7 easy-to-make back-to-school lunch box recipes

By Khotso Masia, 4 December 2025

Whether you’re meal-prepping for busy work weeks, creating exciting school lunchboxes, or planning picnic-perfect portable meals, these recipes deliver the flavour.

Hello to becoming the parent whose kids actually get excited about lunchtime and who spend way less time stressing in the kitchen, thanks to these back-to-school lunch box recipes.

These recipes are your secret weapon against morning lunch box meltdowns, budget-busting grocery bills, and the soul-crushing sight of untouched food coming home every afternoon.

1. Mini cottage cheese-and-egg muffins

They're packed with protein to keep growing brains and bodies fuelled all day long, plus they're baked in cute individual portions that fit perfectly in lunch boxes.

Mini cottage cheese-and-egg muffins lunchbox

Mini cottage cheese-and-egg muffins recipe

2. Crumbed pork wraps

These gorgeous wraps pack tender, crispy crumbed pork with fresh veggies in a soft tortilla, and they're totally mess-free and lunch box-friendly.

crumbed pork wraps

Crumbed pork wraps recipe

3. Three-cheese toastie

When one cheese just isn't enough, you go triple or go home! This ultimate comfort food masterpiece layers three glorious cheeses between buttery bread for the most epic melt experience your lunch box has ever seen.

Three-cheese toastie lunchbox

Three-cheese toastie recipe

4. Crumbed pork fillet sando

This isn't just any ordinary sandwich. We're talking tender, golden crumbed pork fillet nestled between soft bread with all the perfect fixings.

Crumbed pork fillet sando

Crumbed pork fillet sando recipe

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5. Egg sandwich

These perfectly fluffy eggs with just the right seasoning, nestled in soft bread that soak up every delicious bite, is quick to make, and guaranteed to fill hungry bellies without any lunch box drama!

Egg sandwich

Egg sandwich recipe

6. Smashed boerie burgers

These incredible smashed boerewors patties deliver all that smoky, spiced flavour we love, but with crispy-edged perfection that only comes from the smashing technique.

smashed boerewors burgers

Smashed boerie burgers

7. Chicken nuggets and chips

It's the kind of crowd-pleasing classic that delivers tender chicken wrapped in that perfect crunch, paired with chips that are gloriously crispy outside.

chicken nuggets

Chicken nuggets and chips recipe

Find more easy to make luncboxes recipes here.

This content was created with AI assistance. However, it was fact-checked, edited and ideated by actual human beings at TASTE.

Khotso Masia

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