I should be thinking of lunches with leaves or maybe pumpkins, but I am still creating kids lunches with that are apple filled. Our recent trip to an apple orchard has filled our house to the brim with apples. Apples have been appearing during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Oh! and sometimes snacks. I hope you will like this apples for kids lunch Bento.
This lunch contains several of the things that were leftover from my apple recipe experiments. The applesauce actually isn’t homemade. JDaniel has been dying to help me make some, but we haven’t had a chance between school, soccer and swimming. I did use red sugar to create an apple on top of the applesauce.
The apple chips are something we have made several times this fall. I share the recipe for them last week. They spend a lot of time in the oven, but take every little time to make. JDaniel was thrilled to find them in lunch.I found a wonderful recipe for turkey meatballs in a Taste of Home magazine that had apples in them. I followed the recipe almost completely. Instead of using turkey stuffing along with the egg, ground turkey, grated apple I used cornbread stuffing.
JDaniel complained that the meatballs were to spicy so, I gave him cup of apple jelly to dip the meatballs into. Apple jelly is really bland. It coated the spiciness of the meatballs and made them something JDaniel enjoyed having in his lunch. We will have to try using dips with other foods that a deemed spicy.
You will find more apple themed ideas on my Apples board on Pinterest. There are more Bento ideas for kids lunch on my Bento Lunch board.
Here are some other wonderful apples ideas:
I need to make applesauce from ours too. It’s easy, but just a little time consuming because of peeling coring the apples (even though we have a tool to do this).
My sister’s like that. She thinks salt is spicy.
We really can’t get enough of apples lately. Apples and honey. Apples and peanut butter. Apples in shapes. Apples baked into mini pies!
What a great fall lunch!
OOoooh, homemade apple chips sound delicious!! I love this time of year and it’s apple-y bounty!! 🙂 —Lisa
What a fantastic healthy lunch! We really need to incorporate more fruit into our diet. We usually just eat apples raw, and I am not a big fan of having them in salads…
We just had homemade applesauce tonight with dinner that came from our apple trees! Yum!! 🙂
What a beautiful lunch!
Love this lunch.. hope it’s okay I included in Monday’s Apple picking post on my blog! 🙂
We had apple tress in our yard growing up and I loved homemade applesauce!
i LOVE apple chips!!!
YUMMY
thanks for reminding me 😉
No apple dishes, sadly -unless you count cooked apples on top of waffles.
YUM.
You are the apple goddess! Seriously!
We just eat apples – plain and simple. We are so boring.