Packing Green Lunches For St. Patrick's Day

Create St. Patrick's day fun for your little Leprechaun hunting kids by packing or serving them a GREEN lunch.

Green Lunch Ideas:

Main dish:
Bagel with Green Cream cheese (food coloring)
Sandwich with Green dyed homemade bread
Pasta with Green pesto sauce
Pasta with green Alfredo sauce ( food coloring)
peanut butter w/green apple jelly


Green Veggies:

Broccoli

Asparagus

Lettuce

Green beans

Peas

Celery
Cucumbers
Green Snap peas
edamame
Pickles


Green Fruits:
Green apples
Green Grapes
Kiwi
Honey Dew melon


Green Sweets and Treats:
Bag of Green Sour Skittles
Bag of Green Wonka Spree's
Green Frosted cookies or cupcakes
Green Lime jell-o
Green pistachio pudding
Green Trix Yogurt ( strawberry/kiwi)
Lime sherbet
Green rice krispie treats ( food coloring)
Green fruit roll up
Green M&M's
Green Bag of Chips
Green Fishy Crackers


Color to make Green: (using food coloring):
Mayo
Cream Cheese
Home made bread

Green Drinks:

Green container of Apple juice box

Smoothies - (food coloring)

Milk ( food coloring)

Green Sport Drink

And don't forget the Green Napkin, straw, plastic ware, green lunch sack and green note from you.

Happy St. Patrick's day.

Fun School Lunch Packing Ideas

Add some Fun and Creativity with these school lunch packing ideas

- DIY Containers - Save your yogurt containers - wash them thoroughly then us to fill with liquid Jell-O or pudding mixture (before it sets), place lid back on and refrigerate. Now you have you individual snack-sized Jell-O or pudding at a fraction of the cost for your kiddos lunches..

- Colored fun - Add colored fun to your child's lunch by using colored plastic wraps. Or during the holiday's use special zipper-type bags, and napkins that are in holiday themes.

- Write it - Each day include a short note to your child. Anything that shows them you love them and you are thinking of them will show your child you care. For free lunch box cards Click here for FREE lunch box notes.

- YOU Win - Surprise your kids with a prize like they get when they order at fast food restaurants.. It can be as simple as stickers, small candy treat or a small toy.

- Change it - use colored lunch bags instead of the typical brown bags or lunch box they take every day.

- Cut it shape it - have fun with your kiddos sandwiches by cutting the sandwich into interesting shapes or cut with cookie cutters.

- S'more for lunch - Cook-free S'Mores: Spread Marshmallow Cream (fluff) on one graham cracker square, then spread nutella on the other, and press together and place in a zippered sandwich size bag and place in your kids lunch box. What a fun yummy treat.

What fun do you ad to your kids lunches?