Ideas For Healthy Lunches

Ideas For Healthy Lunches

The task of packing a lunch for your child which will be both enjoyable and healthy is quite a difficult one. 

Following are few good ideas for this purpose:
•    Try Changing The Bread:
 
You can opt for using soft tortillas so that everyday sandwiches can be replaced with wraps, English muffins, rolls which are freshly baked, bagels and pita pockets.

•    Try Creating A New Snack Mix:
 
You can utilize a collection of cereals, flavorful crackers, pretzels and dried fruits for creating a new snack mix. You can also add yogurt, raisins covered with chocolate and M&M’s for occasional treats.

Different mixes should be experimented and individual bags having a zip lock should be used for packaging them. 

•    Try Various Sandwich Fillings:
 
Think about combinations like corn and diced chicken, cheddar cheese and grated carrot, avocado and ham, or cream cheese and jam.

•    Remember The Veggies:
 
Always remember to include celery sticks, cucumber, zucchini, baby corn ears, cherry tomatoes and carrot sticks in your child’s lunch by packing a tiny dip container. This is essential for fulfilling your child’s daily vegetable requirements. 

•    Quesadillas:
 
Use a frying pan for placing soft tortilla over it. Heat the pan. Spread with pizza sauce or tomato sauce before sprinkling grated cheese and fillings like bacon, ham, tomatoes, peppers and onions over its top. Place one more tortilla over it and continue heating until the cheese has melted away. Cut it into a number of pizza triangles. 

•    Fruit Cubes:
 
Package different fruit pieces in a container made of plastic and provide tasty vanilla or fruit yogurt dip with it. 

•    Cheese Bites & Fruits:
 
Grapes and cheese cubes form a delicious lunch dessert or snack. Apple and pineapple slices which have dipped in some lemon juice also taste very delicious with cheese.

•    Sandwich Shapes:
 
Use cookie cutters for removing the bread crusts as well as cutting out different shapes of sandwiches. 

•    Mini Muffins:
 
Think about providing small bagels and muffins having varying flavors. 

•    Beyond Sandwiches:
 
Crackers can be used for coming out of the boredom caused by eating bread too frequently. Ham slices and cheese can also be packed with crackers. Cookie cutters can be used for cutting these slices into exciting shapes. Crackers, meat and cheese should be necessarily packaged separately. 

Make It Special:
You can occasionally put in a note in your kid’s lunch which expresses your love. You can also include cartoons and smiley faces in these notes.