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Healthy Lunchbox Menus
These menus have been put together by nutritionist Surinder Phull in response to a Capri-Sun 100% Juice survey showing that many children will ditch the healthy foods that they are given in their lunch boxes. Says Surinder "Presenting fruit and vegetables in an appealing way to children using inventive recipes can be really useful."
Menu 1
- Tortilla wrap with chopped, cooked chicken breast, avocado & natural yoghurt
- Mango cubes/pineapple chunks/apple slices
- Cereal bar with fruits and seeds
- Carrot shapes (batons, circles) or baby carrots with individual portion of cream cheese dip
- Orange Capri-Sun 100% Juice
Menu 2
- Pasta Salad: pasta bows with spoonful of pesto, chopped cherry tomatoes and yellow pepper squares and feta cheese cubes.
- Pure fruit bar (fruit leather, dried fruit bar)
- Small yoghurt (choose low sugar options and freeze the night before in hot weather)
- 2 cheese flavoured oatcakes or breadsticks
- Apple Capri-Sun 100% Juice
Menu 3
- Mini stuffed pitta breads:
- One with ham, lettuce, grated carrot and sultanas
- One with peanut butter** and mashed banana
- Small fromage frais pot
- Small box of dried raisins
- Apple Capri-Sun 100% Juice
Menu 4
- Multigrain bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon trimmings (or tinned salmon) and lettuce.
- Small pack of mini cucumbers (kids packs available in some supermarkets)
- Apple crisps or apple flavoured rice cakes
- Berry fruit pot; small pot with selection any of the following: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries.
- Orange Capri-Sun 100% Juice
Menu 5
- Pitta or flatbread chips (cut bread into triangles, sprinkle with grated cheese and grill until it melts)
- Vegetable sticks (place combination of coloured pepper squares, cucumber chunks and cooked chicken breast/cheese or ham pieces on sticks)
- Blueberry muffin
- Red and white grape mix
- Apple Capri-Sun 100% Juice
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Top Tips To Encourage Children To Eat Healthily TV parenting expert and clinical psychologist Claire Halsey (Driving Mum and Dad Mad) with some top tips on different ways to get children to eat more healthily and develop positive attitudes towards food. Eating Together = Family Health & Happiness? There’s no doubting that it’s often a challenge to get the family sat down to a meal together. Parents working longer hours, kids with more schoolwork and busier social lives than ever, and let’s not even mention the less-than-enthusiastic reactions – or the fact you’re probably trying to get them eating nutritionally! Chocolate, Nut & Cherry Biscuit Squares This tasty recipe is easy to prepare and is always popular with kids.
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