Primal Lunchboxes. A picture blog!

Hello! Creating Primal Lunchboxes was really hard in the beginning.  In the past the sandwich comprised the major component, but with bread off the menu what the hell was I meant to send?  I have taken pictures of my kids lunchboxes most nights since school went back. I am just a Mum who is doing the primal thing for herself and family, I ain't no dietician.  This is just what I do.  I am sharing because I hope I help you to come up with some ideas for lunchboxes that are easy to prepare and doable to that your kids can benefit from eating primaly during the day and still fitting in.  The pink box is for my daughter and the orange is my son's.  You can see they get slightly different things as they have different preferences, they are individuals after all and it's no dramas accommodating the two.  My husband always takes leftover dinners or a big kick ass salad with some bits from the fridge, fruit, Kombucha and a cookie.

 

When I am making the lunchboxes I think:

 

veggies - what is cheap and in season

protein

fat

 

which is what they need and then I add something sweet too.  Our school is nut free so I make the cookies by replacing the almond meal with coconut flour.  Milly shares fruit in class but Sam's box is all he has all day.  Most of Milly's gets eaten but she is new to full time school and often may be too busy or anxious yet to eat the whole lot.  Sam nearly always eats all of it.  They go off to school on a cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon, gluten free toast or sourdough and avocado etc.

 

 

 

Sausage, carrot, tomatoes, olives, gelatine lolly, organic yoghurt,  Baby bel (she asked for em) seed crackers

Leftover butter chicken with coconut rice and coriander, chopped apple, carrots, tomatoes, lollies and a cookie

Lollies, banana bread, cooked chicken, organic yoghurt, plum, carrot, tomatoes

Pole and line caught Tuna in olive oil, apple, carrot, tomato, cookie, GMO gluten free corn chips - look, they are not ideal but every Mum needs a lunchbox filler she can turn to

Organic yogurt, capsicum, lettuce, leftover Shipleys Sausage, piece of organic cheese, cookie, grapes, bluberries

Quiche with a squeeze of GF tomato sauce, carrot, tomato, cucumber, organic yogurt, strawberries, blueberries, cookie

Quiche, banana, organic yogurt, carrot, blueberries, cucumber, tomato, cookie

Organic yoghurt, leftover Sunday pancake buttered, half an avocado, cookie, strawbs, blueberries

Non GMO GF Corn chips, strawbs, blueberries, carrot sausage

Berries, organic yoghurt, chicken, carrot, tomato, buttered paleo fruit bread

Plum, organic yoghurt, meatballs on zoodles, cookie

Cookie, chicken curry on cauliflower rice, cucumber, carrot, apple

Sow stall free GF salami, cookie, non GMO GF corn chips, buttered banana bread.

The baking I do is high in good fats such as coconut oil or butter and low in coconut sugar and gluten free. 

So what do you think?  There seems to be some repetition but I guess that reflects seasonal veg and also fruit that will travel well or is desired e.g. green apples even though not in season yet.  I would love to see your pictures of what your lunchboxes look like!  Please do share!!