- educarenorth.co.nz
The kickoff of the new school year is an excellent time to kick off the introduction of healthy snacks, drinks and desserts into your child’s lunchbox.
Although it has been over twenty years since I was in the cafeteria surveying the contents of my lunchbox, not much has changed since then. My lunchbox contents were not horrific, but being the retro 1980s, simple and smart snack, drink and dessert options were limited. Fortunately, today, many items are available at the local supermarkets, which are tasty and nutritious, and won’t cause your child to pawn off their lunch items to their classmates or choose a candy bar or bag of cookies as their “lunch.”
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.