Healthy Homemade Lunch-in-a-Pack
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Make this quick and delicious homemade lunchable for your child’s first day back to school. It will be a treat for them and you know they’ll be eating healthy. You could also make one for yourself!
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- Prep time
- 10 min
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- Servings
- 1 Servings
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- Serving size
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1 lunchable
Ingredients
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chocolate cheerios
- 1/4 cup
- 59 g
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mini-pretzels (or pretzel sticks broken into 1-inch pieces)
- 1/4 cup
- 59 g
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peanuts
- 1 tbsp
- 15 g
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celery sticks (4 inches each)
- 2
- 2
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hummus
- 2 tsp
- 10 g
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lower sodium deli-style turkey breast (cut each slice into 4 pieces)
- 3 (1-oz) slices
- 3 (1-oz) slices
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reduced fat cheddar cheese (cut into 4 squares)
- 1 slice
- 1 slice
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multi-grain crackers
- 8
- 8
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small apple (cored and sliced)
- 1
- 1
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baby carrots
- 4
- 4
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Directions
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In a small bowl, combine the cheerios, pretzels, raisins, and peanuts (if using).
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Spread 1 Tsp. hummus on each celery stalk. Using a compartmentalized plastic container, place the ham, cheese, crackers and nectarine in a separate section of the container.
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Place snack mix, carrots, and celery with hummus in a section of plastic container or in a separate container, if needed.