Lunch Box Ideas August

by PlanningQueen on July 29, 2012 in Planning

Hooray for the upcoming last month of winter! Winter is my least favourite season of the year and I am very happy we are two thirds of the way into it already.

Some more lunch box ideas for the kids school lunches, this time using seasonal fruit and veg for August.

Please note, I am not a nutritionist/dietitian. These lunch box ideas are what I actually feed our kids and taken into account with the rest of their diet and their level of physical activity, I am pretty happy with the balance they have. But like most things with parenting, there is always room for improvement so what I feed the kids for lunch is a work in progress.

Lunch Box Ideas – August Set 1

Silverbeet and Cheese Tarts

Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake

Pink Lady apple

Cut oranges

Vita Weats

Together lunch box set 1 looks like:

Silverbeet and Cheese Tarts
Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake
Apple
Cut fruit – orange
Vita Weats

Lunch Box Ideas – August Set 2

Cabbage and Corn Fritters

Oat and Seed Slice

Mandarin

Celery

Special K

Together lunch box set 2 looks like:

Cabbage and Corn Fritters
Oat and Seed Slice
Mandarin
Cut veg – celery
Special K

For more inspiration, the table below list some fruit and veg which are in season for August. This isn’t a complete list, but just a selection of items that you might like to try including in the kids lunch boxes, either raw or baked into a snack / meal (more comprehensive lists can be found here Seasonal Fruit And Vegetables In Australia):

Seasonal Fruit for Aug:	Seasonal Vegetable for Aug:	Seasonal Vegetable for Aug:
apples: fuji, lady williams, sundowner	asian greens: bok choy, choy sum, gai laan, wonga bok	parsnip
cumquat	avocados: fuerte, hass, sharwill	potato
custard apple	beetroot	pumpkin
grapefruit: yellow, pink	broccoli	silverbeet
lemons	brussels sprout	spinach
limes	cabbage	swede
mandarins: ellendale, imperial, murcot	carrots	sweet potato
nashi	cauliflower	turnip
oranges: blood, navel	celery	witlof
pawpaw	garlic
pineapple: smooth leaf	ginger
pomelo	leeks
rhubarb	olives
tangelo	onions

You can see more lunch box ideas here and read more about my school lunch box process here.

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http://Www.aworkingmotherschatter.blogspot.com Polly
Some great ideas as always. My kids lunch boxes are a little uninspired at the moment while I’m working on getting my groove back.
http://www.stuffwiththing.com Marita
My girls are living on yogurt with banana or berries added at the moment.
SarahN
Wow you make lunches seem so interesting!
Abbington
Love the little lunch wraps & tins!
Karen
Thanks so much for this. We use to have corn beef fritters as a kid, but these vegies ones are perfect for upping my kids vegie intake. I made some with red cabbage and lentils (the flour went a bit blue from the cabbage). I thought the kids won’t eat this. They loved them. They tasted kind of indian. (My son is intolerant to certain vegies, so cabbage and lentils are safe for him to eat or else I wouldn’t even think of feeding that to my family!!) Thanks for all your work Nicole.
Teacher lady
Compared to 90% of lunchboxes I see at school every day these ideas are fabulously healthy. I see so many lollies, chips, cup cakes, chocolates and biscuits, generally store bought and individually wrapped. One might be ok, but a whole lunchbox full of that stuff and it makes my job a lot trickier. I can connect the dots easily from most sugary lunch box to most behaviour issues.
Thank you for providing these fresh, healthy and easy ideas.
Petrece
Thanks for the great ideas! Where did you find the little stainless steel containers? They are the perfect size! Hope I can find something like that in Brisbane. THanks again.