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749KMeals produced using frozen or canned ingredients can be just as nutritious, cost effective and convenient as those made with fresh ingredients. This recipe book - developed by NAQ Nutrition - includes a collection of recipes and menu plans for schools to supply when there is limited access to fresh produce.
Congratulations to the Queensland Tuckshop Sandwich Designers of the Year:
As part of the National Nutrition Week 2015 Try for 5 Veg 2.0M campaign, NAQ Nutrition has developed learning activities that can be utilised in primary school classrooms and used to support the implementation of fruit and vegetable breaks such as Crunch&Sip in schools.
As part of National Nutrition Week 2013 and 2014, NAQ Nutrition developed two classroom resource kits suitable for primary and secondary schools. The resources aim to assist students and teachers to cook, eat and enjoy good food, every day.
An online video to support teachers is also available.
All children, no matter what their weight, height, gender or age need to eat from the five core food groups every day. To do this, aim to include in your child's lunchbox, fruit, wholegrain bread, salad or vegetables, meat or a meat alternative and reduced fat dairy such as cheese.
A healthy lunch will give your child the essential nutrients and sustained energy they need to concentrate throughout the school day.
Take these lessons to make your child's lunch box healthy, interesting and appetising.
Use an insulated lunchbox or bag to help keep your child's lunch chilled and fresh. Using frozen bread and rolls helps keep your sandwiches cool and fresh. Adding a frozen water bottle to the lunchbox will not only keep the lunch cool but also hydrate your child during the day.
Making the same lunch day after day can become a little boring for both you and your child. Try to mix it up by having some lunchbox items cooked beforehand and frozen. Mini muffins, both sweet and savoury, and mini quiche are easy to make and freeze well. Try these sandwich filling combinations for a tasty change:
There's lots of fun and interesting ways to include fruit and vegetables in a lunchbox. Make up fruit kebabs on paddle pop sticks. Use small cookie cutters to make fun shapes such as hearts, stars and flowers. These work particularly well with watermelon and rockmelon. Cut up vegetable sticks such as cucumber, carrot or capsicum and add to the lunchbox with a dipping sauce such as salsa, hummus or avocado. Fill celery sticks with reduced fat cream cheese and top with sultanas.
With sushi being so popular, try turning your sandwich into a sushi roll in a few easy steps.
Step 1: Take two slices of wholemeal bread and cut off the crusts. Flatten bread slices with a rolling pin.
Step 2: Spread each slice with reduced-fat cream cheese or a similar spread such as avocado, hummus or reduced fat mayonnaise.
Step 3: Lay your chosen filling at the bottom of each slice - If you're using vegetable sticks such as carrot, cucumber or capsicum cut them to approximately 15cm in length. You can also let the vegetables hang over the edges for that real sushi look.
Step 4: Roll up the bread, pressing gently to seal, then cut each roll in half. If necessary, use some more cream cheese to seal the roll if necessary. Serve with chopsticks for a great lunchbox surprise.
Sweet chilli chicken - reduced fat cream cheese, sweet chilli sauce, cucumber, carrot and chicken.
Tuna and salad reduced fat cream cheese, canned tuna, corn, avocado, carrot, cucumber.
Mediterranean hummus, baby spinach leaves, lean roast meat or ham and capsicum.
Think about what you will need for your child's lunchbox when doing your weekly shopping. When you plan before you shop, you will know what you have on hand to pack, and what you might need to buy. It will save you time and money!
This page was last reviewed on 12 Jan 2016 at 10:35AM
The Sassy Chef, Alison Taafe, 2014 Tuckshop Sandwich Designer of the Year, Anna Keefe and 2013 Australian Sandwich King, Mal Gill
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