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Easy Lunch Ideas

ByJenn Giam Smith

Last year, I shared a “mini-series” of lunch ideas on Instagram with ecozoi. Today I’m sharing all of them in one place for easy reference!

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The ecozoi canvas lunch bag, and my stanley flip and go water bottle sitting on the passenger front seat.
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Last year I did a mini-lunch ideas “series” on Instagram with Ecozoi. Today I decided I would share those lunches here for ease of finding. Make sure you check back here because I will make sure to update this with more lunches as I make them!

This was also a popular one by my followers, so rest assured, as I’m making lunches… you will see more of these images/videos pop up on my Instagram as well. So make sure you’re following me.

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Although you’ll see mostly the Ecozone lunch boxes in this post, I’m sharing all of my favorite lunch items for our family. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll see that we use an assortment of lunch boxes and lunch bags (they’re kind of like water bottles for other moms; don’t ask me why. I just love a good lunch box.).

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Include the Kids

DISCLOSURE: These tips are generalized, and meant to be suggestive. Everything I’m sharing I do with my kids, and they are all different even within my own five. So please take these as suggestions or ideas and if you think your child needs more or less help, then go with what you and your child are comfortable with. Ultimately, you know your kids, do what YOU think is best.

  • Depending on the child’s age and capabilities, they can help with cooking/heating up, and cutting.
  • They can all put their items in their boxes.
  • Most kids can help with cutting cheese thanks to my handy dandy discovery… the butter slicer!
Butter slicer after cutting cheese

Check out this video for details. ⬇︎

Kids can also help (at any age) by putting the food in the lunch box themselves. I love to do this and give a little ownership to the kids on what they’re eating.

Lunch Ideas

Every one of these ideas have been shared on Instagram first. So there is also a link to the reels/post that I originally shared.

Leftover Chinese Food

Finished Leftover Chinese food lunch in an Ecozoi Tin and Lunch bag behind.

What’s in the lunch:

Chinese stir-fry green beans (I add bacon to mine)
Pork Pot Stickers
Rice (It’s a darker color because I heated it in the same pan as the green beans, so the rice has all kinds of extra yummy)
Soy Sauce for dipping.

As Seen on Instagram

The Easy Taco Lunch

Image of a finished taco lunch in an ecozoi 5-compartment lunch box. Each compartment has the following: Street Size flour tortilla shells, taco meat, shredded lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, and diced tomatoes.

What’s in the lunch:

As Seen on Instagram

Healthy Lunch

What’s in the lunch:

As Seen on Instagram

Pizza snackers

Pizza Snacker lunch includes tomatoes, pepperoni, shredded wheat crackers, fresh mozzarella cheese, and grapes in the 5-compartment ecozoi lunch tin.

What’s in the lunch:

  • Garlic @triscuit (shredded wheat crackers)
  • @belgioiosocheese Sliced Mozzarella (I quartered them to fit the crackers)
  • Deli Sliced Pepperoni also quartered to fit the crackers, you could also grab smaller pepperoni)
  • Grape tomatoes halved (I like the color from the medley, but simple red ones are totally fine)
  • optional fresh Basil Leaves (I add these the next morning so they don’t brown)
  • Optional fruit/dessert – I did grapes this time

See the image below for how they look assembled…

pizza snackers put together and sitting on bamboo cutting board.

As Seen on Instagram

Buffalo Chicken Quesadilla

Quessadilla lunch in the 5-compartment Lunch tin by ecozoi. it features rice, lettuce, tomatoes, the quessadilla sliced into 4 slices, and a tin of ranch dressing.

What’s in the lunch:

As Seen on Instagram

Upgraded Sandwich Lunch/Snack

Image shows a lunch idea that I actually used as a snack for my kids when I picked them up. The lunch includes: the bottom tin (1 full compartment) a ham sandwich (with lettuce and tomato) cut in half in the diagonal, in the 3 compartment tier there are sliced carrots with ranch in the largest compartment, cheese curds and kielbasa sliced in the two smaller compartments. In the last tier (1 full compartment) there is Preztel chips and Sabra hummus (the hummus is in an oval shaped tin that includes a lid).

What’s in the lunch:

  • ham sandwich (with lettuce and tomato)
  • sliced carrots with ranch dressing
  • cheese curds from Westby Creamery
  • kielbasa sliced
  • Pretzel chips and Sabra hummus

As Seen on Instagram

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Did you try it, have questions?

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My name is Jenn, I'm wife to a true blue Wisconsin Man and mom of 5. I'm here sharing my passion for food, craft, family, & life (especially my love of Wisconsin)! I grew up in a food-oriented family. Most of my recipes are a mix of fun and easy (sometimes fast), and when I can... I add a bit of my family's Chinese-American-European roots.

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