Kid’s Lunch box ideas
Week 1
An easy sandwich, that kids would love with cheese and vegetables. Choose fiber rich bread and digestive biscuits for healthier choice. You can choose any sandwich of your kid’s favorite from my recipe index page.
Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 5 mins
Paneer with rich buttery gravy goes well with the soft rotis, that will be kid’s favorite!
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Mixed veggies cooked with masalas and topped with butter with pillow soft buns! You can chop the vegies the before day and use store bought burger buns.
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Soak basmati rice and channa overnight and morning you can make this pulao easily! Healthy for your kids too!!
Prep time: 12 Hrs
Cook time: 25 mins
Soak channa overnight, make atta, chop onion tomato while channa gets cooked and this lunch box will be ready! Healthy for your kids too!!
Prep time: 12 Hrs
Cook time: 30 mins
Week 2
Another kids favorite nutella stuffed flat bread. If you want you can replace nutella with just sugar/ Jaggery and ghee mix. Tip to prevent apple from turning dark colour –
soak in cold water with a tsp of lemon juice for 10 mins. Drain and pack.
soak in cold water with a tsp of lemon juice for 10 mins. Drain and pack.
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
I soak my pasta 1 hr in warm water and cook the pasta quickly. Pasta sauce can be made prior or use store bought ones.
Prep time: 60 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Mixed veggies can be cut prior. I make this pulao in kadai itself, so makes the job easier.
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
I make mini pooris to make it more appealing for him, channa masala is his favorite for poori…
Prep time: 15 Mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Jeera rice and aloo gobi makes an awesome combo and your kid will love it too
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Lunch box ideas
Week 1
Tangy gooseberry curd pachadi mixed with ghee and rice, delicious purple cabbage poriyal and creamy curd rice with pickle. Cabbage can be cut a day before and refrigerated.
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Flavorful and healthy greens masiyal with curd rice, simple yet healthy. Can clean and keep the greens refrigerated the before night.
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Coriander leaves thogayal is very very handy if made prior day itself. Easily we can pack it by mixing with rice and sesame oil. Ladies finger also can be cut and kept the before day.
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Mango rice can be packed for lunch when mangoes are in season. I gave snake gourd kootu to make it wholesome meal. Snake gourd can be chopped and refrigerated the before day itself. Next day pressure cook with dal along with rice in separate containers to make it fast.
Prep time: 20 Hrs
Cook time: 25 mins
If you have a big non stick kadai, pulao can be made in kadai itself provided rice should be soaked 30 mins in warm water. Goes well with this rich butter paneer masala!
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 35 mins
Week 2
Dal powder mixed with sesame oil and rice, Simple cabbage poriyal and creamy curd rice with pickle. Cabbage can be cut a day before and refrigerated.Perfect for a lazy Monday morning.
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Though you might think it will be tedious to pack this for lunch, I can suggest you to prepare this poondu kuzhambu before day evening, cool & refrigerate. Chop banana stem and soak it in butter milk, keep refrigerated, next day easy for you!
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Prepare the puliyogare paste and keep refrigerated. This can lend you hand when you are in hurry, you can pack this for lunch monthly once. Aviyal makes a good combo for this with all vegetables and mild gravy but you can keep it simple with fryums.
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
For peanut rice, we can powder and keep forenight and this lunch box can be made ready easily as arbi can be cooked along rice in same cooker with two different containers.
Prep time: 10 Mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Flavorful and healthy rice along with spicy vazhakkai curry – flavor will linger in your mouth after lunch!
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Disclaimer :
These lunch box ideas may not be balanced meals and may not contribute your everyday essential nutrients. This is just my family’s customized lunch box recipes, so it will be obviously their favorites and mostly south Indian cuisine. I will keep updating few more ideas in recent future, so keep checking 🙂
Few tips :
*Some vegetables can be chopped and kept refrigerated the previous night. Even tomatoes can be chopped and kept. Onions should not be chopped and kept as it can easily pick up the bacteria.
*Always cool the rice and before mixing, otherwise it may become thick and cake like as it cools after packing. Plan ahead, which will make your packing easy and hassle free.
*Curd should never be added to hot rice as it may kill the live culture in the curd and all the goodness will be gone.
*Use aluminium foil for packing rotis and parathas, which keeps the breads fresh.
*Make sure you change your menu every week so that they do not get bored.
