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Tips for better lunchbox meals
Growing children need a lot of nutrition in order to stay healthy. Apart from breakfast and mid morning meals that they often get at their schools, children also need a meal for their lunches.
Due to parents’ busy schedules, they often simply give their children some lunch money to get lunch from the school. However, you can never be sure of what your child is eating from outside. Though most school administrations make sure that their canteens are clean and provide good, healthy food, there are still chances that your child may get food poisoned or develop some other health problem by eating food from the school.
To make sure that your child keeps getting the nutrition required for his/her growth phase, always give your child a healthy lunch box.
You may often feel helpless while trying to decide on what to make for lunch. However, if you can be a little creative, there are many different types of food that you can make for your child’s lunch.
A combination of fruits, crunchy vegetables, proteins, carbohydrates, and dairy is perfect for your child.
The nutrients that your child gets from his/her lunch will help him/her concentrate better in class and perform well in the extracurricular activities organized by the school. When you give your child good, healthy food right from childhood, there are good chances that as your child grows, he/she will make healthier choices in his/her meals.
You can include the same meal in your lunchbox as well.
This way you will not only set an example for your child, but also eat some healthy food yourself. Some of the most nutritional food items that you can include in a lunch box meal are a piece of fruit like an orange, banana, or an apple, raw vegetables like a piece of carrot, cucumber, or steamed broccoli, a hard-boiled egg, or a sandwich with a slice of lean meat of your choice, bread with peanut butter, or jelly and cheese, a small carton of milk, crackers, pita bread, bread roll, a small pastry, nuts, and cereal bars.
If your child is fussy about eating vegetables, you can give your child interesting dips as accompaniments for the vegetables.
You can add dried fruit bars or cherry tomatoes, or include thin slices of capsicum in bread sandwiches. If you don’t have small cartons of milk, you can make soft stirred custards because they are easier to carry in your lunch box.
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