Fun lunch ideas worth giving a shot

Parents are confused about the lunches they could pack for their kids; lunches that would sit in the lunch box for 3 hours and be is eaten by their kids and not traded out for snacks. We would like our kids to eat the nutritious sandwich that we have prepared for them. Here are a few sandwiches that can be prepared with the least ingredients; you could make 5 fun, healthy different sandwiches for every day of the week.

Here are some of the ingredients that would be used in the lunch sandwiches for the week; turkey, bananas, tomatoes, whole wheat bread, wraps or waffles, nut butter or Sun Butter of any flavor, hummus, cheddar cheese, baby spinach, green and red apples and jam or jelly of any flavor especially cranberry.  

Make these sandwiches to make your kids lick their hands:

1. The Croc N’ Roll

Enchant your kid with the bread becoming a roll-up and a sandwich becoming a crocodile.
The ingredients needed are whole wheat bread, 1 slice cheddar cheese, 1 slice turkey, baby spinach and apples; preferably a mixture of red and green without the skin, and hummus.

Method:

Take a piece of bread and lay it on a cutting board and roll it flat with the help of a rolling pin.
Next lay turkey and cheddar cheese on top of it and then add a handful of apple strips and place them on the bottom half of the bread. Stick out 2 green ones out for fangs and one red one out for the tongue.

Then from the bottom roll the bread upwards till the end enclosing the apples.

 
Next fasten with hummus or a toothpick.

 
Lastly with the fang side facing you place 2 dollops of hummus and stick 2 apple chunks for eyes. Line the top of the bread with more hummus and add pieces of green spinach as scales.

2. Flower Power:

You could spruce up your turkey sandwich by this easy and colorful way.

You would require 2 slices whole wheat bread, 2 slices of turkey, 3 slices of tomato, hummus, baby spinach and small cookie cutter like a flower.

Method:

Lay out both the slices of bread and use a cookie cutter to cut out a flower shape from the center of one.

Next spread both slices of bread with hummus.

Take the slice of bread on which the flower is not cut out and layer with turkey, spinach and the tomato slices.

Place the other piece of bread on top; your kid would be delighted by the red tomatoes that shine through the flower cut-out.

3, Tomato Soup Grilled Cheese

It’s a gooey-grilled cheese with the benefits of tomato. Add a Thermos of tomato soup for dipping! Wrap both the Thermos and the sandwich in tinfoil to keep them warm.
The ingredients required are 2 slices whole wheat bread, Cheddar cheese and 2 slices of tomato.

Method:

Take a frying pan and heat it. When it is hot add a dollop of butter.

Butter one side of both slices of bread and place the side not buttered on the hot pan and flip when toasted.

Then add cheese to the toasted side of both pieces of bread and add tomato once the cheese starts to melt. Keep on flipping to prevent sandwich from burning.

Remove from the pan and cut into 4-dipping strips and let your kid enjoy with tomato soup.

4. The Gobbler

Here is a post-Thanksgiving favorite that you can have throughout the year and on waffle. You can use cranberry sauce if you don’t have jam.

You will need sliced apples, cranberry jam or sauce, turkey, Cheddar cheese and 2 slices whole wheat bread or frozen whole wheat waffles, toasted.

Method:

Spread jam onto both slices of bread.

Top up 1 slice of bread with cheddar, apples, cranberry jam or sauce and then the turkey and finish with the second slice of bread.

The Banana Jam-Wich

It is amazing but true that the bananas are the bread.

You would need 1 banana, Nut butter or Sun Butter, Jam or jelly and apples chopped.

Method:

Cut the banana in half both vertically and horizontally so that you have 4 equal and even halves.

 Next lay them out seed side up and spread Sun butter or nut butter on the 4 slices.

Then drizzle some jam on top of the 2 slices and sprinkle with chopped apples.

Lastly close them together or serve them open faced.

Did your kids enjoy the sandwiches that were fun and nutritious?

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