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Our New Years resolution was to stop using plastic bags and to eat at least 5 servings for fruits and vegetables in our lunches. Does anyone have any suggestions other than carrots or snap peas and standard fruit for ideas for lunches for school??? My son is starting to turn orange!
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My kids love fresh green beans. They are easy to throw in a lunch and don't need any dipping sauce! Also, we make ants on a log, which is celery filled with peanut butter and raisins on top. Kids love em!
I guess my kids were funny, but they liked it when I send green pepper strips with them. And yellow or red pepper strips if you can get those. I could never keep green peppers around because one or the other was always snacking on them. Maybe yours are too young to have acquired the taste for this strong veggie. Or what about a cucumber cut into slices.
Yeah! what great resolutions! like marie, i highly recommend red pepper slices. my seven yr old loves them. if i ever try to cook them in a stir fry for dinner, she ends up eating most of them before they even make it into the pan :)
my kids also like cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, and grape tomatoes are another good school snack.
Cut up broccoli & cauliflower. In our family we call them "trees" and the kids have a great time bitting the tops off of their "trees." Also, celery sticks filled with peanut butter or light cream cheese are a great snack or lunch item as well.
When I was younger my Mom always put celery with cream cheese or peanut butter and apple slices with peanut butter on them. I also enjoyed banana and peanut butter sandwiches. I know it sounds weird but it's actually very good.
Two similiar snacks I enjoy year round- Take a ripe peach, cut all the way around it, as to half it, pull it apart, remove pit. Or take and apple and slice it however you like. Now have a container of just puregranola, you can find jars of it usually near the health bars, squish your fruit down in it for a delicious crunch and healthy snack. I actually bought one of those Reynolds "seal a bag"....they are cheap and suck all the air out so if sending to school, the fruit will not brown. Enjoy!
Another idea is dried fruit snacks, you can dehydrate your own, we grow our own peaches <YES, in Ma.>, and dry some to enjoy all winter long.We sweeten it with spleda and cinnimon ! There is an supermarket brand called "Bare Fruit" which has nothing but the dried fruit in it and is pretty good for a healthy, easy alternative.
~Amy