Inspiration: 40 Snack Ideas for a Healthy Lunchbox

Do you ever get stuck for ideas when you need healthy snacks to fill your child’s daycare, preschool or school lunchbox? So many pre-packaged snacks are loaded with additives, preservatives, salt and sugar so it can be hard to find a healthy alternative that travels well and still tastes delicious. When we get stuck for inspiration, there’s no better inspiration than the community of One Handed Cooks on our Facebook page.

Earlier we asked, “Share your favourite healthy lunchbox snack ideas!”

Here are the fab responses for your own inspiration, and we’ve linked so some of our own recipes that you might like to try.

40 Healthy Lunchbox Snack Ideas

1. Muffins – 30 sweet and savoury muffin ideas 
2. Biscuits – 18 healthy biscuit ideas 
3. Smoothies – 20 healthy smoothie ideas  (best frozen to thaw out by recess time)
4. Kale chips 
5. Fruit skewers 
6. Roast pumpkin loaf
7. Peanut butter balls (observe all safe allergy precautions and school regulations when including nuts)
8. Zucchini chips 
9. Muesli bars (observe all safe allergy precautions and school regulations when including nuts)
10. Apricot coconut balls 
11. Vegetable sausage rolls 
12. Mini spelt pizza 
13. Chickpeas 
14. Roast veggie tart
15. Pick ‘n’ Mix Fritters 
16. Pick ‘n’ mix triangles 
17. Oat bars 
18. Chia squares 
19. Sulphur free dried fruit mix
20. 3 bean mix
21. Vegetable and cheese sticks with dip 
22. Humus with pita bread
23. Corn on cob
24. Piklets/pancakes 
25. Frozen yoghurt
26. Fresh fruit cut up – with some lemon brushed over them to stop browning
27. “shapes” or flat bread and avocado dip
28. Homemade sushi rolls
29. Mac and cheese muffins
30. Vegetable fried rice with a side of omelette
31. Bread sticks
32. Popcorn
33. Vegemite scrolls 
34. Zucchini Slice 
35. Cinnamon toasted butternut squash cubes
36. Grain free banana bread
37. Chicken noodle soup which they take in a mini flask (Lunchbox doctor)
38. Fruit bread
39. Mini quiche
40. Coleslaw

See more information on packing a nutritious and safe travelling lunch box. Keep an eye out for our ‘Back to School’ Magazine for a whole range of fabulous healthy back-to-school ideas.