Quick Lunchbox Snacks and Sides

Directions

1. Use any of the following healthy snack ideas for your child's school lunchbox—and enlist your child's help in coming up with your own combinations!
   
2. cut-up pieces of dried or fresh fruit, or a piece of whole fruit
   
3. celery sticks filled with cream cheese and raisins, or white bean dip
   
4. sugar snap peas with a small container of ranch dressing for dipping
   
5. lunch meat roll-ups with cream cheese and asparagus in the middle, held together with toothpicks
   
6. a hard boiled egg
   
7. cheese cubes or string cheese sticks
   
8. peanut butter (or sunflower butter) and apple slices or crackers
   
9. white bean dip or hummus with carrots and mini pita breads
   
10. whole grain crackers or pretzels
    
11. trail mix made from cereal, nuts, and dried fruit (or see our Trail Mix recipe)