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Lunch Box Snack Ideas

Published: Sep 18, 2019 · Modified: Dec 7, 2022 by Raquel · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

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I gathered up these Lunch Box Snack Ideas in honor of back to school. Today is the first day back in our district and one of the challenges I had when the kids were younger, was finding reasonably healthy snacks for the kids to enjoy.

I really felt better when I could make my own lunch box snacks because I knew exactly what was in them.

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From muffins to granola bars, These also make great after school snack ideas as well. To save time, I usually made the snacks on Sunday, and then kept them in the refrigerator or cool storage area so that they would be easy to grab the rest of the week.

I also like to include fun, seasonal snack ideas to change things up a little bit.

Fall Trail Mix

Fall Trail Mix

Now once in a while, I did by the little snack-sized crackers or cookies, but I found that those came out to be really expensive when you priced them out by the ounce. It really is much better to buy in bulk and then divide into small plastic containers or bags early in the week so you can grab and go later on as needed.

These Lunch Box Snack ideas will help you be ready to offer some creative alternatives to the usual lunch box ides.

simple and tasty recipes

All Bran Muffins Recipe

All Bran Muffins

S'mores Trail Mix

S'mores Trail Mix-

Turkey Roll ups

Ham and Cheese Roll Up appetizers on tray.

Ham Roll Ups

Spicy Chicken Wraps

Chicken Wraps -

Broccoli salad tomatoes

Broccoli Pasta Salad

Veggie Pinwheels Rollups

Veggie Roll Ups

Easy Fried chicken tenders

Cane's copycat chicken tenders

Chicken Salad Pinwheels

Chicken Pinwheels

timesaving tips to streamline recipes

Time-saving School Lunch Tips: Sort crackers and snacks into individual baggies so that they are quick to grab and go. I did this for snacks in the refrigerator as well (theirs and mine). Really makes for streamlining the process and I found it helped me eat better too!

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Other snack ideas that I felt good about putting in a lunch box include:

  • Apples
  • Bananas
  • Pumpkin seeds
  • celery/carrot sticks
  • string cheese
  • orange slices
  • nuts (cashews, peanuts)
  • strawberries
  • yogurt
  • dried fruit
Smores Pops

Check out these other great lunch box items:

Fall Trail Mix /Organized Island

Chocolate Coconut Energy Bites / What the Fork Food Blog

Homemade Frozen Fruit Cocktail / Krysta's Life In Food

Apple Peanut Butter Snack Bars / Happy Healthy Mama

Clean Eating Oatmeal Granola Bars / The Gracious Pantry

Simple Pineapple Muffins/Organized Island

Nutella Banana Peanut Butter Muffins / Kerry Ann Morgan 

S'nores Snacks/ Organized Island

Hungry Hippos Fun Sandwich / Two Healthy Kitchens

Superfood Energy Bars / To Simply Inspire

Homemade Gogurt / Passion for Savings

Homemade Cereal Bars/Organized Island

I hope you enjoyed this round-up of lunch box snack ideas.

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  1. Akaleistar

    August 29, 2016 at 6:04 pm

    Homemade snacks are the best! Those cereal bars look really good 🙂

    Reply
    • Raquel

      September 01, 2016 at 10:20 am

      Agree Ashley! But then again I am always ready for a snack!

      Reply
  2. Tamara

    August 30, 2016 at 11:49 am

    Homemade gogurt! How clever.
    Personally I love things like energy bites, energy balls, and muffins. They are perfect for lunchboxes!

    Reply
    • Raquel

      September 01, 2016 at 10:18 am

      Yes, all good things for sure!

      Reply

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