped fingernails, I checked reading folders and signed permission slips and
packed lunches.
While most people dread
lunch packing or mope
about having «leftovers» again, I am thrilled at the opportunity to create delicious
lunches every day.
So today, we tried to find the perfect crossroads of sweet treats and nutrition, with healthier desserts you can actually feel a lot better
about packing in their
lunches!
I always
pack a bag
lunch on flights and deliberate carefully
about what to bring to snack on, knowing that I will thank myself later.
Two of the things people ask me most
about are meal prepping for the week and
packing quick
lunches.
I don't know
about you, but I find
packing lunch one of the hardest parts of staying keto.
I imagine that progressive moms everywhere proudly slip
packs of toasted seaweed into their children's
lunch boxes, and kids confidently brag
about how good it is.
I was thinking
about an easy and colorful, flavorful, and power -
packed healthy side dish to bring for a potluck
lunch after a trail work party this coming weekend.
I'll continue to cook something every night (eventhough they all find something to complain
about),
pack their
lunches each and every morning and send them off to school with something nutritious in their bellies.
The chicken salad is a wonderful filling for the pancakes and again nutritious + protein
packed — talk
about satisfying the male needs here;) The wraps can be used for breakfast or
lunch as well — so a great idea is to make a double portion and keep in the fridge for the next days.
As I said above, all the elements here will last
about three days in the fridge so you can use them in other meals or
pack a few
lunches at a time.
The great thing
about these vegan bowls is that you can cook the rice, chop all the vegetables, fry the tofu and prepare the sauce on Sunday and store it all away in the fridge to assemble yourself a bowl for a quick
lunch later on in the week or
pack it in your lunchbox and take it to work.
Thinking
about making mini quiches that I can
pack in my
lunch bag since I'm a nursing student and spend long days at the hospital.
What I love
about salads is that they are easy to make, can be made - ahead of time to
pack in a
lunch or wait in the fridge until I get done running.
Whether you
pack these in a
lunch box or enjoy with a cup of afternoon coffee, you can feel good
about eating these chocolaty, fudgy brownies!
Whenever I
pack a
lunch for Babycakes (which as confessed here can be as little as once a week — or as much as 5x per week), I try to think
about balance.
Can you include something
about packing a healthy
lunch?
You can support MFM by preparing a meat free
packed lunch for your child, by having your household go meat free on Mondays and by discussing what it's all
about with the whole family.
I know I talk
about meal planning all the time, but it really does help me to stay accountable, makes for less chaotic mornings when I go to
pack my
lunch, saves money each week (since I go on ONE big grocery haul making sure to only get what I need for that week) and I'm staying healthy in the process.
I think the easiest way to go
about this is to have a smoothie for breakfast everyday,
pack a salad to take to work, or eat a salad out at
lunch as its usually easier to find decent salads at restaurants than any other type of food, then soup for dinner.
What's great
about these
lunches is that some make quick weeknight meals, so you can easily
pack them as leftovers for
lunch the next day.
The food issue however, looms larger in my house as I
pack a
lunch each day and worry
about both saving the planet and exposing my child to toxins.
In our episode (# 2), Laura and I talk all
about finding the right containers to
pack healthy
lunches for school or work.
Packing a yummy
lunch fast makes me as happy as a breastfed baby
about to latch on!
And you can read all
about my affinity for that word in my guest post
about packing a healthy kids
lunch on Market Mommies — a wonderful site that connects moms in business with moms who need their services and products.
So the parents
pack him
about 10 different snacky foods for
lunch every day, in a dozen tiny little containers.
The other thing I like
about using containers versus a bento box now, is I have a drawer full of small various containers and cloth snack bags to rotate through while
packing lunch items.
Not a baby rookie now, but there are lots of rookie things I'd love to learn
about with older kids: *
Packing peanut - free school
lunches * Getting dinner on the table every night (have loved this series) * Crafts that older sibling and younger sibling can do together
So
pack a good
lunch, send your child out the door, and forget
about it.
