Filling lunchboxes each day with healthy and homemade food can be a big job, but it is possible with a little planning and preparation. We’ve set a back to school baking challenge for you – 10 recipes from Simple Home Cook and Be a Fun Mum over 7 days. At the end of the week, you will have a freezer full of sweet and savoury homebakes that you can pop in the lunch box each morning. Simply buy the items on the shopping list below, click on the recipe and start baking… The school holidays are the perfect time to complete this challenge, although you can do it any time throughout the year when the freezer needs to be topped up with yummy snacks.
- For more lunch box ideas and tips you can browse the blog here: Lunch Box Recipe, Ideas & Tips.
- To read about Kelly’s lunch box system, click here: Establishing a Lunch Box System.
- Print a list of 100 lunch box ideas here: 100 Lunch Box Ideas.
Back to school baking menu
Day 1 – Oat and Bran Cookies
You can find the recipe here: Oat and Bran Cookies
Day 2 – Muesli Slice
This muesli slice is nut free so perfect for school: Nut Free Muesli Slice
Day 3 – Banana and Blueberry Muffins
Recipe here: Banana and Blueberry Muffins
Day 4 – Chocolate and Chickpea Brownies & Choc and Zucchini Muffins (refined sugar free)
Kids will never know there are chickpeas in this recipe: Chocolate and Chickpea Brownies
People keep coming back for this muffin recipe because it’s so good: Choc Zucchini Muffins
Day 5 – Quick and Easy Cinnamon Scrolls & Vegemite Scrolls
One of the most popular recipes on the blog and there’s a good reason why: Quick and Easy Cinnamon Scrolls
Using similar ingredients, you can also make a savoury option: Vegemite and Cheese Pull-Apart
Day 6 – Lemon Cake Balls & Apricot Balls
These are perfect little treats for the lunchbox. They freeze well and you can put them straight in the lunch box: Lemon Cake Balls
A healthier option: Apricot Balls
Day 7 – Pizza Scrolls
Make your own delicious Pizza Scrolls
School Baking Shopping List
The ingredients needed for this baking are broken up into different categories: staple items that are probably already in the pantry and other items required. Please note, there are some approximate guides next to some items to give an indication of quantity. If no number is noted, under 2 cups is required.
Staple Pantry Items
- Plain Flour (2 kg)
- Self Raising Flour (3 kg)
- Wholemeal Self Raising Flour
- Rolled oats (3 cups)
- Cocoa powder
- Icing sugar
- Bicarbonate of soda
- Caster Sugar
- Honey
- Vegemite
- Tomato Sauce
- Mixed Spice
- Cinnamon
- Desiccated Coconut (3 cups)
- Brown Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Salt
- Olive Oil
Other Pantry Items
- Bran Cereal
- Sultanas
- Sunflower Seeds (optional)
- Dried Apricots
- Rice Bubbles
- Chickpeas (1 can 400g)
- Maple Syrup
- Dark Chocolate (200 grams)
- Choc Chips (optional)
- Condensed Milk (1 tin 400g)
- Skim Milk Powder
- Dry Yeast (1 Sachet)
- Milk Arrowroot Biscuits (1 pkt)
Dairy
- Butter (3 x 250 grams)
- Grated Cheese (2 cups)
- Sour Cream
- Milk
- Natural Greek yoghurt (4 cups)
Fresh Items/Fruit/Vegetables
- Eggs (7)
- Bananas (2)
- Zucchini (1 large)
- Lemon (1-2)
- Bacon Bits (200g)
- Frozen Blueberries
Other Useful Items
- Patty cake liners (silicone or paper)
- Baking paper (for baking and to line baking items in containers)
- Freezer friendly plastic containers
You can print this list in a PDF version here.
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