Healthy School Lunches and Snack Ideas
Pediatric Fitness at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin offers a program to help children develop healthy habits of exercise and good nutrition.
Quick Lunch Ideas
- Turkey and cheese sandwich, baby carrots, low-fat milk, cookie
- Crackers and cheese, fresh fruit, yogurt
Cottage cheese, canned fruit, pretzels and peanuts- Hummus in pita bread with vegetables and fruit
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, fruit, pudding
- Tortilla with deli meat and cheese, fresh fruit, low-fat milk
- Yogurt, peanut butter sandwich, six-ounce 100 percent juice
- Chunky soup or bean soup (one that has at least seven grams protein), crackers or breadstick, cookie
- Sandwich with deli meat, lettuce, tomato and onion, one-ounce bag of potato chips, six-ounce 100 percent juice
Healthy Snack Ideas
Balance your snack by aiming for a protein and a whole grain or fruit.
- Apple slices with peanut butter
- Yogurt topped with cereal
- Cottage cheese with canned fruit
- Pudding with graham crackers
- String cheese
- Fresh veggies (with or without ranch dressing)
- Popcorn
- Crackers with cheese
- Whole-grain toast with peanut butter
- Frozen waffle with vanilla yogurt and fruit
- Applesauce sprinkled with wheat germ or granola
- Tortilla with cheese and salsa
- ½-bagel with peanut butter or cream cheese
- Low sugar cereal with milk
- Smoothie made with milk, banana and frozen fruit