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
Pencil waffle sandwiches
2 freezer waffles, toasted
1 piece of whole wheat bread
1 strawberry, washed and sliced
Peanut butter, for dipping or spreading on the waffle
¼ cup chocolate chips, melted with 1/4 tsp coconut oil
Hungry caterpillar apples
1 green apple, washed and cored, then cut into half slices
1 strawberry
Blueberries
S’mores energy bites
3 sheets honey graham crackers
2 cups rolled oats, if using a food processor. If not using a food processor, replace with 1 cup oats plus 2 tbsp oat flour
½ cup almond butter
6 tbsp pure maple syrup
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp fine sea salt
⅓ cup chocolate chips
⅓ cup mini vegan marshmallows
Pencil waffle sandwiches
1Take your waffles and cut into rectangular shapes. Cut your whole wheat toast into mini triangles. Add a strawberry slice at the top to resemble an eraser. Using a piping pen, add some chocolate to the tip of the triangular piece of bread.
Hungry caterpillar apples
2Shape your green apple slices into the body of a caterpillar. Cut off the stem of your strawberry and add it to the right of the apple slices to resemble a face. We also added a face pick to our strawberry. Surround with blueberries.
S’mores energy bites
3Into a blender, pulse the graham crackers, oats, almond butter, pure maple syrup, vanilla and salt together until the mixture is sticky.
** If not using a blender, then add all ingredients together in a large ball and mix well.
4Add in the chocolate chips and mini marshmallows and mix together.
5
Using your hands, shape into balls. Store in the fridge or freezer and enjoy!
Ingredients
Pencil waffle sandwiches
2 freezer waffles, toasted
1 piece of whole wheat bread
1 strawberry, washed and sliced
Peanut butter, for dipping or spreading on the waffle
¼ cup chocolate chips, melted with 1/4 tsp coconut oil
Hungry caterpillar apples
1 green apple, washed and cored, then cut into half slices
1 strawberry
Blueberries
S’mores energy bites
3 sheets honey graham crackers
2 cups rolled oats, if using a food processor. If not using a food processor, replace with 1 cup oats plus 2 tbsp oat flour
½ cup almond butter
6 tbsp pure maple syrup
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp fine sea salt
⅓ cup chocolate chips
⅓ cup mini vegan marshmallows
Directions
Pencil waffle sandwiches
1Take your waffles and cut into rectangular shapes. Cut your whole wheat toast into mini triangles. Add a strawberry slice at the top to resemble an eraser. Using a piping pen, add some chocolate to the tip of the triangular piece of bread.
Hungry caterpillar apples
2Shape your green apple slices into the body of a caterpillar. Cut off the stem of your strawberry and add it to the right of the apple slices to resemble a face. We also added a face pick to our strawberry. Surround with blueberries.
S’mores energy bites
3Into a blender, pulse the graham crackers, oats, almond butter, pure maple syrup, vanilla and salt together until the mixture is sticky.
** If not using a blender, then add all ingredients together in a large ball and mix well.
4Add in the chocolate chips and mini marshmallows and mix together.
5
Using your hands, shape into balls. Store in the fridge or freezer and enjoy!
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