Lunchbox Hints and Tips
Salad Days
When the weather warms up, salads are a great change from sandwiches and they are packed with essential vitamins and minerals.
- Eat a rainbow of colours by using a selection of salad vegetables, including radish, grated carrot, red, yellow and green peppers, it's a great way of ensuring your child is eating a range of vitamins and minerals.
- Add an assortment of seeds such as sunflower, pumpkin and sesame, plus dried fruits like apricots, sultanas and raisins.
- Pop in some low fat protein for example chicken, Edam, or lean ham.
- For a change, give a bean salad a go with a mix of kidney beans, haricot beans and chickpeas, perhaps with an olive oil and lemon dressing.
- A bag of vegetables makes a great snack. Try cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas, sticks of carrot or chunks of pepper.
