Packing lunches every morning gets old fast, especially when you're trying to skip the pre-packaged stuff. These three easy lunch ideas for kids all start with ingredients you already keep on hand, and each one uses raw honey as the sweetener, so there's no added-sugar mystery in the lunchbox.
Raw honey is unheated and unfiltered, so it keeps the flavor of the flowers the bees actually visited. A little goes a long way, and one jar covers all three of these ideas for weeks of lunches.
1. Honey & Peanut Butter Sandwich
The classic. Spread peanut butter on one slice of bread and drizzle raw honey over it before closing the sandwich. The honey soaks into the peanut butter instead of making the bread soggy, which matters when lunch sits in a backpack until noon.
2. Honey, Greek Yogurt & Blueberries
Spoon Greek yogurt into a small container, top with fresh blueberries, and drizzle with honey. Pack it with an ice pack and it stays cold until lunch. If you want to lean into the berry flavor, use blueberry raw honey.
3. Honey & Cream Cheese Crackers
Spread cream cheese on crackers, add a small drizzle of honey, and top each one with a second cracker to make little sandwiches. Stacking them keeps the honey off everything else in the lunchbox.
All three take under five minutes, with things you most likely have on hand.
Keep a jar of raw honey in the cupboard, and you've got a healthy, all natural sweetener covered for the whole school year.Â
Crystal's Raw Honey is a third-generation family beekeeping farm, with hives across the U.S. We focus on regional, single-varietal raw honey, unheated and unfiltered, so every jar carries the real taste and health benefits of where it was made.
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