10 Lunches Under 10 Minutes
Spending all your money on school lunches? Trying to eat healthier and save money? Here’s a list of ten quick lunches under ten minutes you can make at home and bring to school! In addition, you can also find out details like the common air fryer size if you want to incorporate new ways to make the recipes below.
- Chicken Salad
Ingredients: Chicken, celery, salt and pepper, mayonnaise.
Prepare: Shred chicken, add about a spoon of mayonnaise, and chop up some celery.
Season with salt and pepper.
Time: Approx 5 minutes
- BLT Wrap
Ingredients: Bacon, lettuce, tomato, soft tortilla
Prepare: Cook 2-4 pieces of bacon in the microwave. Chop 2-3 slices of tomato. Combine with lettuce, then place in the tortilla.
Time: Approx 7-8 Minutes
- Chips and dip
Ingredients: Tortilla chips, salsa, guacamole, sour cream
Prepare: Scoop sour cream, salsa, and guacamole into containers (make sure they’re separated). Put some tortilla chips in a bag.
Time: 4 Minutes
- Soft Shell Chicken Tacos
Ingredients: Shredded chicken, Mexican cheese, lettuce, Guacamole, soft tortilla shell
Prepare: Combine ingredients into a soft tortilla shell
Time: 5 Minutes
- Caesar (or dressing of your choosing) Salad
Ingredients: Pieces of chicken, lettuce, Caesar dressing, parmesan cheese
Prepare: Combine chicken and lettuce and a spoonful of parmesan cheese. Put salad dressing in a separate container and combine at lunch time.
Time: 5 Minutes
- Ham and Cheese Bagel Sandwich
Ingredients: deli ham slices, American cheese, and a bagel
Prepare: Add ham and cheese into bagel.
Time: 3 Minutes
- Chicken and Rice Stir Fry
Ingredients: Tortilla shell, chicken strips, rice, 1 cup of water, garlic powder, salt, pepper
Prepare: Heat up one cup of water and one cup of rice in the microwave for 3-4 minutes. Add to a frying pan with chicken, and add garlic powder, salt, pepper, and any other spices you want. Fry for 2-3 Minutes. Add any other ingredients you want, then roll it into a tortilla shell. Wrap it up in tin foil to pack for lunch.
Time: 10 Minutes
- Cheese, crackers, and veggies
Ingredients: Cheese of your choice, crackers of your choice for the cheese, sliced celery, baby carrots, ranch dressing.
Prepare: Cube cheese, cut celery. Separate cheese, crackers, veggies, and ranch into plastic bags/containers.
Time: 7 Minutes
- Tuna Salad and Crackers
Ingredients: Can of tuna, mayo, Ritz Crackers
Prepare: Mix tuna with mayo. Add into a container and pack Ritz Crackers to dip into it.
Time: 5 Minutes
- Quesadillas
Ingredients: 2 tortilla shells, shredded Mexican cheese, sour cream/salsa
Prepare: Sprinkle shredded cheese between two tortilla shells, cook on a frying pan. Cut into fourths. You can eat this cold at school or you can warm it up in the microwave at school. Put sour cream and/or salsa into containers.
Time: 9-10 Minutes
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