Packing a nutritious
lunch for our kids is
about the only immediate answer I can see... you too, huh?
Getting up at 2:30 am isn't the easiest thing to do, but hey, it's not every day that I get the opportunity to chat
about healthy
lunch packing with morning news anchors from coast to coast!
But over the course of
about 4 hours, early this morning, I spoke with 29 different radio and news anchors, and shared my easy ideas
about packing lunches for back to school.
... or instead of buying all of these new items, use items you already have around the house — old purses (for girls), tupperware, visit second - hand stores for cloth napkins... it's hard to get excited
about «be a green parent» articles, blog entries, and websites that just tell us to go buy something b / c it is green... even the Waste Free
Lunch website tries to sell us on how much less it costs to pack a lunch, saying that cloth napkins, lunch bag, reusable containers and thermoses don't cost anything while tabulating the cost of paper / disposable versions... but there is an initial layout, so that argument doesn't hold my atten
Lunch website tries to sell us on how much less it costs to
pack a
lunch, saying that cloth napkins, lunch bag, reusable containers and thermoses don't cost anything while tabulating the cost of paper / disposable versions... but there is an initial layout, so that argument doesn't hold my atten
lunch, saying that cloth napkins,
lunch bag, reusable containers and thermoses don't cost anything while tabulating the cost of paper / disposable versions... but there is an initial layout, so that argument doesn't hold my atten
lunch bag, reusable containers and thermoses don't cost anything while tabulating the cost of paper / disposable versions... but there is an initial layout, so that argument doesn't hold my attention.
One of my biggest pet peeves
about having to work outside the home is that, even though I
pack my boys»
lunches, I know they are still receiving snacks and treats at school that I didn't
pack, authorize, or know
about at ALL in many cases.
Using a heart shaped cookie cutter for bread is
about as decorative as I get when
packing lunches.
Last week, when I shared my recent epiphany
about packing iced herbal teas in my kids»
lunches as a healthy facsimile of the sugary, colored drinks many of their peers get, I was... [Continue reading]
-LSB-...] in time for our ongoing «It Takes a Village to
Pack a
Lunch — 2011 Edition» series, the New York Times had a story on Saturday
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about TLT's «It Takes a Village to
Pack a
Lunch» series, as today her column («Here's Eating
Lunch With You, Kid») is a -LSB-...]
Sandwich Bags — My older kids get a
packed lunch every day and I wanted to avoid
packing them in plastic containers because of concerns
about the safety of chemicals that may leak into food.
Now if we can just get Jamie to talk
about us, we'll really inspire others to
pack a great
lunch...
Sarah Kertcher, who
packs lunches for her two kids and blogs
about it, gets tired of hearing people say these things, especially when they find out that she actually enjoys making
lunches.
One thing I hate
about packing lunches for school and work are the plastic containers and bags.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for my products I hear you
about the dipper, but then it would hold even less if it were smaller... If you're
packing lunch and carrying all inside my cooler bag or other brand, as long as it's not being shoved into a backpack or something, you can put mini-dipper outside of the container / inside the cooler.
I'm all
about efficiency - when I can
pack up Taco Tuesday leftovers as a school
lunch, it means I am putting the dinner leftovers away and I'm
packing lunch at the same time.
When I started
packing fun
lunches for my kids and blogging
about them, this was probably the question I was asked most often.
If your kids love pizza, and you need new ways to send it
packed in a
lunch box, check out MOMables to learn more
about these Pizza Dippers:
I've been
packing lunches for five years now, and my oldest child isn't even in Kindergarten, so I consider it a mission of personal salvation to figure out 1) a way to streamline the lunchbox production; and 2) ever - fresh, ever - evolving ideas
about what to
pack without having to bust my budget, spend hours of extra time in the kitchen, or compromise my family's beliefs
about using only whole foods whenever we can.
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packing in which she and I (along with Jeanne of The Jolly Tomato) are quoted, and here's a great post Bri wrote last year for this series to get you «strategizing»
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