Lunch box ideas

[Eden Grace]

I need some ideas to make delightful lunches for my son. What do you all put in your kids lunch box?

[Ayn]

My whole family cant get enough of these and raw fruit crepes too!! (which is essentially the same thing, but taken out of the D a little sooner and then stuffed with stuff)

Ten said:

my kids are not raw kids. I have only been raw for 14 weeks. I have a dehydrator and make fruit roll ups for them. They cant get enough of them. So easy.

Some frozen berries ( big handful )

2 big apples

pear if you have it

Squeeze of raw hoeny

whiz in the vita mix and spread all over 2 dehydrator trays. Make sure you spread it evenly and not holes so it does not break.

I do it at night before I go to bed It will be reaady in the morning. Keep it on the teflex sheets the whole time or it will go to hard. Then peel it off sheets and cut into strips. Once you make this you will be making it alot.

When summer comes here I cant wait to use mango.

Also any leftover sauce is delicious as a coli on anything sweet. 

[Ten]

Thats great. Since posting this I now also add kale or another green while the kids aren't looking. It alters the color a bit but I just say it's a super green apple roll up. They notice the color change but still gobble it up and I am so happy because there is no way my 3 and 4 year old would sit down and eat kale. 

Ayn said:

My whole family cant get enough of these and raw fruit crepes too!! (which is essentially the same thing, but taken out of the D a little sooner and then stuffed with stuff)

Ten said:

my kids are not raw kids. I have only been raw for 14 weeks. I have a dehydrator and make fruit roll ups for them. They cant get enough of them. So easy.

Some frozen berries ( big handful )

2 big apples

pear if you have it

Squeeze of raw hoeny

whiz in the vita mix and spread all over 2 dehydrator trays. Make sure you spread it evenly and not holes so it does not break.

I do it at night before I go to bed It will be reaady in the morning. Keep it on the teflex sheets the whole time or it will go to hard. Then peel it off sheets and cut into strips. Once you make this you will be making it alot.

When summer comes here I cant wait to use mango.

Also any leftover sauce is delicious as a coli on anything sweet. 

[Ayn]

Awesome! My kids will eat a salad with a "good" dressing, but not all the time. I can get them to drink smoothies though! I usually have to add an extra little banana to make it sweeter for them, but they are getting kale and spinach, etc..

Ten said:

Thats great. Since posting this I now also add kale or another green while the kids aren't looking. It alters the color a bit but I just say it's a super green apple roll up. They notice the color change but still gobble it up and I am so happy because there is no way my 3 and 4 year old would sit down and eat kale. 

Ayn said:

My whole family cant get enough of these and raw fruit crepes too!! (which is essentially the same thing, but taken out of the D a little sooner and then stuffed with stuff)

Ten said:

my kids are not raw kids. I have only been raw for 14 weeks. I have a dehydrator and make fruit roll ups for them. They cant get enough of them. So easy.

Some frozen berries ( big handful )

2 big apples

pear if you have it

Squeeze of raw hoeny

whiz in the vita mix and spread all over 2 dehydrator trays. Make sure you spread it evenly and not holes so it does not break.

I do it at night before I go to bed It will be reaady in the morning. Keep it on the teflex sheets the whole time or it will go to hard. Then peel it off sheets and cut into strips. Once you make this you will be making it alot.

When summer comes here I cant wait to use mango.

Also any leftover sauce is delicious as a coli on anything sweet. 

[Bobbie joh]

my kids are teens now, so it's a bit more challenging to control what they are eating at school...

however, when they were younger, i would just go crazy trying to make their lunches at least partially raw! i wasn't even trying to be raw then - i just knew they needed something raw at every meal. so, we've done only odd bits, but i'll add them in anyway:

1. spinach salad - dressed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, salt. rawmesean cheeze (garlic and brazil nuts) is great on this. don't ask my why - my kids will only eat spinach raw, as a salad. guess i should count my blessings...

2. a combination of the following, cut into very manageable sizes, dressed with just a tiny bit of salt: cucumbers, red bell peppers, olives.

3. avacadoes, sliced. either plain, salted, balsamic vinegar. sometimes you can wrap this in nori for sushi, depending on how open minded they are feeling, or a collard leaf for completely raw. pesto can be nice in this, too.

4. frozen mangoes (from trader joe's) which then melt by mid day, just enough to be icy and delicious.

5. homemade fruit leather. for awhile, their favorite was persimmon

6. raw brownies

7. for awhile, my boys were eating dried mangoes with chili. hot and sweet - so good!

8. raw bean sprouts. crunchy, yet fairly tasteless. plus they looked kinda like worms, so it would gross the other kids out so that was a plus at the time!

i really strive for combining flavors, but i realized that they were not so adventurous as i was and they needed less spice. also, i needed to get things that were familiar so that other kids didn't point and stare.. unless it was on purpose, like the bean sprouts!

also, i have one kid who is crazy for tuna, so i think a nice mock tuna salad on cucumber rounds in a bento would be a great lunch treat..

[Elle Du Bois]

sliced applies with a seperate container to dip into a mixture of nut butter and honey

seaweed chips

nuts (my son likes them in the shell so he can crack them, which is good because it slows him down and keeps the calories down)

sliced veggies with seperate container to dip into dressing

sliced fruit (watermelon is the fav right now)

salad in container that has two compartments: one for the lettuce the other for mixture. This week was a black bean and mango mixture including cumin, garlic, green onion, red pepper. It is sweet, so he is actually eating this!

I love the idea in this blog to add olives to the lunch box...brilliant!