Packing Attractive Lunch Boxes For The Kids
December 27, 2008
Kids love to have their lunches if the snacks are innovative and different looking. Therefore, if you want your kids to eat their snacks, then start thinking about how to pack the lunch boxes in an innovative way. Although packing an attractive lunch box is not as easy as it seems to be.
Usually the kids don’t eat even the wonderful things you pack for them. It can be a real challenge for you to pack the perfect food item for them. Thus start thinking of packing those food items, which are sufficiently healthy for your kids as they are good in taste.
It is significant to make food items which are tasty to eat as well as healthy. To ensure that your kid eats the lunch, figure out what he enjoys eating. Ask him to suggest the fruits or vegetables he wants to have for lunch. Remember variety adds spice to life. Therefore pack small quantity of varieties of food. Children are attracted towards novelty, so pack their lunches in an attractive and innovative way.
If you are keeping sandwiches for their lunch, then you can try something new like cutting them in interesting and different shapes, making the sandwich colorful or using different types of bread. If fruits are there in the lunch box, then always peel them and cut them before you keep them there. Kids like to eat fruits as they are.
You can replace the normal and whole wheat bread by rice cakes, chapattis, pancakes, or brown pita. Always ensure that you include some salad, cucumber or tomato in their sandwich. They are tasty as well as healthy. If cheese is what your kids want, then go for low fat cheese like cottage cheese. You can also make fruit salad. Children will enjoy it as it’s colorful with a variety of fruits in them. You can also keep mixed dry fruits in their lunch boxes. Encourage your kids to have fresh fruit juices instead of the carbonated drinks as they are high on sugar and calories.
To start off here is a healthy and simple lunch box recipe for your kids:-
Pickle roll:-
Ingredients:- a jar of dill pickles, one pack of softened ice cream cheese, one pound of sliced ham and ten tortillas.
Procedure: – spread the cream cheese on one slice of tortilla. Now place a slice of ham and again spread cream cheese on the ham. Now roll a pickle in the tortilla and cut the roll into small pieces. If you want, you can also refrigerate it.
Try this recipe and watch your kid enjoy it.































