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Super Healthy School Lunch Ideas
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Also, you can sneak in a few fruits or vegetables when you get creative with their drinks. Fruit smoothies, chia seed energy drinks, even frozen yogurt that melts over the course of a morning makes for a healthy, nutritious drink that your child will love.
One last tip; make things even easier on yourself by making a duplicate list and keep it in the glove box of your car or in your purse. When you do your shopping, consider the things that your child will need in order to make most of the lunches on the list you have created. Nothing puts a real damper on things like having your child jumping around the kitchen with joy at the thought of having ham and cheese on crackers, only to find out that you have run out of ham.
When it comes to school lunches, a little planning and organization beforehand will make school lunch planning less of a chore and more of a joy. Let your children do as much of the work (and planning) as you possibly can to ensure an even greater success rate.
Also, when holidays come around, this is the perfect time to slip a little treat into your child’s lunch to let them know you are thinking of them and delight them at the same time. For example, perhaps for Easter (or springtime) you might want to stick an oatmeal cookie in the shape of a rabbit or flower in their lunch. Finding a special treat from you every now and then will make your child look forward to opening that lunchbox and seeing if today is the day mom or dad left a treat in their lunch.
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After an hour or so investment in time to set up the menu and get the necessary items to store your lunch time foods, this system is so easy and so time saving that, after the age of 10 or so, other than the shopping, your child should be able to choose and make their own lunches with little or no help from you at all.
That, my friends, is a blessing! After all, don’t you have enough to do?
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