Sunday, 15 January 2017

Lunchbox Ideas Part 1


Homemade thin crust Pizza & Popcorn


Recipes
Pizza dough - recipe from BudgetBytes

Make-ahead tips: Prepare pizza dough on weekends and top with desired toppings. Put in the freezer. In the morning, just take it out from the freezer and bake until done.


Homemade Lasagna & Ikea Alphabet Cookies



Recipes: Lasagna filling ingredients - Finely chopped onions, carrots, potatoes, minced chicken/beef, homemade tomato puree and tomato paste.

Make-ahead tips: Layer lasagna the night before and refrigerate.Then just need to bake in the morning. (As for me, I always make lasagna the same week as I have spaghetti bolognese on my menu, making double batch of the sauce so that I can use it for lasagna, pizza, bun filling etc).



Pizza wheels & homemade Pocky Biscuits


Recipes
Pizza wheels - no-yeast thin crust recipe in my blog post here
Pocky biscuits - recipe in my blog post here
Make-ahead tips: Prepare pizza wheels on weekend and freeze. Thaw the night before school and just bake in the morning.


Chicken Pies & Chocolate Cheesecake



Recipes
Chicken pie crust: Joy of Baking
Hidden broccoli puree in the filling for my picky eater son.

Chocolate cheesecake: Nigella's recipe

Make-ahead tips: Make the pie over the weekend and freeze unbake. Just need to bake it in the morning before school.



Fried rice, Breaded fish, Homemade Carrot Sticks & Milo Cereal


Recipes:
Carrot Snack Sticks: recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips: Coat the fish with the breading (I used 'Bestari Tepung Goreng Ayam', double dip in eggs mixture and the seasoned flour alternately, and a little bit of breadcrumbs) over the weekend and freeze. Just need to deep fry in the morning.


Breadcrumb crusted Cheese Sandwich, Mini Meatloaf, Chicken Soup & Banana


Recipes:
Meatloaf - recipe from Southern plate
Sandwich - Put cheese slice in between 2 slice of breads. Coat the sandwich with eggs and follow by breadcrumbs. Then fry until golden brown.

Make-ahead tips: Make meatloaves over the weekend and freeze. Just thaw in the fridge the night before and bake it in the morning.


Chicken Meatball, Ikea currypuff & Popcorn


Recipes:
Chicken Meatball - recipe in my blog post here


Make-ahead tips: Make meatballs over the weekend and freeze. In the morning before school just need to bake/fry.



Sandwich, Carrot Stick & Chocolate Muffin 


Recipes:
Sandwich - Put chicken meatloaf slice and cheese slice in between 2 slice of breads and use sandwich mold to shape the sandwich.
Chocolate muffins - recipe from Nigella
Carrot Sticks - recipe in my blog post post here


Make-ahead tips: Prepare sandwich the night before, just need to warm up in the morning.Muffins and carrot snack stick can be baked during weekend. Refrigerate baked muffin (warm in microwave before packing in lunchbox) and store carrot snack stick in airtight container.



Waffles with Chocolate Filling and Nuggets



Recipes:
Waffles - recipe from Inspired Taste
Homemade Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips: Mix waffle batter the night before and refrigerate. In the morning, just need to cook it in waffle maker.



No-yeast thin crust Pizza & store bought Chocolate Waffles


Recipes:
No yeast thin crust Pizza - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips: Make pizza over the weekend including putting the topping and cheese then freeze. Just need to bake it in the morning.



Homemade Hamburger


Recipes:
Beef patty - recipe in my blog post post here


Make-ahead tips: Make burger patty on the weekend and freeze. Sandwich burger can be prepared the night before (fry the patty and assemble the burger with all the condiments). The next morning can just warm the burger sandwich on a pan or microwave.



Nasi lemak with Ayam goreng berempah and kuah kicap & Milo Cereal


Make-ahead tips: Cook extra rice for dinner the night before. Keep some for tomorrow's lunchbox. Coat the chicken with all the rempah/spices on the weekend and freeze. Just deep fry it in the morning.



Chicken kebab & Mini Pancakes


Recipes:
Pancake - from Martha Stewart
Kebab filling mixed with carrot puree.


Make-ahead tips: Cook kebab filling the night before and the next morning just warm it and put in the toasted pita bread. Also mix pancake better the night before as well and refrigerate.



