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Foods for School Lunch Boxes
For children to concentrate well at school it is so important to give them good, healthy food to feed their brains and give them energy.
Children need a really good breakfast before they leave for school – something substantial and filling. It is quite a break from when school starts (include the time they have breakfast and get to school) to their morning tea break – they may go 3 hours without food, for kids that is a long time.
Lunch boxes need to be filled with good, healthy goods which will give long lasting energy. When kids get hungry they start to lose concentration and not focus on their schoolwork, this will often happen before morning tea and especially if they didn’t have breakfast.
When doing my grocery shop recently in Woolworths, I found a number of recipe cards of great lunch box ideas. The recipes can be found on the Fresh Food Kids page.
These are set out in a great format for kids who might be cooking. They also have a great Lunchbox Planner which is interactive and includes recipes for many great foods. You can plan the week and then print it out to put on your fridge – I thought that was great.
My favourite recipe from this site was the Museli Bars in the kids section under snacks. These sounded quick, easy and much better than bought ones.
What are your kids favourite lunch box foods? I would love you to share your favourite lunch box recipes with us. I would love more kid friendly ideas.