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Packing a Lunch
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As your child heads off to preschool or elementary school, you may need to provide a lunch for him that will be nutritious, travel well, and -- at mealtime -- be eaten. Those guidelines can be easy to follow with a few tips, tricks, and some involvement from your child.
These days, lunches don't have to be relegated to a sandwich (although those work perfectly well). But, for variety, you might also roll up meats, cheeses, and veggies into a tortilla or stuff them into a pita pocket.
While you might not have the time to whip up a hot meal before school starts, plan your nighttime meals with leftovers in mind that can be perfectly apportioned for the next day's lunch. Then, gather up goods that...
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Lunches can be really, really easy if you are willing to use packaged foods and simple staples. And you don't have to feel guilty when you consider that your kid is probably eating more, better food from your slap-dash lunches that he would be if he was being his picky-eater self at the cafeteria.
Here are some good, quick, throw-it-in-the-bag ideas:
- Nuts - Peanuts, sunflower seeds, pistachios (good protein)
- Dried fruit - apricots, cranberries, raisins, mangos (yummy and sweet)
- Fresh fruit - apples, oranges, tangerines, nectarines (easy, easy)
- Fresh veggies - baby carrots, celery, red pepper slices
- Protein or nutrition bars (pricey, but guilt-reducing)
- Crackers - wheat thins, triscuits, goldfish
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Juice box or pouch
Notice that most of these things do not require refrigeration or preparation. A perfectly good lunch can be thrown together in less than a minute with almost no clean up. And the best news is, your kid will proabaly actually eat these things.
That way you can save the PB&J for weeknights when you are too exhausted to cook!!!
Put little notes or pictures or comics in the lunch as a special surprise for your child
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