You can provide healthy meals for breakfast and dinner, but what about school?
Your children have two options: (1) eat the food provided by the school, or (2) bring a lunch to school.
Option (1)
School food might not be up to your standards. Those in charge of school food selections seem more and more aware of the need to provide a healthy meal for our children, but another’s standards of what is considered healthy might be different from yours. There are still many processed foods, sugars, and preservatives in school foods. If you are prefer more organic or less gluten in your diet and that of the children, this might not be the best option for you.
Option (2)
The second option is to send your children to school everyday with a meal. This was a struggle for us at first. Often bringing a lunch might just mean: sandwich. We don’t eat much bread and wanted more vegetables and variety. We love the meals we prepare at night at home, but the kids can’t take that to school, could they? Then we remembered something we already knew: thermoses.
Enter the Thermoses:
Thermoses are awesome. They keep cold things cold and hot things hot. We make lots of stir fry, mashed potatoes, or any other kind of hot food, and our children have delicious, nutritious meals — every day! We have even sent some frozen-whipped-fruit snack to school — tastes like ice cream (but very nutritious).
What The? I’m not … Mrs Prissy Perfect Parent!!?
Does it seem too hard to prepare hot meals every morning? We cook meals every night– and just make extra. We warm up or cook the extra in the morning and place it in thermoses.. That easy. This even easier if you have a cooking-blender-contraption thing like a Thermomix. It can take a bit of planning, but it is … well, here are the benefits:
Benefits:
1) Healthier choice
2) Tastier for the children (their friends soon want to do what they are doing)
3) Better for the environment (no waste material to toss out like pre-wrapped food)
4) More economical – it always costs less to make your own food
5) Easier to be involved with your children’s diet – you can see what they don’t eat
There you have it: one idea from our family to yours…
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