Lunch box recipes/ideas (treats)

purple_82

I've just made a batch of bread rolls and they have come out fantastic and soft! (slightly crazy about this hehe)

What sort of treats do you put in your kiddies lunch boxes?

I want to make some treats for the kiddies lunch boxes but was wondering what everyone else puts in theirs? I did do a search but couldn't find anything.

xx

lindab15

Well done on the bread rolls - mine can be a bit 'hit and miss' at times !

Twink's Hob Nobs (recipe elsewhere on forum) always go down well, as do HM flapjacks/cornflake cakes etc. Always more welcome than the usual fruit-and-yoghurt whch is the routine lunchbox fillers !

Sometimes make up sugar free jellies in individual plastic moulds-with-a-lid (think I got them from a pound shop ages ago), so can go into lunchbags easily with a plastic spoon.

DD1 loves a small flask (stainless steel ones from Tesco quite cheap and unbreakable) of HM soup - pref. spicy sweet potato, leek & potato or minestrone. Nice with a bread roll / oatcakes etc.

Occasionally some hummus (HM or bought) with mini breadsticks.

Good luck !

xxbabyxflutterbyxx

Hi, I am always using loads of random little bits / leftovers etc, most nights I make a pasta/rice or potato salad (usually pasta) but I always buy loads of different shaped pasta. I put anything from tomato, cucumber, chopped leek, choipped onion, ham, hotdog sausages and leftover meat from roasts, chopped sausages, burgers, sweetcorn, chopped/grated carrots, peas, tuna, peppers, mayo , salad cream olive oil or leave dry

I also make HM coleslaw, grated cabbage, carrot and onion/leek/spring onion with dollop of mayop and salad cream, could use one or the other tho or add natural yoghurt or whatever.

Little pots of raw veg or grapes, always put fruit in, make jelly in pots, HM biscuits or cakes, any random bits leftover go together in a pot lol.

I bought about 30-40 of these Lock and lock style boxes from Tesco cpl weeks ago they are £5 for 8 different sized ones, they are handy for packup and for the fridge/cupboard freezer.

Im going to start putting leftover like pasta bakes or whatever in cold as i found out my 2 will eat them cold (like me) and my mom bought then a thermos each so it gives me the option of doing soup/beans/spaghetti or hot drinks, altho that means getting up early lol and they sort themselves out so i dont need to haha.

Anyway hope iv helped a bit

Kel xx

LJM

my girls like cake,biccies,for treats also i make jelly on a friday as there treat and they take it in the lock and lock boxes which are ace.(all home made forgot to say)my girls like wraps instead of sandwiches or buttered crackers then i do them up a pot of salady bits peppers/cucumber/toms/cheese/etc they like this sometimes ill make them little pasta pots to take also.its good to have a varied lunchbox means they dont get bored with the same things.well done on the bread rolls

purple_82

Thanks for all the tips everyone.

Funnily enough, i'm a cook at a school :rolleyes: (I make the puddings) and I have borrowed the recipe folder from work to have a go at some of the puddings and bread etc.

I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the recipes but love it because they are all so simple and can easily be tweaked. Hardest part is making the portions smaller.

I'm just trying to get a few recipes together so your input has helped. I just don't want to give them the folder back now :rotfl:

Butterfly_Brain

My DS has a piece of fruit HM roll with chicken, ham, cheese or tuna and a homemade treat - cake, Twinks hobnob, flapjack or rocky road slice, plus I buy cartons of pure juice and pour into bottles for him either apple ,orange or a tropical one oh and he is built like a pencil!

Jack's_mummy

Does the jelly keep ok in a lunchbox? I was wondering about jelly for a change from yoghurt for DS but thought it would "melt" and be a runny mess by lunchtime.

thenanny2die4

I shouldn't think it would melt, but even if it did, my experience is that kids love to drink runny jelly. When OH's were little, I had to guard the jelly in the fridge, or it would disappear before it had time to set.:rotfl:

C_J

When my daughters were little, they used to love the little fruit kebabs which I would sometimes make to go in their lunchboxes - cocktail sticks each threaded with a grape, a strawberry, a chunk of kiwi fruit, and a segment of satsuma. They'd find them easier to eat than having to grapple with peeling things (esp kiwi and oranges) themselves, and it somehow made the fruit more exotic and interesting Sometimes I'd include a value pot of fromage frais, so they could dip them.

Important lesson learned : snip the pointy ends off the cocktail sticks after threading the fruit on them to prevent kids at primary school using them for post-lunch playground duelling

Jack's_mummy

thenanny2die4 wrote: »

I shouldn't think it would melt, but even if it did, my experience is that kids love to drink runny jelly. When OH's were little, I had to guard the jelly in the fridge, or it would disappear before it had time to set.:rotfl:

ewwwwwwwww

LJM

Jack's_mummy wrote: »

Does the jelly keep ok in a lunchbox? I was wondering about jelly for a change from yoghurt for DS but thought it would "melt" and be a runny mess by lunchtime.

mine have had it left in the classroom on the lunch trolleys where it is warm and its not melted yet if your worried you could always pop in a mini ice pack,but my girls have not complained,only that there wasnt enough lol.