This week I will be sharing with you our 5 days of Homeschooling Essentials.
Most of the time, we eat lunch around 11:30 because my husband usually leaves for work at 12:00. Simple and Quick lunches work well for us!
Here are some simple and quick lunch ideas. I'd love to hear any ideas you may have as well!
Lunch staples that I always try to have on hand include mayo, mustard, cheese, eggs, popcorn, chips or pretzels, bananas, apples, carrots, celery, fruit cups, applesauce, and cucumbers.
- Leftovers - usually not enough for all of us
- Sandwiches of any sort - lunch meat, egg, grilled cheese, chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad, etc.
- quesadillas
- English muffin pizzas
- varieties of soups
- varieties of Chef boyardee
- lentils over tortilla chips
- tacos
- salads
- hot dogs
- rice cakes with peanut butter and raisins (believe it or not it is really tasty!)
- eggs - hard boiled, sandwiches, salad, fried, omelets
Another idea is to have the same thing for lunch every week or rotate 2 weeks of lunch items. For instance:
Monday: Omelets with ham and veggies
Tuesday: Hot Dogs, chips, fruit
Wednesday: tacos with fixings
Thursday: Deli Sandwiches, soup
Friday: English Muffin Pizzas, cut veggies, fruit
or maybe...
Monday: Egg day
Tuesday: Sandwich Day
Wednesday: Soup Day
Thursday: Chef Boyardee Day :)
Friday: Pizza Day
A quick pinterest search will bring up many more ideas for you as well!
I know it sounds minimal but having lunch ideas ready and on hand can be a big time saver especially when you need to get back to school work after lunch!
I hope you have enjoyed our 5 Days of Homeschooling Essentials Series. I have tried to think of things that have kept me sane during our homeschooling journey!
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We do many of those. I also have a rotation. We have the same meals for the same days of the week. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe have more delays over lunchtime here, because the kids can't agree on what they want. *sigh* I keep forgetting about the English Muffin Pizzas - I'll have to add that into our list of choices!
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