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| Ideas For A Healthy Lunchbox |
Sandwiches:
Try different types of bread (granary, wholemeal, high fibre white bread, rolls, French bread, bagels, pita bread).
Have different fillings and try to include a fruit or vegetable (chicken, low-fat mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato egg and cress, grated cheese (try different types) and carrot, tuna and sweet corn, cheese and cucumber, mashed banana.
Fruits and vegetables:
Seedless grapes, small bananas, cherries, dried fruit such as apricots, dates or raisins, fruit salad, canned fruit kept in their own juices, cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, pepper sticks, baby sweet corn, grated carrot and raisin salad.
Drinks:
Water, flavoured water, low-fat flavoured milk drinks or fruit juices.
Other lunch box snacks:
Scones, malt loaf, flapjack, low-fat yoghurts, tea cakes, plain popcorn, fruit buns, rice cakes, bread sticks, boiled egg, cheese and crackers, quiche, low-fat coleslaw, pretzels, cereal bars, semi-sweet biscuits.
Most importantly…
- Enjoy your food
- Eat a variety of different foods
- Eat the right amount to be a healthy weight
- Eat plenty of foods rich in starch and fibre
- Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables
- Don’t eat too many foods that contain a lot of fat
- Don’t have sugary foods and drinks too often
By making the children at Fordham School aware at school and at home, we feel they will be able to make their own choices about how to eat healthily. Your role in guiding and supporting them with this is vital. | How you can help
If your child takes a packed lunch to school, put in a piece of fruit or vegetable, such as a carrot, or some dried fruit or 100 per cent pure fruit juice. Note that dried fruits and fruit juices should only be consumed at mealtimes to reduce the risk of tooth decay.
Encourage your child to use other opportunities to eat fruit and vegetables at school too, for example, encourage your child to eat a piece of fruit at break time.Ask your child about the fruit and vegetables they have eaten at school. Explain that eating fruit and vegetables will help them grow and stay healthy.
Encourage your child to eat fruit and vegetables at home as well as at school. |
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