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Healthy Lunchbox Ideas

In a UK government survey, the contents of 74% of lunch boxes for children were below the nutritional standards set for school meals.

Anyone who works in a school or nursery sees children who bring in a jam sandwich on white bread, a packet of crisps and a bar of chocolate for lunch. Packed with salt, fat, sugar, no veg, no protein, no fruit – a disaster.

These are the nutritional guidelines for lunch, for a child aged 9-12:
  • Energy 585kcal
  • Fat 23.7g of which saturated fat 7.5g
  • Carbohydrate 81.3g
  • Salt 1.83g
There is no guideline for the amount of sugar, which is found in carbohydrate, starchy foods, as well as in fruit and vegetables. Added sugar, which causes tooth rot, is high in juice drinks, fizzy drinks and many processed foods.

It can be hard to think of something appetising that’s also healthy, We hope these suggestions help you pack healthy lunch boxes for children.

Useful Webpages:
  • Change4Life
  • UK Food Standards Agency
  • Netmums
  • School food trust
  • Good to know - lunchboxes
  • Food a fact of life
  • British Heart Foundation
  • Good Food Channel
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Need Some Help?

If your school, group or organisation would like a fun, informative, interactive workshop session around packing good food in lunchboxes give us a call on 0333 444 7325 or:
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Documents to download:
  • Healthier Lunchboxes
  • Healthy packed lunches
  • Pack it in!
  • Low cost packed lunch menus
  • Low effort packed lunch menus
  • Vegetarian packed lunch menus

These documents are supplied as PDF files.
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