Lunchbox Ideas Part 4

Roti John & Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins

Recipe:
Roti John - Mix spiced minced beef with eggs in a small bowl. Pour onto a non-stick pan. Cut bread roll in half (lengthwise) and layer on top of the eggs mixture in the pan (make sure you put the bread roll before the eggs is completely cook, otherwise it won't stick to the bread). Once eggs cooked, flip the bread roll. Once done, spread some mayonnaise before closing the bread with another half of it. 

Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins - recipe from Tastefully Julie

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cook minced beef with spices and freeze or refrigerate.
Bake muffins.
On the day - Cook roti john.

Nutella Swirl Banana Muffin & Ikea Currypuff

Recipe:
Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins - recipe from Tastefully Julie

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Bake muffins.

On the day - Reheat muffin and currypuff.

Nuggets, Currypuffs & Donut

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here
Curry puff and donut - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze
On the day - Fry nuggets and curry puff

Hotdog Roll and Koko Krunch

Recipe:
Hotdog- recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare hotdog and freeze
On the day - Cook and prepare hotdog roll

Donut & Breaded Hotdog Donut

Recipe:
Donut - recipe in my blog post here
Hotdog donut make with the same donut dough then coat the shaped donut in breadcrumbs.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare donut, (half-fried) and freeze.
On the day - Fry donut.

Nuggets, Ikea Currypuff & Teddy Biscuits

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here
Ikea Curry puff - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze.
On the day - Fry nuggets and reheat curry puff

Roti John & Teddy Biscuits

Recipe:
Roti John - same method and recipe as roti john lunchbox above but using normal square bread instead.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cook minced beef with spices and freeze or refrigerate.
On the day - Cook roti john.

Chicken Burger & Chiffon Cake

Recipe:
Chicken patty - recipe in my blog post here
Chiffon cake - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare chicken patty and freeze.
On the day - Cook patty and assemble burger.

Mister Donut, Homemade Choc Chip and Keropok Lekor

Recipe:
Chocolate Chip cookies - recipe from instagrammer @kashkuisine
Donut and Keropok - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Bake cookies.
On the day - Fry keropok.

Stromboli & Chiffon Cake

Recipe:
Stromboli - recipe in my blog post here
Chiffon cake - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare stromboli, par-bake and freeze.
On the day - Bake stromboli.

Beef burger & Smiley Fries

Recipe:
Beef patty - recipe in my blog post here
Smiley Potato Fries - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare beef patty and freeze.
The day before - Make smiley fries and refrigerate (un-cooked), cook & assemble burger.
On the day - Fry smiley potato and reheat burger.

Hotdog Roll & Smiley Potato Fries

Recipe:
Hotdog - recipe in my blog post here
Smiley Potato Fries - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare hotdog and freeze.
The day before - Make smiley fries and refrigerate (un-cooked).
On the day - Fry smiley potato and prepare hotdog roll.

Pizza & Teddy Biscuits

Recipe:
Pizza dough - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare pizza dough, par-bake, put topping and freeze.
On the day - Bake Pizza.

Pepperoni Cheese Sandwich on a Stick & Swiss Roll cake

Recipe:
Sandwich roll - Lay bread in a cutting board,.With a rolling pin, roll over bread to thin it out. Layer pepperoni and cheese on top of the bread and roll it. 
Swiss roll - store-bought.

Make-ahead tips:
On the day - Prepare sandwich roll.

Nuggets & Pancakes

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here
Pancake - recipe from Martha Stewart website.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze.
The night before - Mix pancake batter and refrigerate.
On the day - Fry nuggets and cook pancake.

Burger Sandwich & Teddy Biscuits

Recipe:
Beef patty - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare beef patty and freeze.
On the day - Cook burger.

Breaded Grill Cheese Sandwich & Swiss Roll Cake

Recipe:
Sandwich - put a slice of cheese in between 2 slices of bread. Coat with eggs then breadcrumbs and put in fridge.
On the day - 

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare sandwich.
On the day - Pan fry sandwich.

Roti Paratha with Curry & Cereals

Recipe:
Paratha - storebought frozen.

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Put cereals in a small container with lid.
On the day - Cook paratha.

