Hellobee Boards

I always send a fruit, vegetable, and yogurt with:
Grilled cheese
Turkey and cheese roll ups and crackers
PB&J uncrustable with cheese stick
Breakfast foods
Pasta with peas in butter and parm cheese
Mac and cheese

I'm always looking for new ideas too!

One thing my son has been eating really well are these savory rice pancakes. It's just 1 cup of cooked rice mixed with 2 eggs and 1/2 cup of cheese, salt and pepper, and a mix of minced whatever cooked veggies and meat you have around. Then you just pan fry them in small spoonfuls until they are golden on each side. I make a batch and it's enough for a few lunches or a fast dinner. It uses up leftovers and it has all his food groups in one bite. I nuke it in the morning from the fridge or freezer and just send it to school with fresh fruit, a ketchup packet, and some carrot sticks or cucumber slices. They taste fine cold/room temp as long as they were heated at some point (otherwise the rice is hard).

I make quick pizzas out of flatbreads.

Fried rice or pasta in the thermos.

We send my son with dinner leftovers almost every day, (actually we all do) and always eats it. I do a lot of one pot dishes or soup, so I send it hot in a thermos and it's how when he eats it. I just make a bit extra every night for dinner, then pack everyone's lunches the night before, then heat it up in the am. For me this was a game changer.

Other days we do quaidillas, or sandwich squares.

I also send fruit and cheese as a snack every day. It's so hard to not fall into a rut with lunches - and I am only one school year in!