Lunch

This easy, fresh-tasting salad goes well with a variety of pasta, chicken and fish recipes!

The grilled vegetables make this couscous special! Serve it as a side or on its own with assorted salamis and goat cheeses alongside.

Your picky eaters won’t suspect a thing when you hide the spinach in this dish!

Pureed roasted red peppers are the "sauce" for these Portobello Pizzas – they make an awesome afterschool or anytime snack!

Rachael says, “This one is an updated version of shake and bake style chicken. The ranch dressing is made with buttermilk, which I always thought of as rich and fattening – not so! Buttermilk is very low in fat, as it is made from skim milk. This is one feel-good-about-it down-home supper.” Serve with Rachael’s Peeler Salad, included in the recipe below.

Today, lunchtime will be interactive and dip-a-licious!

Rachael says, “In Spain, tortillas aren’t what you might think – you don’t use these tortillas to make a quesadilla or to roll up a burrito. Tortillas are egg pies – like a big flat omelet. They are cooked in olive oil and they are DELISH! My fav is a potato tortilla with chapata on the side. Chapata is a toasted bread that you smush tomato all over. You can make and eat this meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner! Olé!”

This delish pasta salad can even go to the beach with you because it has no mayo (mayo can spoil out in the sun if it’s not kept really cold all the time). It also makes a fun and easy cold supper on a warm summer evening.

Part soup and part stew…It’s a stoup! This blend of pasta and veggies, including high-protein chickpeas, is sure to become a new family favorite. Leftovers work well in a thermos for lunch!

This menu is perfect for a Salad and Sammie Night!

Rachael says, "A friend was having a baby at work and she LOVES eggplant, so I wrote these three easy meals using eggplant steaks for her. I love you, Mommel Hommel, as much as you love eggplant. Enjoy!" Check out the other two delicious eggplant recipes Rachael wrote for her friend, Meat and Mushroom Eggplant Roll-ups with Tomato Gravy and Eggplant Steak Lasagna Stacks.

Heads up: some schools don’t allow PB & J anymore in the lunch rooms because some kids are super allergic to nuts. Check on it and have this lunch at home or school accordingly.

A bento box is a groovy set of Japanese dishes that hold all the courses in one meal in separate containers that fit inside one big box. This fun and really funky lunch is made up of two different recipes – each one is so easy, you can make it in minutes! Bring some chopsticks to eat your Bento Lunch Box with and you really will be too cool for school! Make with Wa-s’up? Tuna Salad Pinwheels (Bento Lunch Box).

In Denmark, little open-faced sandwiches (that means they have no tops on them) are lunchtime and snack time favorites of kids and grown-ups alike! Try a mix-n-match of these three sammies and your box will rock – Danish-style!