Nuggets, Healthy Chocolate Dates Muffin & Hotdog Bun


Recipes:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here
Healthy Choc Dates muffin - recipe from my blog post here
Hotdog bun made with leftover pizza crust


Make-ahead tips: Makes nuggets, hotdog bun and muffin in advance. Just need to fry the nuggets and reheat bun and muffin in the morning. 


English Muffin Sandwich and Pocky Biscuits


Recipes:
English Muffins - recipe from food.com
Sandwich filling - Beef strips breakfast + cheese 
Homemade Pocky biscuits - recipe from my blog post here


Make-ahead tips: Assemble sandwich the night before. Just reheat in the microwave in the morning.



Healthy baked Mac & Cheese, Mini Meatloaf & homemade Cheese Crackers


Recipes:
Meatloaf - recipe from Southern plate
Cheese Crackers - recipe in my blog here
Mac & cheese sauce made with carrot + sweet potato and cauliflower puree. 


Make-ahead tips: Prepare meatloaf on weekend and freeze. Mac & Cheese from leftover dinner the night before. Just need to bake meatloaf and mac & cheese in the morning.



Baked Donut dip in chocolate and Cheese crackers


Recipe:
Baked donut - recipe from Baker Bettie
Cheese crackers - recipe in my blog post here


Make-ahead tips: Prepare donut batter the night before. Just need to bake in the morning.



Cheesy Meatballs, Nutella Sandwich & Strawberry Jelly


Recipes:
Chicken meatballs - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips
Prepare meatballs on weekend and freeze. Just need to fry in the morning. Assemble sandwich the night before.
Make jelly in advance and store in fridge.



Hotdog Roll, Jelly & storebought Oreo Cake



Recipes:
Hotdog - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips
Cook hotdog and prepare hotdog roll the night before. Reheat in the morning.



Cheesy Meatballs & Chocolate Puff


Recipes:
Chicken meatballs - recipe in my blog post here
Chocolate puff - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips

Make meatballs and chocolate puff during weekend and freeze. Fry meatballs and bake puff in the morning.



Steak & Cheese sandwich (filling mixed with broccoli puree) & Nutella Sandwich Roll



Make-ahead tips: Prepare sandwich filling and nuttella sandwich the night before.

Calzone & Chocolate Chip Muffin


Recipes:
Calzone - recipe in my blog post here
Muffin - recipe from Little Sweet Baker I used coconut oil instead of butter in the recipe.


Make-ahead tips: Bake muffin and prepare calzone the night before. In the morning, just need to bake calzone.



Mini Donut and Pretzel hotdog


Donut bought frozen from T'ganu and Pretzel bought from Auntie Anne's Pretzel during family outing the day before.



Karipap ikan, Cakoi, Keropok & Apple Jelly


Cakoi, Keropok lekor & Karipap - Bought frozen from T'ganu.

Make-ahead tips: Make Apple Jelly the night before or on weekends and store in refrigerator.



Aglio olio penne (non-spicy - mixed with cauliflower puree) & Homemade Chocolate Bread


Recipes:
Breadmaker Chocolate Bread - Recipe taken from bread machine book.

Ingredients:
160ml Water
190ml Fresh milk
560g High protein flour
8Tbsp Sugar
2Tbsp Butter/Oil
1 1/2 tsp Salt
30g Chocolate powder
1 1/2 tsp Yeast

Method:
Add the ingredients into the bread machine in the order listed. Select cycle 'Sweet Dough'.

Aglio Olio Penne (using wholewheat Penne) - cooked with olive oil + chicken seasoning + chopped pepperoni + cumin seasoning + a bit of pasta water.

Make-ahead tips: Make chocolate bread the night before.

Hamburger, Fries & Carrot snack sticks



Recipes:
Burger patty - recipe in my blog post here
English Muffins - recipe from food.com
Carrot Sticks - recipe in my blog post post here

Make-ahead tips
Make English muffins and Beef patty during weekend and freeze. Defrost English muffin, cook burger and assemble burger the night before. In the morning, just reheat in the microwave.
Make Carrot sticks in advance and store in an airtight container.



Bbq Chicken Quesadillas & Nutella Pancake Sandwich


Recipes:
Pancake - from Martha Stewart
Spread nutella in between 2 slices of pancakes.
BBQ chicken filling - chicken cubes + bbq sauce + cauliflower and carrot puree (stir fry).

Make-ahead tips
Prepare quesadillas and pancake batter the night before.

Grill quesadillas and cook pancake in the morning.

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