If you have kids in school, listen up! You need these hacks to make your mornings a breeze! I have two meal options for your kids school lunch box meal prep today that I am so excited to share with you!
This first lunch box meal is as easy as, grab and go for your kids.
Ingredients:
Ritz crackers
Thin sliced cheese
Pepperoni’s
Carrots
Apples
Olives
Lemon Juice
*Snack sized Ziplocs, click here for the kind I like to use!
These homemade lunchables are always a hit with my kids! Add pepperoni’s to the traditional turkey and cheese and your kids will feel like its a pizza lunch!
Instructions:
- Place 10 ritz crackers into a snack bag and zip close. * Store in Pantry.
- Take two squares of cheddar cheese and cut them into 4 squares, making 8 squares of cheese.
- In another snack bag, add 10 pepperoni’s and the 8 squares of cheese. *Refrigerate (You can separate the cheese with a small square of parchment paper.)
- Place a handful of olives into 5 snack bags, place a handful of carrots into 5 other snack bags. *Refrigerate
- Cut up 2 apples, place 4-6 slices of apples into individual snack bags. Squirt 1/4 tsp of lemon juice over the top of the apples in the bag to keep them fresh and from turning brown. *Refrigerate
That’s it for these perfect grab and go Lunchables! My kids like a little extra meat and cheese, so my cracker to filling ratio is a little different, but you can put as little or as much as you want in each bag! I let my kids grab one of each bag, and an honest kids juice in the morning. I love that even my 5 year old can make his own lunch!
These peanut butter meal prep sandwiches are the absolute best thing to make for an easy school lunch! 3 ingredients, easy, and nutritious for the kids!
I buy two loaves of wheat bread, white bread works great too. One of my kids loves strawberry jam with his peanut butter sandwiches, and my other two kids love honey on theirs! So I use one loaf to make peanut butter and jam and the other loaf to make peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
After dividing the sandwich bread into 2 sections, (one for each loaf) I use a thin layer of peanut butter on all slices of bread. This allows the honey and/or jam to not seep through the bread and get messy and soggy once it’s defrosted. The peanut butter acts as a small barrier to the bread. I don’t know about you, but nobody in my house enjoys a soggy sandwich!
After you put the peanut butter on all slices of bread, on one half of the sandwich slices, I put a drizzle of honey, or a scoop of jam. I then spread the honey and jam over the surface of the bread.
Then it is time to close up the sandwich with the slice of bread that just has peanut butter on it. Do this for all of the sandwiches so it looks like the picture below. Then slice each sandwich in a diagonal to make two halves.
These look ready to devour at this point but lets get them in the freezer! I get sandwich bags and write either peanut butter and jelly or peanut butter and honey on the outside and close them up. Then last but not least I put them into sections in the freezer!
This makes every morning a breeze, for me and my kids. They get to choose which sandwich they like from the freezer, put it in their lunch box for school lunch, and by the time its lunch time they have a perfectly defrosted sandwich that tastes freshly made.
I’d love to hear if you try this, leave me a comment, pin this recipe, or send me an email! Enjoy making your life a little easier!
