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Include a fruit!!!
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Include
a vegetable!!!
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Use
whole grain bread instead of white.
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Limit
cookies, cakes, and other sweet baked goods.
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Skip
the chips (don’t get caught in the convenience trap).
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Pack
pretzels, Cheerios, bread sticks, or low fat crackers.
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Pack
100% juice.
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Pack
lunch the night before school, when you have a little more time plan on what to pack.
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Be
creative! Mix foods, cut foods differently, have a theme (Wacky Wed.), add
new foods, (exotic fruits…)
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Grocery
shop with your child, and decide on nutritional items for the lunch box
together.
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Watch
out for foods advertised as “health foods” that may not be so healthy;
examples are yogurt high in sugar, granola bars loaded with chips.
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