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17 healthy lunchbox recipes for the school and office

From savoury snacks to portable salads, these smart, nourishing ideas will help you sail through the weeks ahead.

17 recipes
Zucchini slice.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s zucchini slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Split and butter these savoury muffins straight from the oven.
EASY

Chilli and cheese cornbread muffins

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Deli pasta salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s deli pasta salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Falafel salad.

Easy speedy five-minute falafel salad

  • Alexander Hart
Vegan-friendly oat and spelt bikkies with seeds and fruit.
EASY

Helen Goh’s oat and spelt biscuits with fruit and seeds

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Couscous, tomato, cucumber and feta salad Extract from The 5-Minute, 5-Ingredient Lunchbox by Alexander Hart, published by Smith Street Books Single use only, do not republish without permission Photographer: Chris Middleton Supplied by Smith Street Books

Five-minute couscous, tomato, cucumber and feta salad

  • Alexander Hart
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Zucchini and corn fritters with salsa.

Zucchini fritters with sweet corn kernels

  • Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos and Vivienne Koutsis
Coconut and sour-cherry flapjacks.
EASY

Chewy coconut and sour cherry flapjacks

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
No one can stop at one of these frittelle di zucchine (zucchini fritters).

Frittelle di zucchine (zucchini fritters)

  • Vincenzo and Suzanne Prosperi
Seed and honey slice.
EASY

MYOesli seed bars

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Alice Zaslavsky
Mushroom and spinach frittata.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s mushroom, spinach and zucchini frittata

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Mini carrot cakes.
EASY

Carrot and pepita loaves

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Alice Zaslavsky
Two-ingredient bikkies.
EASY

Banana muesli biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Oat, dried cranberry and walnut cookies.
EASY

Oat, dried cranberry and walnut cookies

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Crispy corn fritters.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Extra crispy corn fritters

  • RecipeTin Eats
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Chocolate for breakfast: Breakfast brownies.
EASY

Breakfast brownies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Buddy's flapjack biscuits.
EASY

Jamie Oliver recipe: Buddy’s flapjack biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver