Dear mykidstime parents,

As its back to school time I know that I should be writing about lunch box ideas but my views haven’t changed at all since I wrote about the same topic last year.  Since there are so many new parents subscribing to the news letter I’m going to give you my tips again.  Please put your own lunchbox ideas on the forum for us all to read too, the more inspiration the better.

Rather than using lunchtime to try out new foods on children I prefer to give them a healthy lunch that I know they will eat.  I try new foods at dinnertime when I’m there, I generally find this to be more successful.

The components of my lunchboxes are the same every day and within that formula I change the ingredients. They always contain:  1 bottle of water, 2 pieces of fruit or 1 piece of fruit and some vegetable sticks, 1 yogurt/actimil, 1 sandwich or pasta salad.

On a Friday I’ll put in a treat maybe a slice of Banana Cake Bread or a scone.  Never chocolate and nothing with nuts.

Click here to read a few of my lunchbox tips

Judy