Comprehensive Recipe: Back-To-School Meal Prep

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This video showcases a variety of easy and fun back-to-school recipes perfect for meal prepping. From creative lunches like turkey pinwheels and build-your-own pizzas to homemade snacks like cheese crackers and cereal bars, these ideas are designed to make school meals exciting and delicious for kids.

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Cooking Time
Approximately 1-2 hours for a full week's meal prep
Difficulty
easy
Servings
Approximately 4-5 lunch servings plus snacks

🍳 Cooking Flow

【Lunches】Prep fruits and veggies. Assemble various wraps, pinwheels, pasta salads, and build-your-own kits using pre-cooked proteins. → 【Snacks】Make cereal bars by mixing cereal with a honey-peanut butter binder, pressing into a pan, and freezing. Bake cheese crackers from a simple dough of cheese, butter, flour, and water. → 【After-School Treats】Create fruit leather by blending fruit, baking the purée at a low temperature for hours, and rolling into strips. → 【After-School Treats】Make popsicles by blending fruit with yogurt and milk, then freezing in cups with sticks.

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Ingredients List

Flour Tortillas:as needed
Whole Wheat Tortillas:as needed
Mustard:to taste
Cheddar Cheese Slices:as needed
Turkey Slices:as needed
Provolone Cheese Slices:2 per wrap
Shredded Mozzarella Cheese:as needed
Shredded Cheese Blend:1/4 cup
Diced Ham:1/2 cup
Diced Turkey:1/2 cup
Rotisserie Chicken, shredded:1 whole chicken
Hard-boiled Eggs:as needed
Marinara Sauce:as needed
Bow Tie Pasta:1 lb
Pesto:to taste
Fresh Mozzarella Balls:as needed
Italian Dressing:5 tbsp total
Nut/Sunflower Butter:as needed
Jelly:as needed
Ranch Dressing:2 tbsp
Greek Yogurt:3 tbsp
Lettuce:as needed
Cherry Tomatoes:as needed
Bell Pepper:as needed
Cucumber:1/4 cup
Celery:1/4 cup + 2 tbsp
Black Olives:1/4 cup
Carrots, julienned:1/4 cup
Onion, diced:1 tbsp + 2 tbsp
Apple, diced:2 tbsp
Spanish Rice, cooked:1/4 cup
Black Beans:1/4 cup
Mild Salsa:1/4 cup
Honey:1/2 cup
Peanut Butter:1/4 cup
Toasted Oat Cereal:3 cups
Yogurt Chips:1 cup total
Almonds, chopped:1/2 cup
Dried Cranberries:1/2 cup
Shredded Cheddar Cheese:8 oz
Butter, softened:4 tbsp
All-Purpose Flour:1 cup
Ice Water:2 tbsp
Salt:1 tsp
Strawberries:3 cups
Kiwis:1 cup
Sugar:3 tbsp
Lemon Juice:1 tbsp
Mixed Berries, frozen:2 cups
Banana:1
Yogurt:1/4 cup
Milk:1 cup

Important Notes

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Meal prepping saves time during busy school mornings and helps ensure kids have a healthy and delicious lunch.

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A great tip for sliced apples is to reassemble the apple and secure it with a rubber band to prevent browning.

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Using cupcake liners in lunch containers is a great way to separate ingredients for 'build-your-own' style meals like tacos or pizzas.

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Involving kids in the cooking process, like mixing or pressing down cereal bars, can make food more fun for them.

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Don't forget to add a fun, encouraging note to your child's lunchbox to brighten their day!

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For a cold pack, you can freeze a juice box or water bottle and add it to the lunch bag.

📺Channel:Tasty
👀Views:5,647,419
👍Likes:69,176
📅Published:8/21/2018

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