Packed Lunches

Patient Education

Packed lunches for school need not be boring. Just with a little bit of imagination, they can be fun and healthy.

Always keep in mind to include the 4 main food groups, pop in a drink, and away you go!

1. Start with the basics: bread, cereal and potatoes group:
• Try different types of breads, e.g. sliced bread, bun, bagels, wholemeal bread or white.
• Rice, potatoes noodles, rice flour or wheatflour based chapattis.
2. Add a tasty filling:
   

   • Try eggs,
   • Nuts,
   • Beans or pulses shredded chicken in your lunch box.
3. Add colour to your lunch box by adding fruits and vegetables.
4. Dairy delights: try to include dairy products in your lunch box- important to keep your teeth healthy and your bones strong.
5. Added extras: Fancy a treat in your lunch box? Just try and make healthier choices when you can.

Pop in a drink:

Choose from:

• Water

• Plain milk or flavoured milk (rose flavour)

• Fruit juice cartons

Ideas for you to try including the above food groups:

• Mashed potatoes toasted sandwiches or alu parathas

• Fried rice

• Egg mayonnaise with cucumber

• Stuffed parathas with beans like mng dal

• Mixed bean salad with cucumber, tomato.

• Chapatti roll with shredded cooked chicken.

• Rice with peas.

• Make mixed pulses khichdi

• Take fresh fruit like apple, orange, banana or small packet of mixed dried fruits.

• Chopped raw vegetables like sticks of carrots, slices of cucumber or tomatoes and beetroot.

• To roll your favourite bhaji into chapattis like bhindi (okra), brinjal or capsicum

• Stuffed parathas with your favourite vegetables.

• Take small pot of yoghurt.

• Take small pot of shrikhand

• Try stuffed cheese or paneer parathas.

• Small cube of cheese

• Take small box of homemade rice pudding or kheer.

• Take packet of crisp or piece of fruit cake or fruit bun

• Plain biscuits or wafer biscuits

• Fun sized chocolates.