Healthy Lunch Ideas



This week we have a special guest blogger, Jo Whitton. Jo lives on the Atherton Tablelands where she runs her business, Quirky Cooking, from home and enjoys the country life. Due to food intolerances in her family (herself and her four children), Jo began researching ways to improve their health through diet from the time her kids were very young. We asked Jo to give us some hints for school lunches.

It seems like everyone is desperately searching for lunch box ideas that are more than just a vegemite sandwich and an apple. The good news is, there are some AWESOME lunch box ideas out there, so I thought I’d share some here for you as well.

I obviously don’t need to worry about lunch boxes too much myself as we school from home – our lunches will be the usual soups, leftovers, salads, smoothies, bunless burgers, chocolate banana ice cream, and whatever else I happen to be testing in the kitchen for the day! But I DO remember the stress of getting the kids out the door and to the bus on time with a decent lunch – one that wouldn’t come home all smelly and soggy in the bottom of their bag because they didn’t like it.

So here you are, I rounded up some great ideas for you - 



To access a PDF of these great ideas, with links to the recipes, click here.

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