Healthy Lunchbox Meal Prep Recipe Guide

If you struggle to find the time to make healthy recipes for your kids' lunchboxes. If you want to make kids' snacks that are full of good things. If you want to get more into this meal prep, freezable things, then baby, you're in the right place.

My healthy lunchbox meal prep guide will help. In 1 hour, you will have these lunchbox recipes - done! 

Let me run you through exactly how I meal prepped all these in an hour for my crew...

Steps in my lunchbox meal prep session.

1. Shop your freezer - I checked the fridge and freezer for what I had first and tweaked the recipes based on that. i.e no chocolate chips for the cookies so I made them with sprinkles I had instead.
2. Planned -I wrote a list of exactly what I wanted to cook, in order of which would take the longest to shortest. That way, I could use the prep time well.
3. Shopped - I bought just what I needed, and that is big for a foodie like me. I love all the things!
4. I found 1 hour to prep - I put my headphones in and listened to a podcast. Bliss.
5. Cooked - I started with the meals that took longer to prep first. Cookies were first up. All the way through to the easiest one, the fermented carrots.
6. Package it up - I stored it all in my large glass Pyrex containers. These are a meal prep-er's (is that how I spell it?!) dream as they go from the fridge, to oven, to freezer. They're the best.
7. Feel like a rockstar - Snacks, done! That feels good. I often share my kids lunchboxes on my Instagram. Be sure to follow along there too.

 

Video Guide Of My Lunchbox Meal Prep Guide

 

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Recipes I made:

Marshmallows: I make healthy marshmallows most weeks. I make them a couple of different ways, the first is using just fruit juice and gelatin. True! Click here for that fruit juice marshmallow recipe. And in this lot, I used this homemade marshmallow recipe of mine, with two tablespoons of raspberry powder for the colour and taste.

Smoothie: You can make a double or even triple batch of this. And note, I use skim milk powder in the kids smoothies to give them a little more protein without using a powder for them.
3 cups of milk
1 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup yoghurt
2 tbsp skim milk powder
2 tbsp raw honey
Optional: 1/4 cup oats or nuts.

Cookies: This is a winning recipe from my lunchbox meal prep eBook. I have 30+ recipes layed out in 4 different meal prep guides you can follow and then whack in the freezer. Grab my healthy lunchbox cook-up eBook here.

Fermented Carrots:  There isn't a week that goes by that I do not make these for the kids. It is such an easy-yum way to get gut healing probiotics in. Grab my easy fermented carrot recipe here.

Watch more of my weekly meal prep session here:

Week 1 - I made just main meals in this cook-up, all ready in 1-hour. Click to watch Week-1's meal prep
Week 2 - I made a ton of freezer dump bags. Click to watch Week-2's meal prep