A week of healthy lunchboxes and love......
Here you go beautiful mums and dads!! I’ve put these up to give you some easy, healthy ideas that you can add to your existing repertoire of packing lunches. It takes a tiny bit of prepping, but I also try to be smart about it, think ahead and make things for dinner that I can pop in her lunchbox the next day.
Try to give your children a ‘rainbow’ lunchbox making sure they’re getting food with all those beautiful variations of plant phytonutrients, protein and a healthy little healhty treat in there too to make it fun!
Also, If you need guidance on the ‘healthier’ options for commercial snack foods I’ve added a few of the brands that are deemed acceptable from my perspective. Wholefoods (without packaging) is always best, but let’s be real…. we all need some emergency stores at times for those crazy mornings and its better to pick the ones that are lower sugar and less refined.
Most of these recipes can be found on omy social media and/or the website. Enjoy!
Lunchbox #1 - This one includes: quinoa broccoli patties with avocado, carrots and cherry tomatoes with hummus, seasoned fava beans, coconut yogurt with turmeric chia pudding and blueberries and some pumpkin seed munches!
Lunchbox #2 - This one contains vegetable rainbow wraps, carrot and pepita crackers with avocado, roasted chickpeas and raw cashews (omit if a nut free school), Kubu coconut yogurt with buckwheat, hemp seeds and blueberries.
Lunchbox #3 - Here’s a chicken, avo and salad sandwich on Ancient Grains Rye Sourdough (best commercial organic bread ever), baked sweet potato crisps, stewed apple with Coyo coconut yogurt, snow peas and green peas with hummus, brown rice and chia crackers, sunflower and strawberry bites and an organic apple. Not a crumb left at the end of the day!! @ceresorganics @thinkfoodmunch @raffleshealthyfoods @coyo_is_coconuts
Lunchbox #4 - Willow doesn’t have a tuckshop at her school (and I am O.K. with that 🙈) but they have occasional tuckshop days where they sell different themed foods. This last time they had sausage rolls and pies so I decided to do my own take and send her to school with one of her own so she wasn’t left out. This one has a Byron Pies GF spinach and feta roll, hard boiled egg, chia bircher muesli, muesli bites, cucumber and carrot sticks, blueberries and kiwi with a roasted seaweed snack.
Lunchbox #5 - The girls have sport on Tuesday’s so they needs some extra energy!! This one has some barley wrap quesadillas with beans, cheese, corn and spinach, some avocado and cashew cheese spread on seed crackers, cherry tomatoes, chia bites, half a medjool date, pear, blueberries and a banana.
Lunchbox #6 - I know a lot of parents say their kids won’t eat salad but I have a means to make it happen. Most kids’ issue with salad is actually texture rather than taste. If you chop the vegetables up finely or grate them you will find less ‘yuck faces’ coming your way. Additionally the dressing makes the salad! If the dressing is fantastic your kids will find salads a more enjoyable experience! This lunchbox contained an Asian cabbage salad with roast chicken and a sesame dressing, hemp tahini protein balls, strawberry coconut yogurt, brown rice and chia crackers with beetroot hummus, mango cubes and a green apple. @coyo_is_coconuts @ceresorganics @keepleaf
Lunchbox # 7 - Okay, the final lunchbox in our week of kids lunch inspiration! I hope that in some way it has given you some healthy easy ideas to keep your munchkins healthy and happy! The stainless steel containers are from @ever.eco for those mummas asking. This is a Mexican taco soup (which is quite thick) that we made for dinner the previous night. We use organic blue corn chips to dip into it for easy school eating. We also have @drkargs spelt crackers with Nimbin (reduced salt, no animal rennet) cheese cubes, raw cashews, @kubuyoghurt with organic blueberries and an organic pear.
