Lilly’s Little Lunchbox

Lilly’s Little Lunchbox 🥗 Feeding families made simple
👩‍⚕️ Dietitian founded
✨ Lilly’s Family Food Club (12th March)
🎖️ Food Innovation Award
🍱 Fresh Bento lunches upgrading

Back to school means back to packing lunchboxes… and with teens, I think the biggest thing is packing food they’ll actua...
30/09/2026

Back to school means back to packing lunchboxes… and with teens, I think the biggest thing is packing food they’ll actually want to eat.

It doesn’t need to be a perfectly balanced, Pinterest-worthy lunchbox every day. Some days it’s a wrap, some days it’s lots of snacky bits, sometimes it’s last night’s dinner, and sometimes breakfast for lunch just works.

I like to think about including something filling, something fresh, something snacky and something they genuinely enjoy then making it work around their appetite and the kind of day they have ahead.

Because the best lunchbox isn’t the one that looks the healthiest. It’s the one that actually gets eaten.

And if your teens are old enough to make their own lunches, even better 🙌 Save this one and send it to them so they’ve got plenty of inspiration when they inevitably say “I don’t know what to pack.” 😂

Want more ideas? We have 25+ lunchbox combinations inside Lilly’s Family Food Club, including combinations we don’t share here on socials.

You can join Food Club for just $1 for your first month using code ONEBUCK 🤎

We’ve had lots of new faces around here lately, so I thought it was time to properly introduce myself and share a little...
27/09/2026

We’ve had lots of new faces around here lately, so I thought it was time to properly introduce myself and share a little about who we are and how we got here 🤎

From Lilly’s Little Lunchbox to Food Club, the way we help families has evolved over the years, but the reason behind it has always stayed the same.

So hi 👋🏼 I’m Cara, and this is our story x

School holidays = everyone suddenly being hungry ALL. DAY. LONG. 😂My rule? Keep the house stocked with food they can gra...
21/09/2026

School holidays = everyone suddenly being hungry ALL. DAY. LONG. 😂

My rule? Keep the house stocked with food they can grab themselves, plus simple ingredients I can turn into breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks without overthinking it.

And if you’re already sick of deciding what everyone is going to eat… Food Club has SO many ideas ready for you.

For this month only, you can join Food Club for $1 using code ONEBUCK. 🤎

Simple food. Less thinking. Happier holidays.

If you have a teenager, there’s a good chance you’ve noticed this too.Protein powders. Creatine. Electrolytes. Greens po...
18/09/2026

If you have a teenager, there’s a good chance you’ve noticed this too.

Protein powders. Creatine. Electrolytes. Greens powders. Supplements.

Health and gym culture is reaching our teens earlier than ever, and suddenly they’re asking questions about things many of us weren’t even thinking about at their age.

And I’m not anti-supplement. They absolutely have a place.

But before my teenager thinks the first step to eating well is buying something in a tub, I want her to know how to actually feed herself.

I don’t want her first option to be food disguised as “healthy” because we’ve sprinkled a supplement powder over it. I want her to know that food can be delicious, interesting, fun AND nourishing.

One of my favourite things Lilly does now is find meals on Pinterest and send them to me asking if we can make them 😂

Sometimes they’re things I would genuinely never think to cook myself and I always say yes.

Because that’s how she’s expanded her palate. She’s become curious about food, wants to try new flavours and meals, and is learning that feeding yourself isn’t about following a set of “healthy eating” rules.

It’s knowing how to cook. How to shop. How to put a meal together. How to try something new. And how to actually enjoy food.

That, to me, is food literacy.

And one day when she leaves my kitchen, I’d much rather she takes those skills with her than believes health has to come from a $70 tub.

That’s also a huge part of why I created Food Club in the first place ❤️

Not perfect eating. Not dieting. Just helping parents and carers raise families who know how to feed themselves for life.

If I only had $180 to feed a family of four for a week, this is how I’d spend it.The trick isn’t finding 21 different “c...
17/09/2026

If I only had $180 to feed a family of four for a week, this is how I’d spend it.

