5 of the BEST Lunch Recipes | LOADED Lunchbox Ideas For Work & School! | Julia Pacheco

[Music] hey there i know sometimes it's hard to come up with new lunch ideas so today i'm going to be showing you five new lunches that you could take to work with you you could take these lunches to school or you could simply eat them at your house so i hope you enjoy it and let's go get started to get us started off today we are making these taco chicken salad wraps so to begin to this big bowl i added in a half a cup of mayonnaise next you are going to add your seasonings in to flavor it up a half a teaspoon of chili powder garlic powder paprika salt and pepper after you add all of those seasonings in go ahead and add the juice from a half of a lime and then give this a stir to combine the ingredients after everything is well combined you're going to toss in your chicken i have about a cup and a half of rotisserie chicken that i cut into small pieces you want to just use cooked shredded chicken so whatever type of chicken you want to use and then i added in a half a cup of red onion that i diced a half of a red bell pepper that i diced and one medium tomato that i diced with a third a cup of fresh cilantro i gave this a stir and seriously that is all you have to do this is so easy to throw together and it has such great flavor so for the tortillas that i'm using i'm using these carb counter tortillas i actually think they really taste good i'm always on the hunt for new tortillas but i added that mixture right in there i rolled my tortilla up and then i cut it then it was ready to serve and to serve alongside of these wraps i made this ranch party mix and it is so so good we love eating it for lunch or for snacks it's so simple to throw together and it's easy to store in your pantry i added four cups of pretzel twists along with three cups of rice chex two and a half cups of regular goldfish three cups of cheerios and that's it for those ingredients now you're going to add in a half a cup of melted butter with a fourth a cup of ranch seasoning mix i promise this recipe is amazing and you're going to want to try it i gave this a really good stir to coat all of the crackers in the butter and in the seasoning [Music] i pulled out my large baking sheet and i made sure to line it with parchment paper you know just for easy clean up then i poured our party mix all over the top and i spread it out as even as possible this baked in a preheated oven to 300 degrees for about 35 to 40 minutes or until the top started to change color a little bit [Music] i served the wraps in this cool lunch container just like this my husband typically eats two of these wraps for himself and then over the top of the lunch container it comes with this little cubby so that's where i put the party mix and i put the lid on top this is by far my favorite lunch container and i'll try to leave it linked in my amazon store for you below the video in the description box but i placed that in the lunchbox along with an apple doritos chips and i don't know about you but my husband will and i we absolutely love these peanut butter cups they're the unreal brand we just like the ingredients and they taste awesome now we're making these cheesy chicken crescents so to get this one started i have about half a cup of chicken right here it's cooked shredded chicken that i'm just cutting into smaller pieces and then i have about a half a cup of fresh broccoli that i steamed in the microwave and i'm just cutting that broccoli into smaller pieces as well now i added the broccoli and the chicken into this bowl and then i added a half a cup of cheese in there i gave this a really good stir and then i set it to the side i have my can of crescents right here i just unrolled them on my sheet pan lined with parchment paper and then i cut the lines on the crescents to kind of form the individual crescents just like this [Music] to fill our crescents all you have to do is place a scoop of that cheesy chicken and broccoli mixture in the center of each of the crescents and then roll them up that is all you have to do this will bake in a preheated oven to 375 degrees for about 13 to 15 minutes or until they're golden brown on the top [Music] one thing that i really love making to go alongside of lunches or meals in general is this super duper easy fruit salad it is great at any time of year i promise it's great for the holidays or for the summer so to this bowl i added in an eight ounce container of cool whip with two ounces of vanilla pudding i whisked this all together then i added in our three cups of green grapes that i sliced in half next i'll be adding in a cup and a half of chopped strawberries and then 15 ounces of mandarin oranges make sure you drain your can of mandarin oranges and eight ounces of pineapple of course during that pineapple as well lastly i added in a cup of mini marshmallows and i gave this a good stir this recipe is amazing because you could always add ingredients to it or subtract ingredients to really make it your own here's this completed lunch i served it with a couple chocolate chip cookies and my husband and i we've kind of been in a pickle kick recently so i served it with pickles and then here are the chicken crescents these have completely cooled down at this point these are great microwaved or you could stick these in your air fryer or you could even eat them cold they really are delicious and then i put some of that fruit salad on the top container and i put the lid on top of everything