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3 Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids at Home

A green, yellow, and red parrot in front of toast with colorful fruit like bananas and cherry tomatoes. This is one of our healthy lunch ideas for kids at home.
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Are the kids at home? Need some quick recipes? Make lunch easy and healthy by following these recipes. Here are some healthy lunch ideas for kids at home!

Please have a grown-up help you make these recipes.

Rainbow Fruit on Toast

Prep time: 20 minutes | Servings: 6 slices

Ingredients:

  • 6 slices whole wheat bread
  • 1 ¼ cups yogurt
  • Red fruit: red apples, cherries, or strawberries
  • Orange fruit: oranges, tangerines, or apricots
  • Yellow fruit: bananas, pineapples, or mangos
  • Green fruit: green apples, green grapes, or pears
  • Blue fruit: blueberries or blackberries
  • Purple fruit: purple grapes or plums

Directions:

  1. Cut the fruit into small pieces.
  2. Toast the slices of bread.
  3. Spread yogurt onto the toast.
  4. Place fruits of one color onto each piece of toast.

Have fun eating the colors of the rainbow!

Hearty Jar Jam Oats

Prep time: 5 minutes | Cook time: 8 hours | Servings: 1

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup rolled oats
  • ½ cup milk
  • ⅓ cup Greek yogurt
  • ⅓ teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ tablespoons honey
  • 1 ½ tablespoons chia seeds
  • Blueberries

Directions:

  1. Put all the ingredients into a jar. Stir with the spoon until the ingredients have been mixed well.
  2. Close the jar with the lid. Leave the jar in the fridge for 8 hours.
  3. Take off the lid.

Enjoy a creamy breakfast straight out of the jar!

Beans on Chips

Prep time: 15 minutes | Cook time: 10 minutes | Servings: 4

Ingredients:

  • 4 cups tortilla chips
  • 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
  • ½ cup shredded cheese
  • 1 avocado, diced
  • ⅛ cup cilantro, diced

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F.
  2. Spread the shredded cheese, then the black beans, over the tortilla chips.
  3. Place the chips in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes or until the cheese starts to melt.
  4. Take the chips out of the oven. Place the diced avocado pieces and cilantro over the chips.

Crunch on these munchy chips at lunchtime (or even for a snack)!

For even more food ideas for kids, see our full recipe collection.

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