The trick isn’t finding 21 different “cheap” recipes. It’s buying ingredients that can do more than one job.

Dinner becomes lunch.
The same proteins work across multiple meals.
Fruit & veg are things we’ll actually eat.
And nothing gets bought without a plan for it.

Would you like me to actually do the $180 shop next and show you the receipt & everything we make from it?

School holidays = approximately 47 snacks a day and someone asking “what can I eat?” every 12 minutes 😂My rule is simple...
14/09/2026

School holidays = approximately 47 snacks a day and someone asking “what can I eat?” every 12 minutes 😂

My rule is simple: if they can grab it themselves, OR I can turn it into a meal in under 10 minutes, it makes the trolley.

A mix of fresh food, freezer staples, easy proteins, convenience foods and, yes, fun foods too.

Because feeding your family well doesn’t mean making everything from scratch. It’s what you do most of the time that matters.

And this is exactly how I approach food inside Lilly’s Family Food Club. Simple food, less waste, less thinking and more variety.

Use this as your guide on Sunday for your next grocery shop 🤍

Cara x

Skinny doesn’t equal healthy.Yesterday I listened to a conversation about GLP-1 weight-loss medications, social media an...
10/09/2026

Skinny doesn’t equal healthy.

Yesterday I listened to a conversation about GLP-1 weight-loss medications, social media and the concerning way weight-loss products are being accessed and marketed online particularly to teens and young women.

And it got me thinking about something much bigger.

What are we teaching our kids about food, health and their bodies before the internet gets there first?

This one is personal for me.

I had my own experience with disordered eating from around 16 into my early 20s, and strangely enough, one of the things that helped change my relationship with food was actually learning about it.

And 20 years later, after recently running my first marathon, I’ve probably never appreciated more just how much food allows our bodies to DO.

I want our kids to understand that.

I want them to know how to cook. How to shop. How to build a meal. Why we need carbohydrates, fats, protein and fibre. How to move their bodies because it feels good, not because they ate something they need to “burn off”.

I want them to enjoy food.

And I want looking after themselves to become a way of life, rather than a diet they start one day because someone told them their body needed to be smaller.

I’ve written about all of this on the Food Club blog today including why it’s becoming such an important part of what I want Food Club to stand for.

Food literacy for life.

You can read the full blog here: lillys.com.au ❤️

08/09/2026

FOOD CLUB TALKS 🎙️ Episode 1

Does every meal your child eats REALLY need to be perfectly balanced? 👀

Let’s talk about it.

And tell me below what food or nutrition topic should we tackle next? 👇

I’m a nutritionist and I’m going to say it… 👀A beige lunchbox isn’t automatically a bad lunchbox.Somewhere along the way...
03/09/2026

I’m a nutritionist and I’m going to say it… 👀

A beige lunchbox isn’t automatically a bad lunchbox.

Somewhere along the way, “eat the rainbow” became “the more colourful the lunchbox, the healthier it is.”

But nutrition isn’t that simple.

Eggs. Chicken. Hummus. Chickpeas. Yoghurt. Cheese. Wholegrains. Potatoes.

All pretty beige. All foods that can provide valuable nutrients.

Do I want our kids eating fruit and vegetables and being exposed to lots of different foods? Absolutely. 🌈

But we need to look at the bigger picture.

What are they eating across the DAY?
Across the WEEK?
Are they getting variety over time?
And most importantly… are they actually eating what we pack?

Because a perfectly curated, rainbow-coloured lunchbox that comes home untouched isn’t necessarily better than a beige one that gets eaten.

So please don’t fear the beige.

Offer colour. Offer variety. Offer familiar foods. Keep exposing them to new foods.

Nutrition is bigger than one lunchbox.

What do you think? Have we put too much pressure on parents to pack the “perfect” lunchbox? 👇

Our favourite meals from Food Club this past week 💙
01/09/2026

Our favourite meals from Food Club this past week 💙

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