Tips For Packing Kids School Lunches

Ideas for lunches and snacks

• Container of peeled chopped fresh fruit salad, such as melons, peaches, kiwi fruit, grapes. (Put in a plastic spoon which you can afford to lose!)
• Dried fruit in small quantities only, as it’s high in sugar.
• Fruit/cereal snack packs (check the labels at supermarkets to find out which are most nutritious).
• Cheese sticks or slices.
• Wedges of hard boiled eggs.
• Fresh or cooked vegetable sticks or wedges, such as carrots, celery, green or red capsicum, cherry tomatoes, snow peas.
• Celery sticks with cottage cheese.
• Mini wheat breakfast cereal.
• Yoghurt, plain or with fruit.
• Cold pasta or potato salad.
• Sushi.

Sandwiches:

• Bread options: pita or pocket bread, rice cakes, wholemeal bread or rolls, crackers, fruit buns or mini pizzas.
• Filling options: cheese spread or slices, vegemite, avocado, cooked egg mashed with cottage cheese, ham, cold chicken tuna or salmon with salad vegetables, cottage or ricotta cheese mixed with pineapple or sultanas.
• Don’t use wet fillings as this makes sandwiches soggy by lunchtime and your child won’t eat them – they will just put them in the garbage bin.