Pick of the Crop
Healthy lunchbox week is next week! (5-11 Feb)
It’s all about inspiring families to create healthy and enjoyable lunchboxes ? Nutrition Australia have some amazing free factsheets, recipes and videos online. The assembly of a healthy lunchbox should not be stressful, too time consuming and costly but an enjoyable and even salivating experience (especially if you are hungry!). Just a reminder to please keep it simple! A vegemite/cheese sandwich is totally fine however if you want to provide that extra nutrient and energy boost slapping on some avo works an absolute treat.
A sandwich aka sammie is a lunchbox stable! So I thought I’d provide some basic steps to creating the ultimate delish sammie:
- Choose your base - sliced bread, wraps or rolls – choose whole grain, wholemeal or high fibre varieties. Ps. If you have a picky eater try using one slice white and one slice wholemeal bread or use a high fibre white bread.
- Favourite flavour – use a spread like vegemite, hummus, nut butter or avocado to add a pop of flavour, colour and nutrients.
- Veg out - use a handful of salad leaves or any other raw or cooked vegetables you have at home. Ps. Leftovers are the best so don’t look past last night’s leftover roast pumpkin or zucchini ect. – extra flavour too!
- Protein power - cheese, tuna, boiled egg, crushed beans or leftover roast meat ect.
Endless combos to be sampled by your lil’ ones! You just never know what veg/fruit they might like now ?
Here is a lil’ taste of the amazing content available - Chicken and avo wrap recipe:
Important POTC regional update
Sadly my contract is concluding next week here at BSS... ☹ I have loved every moment of working with students, teachers/principals, guardians/parents, and other key community members involved across Bowen and the Burdekin regions but a special thank you to BSS as my host organisation for all their support and guidance! Together we have achieved great things, big and small and are on our way to seeing ‘fruitful’ healthier eating habits in our lil’ ones, if you haven’t seen the shift already ? I will always been known as the ‘science lady’ by BSS students and going away with this additional title is just the best! It is not all bad news for the program however as it is expanding to more schools in Northern Queensland and soon a new regional coordinator will be based in Townsville and will still support BSS and the surrounding participating schools across the regions.