Quick Lunch Ideas For Tweens From a Tween
Lunches for your kids. Something many parents spend lots of time on for their kids. Unless you just make them get school lunch. No hate though, I get its hard to pack lunch and make ideas. Half the time I just eat pasta with like pesto, mac, and cheese, ETC. But even with this much time, with quarantine, sometimes you need to rush lunch out. For example, since I go to in-person school 1/2 the school week, (Quarantining currently due to exposure) I get the struggle. I watch lunch channels where they spend like 50 minutes on the lunch and call it "Easy Quick Lunches." I HATE this kinda thing like I have 10 minutes maximum to make my lunch. I get the message but I'm not supposed to make pots and pans worth of dishes! I am just looking for a school lunch that beats the PB and J they offer at school. That is all! Like I don't have the time for this. So I went into a spiral of looking for lunches.
The guides online seemed pretty cool. But they all had something I could not have. You see, I have braces, so the lunches I could make were limited. You probably know the drill, soft food, and no sticky substances that could damage brackets. So yeah, carbs are something I eat a lot. This list does also have some non-braces friendly lunches too, but this is not an 'Oh This Looks Cute My Tween Will Eat it List!' Because as a tween, I DON'T CARE WHETHER MY FOOD LOOKS CUTE OR NOT! My standards (personally) lie on if the food is filling and tastes fine. So yeah, with those disclaimers, let us GO!
Lunch #1 - Peanut Stir Fry
This is a recipe you make when you have a bunch of food you need to make use of fast.
Ingredients -
Cooked Rice (Leftover is preferred for a quicker meal. Use 1 cup for what I did but your choice.)
1 tbsp - Soy Sauce
1 tbsp - Peanut Butter
2/3 tsp - Rice Vinegar
Any Veggies you want (2/3 cup for a veggie-packed stir fry chopped small for tweens with braces)
2 Eggs
Any Oil You Want (oil amount based on pan size, but put as much as needed to stop sticking)
- Put oil in a pan
- Put veggies in the pan
- Mix peanut butter, soy sauce, and vinegar
- Cook veggies until hot, stirring when it is about to stick to the pan
- When veggies are done, put rice in there, stir, and crack the eggs into the pan
- Stir them constantly, so the stir fry is coated in egg
- Add the sauce, stir, and then pack for lunch
Lunch #2 - Angel Hair Pasta and Meatballs
A simple easy filling meal when you only have basic ingredients.
Ingredients -
Angel Hair Pasta - 1/4 Box
Can of Tomato Sauce - 4 fl oz
3 Frozen Meatballs
- Cook pasta as you would
- Mix pasta into the sauce
- Microwave frozen meatballs till cooked
- Mix pasta and meatballs
- Serve
Lunch #3 - Peanut Butter Snack Box
That lunch you make when you don't want to use any dishes.
Ingredients
Peanut Butter - 2 tbsp.
Pretzels - 1 snack size bag
1 Sliced apple
A stick of celery sliced in 4 pieces
- Insert all ingredients but peanut butter in a lunch container.
- Use a sauce container to put peanut butter in, and serve.
Lunch #4 - Rice Dumpling Bowl
That lazy lunch with just a microwave needed.
Ingredients
Leftover rice - 2/3 cup
Handful of frozen dumplings
Frozen veggies - 1/4 cup
- Prepare dumplings
- Cook veggies in the microwave
- Heat rice
- Assemble bowl in container for lunch
Lunch #5 - Hummus Sandwich
The lunch that tastes amazing but needs no work
Ingredients
Brown bread (I use it but any bread is cool)
Turkey or chicken cold cuts (2-3 slices)
Hummus (1 tbsp)
Lettuce (1/2 leaf)
- Spread half the hummus on each slice of bread
- Put equal cold cuts on each side.
- Put the lettuce in between the cold cuts
- Cut into two triangles, and serve
So here, that's my lunches! This is meant to help show what a kid (at least like me, who loves healthy food,) would like for lunch that is still easy! Thanks for reading this! Hope I helped some fellow tweens, parents, and whoever else saw this post! Stay Safe!
Sincerely -
Jackie Elisa Papal
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