5 Weekly Lunchbox Recipe Ideas for Elementary School Kids

It is recommended to prepare a weekly lunchbox plan for your elementary school children with varied menus to prevent boredom. It must be noted that preparing healthy menus for elementary student lunchboxes holds many benefits, such as fulfilling their daily nutrient intake.

Children are different from adults, as they tend to choose foods that look visually appealing. Therefore, you need creativity if you want to prepare a lunchbox for your child. Read the article below for recommended recipes of healthy lunchboxes for primary school students.

Lunchbox Recipes for Elementary School Students for A Week

To maintain a good dietary pattern, it is recommended to prepare lunchboxes for your children at school. This way, you can guarantee their nutrient intake. As previously explained, try to create menu variations to prevent them from getting bored with your menus.. Here is the recommended list of recipes you can prepare for your children:

1. Rainbow Fried Rice

The first recipe is rainbow fried rice. This food is suitable as a lunchbox menu since it has an interesting look. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of rice.
• ½ red bell pepper, finely chopped.
• 1 green onion, chopped.
• 50 grams of chicken fillet, diced.
• 1 cup of mixed vegetables.
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
• 1 egg.
• 1½ tsp of soy sauce.
• 2 tsp of sweet soy sauce.
• 1 tbsp of tomato sauce.
• ¼ tsp of salt.
• 1 tbsp of olive oil.

How to cook:

1. Saute garlic until it’s fragrant.
2. Put in chicken, paprika and green onion. Saute them until the chicken is brown.
3. Put in mix veggies, saute and put it aside in the pan.
4. Put in the egg and scramble it.
5. Add in soy sauce, salty soy sauce, tomato sauce, and salt as per the above measurement.
6. Put in the rice, saute them together until cooked.

2. Potato Croquettes

To avoid boredom, you can replace rice in the lunchbox with other foods that contain carbohydrates, such as potatoes. One of the recipes for potatoes is potato croquette. This food can also be combined with vegetables and meat to fulfill children’s nutrient intake. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 500 grams potatoes, boiled, peeled, and mashed.
• 100 grams carrots, diced and boiled.
• 200 grams peeled shrimp, finely chopped.
• 2 tbsp of margarine.
• 1 onion, roughly chopped.
• 2 tbsp of oyster sauce.
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped.
• 2 tbsp of fish sauce.
• 1 egg.
• 5 tbsp of flour.

How to cook:

1. Heat the pan and put in margarine. Saute bombay, carrot, and shrimp until cooked.
2. Mix the sauteed mixture with potatoes, oyster sauce, and fish sauce. Stir evenly.
3. Shape the mixture into small croquettes or desired shapes.
4. Put the dough into the flour, egg afterwards, and back to the flour.
5. Fry the croquette dough until they turn golden brown.

3. Chicken Dumplings

Dumplings are one of the most popular snacks in Indonesia. This snack is well-liked by adults and children. Here is the recipe for chicken dumplings:

Ingredients:

• 250 grams chicken fillet, minced.
• 1 block of tofu, mashed.
• 2 cloves of garlic, mashed.
• 2 green onions, finely chopped.
• 1½ tbsp of fish sauce.
• 3 tsp of sesame oil.
• 1½ tsp of salt.
• ¾ tsp of pepper.
• 2 tsp of sugar.
• 150 grams of sago flour.
• 50 ml warm water.
• 20 dumpling wrappers.
• 1 banana leaf.

How to cook:

1. Create the dumpling fillings by mixing chicken, garlic, green onion, sesame oil, salt, sugar, pepper, and fish sauce. Mix evenly.
2. Add a bit of water and stir evenly. Pour in sago flour and mix evenly again.
3. Take a sheet of the dumpling and put in the filling, fold afterwards.
4. Spread a bit of oil on the banana leaf, put in the filled dumplings on the leaf. Steam in moderate heat for 15 minutes.

4. Crispy Fried Fish

Fish is one of the ingredients with high content of protein, which is good to be consumed by children during their growth. Here is the recipe for crispy fried fish you can try:

Ingredients:

• 400 grams dory fillet, cut into finger-length pieces.
• ½ tsp of lime juice.
• ¾ tsp of salt.
• ⅛ tsp of pepper.
• 500 ml of cooking oil.
• 50 grams of creamer.
• 270 grams of low-protein flour.
• 250 ml of ice water.
• ½ tsp of baking powder.

How to cook:

1. Smear the fish with salt, pepper, and lime juice. Store in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Create a marination by mixing the creamer, flour, pepper, ice water, and salt.
3. After 30 minutes, take out the fish and let it cool until it reaches room temperature.
4. Heat oil in the pan. Put the fish into the marination mixture, afterwards to the layering mixture consisting of flour, baking powder, and salt. Fry until it turns golden brown.

5. Fruit Salad

Fruits are good sources of vitamins and minerals for health. Therefore, you can prepare fruit salad as a side dish for the lunchbox menu. Here is how to cook fruit salad:

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of papaya, diced.
• 250 grams of strawberries, halved.
• 250 grams of melon, diced.
• 250 grams of watermelon, diced.
• 100 grams of grapes, halved.
• 300 grams of mayonnaise.
• 3 tsp of lime juice.
• ¼ tsp of salt.
• 100 grams of creamer.

How to cook:

1. Prepare a container and mix the papaya, strawberry, melon, watermelon, and grape.
2. Add in mayonnaise, creamer, lime juice, and salt. Stir evenly.

This concludes the information about lunchbox menus for your primary school children for a week. Aside from preparing lunchbox menus for your children, do not forget to add in mineral drinking water since children’s body fluid decreases during activities at school. 

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