For the ski lunches I made toasted sandwiches.  Three of them got chicken melts. Think tuna melt, but chicken instead of tuna. I thought this sounded like a pretty good idea, but they actually tasted even better than I expected. This is definitely something I'll be making again.

Grandma and I were going along for the second grade field trip, so I packed a more grown up lunch to go for us. We have two salads for lunch - a chicken salad and a kale salad, with some edamame rice crackers on the side.

Making muffins and bars ahead of time makes packing for lunch even quicker than usual.

This was a breakfast for lunch day, so the kids all got three of my mini chocolate chip banana muffins. They all got some kind of wrapped cheese, strawberries, and one of these amazingly easy and delicious cereal bars. 

If you’ve been skiing, you know that buying lunch in the lodge gets expensive fast. So I try to pack our lunch as much as I can. For ski lunches I try to pack in a bit more calories than I do for a regular school lunch. They are very physically active out in the cold, so they burn a lot more calories. I will include more carbs, and even a chocolate treat, in every ski lunch, to just help keep them fueled up for the day.