For the ski lunches I made toasted sandwiches.  Three of them got chicken melts. Think tuna melt, but chicken instead of tuna. I thought this sounded like a pretty good idea, but they actually tasted even better than I expected. This is definitely something I'll be making again.

Grandma and I were going along for the second grade field trip, so I packed a more grown up lunch to go for us. We have two salads for lunch - a chicken salad and a kale salad, with some edamame rice crackers on the side.

Making muffins and bars ahead of time makes packing for lunch even quicker than usual.

This was a breakfast for lunch day, so the kids all got three of my mini chocolate chip banana muffins. They all got some kind of wrapped cheese, strawberries, and one of these amazingly easy and delicious cereal bars. 

If you’ve been skiing, you know that buying lunch in the lodge gets expensive fast. So I try to pack our lunch as much as I can. For ski lunches I try to pack in a bit more calories than I do for a regular school lunch. They are very physically active out in the cold, so they burn a lot more calories. I will include more carbs, and even a chocolate treat, in every ski lunch, to just help keep them fueled up for the day. 

I made a big batch of English muffin pizzas on Sunday - enough to pack for one lunch, plus extra for another whole lunch and a snack or two. They are practically a perfect lunch food - easy to make, store and freeze great, and the perfect kid size. Having something like this made just makes lunch packing so quick and easy. These lunches took me just a few minutes - with the pizza already made, I just had to throw in a veggie and a fruit, and a little extra treat on the side. Done. 

We'll just call this a Mexican themed lunch day, with each lunch being slightly different. I was using up some leftovers, and just trying to make all the lunches as similar as possible. 

This is just a simple lunchable style snack box with lots of little goodies. They all have some kind of cheese, a strawberry, an orange, and some rice crackers. Two have a rolled up slice of turkey, and two have mini hot dogs. Three have tomatoes and the fourth child that doesn't like tomatoes has some yogurt covered raisins. 

ScheduleThis is what I sometimes call deconstructed nachos. Basically, its all the ingredients for - nachos, the chips, cheese, beans, sour cream - but not all toasted and melted together. If you have chips and cheese in your house, you can make this. This lunch honestly took me about 5 minutes to make. 

Pancakes. Breakfast for lunch at its finest. My basic goal for this lunch was to make it a little fun, without making it a lot of extra work for me. And what's more fun than tiny pancakes?

I made pancakes last week, and I always make extra.  Making some mini pancakes is super easy. All you have to do is take your regular pancake batter and thin it with just a little extra milk, and put it in some kind of squirt bottle or icing bag, or really anything that you can squeeze equal amounts out of.