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
Toasted freezer waffles trimmed into a pencil shape, peanut butter as the spread, a sliced strawberry at the top and melted chocolate for the tip. On a normal morning we skip the shaping and send the waffles in as they are.
Hungry Caterpillar Apples
Green apple slices lined up with berries so they look like a caterpillar, with peanut butter on the side for dipping. This is the one the kids help with.
S’mores Energy Bites
No-bake, almond butter based, and they live in the freezer. Grab two on the way out the door on the mornings that got away from you.
Pencil waffle sandwiches
2freezer waffles, toasted
1piece of whole wheat bread
1strawberry, washed and sliced
Peanut butter, for dipping or spreading on the waffle
¼cupchocolate chips, melted with 1/4 tsp coconut oil
Hungry caterpillar apples
1green apple, washed and cored, then cut into half slices
1strawberry
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
1
Take 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
2
Shape 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
3
Into 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.
4
Add 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!
Peanut butter, for dipping or spreading on the waffle
¼cupchocolate chips, melted with 1/4 tsp coconut oil
Hungry caterpillar apples
1green apple, washed and cored, then cut into half slices
1strawberry
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
1
Take 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
2
Shape 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
3
Into 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.
4
Add 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!
