I must admit that I much prefer a salad to an sandwich.

Great suggestions but I don’t think my family would like them. Just meat and salad suit them.

Great article and fantastic suggestions too!

Thank God for wraps. My son has finally embraced them and is happy to take one each day.

I try to make every day a different lunch. My kids might have one day a bread roll in their lunchbox, but something different the other days.

Such great ideas for lunchboxes. thanks for sharing

Thankfully my boys are both good eaters (so far) so I can pretty much pack anything in their lunch box and they will eat it, but I still remember the lunchtime boredom with sandwiches every day from when I was at school and I dont want my boys to feel that way so I try to mix up their lunches a bit and there are some really great ideas here.

some great ideas pity my biggest kids are not very adventurous! (there is still hope for the little ones though!)

These are some really delicious ideas! I get *so* sick of making sandwiches

Love all these suggestions. My kids aren’t school age but will be using these ideas for hubby’s lunch (he gets sick of sandwiches every day!)

My little girl has a wheat allergy and many of the gluten free breads are not nice made as sandwiches. We do things like cold rice paper rolls, gluten free noodle salad, garden salad, little containers of baked beans, savoury pikelets or fritters spread with cream cheese. Always looking for new ideas though as she loves lots of variety.

My daughter loves stuffed potato skins or rice salad for a change from boring sambos. Even pikelets (sweet or savoury) make a nice treat.

Thanks for the tips. My daughter hates sandwiches unless they are toasted.

I often add roasted chickpeas and coconut chips to my daughter’s lunchbox.
Thanks for all the tips!!

Very useful

Love these ideas! Some I had never thought of. Thanks!

Im always amazed when I see suggestions for school lunch boxes that include such things as muffins and cakes. The school my daughters went to had a total ban on things like cakes, biscuits, muffins and muesli bars. No matter how healthy …apparently even if it was a healthy muffin it still looked like a sugar filled cake so it was banned. Muesli bars were banned because they had too much sugar and often included nuts.
Add a fussy eater into the mix and it made lunch times a nightmare.

oh this popped up and it was perfect timing, my kids are getting really bored with their lunches towards the end of the year so hopefully they will like a few from this article – thank you for compiling

Great ideas. My son is going through a stage of not wanting to eat his sandwich

Are your kids tired of a sandwich every day in their lunchboxes? Do they even eat sandwiches?

Here we give you ten ideas for lunchbox fillers and loads of other snack ideas that can sustain them through the day and are easy to pack.

Some kids struggle with managing multiple containers and utensils, so here are some quick ideas that don’t require too many extras.

Great things to include are leftovers from previous dinners if you have them.
If including meat items, you may wish to add a mini freezer gel pack in a snap lock bag over the hot months to keep the lunchbox cool. The snap lock bag protects the gel pack and stops water from going onto the food.

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