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What’s for Lunch?

Are you looking for some fresh lunchtime inspiration? Here are some cookbooks with great ideas for lunches and afternoon snacks for all ages.

The best homemade kids' snacks on the planet: more than 200 healthy homemade snacks you and your kids will love

by Laura Fuentes

Overflowing with quick and healthy ideas for the whole family, this cookbook features delicious recipes for more than 200 homemade snacks that solve the snack conundrum and can be made in minutes without fuss in the kitchen. 

Best lunch box ever: ideas and recipes for school lunches kids will love

by Katie Sullivan Morford

Offers seventy-five recipes for simple and healthy lunches, snacks, and after-school treats for kids.

Feeding littles lunches: 75+ no-stress lunches everyone will love

by Megan McNamee

The founders of an ultimate lunchbox resource for busy parents offer 75 real-life, healthy lunches for kids, along with charts, grocery lists and visual inspiration that will keep your child excited about lunch from daycare through high school. 

Let's make some lunch: recipes made with love for everyone

by Sulhee Jessica Woo

TikTok chef Jessica's first cookbook includes over 150 recipes for lunch-makers of all experience levels. There are 60 lunch box ideas, each containing two to three recipes, which can be mixed and matched to create endless lunch combinations.

Lunchbox: so easy, so delicious, so much fun to eat

by Marnie Hanel

Serving as both a cookbook and lookbook, these 75 easy-to-make themed lunchbox creations are meant to reinforce learning, celebrate holidays and set children up to have a positive relationship with food.

A School Lunch Revolution: A Cookbook

by Alice Waters

In this multigenerational cookbook for adults and children alike, Alice Waters, the award-winning chef and food activist, champions an empowered relationship between students and organic food, offering delicious recipes that will nourish future generations--and ourselves--from the inside out.

Snacking Dinners: 50+ Recipes for Low-Lift, High-Reward Dinners That Delight

by Georgia Freedman

Snacking Dinners is your guide to easy, satisfying, and endlessly versatile meals--perfect for one yet simple to scale up for family and friends. With over 50 recipes, this book is your blueprint for effortless summer dinners, quick weeknight treats, no-cook happy hour snacks, and light, healthy meals that feel like self-care. 

Snacks for dinner: small bites, full plates, can't lose

by Lukas Volger

Redefining “dinner,” the author of Start Simple transforms carefree noshing into nourishing meals that are both quick to make and deeply satisfying through 100 recipes that revolve around seven main components.

Soups, salads, sandwiches

by Matty Matheson

Packed with character, personal stories, 126 recipes and photographs of a day-in-the-life with Matty and his family, a cookbook that will revolutionize how you think of these kitchen basics—soups, salads and sandwiches—is full of the author's signature twists on the classics delivered with minimal effort for maximum flavor. 

Stacked: the art of the perfect sandwich

by Owen Han

From breakfast to dessert sandwiches, this collection from a popular social media influencer showcases every type of sandwich under the sun through easy-to-follow instructions and mouthwatering photos.

Superfood snacks: 100 delicious, energizing & nutrient-dense recipes

by Julie Morris

A collection of recipes for high-nutrition snacks and treats made with superfood ingredients explains how to adapt former "guilty pleasure" foods to render them both healthy and satisfying.

Ultimate bento: healthy, delicious and affordable 85 mix-and-match bento-box recipes

by Marc Matsumoto

Ultimate Bento is packed with practical techniques, step-by-step instructions, and useful tips for 85 recipes that can be mixed-and-matched for 25 nutritionally balanced bento box lunches. Each bento in this book costs under $3 per serving, so you and your family can save money while also eating healthier.