Welcome To Our Kitchen

Our must-haves for the new school year? 📚🚌
* A sturdy lunchbox (that even my 6 year old can’t break)🥪
* Easy-to-pack snacks 🍎
* A carefree attitude 😅 Some days, there will be time (and energy!) for cute, themed lunches… and other days, the freezer stash will be our lunchbox hero. 🧇🍏

What’s in our lunchbox??
✏️ Pencil waffle sandwiches (using peanut butter as the spread). If not going the themed route, we just send in waffles without shaping them.
🐛 Hungry caterpillar apples (our kids dip the fruit into peanut butter)
🔥 S’mores energy bites (using almond butter as the base)… these are no-bake and store in the freezer as an easy grab and go make-ahead snack

Did you know that spinach is one of the most zinc-rich veggies? Zinc is important for many bodily functions such as strengthening your immune system (helping you fight a cold) + aiding in wound healing (for all those bruised knees). 🍃 These pancakes are made with clean simple ingredients like oats, spinach + bananas, and come together quickly in a blender. Not feelin that spinach?? Don’t worry! You can’t even taste it… the result is sweet caramelized banana pancakes (that happen to have green specks in them 😉)

These kid-friendly vegetarian quinoa bites can be made three ways: baking in a muffin tin, frying into patties, or using an ebelskiver pan to make round balls (view all options in the photo gallery at the bottom of the recipe page). Either way, the end result is a delicious, protein-, veggie-, and calcium-packed meal that will have the kids coming back for more!

All the flavor of pizza with none of the crust. These bake in a muffin tray with cooked quinoa, chopped spinach and marinara, and they hold together well enough to go into a lunchbox cold the next morning. One tray makes twelve, which in this house lasts about two days.

Let them cool in the liners before you lift them out. I have learned that one the hard way.

It felt like summer weather this week in NY while the kids had spring break, and we’re celebrating with a fun warm weather back-to-school lunchbox idea!

☀️ Although summer is here, it’s never too early to start planning for back to school! ✏️ Sawyer is starting pre-k this year, and that means our little boy will join his big sister with taking lunchboxes to school! 🥳 💡 My biggest tip for new lunchbox packers is to 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝓁𝓊𝒹𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝒹𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈! Not only will it encourage them to eat their meals better in school, but it will also make your life a bit less hectic too! 🎒 My kids love to get involved by cutting their fruits + veggies with kid safe knives, portioning out foods, and making designs out of their meals. 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐡/𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐞/𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐞/𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦.

Nothing makes life easier than semi-homemade meals! Today's lunchbox consists of cauliflower mac and cheese, cheddar broccoli quinoa muffins, and carrot cake breakfast cookies!

My favorite veggie to sneak into the kids' lunches is spinach because its mild flavor is always masked by whatever it's combined with. My daughter LOVES grilled cheese and cheese quesadillas, so I always put spinach inside to get in extra nutrients. We've also made these quesadillas with scrambled cheesy eggs + spinach, and she always gobbles them up!

If you’re looking for an easy, high-protein snack made with minimal ingredients, these 2 ingredient cottage cheese chips are about to be on repeat. They’re crispy, salty, and come together with just cottage cheese and seasoning- no flour, no fuss.

Perfect for a quick snack, lunchbox addition, or a better-for-you chip alternative, these bake up golden and crunchy with that everything bagel flavor you already love.

Start your mornings with these easy, protein-packed Veggie Egg Muffins! Loaded with fresh vegetables and fluffy eggs, they’re a quick and wholesome option the whole family will love. Perfect for busy weekdays, these muffins can be made ahead of time, stored in the fridge, and reheated in seconds for a nutritious grab-and-go breakfast.

Cooked quinoa is the trick here. It gives these energy bites a bit of chew that oats on their own never manage, and it stretches the peanut butter further so they are not quite as rich. No baking, no food processor, one bowl.

They set in the freezer in a couple of hours and keep there for weeks. This is what I hand over when someone announces they are starving fifteen minutes before dinner.

These no-bake frozen yogurt treats are about to become your new favorite snack! Made with wholesome yogurt, fresh fruit, and pure maple syrup or honey, these frozen yogurt treats are then dipped in sweet white chocolate, making it the perfect red, white, and blue dessert this Fourth of July!