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Healthy school lunch ideas

Sue Kedgley MP
Sue Kedgley MP
Tuesday, 14 Jun 2005 | Factsheet
Contact: Sue Kedgley MP
Tags: Children's Issues, Food

Don't know how to keep healthy school lunches interesting? Here are some ideas — just mix and match.

Option one:
  • Peanut butter sandwich
  • Muffin
  • Banana
  • Apple
  • Individual soy milk (regular)
  • Water bottle
 Option Two:
  • Hot cup – with thin noodles, peas, carrot, corn, cooked in instant stock
  • Nuts and raisins
  • Apple

Option Three:

  • Sandwich – grated carrot and raisins moistened in orange juice
  • Low-fat yoghurt
  • Popcorn
  • Apple
  • Water bottle

Option Four:

  • Sandwich – cheese, lettuce and carrot
  • Low-fat youghurt
  • Carrot and celery sticks
  • Apple

Option Five:

  • Avocado roll up (soft bread with crusts removed, spread and rolled)
  • Hard-boiled egg
  • Carrot stick
  • Fruit biscuits
  • Kiwifruit with spoon and knife
    water

Option Six:

  • Sandwich – cheese and vegemite
  • Low-fat muesli/fruit bar
  • Low-fat yoghurt
  • P ear, apple

Option Seven:

  • Crackers
  • Cheese slices
  • Carrot and celery sticks
  • Oranges in wedges, kiwifruit and pear

Option Eight:

  • rice salad – last night’s leftover rice, celery, capsicum, raisins and peanuts (moistened with mayonnaise, vinaigrette or orange juice)
  • celery sticks stuffed with peanut butter
  • popcorn
  • muffin
  • apple

Option Nine:

  • ½ avocado (squeeze lemon juice over to stop browning)
  • Crackers
  • Low-fat muesli/yoghurt bar
  • Popcorn
  • Apple
  • Water

Other ideas

  • Slice carrot with a potato peeler to get thin bits in sandwich
  • Crackers and dip
  • Slices or fingers of cucumber, cherry tomatoes
  • Left over large style pasta (penne, spirals, etc) mixed with cheese sticks, carrot sticks
    and cherry tomatoes
  • Left over potato salad
  • Use ½ pita (rolls or flatbread) instead of bread
  • Cut sandwiches to fingers or squares or roll up to make it ‘new’

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