Often due to lack of ideas and time we fill our child’s lunch box with junk and repetitive food.
Here is a list of easy to make food for your child’s lunch box. These foods are not only tasty but nutritious too.
Breads
- Multi-grain mint sandwich, with mashed sweet potato
- Pita bread, stuffed with cheese and a homemade mint-curd dip
- Wholemeal sandwich, with fish paste and cucumber
- Brown bread sandwich, with corn and cottage cheese
- Chapatti rolls with homemade jams
- Cheese omelette rolled into chapattis
- Naan rolls with melted dark chocolate
- Pizza on a corn tortilla base, with grated carrot, pineapple and cheese
- Soft buns, with chunks of chicken and tomato slices
- Rye bread sandwich, with tofu or baked beans
- Hamburger rolls, with minced meat or minced legumes
- Potato or onion paratha pieces
Salads
- Pasta and cherry tomatoes tossed in freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Poha – puffed rice and boiled vegetables
- Potato, sprouts and egg salad
- Fruit salad with nuts tossed in olive oil
- Sabudana (sago) khichdi with grated carrots and beans
Sweets
- Homemade oats and cashew cereal bar
- Egg less chocolate cupcakes
- Short bread with jelly spread
- Sweet suji (semolina) halwa
- Homemade banana muffins
- Oatcakes with treacle dip
- Pumpkin pancakes with in honey
- Yogurt with homemade granula crumbles and chopped fruits
- Waffle cone filled with frozen yogurt
- Banana pieces coated with sweet yogurt and then dipped in grated nuts.
Others
- Vegetable cutlets with tomato puree sauce
- Cheese and potato rolls with raita
- Cottage cheese or egg pakoras
- Chicken or vegetable spring rolls with coriander chutney
- Sausage rolls
- Digestive biscuits with different toppings like – cheese, fruit pieces, slices of cold cuts, peanut butter etc.
- Bread sticks with tomato and basil dip or cheese spread
- Bread pakoda – slices of bread dipped in besan (gram flour) and then fried
Liquids
- Soups and broths in a flask, especially during winter with cheese crackers
- Hot chocolate with whole fat milk
- Fruit and yogurt smoothies
- Fresh fruit juice with soda water
- Flavoured milk