Making Simple Lunch Meals with Arla Dofino

Once everyone has gotten into the new schedule when back to school, its hard to come up with new meals for lunch, especially with an 8 year old who pretty much eats everything. I hate to send Hayden to school with the same lunch everyday so I’m happy I have the time and ingredients to experiment with different things during the day… keeping him from complaining about eating the same thing.

My local store offers Arla Dofino cheeses in a couple different flavors: Havarti, Gouda, Edam and Fontina. My family is super crazy about Gouda, whether it be smoked or not but the other kinds aren’t something we’ve really tried before. So I made 2 simple variations on lunch meals for Hayden and he loves them. Check out the ingredients below, they only take minutes!

Meat and Cheese Bowl

Ingredients:

• Ham
• Turkey
• Arlo Dofino Gouda Cheese
• carrots

Hayden loves all these things so I knew this would go over well. Plus, he hasn’t had gouda in a while so it was a surprise. You could also include crackers with it and of course it would go over well.

Ham Sandwich
Ingredients:

• ham
• Arlo Dofino Havarti creamy cheese
• bread (I used sandwich thin rolls)

You can make this sandwich as a hot sandwich (which is delicious because the cheese melts) or warm enough to melt the cheese and then cool so you can add it to your child’s lunch. The cheese is delicious by the way. Very creamy!

Don’t forget: Arla Dofino is hosting a Snack-to-School Facebook sweepstakes from September 15 to October 15, 2015. One winner will receive a semesters worth of Arla Dofino cheese and a Genuine Thermos lunch kit. For more information, make sure you visit Facebook.