Find answers to some common questions about packing healthier lunches for school age children and youth.
- What are some fast and easy brown bag lunch ideas for my kids?
- Outlines the basics of a child's healthy bag lunch and stresses the importance of incorporating food preferences. Suggests ways to make packing lunches easier.
- How can I make brown bag lunches quickly that everyone will like?
- Outlines the basics of a healthy lunch and stresses the importance of incorporating food preferences. Suggests ways to improve packing logistics. Provides menu ideas, and suggestions for office co-ordinated lunches.
- How do I make a 'cool' lunch that my child will eat?
- Offers practical ideas on how to prepare nutritious and tasty lunches that have 'child appeal'. Provides a chart listing choices from the various food groups.
Cool Lunch Guide planning chart.
- Making Great Lunches for My Kids
- Outlines lunch making challenges faced by parents. Offers strategy tips on creating healthy lunches.
- Do specific foods cause hyperactivity in children?
- Explores the theories that sugar, artificial food dyes, and preservatives create hyperactive behaviour in children. Outlines the symptoms of food allergies in children and explains how they can affect behaviour.