23 healthy and delicious back-to-school lunch box recipes your kids will love! From vegetable packed muffins, amazing bliss balls, fabulous fritters, to delicious and nutritious cookies, these lunch box ideas are quick to make, super tasty and transport well! Lunch boxes will come home empty with these better-for-them back-to-school recipes.
1.EASY ONE BOWL SAVOURY MUFFINS
A super easy one bowl savoury muffins recipe packed with healthy zucchini, carrot, corn and cheese. These muffins are golden, cheesy and full of flavour that kids love. This freezer-friendly recipe is perfect for lunch boxes!
2. APRICOT AND COCONUT BLISS BALLS
Simple to prepare and utterly delicious, these gorgeous apricot and coconut bliss balls make a heavenly lunch box snack. They’re a clever mix of healthy wholefoods that kids love PLUS they’re freezer friendly.
3. CARROT CAKE BLISS BALLS
Your kids will love snacking on these healthier carrot cake bliss balls. They taste just like carrot cake, but they’re nut-free (see recipe details), vegan, freezer friendly, and easy to make! This recipe is the perfect sweet (sometimes) treat for lunch boxes!
4. VEGETABLE LOADED FRITTERS
Sneak vegetables into lunch boxes with these quick and easy vegetable loaded fritters! They’re super healthy, freezer friendly and so much better than boring sandwiches!
5. ONE BOWL PEA & RICOTTA FRITTERS
These one bowl pea and ricotta fritters are light, zesty, gorgeously golden and perfect for little hands at lunch time! This easy recipe comes together in 1 bowl, makes over 20 fritters and sneaks extra vegetables into kids!
6. Pumpkin Pie Bliss Balls
These pumpkin pie bliss balls are a simple, make-ahead lunch box snack that’s not only freezer friendly but also manages to sneak extra veggies into little tummies at lunch! This recipe can be made ‘nut-free’.
7. MINI VEGETABLE LOAVES
These simple-to-make mini vegetable loaves are perfect for lunch boxes! Packed with carrot, zucchini, corn, cheese and herbs they’re healthy and delicious! This recipe can also be baked as muffins!
8. VEGETABLE FRITTERS
These vegetable fritters are a healthy back-to-school lunch box recipe! You’ll need just 8 ingredients, 1 bowl and 30 minutes for these simple and delicious vegetable fritters! BONUS, these fritters are freezer-friendly!
9. BACK TO SCHOOL MUFFINS
A super easy back-to-school muffin recipe made with zucchini, carrot, and blueberries. These muffins are golden, with a crumble oat topping, bursting with fresh blueberries and full of flavour that kids love. This freezer-friendly recipe is also perfect for lunch boxes!
10. ONE BOWL BLUEBERRY LEMON POPPY SEED MUFFINS
These one bowl blueberry lemon and poppy seed muffins are bursting with sweet jammy blueberries, flavoured with a hint of lemon and drizzled with a zesty lemon glaze. Simple to make and super tasty, they make the perfect lunch box treat!
11. Mighty Morning Muffins
Satisfy little tummies at lunch with these Mighty Morning Muffins. Packed with banana, carrot, sultanas and oats, these muffins make a wholesome start to the day or lunch box treat. Lightly sweetened with brown sugar (or maple syrup), and kept moist with yoghurt and olive oil, your kids will never know these delicious muffins are made on the healthier side. This recipe is also freezer-friendly, great for lunch boxes and makes the perfect after-school snack!
12. [NO BAKE] CHOC COCONUT SLICE
Your child’s lunch box just got a whole lot more delicious thanks to this [no bake] choc coconut slice recipe! These bars are simple to make, can be made ‘nut-free’ and are freezer-friendly, making them the ideal grab-and-go lunch box snack.
13. STRAWBERRY BARS
Jammy Strawberry Bars make a delicious lunch box snack or after school treat! Kids go crazy for these strawberry bars thanks to their sweet flavour and cinnamon scented oat-y and seed-y crumble topping. These bars are quick to prepare (no mixer required), wholesome, packed with healthier ingredients and truly the BEST strawberry bars EVER!
14. Savoury Cheese and Egg Muffins
Savoury Cheese and Egg Muffins are a huge hit with kids. These muffins can be eaten on-the-go, are cheesy, utterly delicious and fill hungry tummies at lunch time!
15. MINI PEA & PESTO FRITTATAS
Nourishing, healthy and full of veggies, these mini pea and pesto frittatas are a tasty idea for lunch boxes. Kids love the cheesy flavour and you’ll love the extra vegetables your child is gobbling up.
16. Healthy Jam Drop Cookies
These kid-approved healthy jam drop cookies are vegan, gluten-free and sweetened with maple syrup. This is a super simple lunch box recipe, using just 6 ingredients + 1 bowl!
17. Back To School Cookies
Send the kids to school with these delicious banana raspberry and coconut cookies! This recipe is simple to make and perfect for lunch boxes!
18. BLUEBERRY, BANANA & CHIA LOAF
This blueberry banana and chia loaf is delicious. Chock full of blueberries with a gorgeously golden crust – this loaf makes the perfect lunch box snack. You’ll need 4 spotty bananas for this recipe.
19. KALE CHIPS
These kale chips are not only gorgeously golden, totally crispy and utterly moreish, but are your perfect chance to sneak extra vegetables into lunch boxes and into hungry tummies at school.
20. Lamington Bliss Balls
These lamington bliss balls are a healthier lunch box snack that also satisfy’s sweet cravings! Super simple to make, refined sugar-free, vegan and freezer friendly – your kids will love this sweet surprise!
21. CRISPY PARMESAN PITA CHIPS WITH BEETROOT HUMMUS
Your kids will go crazy for these crunchy pita chips and beetroot hummus! The chips take 5 minutes to bake and are crispy, crunchy, salty and so moorish! This recipe is super simple to make and a clever and super healthy addition to any lunch box.
22. CARROT CAKE PORRIDGE BARS
These healthy carrot cake porridge bars are made with banana, dates, milk, maple syrup, vanilla, coconut, oats, carrot, cinnamon. These bars are delicious thanks to the mandarin scented yoghurt swirl drizzled over each bar and perfect for lunch boxes.
23. ZUCCHINI PANCAKES
Zucchini Pancakes are healthy, quick to make and can easily be devoured before the play time bell rings, making them the perfect addition to any lunch box.
Hi Kayla
I did my term cook up and used a lot of your recipes for the first time…. they are amazing! The ease, variety of flours used and the texture and crumb they produced were second to none. I also did a batch of d…a h.y muffins and the girls prefer yours hands down and so do I. I love the focus on veges too. I wish I found you years ago. My middle daughter is a cook in the making so I lol forward to purchasing your book for her birthday. Congratulations on your recipes and site, you really are changing lives, school lunch making is relaxed, healthy and creating positive food relationships. Thanks
Hi Yvette! Thank you so so so much! You’re so kind! I’m so happy you’re enjoying our recipes! Oh and I hope your daughter enjoys her baking adventures, it’s so much [messy] fun! Thanks again for your sweet message – you made my day. Kayla x