Well, September is here, schoolhouse is foremost together with it is fourth dimension for packing
lunches ane time again! The higher upwards dejeuner was made past times my 8 twelvemonth erstwhile daughter. It is composed of a quesadilla made alongside refried beans together with ii brownish rice tortillas, blackberries together with sliced nectarines, sliced carrots together with cucumbers, raw cashews, almonds, together with chocolate chips. As y'all tin see, rattling unproblematic together with nutritious, sum of key nutrients for a growing together with developing brain.
This calendar month I am hosting a wonderful monthly blogging lawsuit called Go Ahead Honey, It's Gluten Free! This lawsuit was created past times the lovely Naomi Devlin of Straight into Bed Cakefree together with Dried. And my theme, of course, is: Ideas for Packing a Healthy School Lunch! This is a means for you, a reader or blogger, to submit a link together with photograph of your recipe and/or ideas to me past times the halt of this calendar month (please, no after than September 27th) together with I volition post them all to my weblog on the 30th of this month. If y'all don't convey a blog, delight experience gratis to submit a brusque recipe or listing of ideas alongside a photograph together with I volition post it along alongside the links from other bloggers. Please electronic mail me your post attached alongside a digital photograph to ali@nourishingmeals (dot) com.
In the meantime, (while nosotros are waiting for all of your lovely ideas) I convey a few ideas myself to share. First off, if y'all haven't read the post I did final twelvemonth on Packing a Healthy School Lunch y'all mightiness desire to banking concern check it out. I convey a colorful chart alongside pictures of foods inwards each nutrient grouping that y'all tin download, print, together with post on your fridge for a quick reminder of what to pack. This means your modest tin conduct a nutrient from each category to exercise a healthy, balanced lunch.
Main Dish/Protein Ideas:
Summer Black Bean Salad (made without the spicy peppers)
Rice, Garbanzo Bean, together with Kale Salad (my kids dear this one!)
Spring Herb Quinoa Salad (my 5yr erstwhile daughter's favorite!)
Garlic Rosemary White Bean Dip on sliced staff of life alongside cucumbers
Slices of Roasted Chicken
Moroccan Chickpea together with Potato Soup (an absolute favorite of my kids)
Quesadilla slices made alongside brownish rice tortillas, refried dark beans, together with spinach
Vegetables/Fruits:
Green Smoothie (poured into a little drinking glass offend alongside a tight-fitting lid)
Mixed greens alongside a little container of Salad Dressing on the side
Slices of cucumbers, carrots, together with celery (my kids similar unproblematic best)
Celery sticks alongside almond butter spread into them
Any in-season whole or sliced fruit
Grains:
Sticky Brown Rice inwards nori rolls (all-time favorite of my kids)
Whole Grain Flatbread (yeast-free)
Carrot Raisin Buckwheat Muffin (my kids beg me to brand these!)
Treats:
We don't e'er convey treats unopen to simply when nosotros exercise it would hold upwards some of the next (fruit is sometimes the best together with easiest process of all):
I am actually looking forrad to sharing your post on Ideas for packing a Healthy School Lunch. Please recall to submit it alongside an attached photograph past times September 27th, 2010! Thanks! :)