60 healthy and tasty foods for your kids' lunches

Do your kids get bored with the same old lunch? This guide should help keep things interesting. Our goal is to help you put together easy and delicious lunches for your budding foodies - kids deserve to eat well too! And we never compromise on health. There is a lot of junk out there labeled as healthy. Ignore the front of the packaging. Check the ingredients list. If there are lab-made or processed things in it, avoid it.
This guide is written as a template. Pick one or more things from each category to pack a delightful, healthy lunch. Fun fact: you can create 369,600 different combinations!

1. Choose a type of bread

Sourdough bread. 60 healthy and tasty school lunch items for your kids

Here’s 8 of our favorite breads:

Rye bread (we love Beckmann’s German farm bread)
Olive bread or sourdough (we love Acme)
Chapati
Thepla
Pita
Tortilla
Dosa

(Find these at your local Indian, middle eastern, or Mexican stores)

2. Spread something yummy on it (optional)

Pesto in a jar. 60 healthy and tasty school lunch items for your kids

5 choices:

Whole grain mustard
Butter
Pesto
Guacamole
Mayonnaise

3. Add some essential protein and satiating healthy fats

Hummus. 60 healthy and tasty school lunch items for your kids

11 of our favorites:

Meat

Roasted turkey
Roasted chicken
Uncured salami
Uncured ham
Bacon
Fried egg
Any leftover meat preparation

Plant-based

Hummus
Baba ghanouj
Sliced avocado
Leftover rice and beans

4. Add cheese

Brie. 60 healthy and tasty school lunch items for your kids

10 of our favorites:

Brie
Brillat savarin (spreads easily and is supremely tasty)
Cream cheese (also spreads well)
Blue cheese
Parmigiano-reggiano
Cheddar
Mozzarella
Queso fresco
Ricotta
Feta.

We recommend avoiding highly processed cheese slices.

Put it all together and you should have a pretty good wrap, roll, sandwich, or pita pocket. But these 6 add-ons can take it from good to great:

5. Add-ons

Heirloom tomatoes. 60 healthy and tasty school lunch items for your kids

Sliced heirloom tomato
Gem lettuce
Watercress
Sliced steamed beet
Bean sprouts
Pickles.

6. Pair the main bread-based item with sliced veggies

Yellow and red bell peppers. 60 healthy and tasty school lunch items for your kids

Choose from these 6:

Bell peppers
Persian cucumbers
Radish
Carrots
Celery
Olives

7. Finally, throw in something fun!

Golden Cashew Turmeric Cardamom bars - Box of 12

14 of our favorite foods:

Easy fresh fruit (grapes, berries, apple, banana, or pear)
Dried fruit like figs or dates
Nuts like Cashews, almonds, pistachios, pecans, walnuts, or macadamias
A delicious and exceptionally healthy nutrition bar like our GOLDEN Cardamom Cashew bars with Turmeric

Conclusion

In our experience, coming up with good lunches is hard. And when you finally find a handful of go-tos, kids get bored with them. The tasty and healthy options above should help keep things interesting. They certainly make our lives easier and better!