i also paired this with one of these p3 protein packs we like to snack on these throughout the day they do have some good protein in them lastly this is kind of like a dessert i found this at the grocery store it was our first time trying it and we thought it was pretty good we are definitely huge fans of pasta salad in my house so now we're making this pepperoni and cheese pasta salad to my pot of boiling water i added in about 10 ounces of rotini pasta i cooked the pasta according to the box instructions and while that pasta was cooking away i cut up our ingredients so first i sliced our two cups of cherry tomatoes next cube your eight ounces of mozzarella cheese lastly i am going to cut our half a pound of pepperoni into little triangles back over to our pasta now that it is tender i brought it over to my sink and i strained it i just strained it in my over the sink strainer and then i did rinse the pasta with cold water just so it cools down completely because you don't want to mix all the ingredients together with the pasta being hot or it will melt the cheese but now that it has completely cooled down i set it to the side we're going to work on the dressing now in this little bowl i added in three tablespoons of olive oil next add in three tablespoons of balsamic vinegar with about a half a teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of italian seasoning stir this together [Music] this pasta salad is so easy to make so i pulled out my big bowl i added our pasta right in there along with everything that we chopped up earlier and that dressing lastly i added in a little drained can of sliced olives and i gave this a stir i do want to mention to you if you don't want to make your own homemade dressing you could always use a little bit of a bottle of dressing like italian dressing from the store to make it even easier but after i gave this a stir it was ready to serve i do keep this pasta salad in the refrigerator just so it could keep cold when i store it but here's what it looks like this pasta salad is out of this world good if you like balsamic vinegar you will devour it but i served it with crackers and cheese sticks on the side just for a little extra something and then i also served this with apple slices we like thin apple slices in my house and cheetos and then also my neighbor made zucchini bread for us so i paired it with zucchini bread and a gatorade on the side this lunch is a super fun one we are making these corn dog muffins now so to begin i have my box of jiffy i just added it to my medium sized bowl along with one egg next you'll add a third a cup of milk and you're going to whisk this all together [Music] for the hot dogs you could use any type or any brand of hot dogs you like but i'm just using the oscar meyer brand and i used about four of those hot dogs and i cut each hot dog into three smaller pieces i'm going to set our hot dogs to the side now i pulled out my muffin pan and i sprayed it with non-stick spray i'm just scooping scoops of our mixture in the muffin pan this makes nine total and then i stuck the hot dogs in the center this baked on 400 degrees for about 12 minutes or until they're golden brown i know these might seem silly but they are really good they're kind of like miniature corn dogs once they were completely cooled down i placed them in my ziploc bag and i served these alongside of a little bit of ketchup in this little container and then i also served this with one of these lucky charm bars my daughter really wanted them at the grocery store so i grabbed them and we've been eating them i also paired this with the party mix we made earlier one of these velveeta bars these really do leave us full for a while they're good and a peach now we're making this huge submarine sandwich so for the bread i have this huge loaf of bread right here we actually split it so i made it for my husband my daughter and myself just because this was that big of a sandwich but i got this bread actually from jimmy john's at my local locations they sell their bread for only about 50 cents to the bread i added a little bit of lettuce tomato pickles you could really add whatever toppings you want to the sandwich to make it your own but i found that these toppings are delicious i also added a little bit of honey ham and this submarine dressing i found it from walmart and it is delicious i put the dressing and the mayonnaise on the ham just so the bread didn't get soggy i also added a little bit of bacon and cheese here's what this yummy lunch looks like in this first container i put a little bit of trail mix it's just nuts and dried fruit and then in the second part of that container i put a little bit of dried kiwi this was the first time trying that dried kiwi what we thought it was pretty good i put the lid on top of that and then in this container i have some of that yummy fruit salad that we made earlier next i found this reese's peanut butter bar at the grocery store and it is so amazing i love anything peanut buttery chocolatey and so does my husband and then my husband loves this cherry 7 up and so do i so i grabbed one of those and served it alongside of this lunch and then of course the sandwich i hope you found a new lunch for yourself today and i would love to have you here so go ahead and subscribe down below the video i'll see you in the next one bye for now

Channel: Julia Pacheco

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Length: 11min 51sec (711 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2022