Food & Home
Back-to-School Lunchbox Inspiration
Back-to-school means back to making lunches. Instead of defaulting to the same peanut butter sandwich every day, try these simple alternatives.
Food & Home
How To Make Homemade “Lunchables”
Lunchables are a favorite snack for many children. Here’s how you can make your own healthier (and less expensive!) version at home.
Holidays
Free Printable Lunchbox Notes, Tags & Stickers
Adding a message or note to a lunchbox is a great way to start the school year.
Food & Home
Bento Box Basics for Back-to-School
Special bento box lunches are easy to create with a few supplies you probably already have on hand at home. Follow our techniques and create a meal kids will love!
Holidays
Printable Sandwich Bag for Back-to-School
Here is an extra special treat for the first day of school or whenever you want to send a special message to school with your child. Super easy to make with a home printer.
Products & Services
Star Wars Sandwich Cutters
Yet another reason to look forward to back-to-school… Star Wars sandwich cutters. Lunch can be fun AND nutritious.
Crafts
Printable Lunch Box Jokes
These printable (and FREE) lunch box jokes are a great way to add some fun to your child’s day!
Big Kid
Lunch Boxes Of The Teen And Quirky
Worried that your teen is the only one whose lunch isn’t Pinterest-worthy? Allow me to make you feel a lot better about your life (and lunch) choices.
Crafts
Everyday Bento Box Party of One!
Bento Boxes are great to get picky eaters to try new and fun foods. Now, there’s a book to help you plan and create fun lunch and snack bentos.
Family Fun
Transformers Bento Box Lunch for the Rising Kindergartner
To celebrate a preschooler moving up to Kindergarten we used Transformers to help him understand the process. Here’s how to make a Transformers Bento Box lunch.
Food & Home
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bento Box Lunch
Have a child at home who loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Here’s a tutorial for a great and fun TMNT sandwich design for your bento box or parties.
Crafts
Talk Like A Pirate Day School Lunch Stickers!
These pirate stickers help transform packed school lunch into a festive affair, great for celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day and or any school day.
Food & Home
A Special Lunch for the 100th Day of School
The hundredth day of school (also known as the “100 Days of School”) is coming up for kids across the country! Especially students in younger grades will celebrate when they reach the 100th day. Here’s how to make a special lunch for your student.
Big Kid
Independence For Lunch, One Way Or Another
Challenging my teenager to manage her own school lunches is giving me palpitations, but it’s time and—one way or another—she can handle it.
Food & Home
4 Flowery Ideas for Kids’ Lunches
Celebrate spring with four fun, flowery foods kids will love. These are perfect for a spring bento box lunch, or kids can eat them at breakfast or snack time.
Food & Home
5 Minute Microwave Quiche for the Lunch Box
My kids enjoy taking hot lunches to school in thermal jars, but sometimes I get into a rut packing the same things over and over. Enter the 5-minute Microwave Quiche for the Lunch Box! It’s super fast to throw together and I almost always have the ingredients for it in the fridge.
Food & Home
A Not-Too-Cutesy St. Patrick’s Day Lunch for Bigger Kids
A “green” and healthy lunch idea to celebrate St. Patricks’s Day for older kids who are not into the cutesy of the holiday.
Food & Home
Citrus Sweet Potato Pinwheels for the Lunchbox (Cooking For & With Kids)
Amalah shows you how to make the of leftovers from her popular kids’ recipe of citrus mashed sweet potatoes.
Food & Home
A Baseball-Themed Lunch for Little League Season
Have a kid or kids crazy for baseball? Tis the season. We’ve got a cute baseball-themed lunch box idea perfect for school or for noshing in the stands during practice.
Holidays
A Spooky Ghost Bento Box for Halloween Lunch
Halloween falls on a school day this year, so here’s an idea for a Halloween bento lunch to take to school. Also, if you’re hosting a Halloween party, you can deconstruct these lunch components and serve them.