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Tips for making creative lunchboxes:
Consider where your child’s lunch will be kept during the morning – if it’s warm, bacteria will grow in the food, particularly if it contains meat and dairy products. Putting an icepack in the lunchbox will keep the food fresh and cool. Freezing a drink and putting it in the lunchbox also works well.
The range of specialist lunchbox snacks are greater than ever. For example, Free From Gluten Biscuits are vegan and dairy, lactose and egg free. You can also get gluten-free cakes and slices, dairy-free yoghurt pouches – the options are endless.
Got a picky eater? Children most certainly eat with their eyes, so make the lunch look fun by using cookie cutters to shape sandwiches, threading fruit onto skewers or perhaps including a sauce or dip.
Save money – and plastic – by buying products in bulk and decanting into mini containers, rather than purchasing pre-packed snack packs.
Make use of your freezer. Muffins and pies freeze well, as do some basic filled sandwiches; simply pop in your child’s lunchbox and they’ll be thawed by lunchtime.
Gluten-free pancetta and cheese muffins
Teriyaki chicken rice paper rolls
Gluten-free chicken and kumara sandwiches
Sushi cones
BLT and guacamole sandwiches
Gluten-free egg, bacon and parmesan pies
Lunchbox pesto pasta salad
Asparagus frittata
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