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Healthy lunch box

14/9/2018

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Below are a few healthy lunch box ideas to inspire you year-round. 

  • Dairy: the foods in this group are excellent sources of calcium, which is important for strong, healthy bones. Not many other foods in our diet contain as much calcium as dairy foods.
  • Fruit: fruit provides vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and many phytonutrients (nutrients naturally present in plants), that help your body stay healthy.
  • Grain foods: high fibre varieties of breads, rice, pasta, noodles, etc. Refined grain products (such as cakes or biscuits) can be high in added sugar, fat and sodium.
  • Lean meats: Protein builds, maintains, and repairs the tissues in our body. Muscles and organs (such as your heart) are made of protein.
  • Vegetables, legumes and beans: vegetables can make up a large part of your daily food intake and should be encouraged at every meal (including snack times). They provide vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and phytonutrients (nutrients naturally present in plants) to help your body stay healthy.
Here's to a healthy year, healthy lunch boxes and healthy children!!

​Shane
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    How are we doing?

    We have started this page as a way of giving bite-size tips towards healthy living! Whether you are already living as a super-healthy family or you are just starting to think about how to get healthier, we hope that you will find some motivation and ideas to make one small change in your daily or weekly life to leave a health-focussed legacy for your child(ren)! 

    If you have any tips of your own that you would like to share with our community, just reply to any email from us to pass it on - please mark it "FAO Shane" so that it can be easily directed to Shane, who will be doing most of the blogging here!

    We would also appreciate feedback on whether this page is useful and whether we should continue it, stop bothering or even take it up a notch!

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