Dietitian Bobbie Crothers has 15 simple and delicious ways to sneak more health into your child’s lunchbox!
| Instead of | Do this |
|---|---|
| Making a sandwich on white bread? | If your kids won’t eat anything but white bread, switch to Wonder White Hi Fibre Plus white bread. It will increase the fibre by more than 3g per sandwich. |
| A regular tub of yoghurt | Make yoghurt fun with a Yoplait Go-Gurt yoghurt – the sachet packs are more convenient and can also be frozen. |
| A box of plain sultanas | Pack something a little different and add a box of Sunbeam’s Sultana Bursts with Raspberry flavour. Yum! |
| Plain Sakata rice crackers | Try Real Foods Corn Thins. You’ll ditch a third of the sodium and get six times more fibre per serve. |
| A Nature Valley Almond Roasted muesli bar | Slip a Berry Be Natural Trail Bar into their lunchbox – it has more than double the fibre per bar. |
| A Seakist Lunchkit with tuna and sweetcorn in mayo for snack time | Go for a tub of John West Tuna & Beans and save over 260kJ and 2.7g saturated fat. |
| Making sandwiches with luncheon deli meats | Skip the preservatives and use skinless shredded barbecued chicken. |
| A box of salted mixed nuts | Opt for an individual pack of Lucky’s Natural Almonds. They still get a dose of healthy fats, without all the sodium. |
| Adding a Just Juice Apple Juice popper to the lunchbox | Go for V8’s Tropical Fruit & Veg juice poppers. They have double the vitamin C and contain vitamin A. |
| Adding Kraft Original Cheese Singles to sandwiches | Swap to their 97% fat free singles and lose over 2g saturated fat per slice. |
| Tossing in a packet of Smith’s Chips Original | Give them a ziplock bag full of air-popped popcorn and drop over 240mg sodium per 50g. |
| Packing up some Nice & Natural Fruit Strings | Go for an Uncle Tobys Fruit Fix and increase the fibre by 1.6g, minus the added sugar. |
| Including Arnott’s Honey Tiny Teddy biscuits in their lunch | Give them some Kellogg’s Sultana Bran Buds – they have six times more fibre per serve. |
| Canned or packaged fruit | Go with fresh fruit; it’s just as convenient and you’ll get all the fruit goodness, without any added sugar. |
| Crackers and cheese | Give them some easy-to-eat carrot, celery and capsicum sticks with low-fat hommous to sneak a few more vegies into their day. |