Below are some of the popular lunch for toddlers on online sites:
* The Middle Eastern lunch, with baba ganoush (what Middle Eastern locals call moutabel) and hummous and a variety of mini pitas and veggies to dip. A bottle of drinkable yogurt and some dates for dessert.
* Cheese and veggie filled tortellinis with a white or red sauce. They are tasty enough room temperature, but you may want to send it over in a thermos from time to time.
* Pancakes for lunch is a special treat around the house from time to time. It is exciting to prepare them from scratch, keeping a batch of the dried ingredients mixed up and waiting just for the eggs, butter and milk. Pancakes are easily frozen, so you may want to have some on hand for a quick fix. You can add oatmeal or wheat germ to your pancakes, and make them with white, whole wheat flour, millet flour, and other high protein grains. Typically, your kid would love to get pancake sandwiches with blueberry preserves in between them for lunch.
* Mini hors d’oeuvres: Itty bitty burritos and taquitos, or mini quiches. If your kid eats seafood and no one in his class is going to keel over because of it. You can also try giving him mini crabcakes.
* Falafel is a good option too. The mixes are pretty good, and the kids love them.
* Fritattas: a rich, egg pizza concoction with as many vegetables as you can sneak in there.
* A hollowed-out apple with tuna salad stuffed in the middle is a fun lunch, though this is hard to eat for the little ones.
* Beans and rice is also good. Why not? It’s easy! It’s good, and it’s good at room temperature.
* Build your own snack/sandwiches — cheaper than Lunchables, you just slice up cheese and deli meats into bite-sized pieces, add some whole grain crackers, a yogurt, some fruit, some carrot sticks, and you’ve got lunch.