As much as you don't like eating the same old peanut butter sarmies for lunch every day, neither do your kids. Spice up their lunchboxes with these healthy, tasty and fun lunchbox ideas!

Beef rollups

Get a couple of pre-made wraps from your local store, some beef and a little cheese, and some greens, and you have a tasty healthy lunch.

Shopping list:

  • Couple of slices of roast beef
  • Tasty cream cheese with black pepper or garlic
  • Butter lettuce leaves or a handful of rocket

  • 1 shredded carrot

    • What to do:

    Make these the night before. Spread the cream cheese on the wraps, add the other ingredients, roll and then place in the fridge. Place in your kid's lunch box the next day!

    Yummy baby quiches

    These yummy baby quiches are perfect for lunchboxes, parties and breakfast. The recipe comes from the book 'Sustained energy for Kids' by Gabi Steenkamp, Tanzia Merlin and Jeske Wellmann.

    Shopping list:

  • 3 rashers lean back bacon finely chopped

  • ½ medium onion, peeled, chopped very finely

  • 250ml cooked or canned butter beans

  • 200ml fat-free milk

  • 5 eggs, preferably omega-3 rich

  • 5-10ml mustard powder

  • ½ teaspoon salt

  • ½ teaspoon ground pepper

  • 5ml dried parsley or mixed herbs

  • 30gms low-fat cheddar or mozzarella

    • Instructions:

    Preheat the oven to 180°C. Lightly coat the 12 hollows of a muffin pan (7.5 diameter hollows) with oil or spray with non-stick cooking spray.

    In a frying pan, dry fry the bacon and onion for three minutes over moderate heat. Set aside.

    Purée the drained butter beans with half the milk (100ml).

    Poor the Puréed beans into a 1-litre jug or a bowl and add the rest of the milk, eggs, mustard powder, salt, pepper and herbs. Stir to mix.

    Add the fried bacon and onion. Mix.

    Pour the mixture into lightly greased muffin pan, filling each to 4/5 full, making sure there is a little bacon in each quiche.

    Sprinkle the grated cheese evenly over each quiche.

    Place carefully in the oven and bake for 30-45 minutes, or until set.

    Cool in the muffin pan for 10 minutes, then run the blade of a knife around the edge of each quiche to loosen it, and carefully lift out of the muffin pan.

    Wait till they are cool to pack for lunch.

    Healthy mini pizzas

    This recipe only takes about fifteen minutes to prepare and is oh-so-easy, not to mention yummy. Here's what you need…

    What you need:

  • 1 standard bagel, cut in half

  • tomato sauce

  • mozzarella cheese, shredded

  • whatever you like!

  • Seasonings like salt and pepper

    • Instructions:

    Set the oven to low heat.

    Spread tomato sauce on each bagel half.

    Sprinkle the shredded cheese all over.

    Add your favourite toppings.

    Put a light sprinkling of seasonings on each half.

    Put your bagel halves on the baking sheet.

    Bake in the oven on low heat for about five to 10 minutes. You'll know they're done when the cheese is bubbling.

    Cool before packing.

    Cucumber fish sandwich

    Getting your kids to eat healthy food isn't always easy, what is easy however is to entertain them. So the secret to getting the good stuff down — present the food in a fun way.

    What you need (for 1 portion):

  • 1 loaf of fresh brown bread

  • Rama Idea! To spread

  • 2 servings of cream cheese

  • 1/2 small salad cucumber

  • Selected seasoning (try pesto)

  • Salt, pepper

  • Dill or parsley to garnish

    • How to make it:

    Spread bread with Rama Idea! Then spread cream cheese on the bread. Flavour the bread with salt, pepper and the tasty seasoning of your choice.

    Then place the cucumber slices on top your bread. To make the fish mouth, cut a triangle out at the front of the bread, and keep the cut piece. This will make the tail

    Place the cut out triangle as the tail.

    It's that easy.

    For more great sandwich ideas click here.


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