61,000 Healthy School Lunch Ideas

Never run out of lunch ideas for your children with this handy mix-and-match lunch guide from from Acton Medical Associates.

Pick an option from each group for a healthy and delicious lunch. With this guide, there are more than 61,000 lunch combinations! Bookmark this page and never stress about a lunch idea. Also, read below for tips on packing and prepping your next lunch.

Main Entrée

• Cheese and whole wheat crackers
• Cream cheese and veggie pin wheel
• Pizza tortilla roll up
• Hummus and whole wheat pita
• Deviled eggs and whole wheat crackers
• Friend rice with edamame and veggies
• Chili with beans and lean meat
• Whole wheat waffle with sun butter and jam
• Greek yogurt parfait with cereal and fruit
• Sandwich Thin “build your own” pizza
• Oatmeal fruit muffin
• Re-fried bean and cheese quesadilla
• Peanut butter and banana tortilla “sushi” (roll up and slice into rounds)
• Veggie, chicken and cheese kabobs
• Low sodium deli meat and cheese wrapped around bread sticks

Fruit

• Apple — try freeze dried or apple sauce
• Banana or banana chips
• Berries such as blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries
• Cherries
• Dried fruits such as raisins, dates, figs, apricots, craisins, prunes
• Grapes
• Kiwifruit
• Mango
• Melons such as cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon
• Oranges such as clementines, mandarins and tangerines
• Papaya
• Peach or nectarine
• Pear
• Plum
• Pineapple
• Pomegranate

Vegetable

• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Carrots such as shredded or baby carrots
• Celery
• Cherry tomatoes
• Cucumbers
• Fresh salsa
• Green beans
• Jicama
• Kohlrabi
• Pickles
• Peppers — try different colors
• Salad
• Snap peas
• Steamed mixed veggies
• Zucchini or summer squash

Snack/Treat

• Cheese stick
• Cookie or baked good
• Dry whole grain cereal
• Guacamole or hummus
• Low-fat pudding
• Mini muffin
• Mini chocolate
• Popcorn
• Pretzels
• Rice rolls or rice cakes
• Roasted chickpeas
• Roasted edamame
• Tortilla chips
• Teddy Grahams or Bunny Grahams
• Whole grain Goldfish
• Yogurts

School Lunch Tips

• Use an ice pack to keep food cold.
• Try “build your own” options which keeps food fresher.
• Pick treat foods occasionally so that they do not become “forbidden fruits”.
• Prep fruits, veggies and other snacks ahead of time to avoid a stressful morning.
• Have a snack station in the fridge and pantry with pre-portioned healthy snacks.