Macaroni Bolognese, Broccoli Nuggets & Jelly

Recipe:
Paratha - storebought frozen.

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Put cereals in a small container with lid.
On the day - Cook paratha.

Pizza Bread & Jelly

Recipe:
Pizza bread - Put cooked spiced minced beef and mozarella cheese on a bread and bake in the oven until cheese melted and bread perfectly toasted.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cook minced beef with spices and freeze or refrigerate.
The day before - Make jelly and refrigerate.
On the day - Cook roti john.

Lunchbox Ideas Part 3

Calzone & Chipsmore

Recipe:
Calzone - recipe in my blog post here
Honey bun - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekends - Prepare calzone, par-bake and freeze.
On the day - Finish baking in the oven.

Simple Fried Rice, Chicken Meatball & Honey Malted Cookies

Recipe:
Chicken meatball - recipe in my blog post here
Honey malted cookies - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekends - Prepare meatballs then freeze and bake the cookies.
On the day -  Cooked fried rice and fry meatballs.

Hotdog bun & Honey Malted Cookies

Recipe:
Honey malted cookies - recipe in my blog post here
Hotdog bun - storebought

Make-ahead tips:

Weekends - Bake the cookies.

Hotdog Roll and Sirap Bandung

Recipe:
Hotdog - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare hotdog and freeze.
The night before - Cook hotdog and prepare hotdog roll. And make sirap bandung and store in the fridge to cool.
On the day - Reheat hotdog roll in the microwave.

Breaded Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Meatballs and Brown sauce (for dippping)

Recipe:
Meatball - recipe in my blog post here
Brown sauce - Ikea instant brown sauce

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare meatball and freeze.
The night before - Assemble sandwich --> put a slice of cheese in between 2 slices of bread. Coat with eggs then breadcrumbs and put in fridge.
On the day - Pan fry sandwich and cook meatball.

Marinara Meatballs, Broccoli Nuggets & Mini Pecan Pie

Recipe:
Meatball - recipe in my blog post here
Broccoli Nugget - recipe in my blog post here
Mini Pecan Pie - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare meatball and freeze. Prepare broccoli nuggets (bake and store in fridge). Bake mini pecan pies (this was our dessert for that weekend).
The night before - Cook Marinara meatball (this was our dinner that night so I save some for Syafi's lunchbox).
On the day - Reheat broccoli nuggets in oven. Heat marinara meatball then put in a roll with cheese. Heat mini pecan pies.

Chicken Parmigiana & Cheese Breadstix

Recipe:
Chicken Parmigiana - Coat chicken with 1) flour, 2) eggs and 3) breadcrumbs. Pan fried until chicken half cookes and outer layer golden brown. Layer chicken in a oven dish, Spread pasta sauce/tomato puree on top of the chicken and sprinkles with Cheddar and parmesan cheese on top. Bake until cheese melted and chicken completely cooked.

Breadstix - using pizza dough from my blog post here
Twist the dough and sprinkles with cheese, salt and garlic powder on top.

Honey mustard sauce - recipe from food.com

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare breadstix and freeze (par-bake).
The night before - Cook Chicken parmigiana (this was our dinner meal and I cooked extra for our lunchboxes for the next day.
On the day - Reheat chicken and bake breadstix.

Pepperoni Cheese Waffled Sandwich & Choc Chip Cookies

Recipe:
Waffled Sandwich - Layer pepperoni and cheese in between 2 slices of bread. Then heat in waffle maker.
Choc Chip cookies - storebought.

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Prepare sandwich.
On the day - Heat sandwich in waffle maker.

Nuggets & Baked Donut

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here 
Honey mustard sauce - recipe from food.com
Baked donut - recipe from Baker Bettie

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze.
The night before - Bake donuts. Make ribena drinks and put in fridge to cool.
On the day - Fry nuggets.

Breakfast Streaky Beef Tortilla Pizza & Sirap Bandung

Recipe:
Pizza base using Tortilla. Topping - cheese, breakfast streaky beef and mayo.

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Layer topping on top of tortilla and refrigerate. Make sirap bandung, store in fridge to cool.
On the day - Bake tortilla pizza.

