A Guide To Healthy Packed Lunches

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Oakdale Infant School

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A Guide to
Healthy Packed Lunches
What’s in my lunchbox? Create your own lunchbox...

Draw or write your own


1. Main dish healthy lunch ideas here:
Switch up your
sandwich!
Use pitta,
wholegrain bread,
tortilla wraps or a
bagel...

2. Fruit and salad


Carrot & cucumber sticks,
cherry tomatoes,
strawberries, rasp-
Be adventurous... What’s in my lunchbox?

Get your chef hats on and try


something new! 3. Snack
Fruit pots, popcorn, rice
Here are a few ideas to get you cakes, dried fruits for
started: a little sweetness.
Recipes are available on the NHS website below

Soft cheese Spicy 4. Drink


& salad chicken & Quench that thirst with a fruit
sandwich salad wrap
smoothie, some
semi-skimmed milk,
water or a diluted juice!
Cheesy Egg
coleslaw with mayonnaise
wholemeal and
lettuce bap We are a NO NUTS school.
pitta
This includes peanut butter,
pesto, Nutella and some
All information in this booklet and more is available cereal bars.
on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/change4life
We do not allow crisps, chocolate, cakes and biscuits
Tips & Tricks
in lunch boxes as we are Healthy Schools.

GET YOUR KIDS INVOLVED


Children are more likely to CRISPS
eat their lunch if they As tasty as they may
helped prepare it. be, they are quite
Let them get their hands
unhealthy!
dirty!
Swap them out for
popcorn or rice cakes
TINNED FRUIT (in juice) instead. Yum!
It might not seem like it but these
are perfect for lunchboxes.
Swap out the cakes and cereal
bars for some exotic
peach & pineapple slices! CHOCOLATES,
CAKES & BISCUITS

Cereal bars too...


Why not try malt loaf,
BITE SIZED FRUIT
Chopped fruit will go down a
fruited teacakes, fruit
treat because it’s easier to eat! breads or dried fruit like
A squeeze of lemon juice apricots & raisins?
will stop them from
browning.

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