Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- Lunch box or brown bag
- Healthy food
- Right amount of food
- Water, juice, or unsweeted tea
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Step 1
SANDWICH: A lunch meat sandwich on wheat or whole wheat bread is healthy, because most lunch meat are very low in fat. As long as you don't pile on the mayo or fattening dressing this can be very healthy. You could even add a slice to tomato and some lettuce.
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Step 2
SIDES: For healthy sides you could include sugar free jell-o packs or light chips. You could even pack low-fat granola bars to get your protein.
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Step 3
SNACKS: If you like munching on thing throughout the day, choose healthy snacks to pack. Carrots, frozen grapes, or celery with peanut butter are some great choices.
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Step 4
DRINKS: Pack a bottle of water, low-sugar juice, or unsweetened tea for a drink to sip on with your lunch. You could also take sweetener to sweeten your juice or tea.
Comments
pushkina said
on 4/5/2009 short version: a little girl in my daughter's pre-school died after kissing her favorite teacher good morning; teacher had eaten PB at breakfast.Be aware of your child's school policies about nuts: save a life!
pushkina said
on 4/5/2009 NOTE: Many schools now have a NO NUTS/ NO PEANUTS policy, as there are increasingly rising numbers of children resenting with lethal nut allergies.Be sure to be aware of your school's policy on nuts. If it is a "No Nuts Ever" school, understand that includes ALL nuts, even those in banana bread, some kinds of candy, the ubiquitous peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Those policies are important: if a child has a severe peanut/nut allergy and, for example, their classmate who sits next to them had peanut butter toast for breakfast, sometimes, just the lingering smell of the peanut butter can trigger a reaction. Such reactions often require Epi-Pens, visits from the paramedics, trips to Emergency Rooms to keep that child alive.As a parent, I refused to believe in the severity and danger of nut allergies, after all, none of us ever had them as kids; we all lived only on PB
Left-hander said
on 9/8/2008 I'm a regular "brown bagger" and always carry my little water bottle everywhere. I'm following a lot of your advice, acole!
luv2blog said
on 9/8/2008 Sounds good. Thanks!
alienangel555 said
on 9/7/2008 All good stuff. 5