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Great lunch box ideas
Nicola from Halifax, Yorkshire asks:
Q. Does anyone have any great ideas for lunch boxes, how can I make my six year old eat healthy foods as well as his treats?
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Lorraine from Dartford
A. Make the food fun and bite size. Use biscuit cutters to cut sandwiches into shapes, cut carrots into sticks and mix different coloured fruits together. Kids, especially boys tend to be a bit lazy so if you give them a whole apple chances are they wont eat it, cut it into slices or chunks and they will eat it and not realise it is healthy.
Using stickers to seal sandwich bags and drawing a face on a banana with a non-toxic marker can add a bit of fun to an otherwise boring lunch box.
Other parents ideas
Simon from London
A. Start them young. If you get fresh fruit into their diet from an early stage, you'll have less of a problem. Quite the opposite - they actually complain when things are too sweet!
Jason from Highbury
A. Our kids love drinking yogurts and smoothies. However even 'kid size' smoothies are a bit big for little kids so we reuse the pots that the drinking yogurts come in, fill them with smoothie and they are just right for a lunch box.
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