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Healthy Lunch Ideas for School: Nurturing Your Child's Relationship with Food

Packing your child's lunch for school can be challenging, but it is essential to develop a nutritional diet that works for children. It's easy to opt for prepackaged or fast food, but educating children about food is key. Tailoring nutrition to meet each child's needs and involving them in food choices can help them understand the importance of nourishing their bodies. Avoid power struggles and use mealtime to teach children how food helps them grow and stay energized. Montessori-style lunch packing tips and essential daily lunch components ensure a balanced meal for your child.

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Healthy Lunch Ideas for School: Nurturing Your Child's Relationship with Food

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  1. Packing your child’s lunch for school

  2. The Challenges • To develop a nutritional diet that works for children. • Far too easy and convenient to choose prepackaged, processed, and/or fast-food. • Pressure from children themselves.

  3. What can we do • The key to addressing this problem, as Dr. Montessori would no doubt tell us, is EDUCATION. • Tailor nutrition to satisfy each child’s requirements as each child is different. • Create an environment in which children can build an understanding of what food is and what it does for their body. • The more the children own their food, the more they will eat it.

  4. What food is: • Food is nourishing your body. • Food is making sure you have enough energy to run and jump and play. • Food is helping your body to grow. • Food is about learning to listen to your body. Our body knows when it needs more food. • Food comes in many colors and flavors, shapes and sizes.

  5. What food is not: • Food is not necessary when you don’t need it. • Food is not a reward. • Food is not a punishment. • Food is not a power struggle. • Food is not about love or anger. • Food is not about worry or fear.

  6. Ideas for helping children develop their relationship with food: • Offer a wide variety of foods, colors, texturesand tastes. • Talk about the food. • Allow children to be involved in the food preparation. • Talk about the nutrients in food and what they do for you. • Try not to force your child. • Don’t offer ‘special kid food.’ • Treats are best kept for special occasions. • Offer as many whole food options as possible. • Stick with mealtime rules. • Allow children to feed themselves.

  7. Pack your child’s lunch Montessori style • Please label everything with your child’s name. • Provide spoon, fork and a napkin with your child’s lunch. • Make sure the water bottle is easy for the child to use without spilling. • Make sure that your child can open boxes independently. • Make sure that food is easily manageable and not to messy. • Be aware of portion size so your child does not get over whelmed (lunch time is for 30 minutes).

  8. Every day your child’s lunch should include: • A protein: turkey, chicken, ham, cheese, Greek yogurt, hummus, cottage cheese, black beans etc. • A fruit: berries, apple, melon, orange, banana, peach, grapes etc. • A vegetable: carrot, cucumber, tomato, salad, peppers, beans, peas, corn, broccoli etc. • A grain: whole grain bread, tortilla, pasta, crackers, pretzel, bagel, pita bread etc. • A drink: milk or water.

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