Roti Canai, Paratha & Homemade Dhal

Recipe:
Dhal - using recipe from the back of Baba's dhal powder package.
Roti canai & Paratha - instant frozen Kawan's brand.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked dhal and freeze separate small container (whenever want to use it, just take out the container and reheat).
On the day - Cook frozen roti canai.

Beef Pizza Bread

Recipe:
Pizza Bread - cooked minced beef with finely chopped onion + cumin powder + curry powder + tomato puree + shredded carrot + salt & pepper. Spread on bread and sprinkles with mozarella cheese. Then bake until cheese melted.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked minced beef with spices (I normally cooked a large batch of minced beef during weekends in advance and then keep in separate small container and freeze (This can be used for bolognese pasta, lasagna filling, pizza topping, sandwich filling, roti john filling etc). 
On the day - Spread topping on bread and bake until cheese melted.

Chicken Burger & Fries

Recipe:
Chicken patty - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare chicken patty and freeze.
On the day - Cook burger (this can be done the night before then just reheat in the morning) and fries.

Chocolate Muffin, Chicken Meatloaf and Cheese Sandwich & Cauliflower Breadstix

Recipe:
Cauliflower Breadstix - recipe from Super Healthy Kids
Skinny Double Chocolate muffins - recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction

Make-ahead tips:
The day before - Bake muffins and Cauliflower Breadstix.
On the day - Prepare sandwich and reheat muffins and Cauliflower Breadstix.

Chocolate Donut & Nuggets

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here
Donut - storebought.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze.
On the day - Fry nugget.

Mister Donut & Curry puff

Chicken curry puff - storebought frozen.
Donut - storebought.

Make-ahead tips:
On the day - Fry curry puff.

Sugar Donut & Breaded Hotdog Donut

Recipe:
Donut - recipe in my blog post here
Hotdog donut make with the same donut dough then coat the shaped donut in breadcrumbs.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare donut, (half-fried) and freeze.
On the day - Fry donut.

Choc Chip Pancake & Curry Puff

Recipe:
Pancake - recipe from Martha Stewart website
Curry puff - storebought frozen

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Prepare pancake batter and store in fridge.
On the day - Cook pancake and fry curry puffs.

Roti Canai & Dhal

Recipe:
Dhal - using recipe from the back of Baba's dhal powder package.
Roti canai - instant frozen Kawan's brand.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked dhal and freeze separate small container (whenever want to use it, just take out the container and reheat).
On the day - Cook frozen roti canai.

Beef Tortilla Pizza & Choc Chip Cookies

Recipe:
Tortilla pizza topping - spiced minced beef & mozarella. 

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked minced beef with spices (I normally cooked a large batch of minced beef during weekends in advance and then keep in separate small container and freeze (This can be used for bolognese pasta, lasagna filling, pizza topping, sandwich filling, roti john filling etc). 

On the day - Spread topping on tortilla and bake until cheese melted.

Lunchbox Ideas Part 2

Chicken Cordon Blue, Apple Jelly, Milo cookies & home-pressed Apple Juice

Recipe:
Chicken Cordon Blue - Breaded Baked chicken breast (coated with flour, egg & breadcrumbs) and filled with pepperoni & cheese slice.
Milo cookies - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips: Prepare and bake chicken in advance (the chicken was our previous night's dinner menu, I cooked extra for Syafi's next day's lunchbox).
Made jelly few days before and stored in fridge.

Pepperoni Roll bun & Chocolate Puff

Recipes: 

Pepperoni roll bun - using basic sweet dough bun recipe from Cake2u.blogspot

Chocolate puff - recipe in my blog post here 

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare bun and baked in advance and store in an airtight container

Prepare chocolate puff during weekends and stored in freezer (unbake), just need to bake it in the morning.

Beef Burger & Milo cookies

Recipes: 

Beef patty - recipe from my blog post here

Milo cookies - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare and assemble burger the night before. Just need to reheat in microwave in the morning. 

Hotdog bun, Ikea curry puff & Garret Popcorn

Recipes: 

Hotdog bun - using basic sweet dough bun recipe from Cake2u.blogspot

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare and bake bun in advance.

