Looking for new quick and easy school lunch ideas? These use real ingredients, aren’t time-consuming, and your kids will love them.
It’s that time of the year, kids are back in school or will be soon. That means school lunches. Pinterest is full of ideas but they aren’t always the healthiest and many are very time-consuming. It’s good to have easy ideas that can be made ahead of time.
Easy school lunches don’t have to be prepackaged and full of bad ingredients. There are some great ideas out there that are simple but still use good ingredients.
While I personally don’t have kids I wanted to share some ideas to help you out. I reached out to other bloggers to get their ideas for great school lunches. They gave some really great ideas that you and your kids will love. These are for all ages and some are better for picky eaters than others.
Easy School Lunch Ideas
Easy Mini Deep Dish Pizzas
These mini deep dish pizzas can be eaten hot or cold and are delicious! Kids can add whatever toppings they'd like.
Mason Jar Lunches
These easy lunch ideas are perfect for kids to make all on their own.
Homemade Lunch Meat
Making your own lunch meat is a great way to have more control over the ingredients and make really delicious sandwiches.
Buffalo Tahini Quinoa & Rice Wraps
A quick and easy lunch idea for those hectic days! Buffalo Tahini Quinoa & Rice Wraps that are gluten-free, vegan, top 8 allergy-free, and freezable! A great recipe to meal prep so you’ll always have a delicious option ready to go.
Garlic Herb Cream Cheese Spread
This spread plus some crackers and meat makes for a delicious lunch.
Strawberry-Peanut Butter Quesadillas
Your same-old-same-old peanut butter and jelly sandwich get a creative, deliciously fun makeover! Warm, gooey peanut butter is sandwiched in a crispy, toasty quesadilla
Mini Pizza Muffins Recipe with Zucchini
This low-carb pizza muffins recipe with zucchini is so easy to make. They make perfectly portable zucchini pizza bites for healthy snacks, appetizers, even breakfast or lunch.
Pinwheel Sandwich Recipes
It’s time to shake things up in the lunchbox department! These 5 pinwheel sandwiches will be a hit with kids and adults alike.
Ham, Cheese & Zucchini Muffins
Zucchini muffins with ham and cheese are a delicious savory snack or lunch box treat… plus they’re 100% kid-approved and super easy to make!
Hungry Hippos Sandwiches
This is a fun sandwich idea that will make your kids smile. There are lots of great filling options.
Jordyn
These ideas put boring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to shame. The zucchini pizza bites look and sound AMAZING!
Lisa Sharp
I want to make several of these for myself! 🙂
Tami
These are awesome ideas! I might make some for myself, haha. 🙂
Lisa Sharp
I plan to make several for myself as well!
Kelsie
I’m a teacher, so I’m always looking for good school lunch ideas. Thanks for sharing with us!
Lisa Sharp
Glad to help. Hope your school year goes well.
Yolanda
My son doesn’y like sandwiches so I’m always trying to think of new ideas for lunches. This is a great help and I love the mac&cheese muffins!
Lisa Sharp
Oh that can be tough. Hope these help.
Kait | Life as Kait
Those Zucchini and Ham Muffins from Bake Play Smile look AMAZING!!
Lisa Sharp
They do, don’t they?
Daniella Thompson
You have many post about reducing waste and helpful tips but you promote naturebox? Recycling the box and throwing out the wrappers is pretty wasteful. I’m not the judge police or here to make you accountable but I try to reduce my waste and one thing I don’t do is buy chips or snacks that lands in the landfills. And research pig cruelty, nothing is worth eating innocent pigs. Workers bash piglets heads and stomp on it. Look up videos.
Lisa Sharp
No one is perfect and having options that are at least better for you than conventional snacks is a nice option. I believe we should all be taking steps to do better but we are all in different places in life and have different situations.