Fact Sheet

Creative lunchbox ideas

Looking for some new ideas to beat the boomerang sandwich (the sandwich that leaves home in the lunchbox and returns again untouched)? Check out our tips below to create tasty, exciting and healthy lunchboxes!

Snack Ideas

  • Slice of banana bread or a fruit scone
  • Pita crisps with hummus
  • Vegetable dippers (capsicum, celery, carrot, cucumber, baby corn spears) with choice of dips (hummus, beetroot, salsa)
  • Fruit salad tub
  • Vegie piklets  
  • Apple slice or scroll
  • Reduced fat yoghurt yoghurt pouch or tub
  • Corn on the cob
  • Popcorn mix
  • Hard boiled eggs
  • Reduced fat cheese cubes or sticks 
  • Wholegrain crackers or crispbread with reduced fat cheese
  • Ants on a log

Beyond the sandwich

Don’t forget!  

– To keep food cool, place a frozen water bottle in the lunchbox or use an insulated lunchbox
– Store packed lunchboxes in the fridge overnight

For more lunchbox ideas and inspiration check out the recipes on the website at www.actnss.org/recipes 

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