The Recipe Box Swap---Lunchtime Favorites

Welcome to this month's edition of The Recipe Box Swap!  Today's feature is Lunchbox Favorites.  Favorites for the kids, yourself or the whole family are on the menu!

If you have a recipe you would like to share, all you need to do it post it on your blog and add your post URL to the auto-link below.

Let's get cookin'!

One of our favorites at  lunchtime are wraps.  Basically we take a tortilla and wrap just about anything in them.  This lunch is versatile and it can also be secretly healthy for the kids since it is pretty easy to sneak in some veggies.   Really, they won't know the difference.

Ingredients:

Flour tortillas (whole wheat or white work fine)
Cream Cheese (I like to use the kind in the tub since it is softer and easier to spread)
Cheese of your choice (cheddar, monterey jack, feta, mozzerella)
Veggies of your choice (shredded fresh spinach, sliced tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes,  red onion)
Lunchmeat or beans

Here are some examples:

 

Greek: feta cheese with sun-dried tomatoes, spinach and chicken
Mexican: monterey jack cheese with tomatoes, black beans and red onions
Italian: cheddar cheese with pepperoni, red onion and tomatoes
American: mozzerella, turkey, tomatoes, spinach and red onion (this is what is shown in the photo)

To assemble:

Spread about 1 TB (more or less) of cream cheese on top of a tortilla.  Add lunchmeat, cheese and veggies until it looks something like this:

Roll it up tightly until it looks like the top photo.

My kids like to assemble these themselves, although I always make them add some veggies since they tend to try to do without.  We usually eat these at home, but they work well for lunchboxes too!

Happy cookin'!

 

Comments

[Sarah]

Thank you for hosting the Recipe Box Swap!

[Jill]

Those wraps look great!

I don't have a recipe to share this time, but I love the theme and I'll be sure to check the other recipes out.

XO

[Stephanie]

Wraps are a great way to sneak some veggies into any childs meal, and my husbands too!

[Yvonne]

Oh my, that does look super yummy. I can almost taste it LOL.

[Judy]

Those look yummy!

[Thimbleanna]

Oooohhh Yum Randi! These look delicious. Thanks for sharing a great idea!

[Joy]

Yum! We love wraps at our house too! Thanks for hosting!

[Terriaw]

That Mexican wrap sounds really good! I usually just make a sandwich, but I have been experimenting with different breads, like marble or pumpernickel, to make it more interesting.

[Jolene]

Hi Randi!

I'm not sure if you remember me... you left a comment on my Cheeky Wife blog a while back (when you were still on Blogger). Since then, I've been subscribing to your blog and I've been SO blessed by you, your sharing, your photos, your sewing.

Currently, my blog has been set to private (I'm still deciding if I should or shouldn't be doing something to protect my kids' privacy - urgh). I've been meaning to comment or email you - but ACK - I keeping forgetting.

You inspired me to start sewing and I started my very first project with your headband tutorial and then the totebag tutorial. Since then, I've been sewing so much - THANK YOU.

I love your fabrics!! If I were living in USA, I'd go broke in your shop - hahaha. You're so talented and very generous - a great role model for us newer mommies (I have a DS3, DD2 and DD2mo).

Thank you for blessing my life!

Jolene

[Sandra - My Inspired Heart]

Randi...this is so funny - you'll never guess what I posted for this swap! ;) Yours look wonderful and I'm looking forward to what others will post :)

[Pumpkin Petunia]

This looks fantastic!

[Kelly @ Wisdom Begun]

Wow does that look good! I'll have to try that . . . soon!

[Jessi]

I haven't tried wraps yet with my toddler, but these look too yummy NOT to try.

I absolutely love finding/trying new recipes, so this "swap" idea is great. Thanks for hosting.

[Tamy ~ 3 Sides of Crazy]

These sound like a great change from a plain sandwich! YUM!

[Rebekah]

yummy! this wrap looks so delicious!

[Alison]

Yum! I love them with prawns but I won't buy prawns because the fish farms they are grown at are ruining the ocean :-(

[tara pollard pakosta]

I really need to do this more often! my girls would love it! i make them for myself but not them> thanks for reminding me again! LOVe your site! it's awesome! keep sharing!
tara

[Heather]

Thanks for hosting the Recipe Swap. I've missed getting in on it the last couple times.

Your photos are wonderful--good enough to eat! :)

We will have to put your wraps on our menu next week! Yummy!

[Vickie]

These look sooo good! We love wraps!

[Becky]

I love wraps, they're so easy to be versatile with. I'm a chicken salad dork, but one on my favorite wraps was a doctored chicken salad I spiced with chipotle chile powder. It had a southwest flare, yum!

[erin s]

Yay for lunch box ideas. I always have such a hard time thinking of creative lunches for the kids...usually just plain old sandwiches. Can't wait to check all the ideas out!

[Shelia]

We love turkey wraps (with bacon, lettuce, cheese). Mmmm. Hope that its okay. I just did a post a couple weeks ago about Lunch box ideas with a recipe so I linked to that. If that's not okay, it won't hurt my feelings if you remove it. Thanks for doing the Recipe Box swap. I always enjoy all the ideas and recipes.

[Renna]

Ack! I missed getting mine up this week. We love wraps around here, and you offered some filling suggestions we've not tried yet. I'm especially anxious to try the Greek one. Yum!

[val]

we do wraps too! the kids love to take them to school because they are easy to eat and we make different types!

[Marilyn @ A Mixed Bouquet]

Those look wonderful! I am going to try them tomorrow!

I can't believe that I missed this last Thursday. So, I've linked to a lunch favorite around this house. I'll do better next month!

[RoseAnn]

Just found you. You are already a fave. Love the cream cheese on the wraps! Yum! Thanks for the post!