Funny to be publishing this post as the kids break for school holidays, but the ideas in the post would also work well as a change from sandwiches for lunches during the school holidays.
And at the end of the post I have listed some of our favourite recipes the kids and I like to cook together. Cooking is always a great activity for us when we are cooped up on rainy days. Not only does it keep the kids occupied, but they get to have something nice to eat at the end of it!
Lunch Box Ideas – July Set 1
Homemade chicken nuggets wrapped in lettuce
Avocado (not all kids will eat this – the others will have cucumber or capsicum).
Pear
Together lunch box set 1 looks like:
Lunch Box Ideas – July Set 2
English Pizza Muffins with left over slow cooker roast lamb!
Chocolate and beetroot muffins
Pink lady apple
Cut red capsicum
Weet Bix Crunch (breakfast cereal)
Lunch box set 2 looks like:
- English Pizza Muffins with left over slow cooker roast lamb
- Chocolate and beetroot muffins
- Pink lady apple
- Cut veg – capsicum
- Weet Bix Crunch
10 Easy Recipes To Cook With Kids
Cooking can be a great activity to do during the school holidays. Besides being funny, there are so many teaching moments as well with lists, measurements, reactions etc.
What is your favourite recipe to cook with the kids? Feel free to leave links in the comments to share with others!
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I just love reading your blogs trying your recipes and having fun with my kids. Thanks with the above i have no reason to worry how i will entertain my kids through the holidays!
It was just so lovely to read your comment this morning Shelley – thanks so much for taking the tine to let me know. Enjoy the holidays. Nic
holidays oh much easier with your suggestions.looking forward to plenty of cooking and maybe even a sleep in or two.
Yum, your kids lunchboxes look delicious!!!
My 3 year old loves cooking with me. I’m learning to get more and more patient as I go along! We make pizza dough, fresh pasta, cookies, cakes, ice cream, toasted muesli, wholemeal veggie muffins and anything else I can think of! He’s a bit young for anything at the stove or oven, so I try to let him do everything he can at the bench with measuring, pouring and stirring so he feels like he’s done the bulk of the work. He feels so proud of himself when he eats food he’s cooked or when he gives it away as gifts to his teachers at kinder.
Some of his lunchbox foods are linked here :
http://themisadventurousmaker.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/pre-schoolkinder-lunches.html
I’m going to try your chicken nuggets for the boys this week. They’ve never had a nugget before but they love anything in breadcrumbs so I’m sure they’ll love these! I love the idea of wrapping them in lettuce too. I’m going to try that for my lunch with the leftovers.xoxoxoxo
Yum. Some great ideas there. We’ve been making jam scrolls for dessert some nights and cheese & vegemite scrolls for lunch, never thought to make ham and cheese, thank you
I am in such a lunchbox rut at the moment and I only have to make them twice a week! You wouldn’t think it was that hard to come up with ideas only twice a week! I can’t wait to make some of these recipes, especially the homemade nuggets and ham and cheese scrolls.