Instant Roti Canai with Homemade Hummus & Ikea Chocolate Muffin

Recipes: 

Hummus - recipe from food.com

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare hummus in advance, store in a closed jar and put in fridge.

Defrost frozen roti canai in fridge the night before and just need to pan fried it in the morning.

Mini Hotdog bun & Mini Donut

Recipes: 

Donut - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare donut and half fried during the weekend, stored in freezer.

Just need to fry it until golden brown in the morning.

Macaroni beef Bolognese, Chipsmore, Banana & pressed Apple juice

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare Beef bolognese sauce in advance (normally it was our dinner's meal the night before and I save some for Syafi's lunchbox). In the morning, just need to boil the macaroni.

Cheesy Mini Pizza & Oreo

Recipes: 

Cheesy Mini Pizza - using Burger bun topped with tomato puree and mozarella & cheddar cheese.

Make-ahead tips:

Top burger bun with tomato puree and cheese the night before and just bake it in the oven before packing the lunchbox.

Chicken Burger, Oreo cake pop & Banana pop

Recipes:
Chicken patty - recipe from my blog post here
Banana pop - poke ice cream wooden stick in banana and dip banana in melted chocolate then sprinkles with butterscotch chips.
Oreo cake pop - poke Oreo ice cream wooden stick in the oreo cake.

Make-ahead tips:
Prepare burger the night before. Heat in the microwave before packing in lunchbox in the morning.

Pepperoni Cheese Calzone, Banana Oatmeal Muffins & Trail Mix

Recipes:
Calzone - recipe from my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:

• Prepare calzone (half baked) during weekends. Just need to finish baking it in the oven in the morning.
• Bake muffins in advance and store in an airtight container.
• Prepare snack trail mix by mixing pretzel, fish crackers, popcorn and carrot sticks and put it in ziplock bag the night before.

Pepperoni Cheese open-faced Bagel & Chocolate Wafer

Make-ahead tips:
Top cheese and pepperoni on the bagel the night before. Bake the next morning.

Nasi Lemak with Nugget and Ikan Bilis & Milo Bar

Recipes:

Nugget - recipe from my blog post here

Milo bar - recipe from kidspot

Make-ahead tips:

Bake milo bar few days in advance and put in an airtight container.

Chicken Burger & Garret Popcorns

Recipes:
Chicken patty - recipe from my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare patty during weekends, cooked and assemble burger the night before.
Heat in the microwave before packing in lunchbox in the morning.

Lasagna and Cheese & Caramel Garret Popcorns

Make-ahead tips:
Prepare extra lasagna in a small aluminium pan when making lasagna for family's dinner/lunch and freeze it (unbake). In the morning, just need to bake it.

Homemade Stromboli & Milo cereals with Sirap Bandung

Recipes:
Stromboli - recipe from my blog here (under calzone section)

Make-ahead tips:

• Prepare stromboli (half baked) during weekends. Just need to finish baking it in the oven in the morning.
• Make sirap bandung the night before and store in fridge to cool.

Chicken Hand Pies & Chocolate Wafer

Recipes:
Chicken hand pies - Pie crust recipes from Joy of Baking.

Make-ahead tips:

• Prepare pies during weekend and freeze (half baked). Finish baking in the morning.

Pizza, Chocolate Wafer & frozen Chocolate Banana Yogurt

Recipes:
Pizza - recipe from my blog post here (under thin crust section) 

Make-ahead tips:

• Prepare pizza based (par-baked) and put topping during weekends. Just need to finish baking it in the oven in the morning.
• Make sirap bandung the night before and store in fridge to cool.

Breaded Nutella Sandwich Roll & Mini HotDog Bun

Recipes:
Nutella sandwich roll - Roll/press bread with a rolling pin until becomes thin. Spread nutella on the bread and roll the it like a log. Coat the rolled bread with egg then breadcrumbs. Fry in a buttered pan until golden brown. 

Make-ahead tips:

• Prepare nutella sandwich roll the night before. Just fry the sandwich in the morning.

Beef burger & Chocolate Wafer

Recipes:
Beef patty - recipe from my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:

Prepare beef patty during weekends, cooked and assemble burger the night before. Heat in the microwave before packing in lunchbox in the morning.