If you are short on time in the morning, lunchables are very easy to make ahead of time. Do you already make your own homemade lunchables? What are your favorite things to add? How do you make them a healthier alternative to the store bought lunchables? Save hours in the kitchen every week and reclaim precious family time without blowing your budget.
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Easy healthy lunchables. Prep Time 10 mins. Total Time 10 mins. Servings 4. Cuisine American. Course Lunch, Main Course.
Calories Author Eating on a Dime. Slice the turkey and the cheese into small squares. Slice the red pepper peppers and the carrots. Use cupcake liners to create dividers in a seal-able container. That's probably for the best. Advertising slogans can truly make or break a product, and Lunchables have gone through quite a few different slogans that definitely appeal to kids: "Lunch will never be the same.
And while kids growing up in the United States see anywhere from 13, to 30, TV commercials each year, Lunchables commercials seem to be a bit sparse during cartoon hour. That's due to the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative , a self-regulating group for companies to set up their own rules about how they market to kids. Kraft agreed they would only advertise their Lunchables that met a certain set of nutritional guidelines.
This means that in April , Kraft had 42 Lunchables, but only five of them met the minimal nutritional standards for fat, calories, and sodium to be able to be advertised. Basically, if you see a spot for Lunchables, you can assume that it must be nutritionally "okay.
It turns out that this quick and easy school lunch for the kids might be causing their teachers a bit of angst According to Nourishing Plot 's Becky Plotner, ND, a teacher claimed that " Lunchable Kids " experience a lot of negative effects after consuming them, saying, "Their behavior is problematic in the classroom, disruptive, and exhausting.
They take shortcuts, have poor attitudes and seem to struggle socially. I also believe that the lack of nutrition makes it difficult for the kids to function. Some teachers have even banned Lunchables from their classrooms, going so far as to sending notes home with kids explaining to parents why the lunch choice isn't allowed. One teacher commented on a message board , saying, "Every day I see Lunchables at lunch and now snack time in my kindergarten class.
It's peer pressure, even at that early age. Once in a while, a kid who usually eats healthy will have one, take a bite and refuse to eat the rest, but that's rare. I am sure that these things are maybe 50 cents to make and are terrible for the environment and child!
We know it's the goal of all celebs to break the Internet , but Kylie Jenner probably didn't think Lunchables would be the thing to do it. But the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star did just that when she shared an Instagram story of how she had microwaved a pizza Lunchables , asking her followers if they liked them hot or cold.
There's no reason why she chose to microwave a Lunchables considering most kids who eat them at school don't even have access to a microwave, and if kids or adults were eating them at home aren't their roughly gazillion bazillion other delicious microwavable food choices, like pizza rolls or microwavable frozen pizzas or pizza bagels or pizza sticks or even leftover pizza?
The people of Reddit were curious as to how others enjoyed the little cracker-like disks of pizza product, and considering the replies consisted of sentiments like, "What kind of psycho heats up the pizza?
Jenner's followers, however, backed her up, with 71 percent saying they preferred the Lunchables pizzas hot. A lot of grownups happily remember chowing down on Lunchables as kids, and a lot of adults still eat them to this day.
One Redditor proudly proclaimed, "I would sell my soul to the devil for a Lunchable. I still get the pepperoni pizza ones when I'm drunk at Wawa at 2am. Another Redditor shared a very touching Lunchables-centric story about his father's visits after his parents divorced, saying, "One major thing that will always stick with me is that he always used to buy us a lunchable of our choice right when we saw him.
I eventually tried them all, but my favorite were the cracker stackers. This memory of love and enjoyment of seeing my dad, has now transcended into lunchables. Whenever I see lunchables now, no matter what mood I am in or how that day has gone, my mind goes to that happy place when life was simple and filled with love.
Say what you want about Lunchables nutritionally, but a story like that is bound to make you crave some round ham and some bright yellow cheese. Maybe too many Lunchables. I didn't want to see another Lunchable for a long time. It's baffling to consider eating Lunchables when you're in Europe, and also when you're a Pulitzer Prize and 13 time Grammy winner, because couldn't you basically eat all the fancy things at all the fancy restaurants at that point?
It probably just speaks to the nostalgia factor of Lunchables, though — who wants to eat wiener schnitzel in Vienna or cassoulet in France when you can eat a Chicken Popper Kabobble?
Check it out! As you can see, the first Snack Duo option contains some crackers, some cheese, and some cookies. So I swapped in these yummy bite-sized Saltines, which are also great for sprinkling on top of chili! Good: Mini crackers with mozzarella and mini cookies, as pictured above.
Better: Swap out a lower fat mozzarella cheese for a slightly healthier meal, and add some fresh fruit, like a mixture of berries.
Best: Serve mini crackers with low-fat mozzarella, fresh berries, and some diced up veggies. Even better? Toss the cookies no, literally— nix the cookies from the meal and offer a healthier snack option later, like a homemade popsicle poolside. The second common variety of Snack Duos is a meat-cheese-cracker variety. I personally used Farmland pre-diced ham, so dicing it yourself would help you save more, too.
Good: Mini crackers with diced ham and mozzarella, as pictured. Better: Mini crackers with diced lean turkey, which typically has less sodium and slightly lower fat, and reduced fat mozzarella, plus add some fresh fruit like a plum. The Lunchable version uses some honey graham cracker sticks. At a loss for finding the type they used, I finally stumbled upon these Scooby Doo honey graham cracker snacks that are equally adorable and alarming.
Good: Graham cracker sticks with marshmallow fluff and mini milk chocolate chips, as pictured. Best: A banana half dipped in peanut butter and then chocolate chips, to give that fun dipping sensation but a much healthier option including fruit and protein! Moving on from the Snack Duos, I realized when shopping for what I pray is our last box of diapers before potty training that Lunchables is now offering a Lunchables, Jr.
I had to try to lower that cost a little bit by working on my own swaps for those Jr. Pretty much everyone is familiar with Ants on a Log, where raisins and peanut butter top a celery stalk. Just make sure your child knows the difference between these and real dog treats, lest they be fooled and end up with a mouthful of dog biscuit! I ended up swapping in Great Value brand Peanut Butter and Raisins in place of the name brands they used.
Good: Honey graham sticks with raisins and peanut butter, as pictured above. Contains good protein and fruit with fun flavors kids will like. Better: Try honey graham sticks with raisins and almond butter. While almond butter contains roughly the same calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and protein per serving, almond butter has twice the magnesium, twice the iron, three times the vitamin E, four times the calcium, and up to six times as much riboflavin, packing a nutritional punch.
Almond butter also contains more of the good kinds of fat that reduce blood cholesterol, while traditional PB has more of the Omega-6 fatty acids that cause more inflammation and increased risk of heart disease. Best: Swap in the traditional Celery version of Ants on a Log, with celery, but keeping almond butter, and raisins to top it, cutting out some of the unnecessary processing that the honey graham sticks have in favor of the less processed celery.
I figured the Blueberry Bonanza snack would be perfect for my berry-loving tot, until I realized that Lunchables uses blueberry-flavored dried apples. Instead of sticking straight to their recipe who can find blueberry flavored dried apples, anyway? I decided to sub in Great Value real dried blueberries instead.
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