Active Kids Get Cooking

The Healthy Lunch Challenge

 Suggested age

 7 - 9 years 

Award -  Exploring healthier lunchboxes

Plan and make a healthier lunchbox, which contains a sandwich or salad and promotes variety and balance.

Getting started

• Discuss the different types of sandwiches and salads children eat when they have a packed lunch.
• Set up a tasting session so children can try different ingredients that could be used to make a sandwich or salad.
• Get the children to research different salads or sandwiches using the internet, looking in magazines or carrying out surveys.

Activity ideas to meet the challenge

• Plan and make a sandwich you could take on a school picnic.
• Make a super salad for a winter or summer lunchbox that you would share with your friends.
• Make a savoury dish that could be included in a lunchbox, e.g. baked spring roll or samosa.

Resources on the website to help you teach the challenge

• Balance of Good Health Mini-Poster - shows the Balance of Good Health
• Balance of Good Health Food Groups - review the foods in each group
• Lunchbox Checklist - highlights the main food groups needed in a lunchbox
• Lunchbox Planner - asks children to plan a lunchbox, stating reasons for choice
• Lunchbox Outline - provides a template for children to plan a lunchbox
• Veggie Snacks Recipe - a basic recipe for making veggie snacks
• BLT Recipe - a basic recipe for a BLT sandwich
• Vegetable Samosa Recipe - a basic recipe for baked samosas

Links

• Food - a fact of life - interactive activity, based on the Balance of Good Health
• Food - a fact of life - interactive activity, helping to plan a healthy lunchbox
• Lunchbox Ideas - suggestions from the FSA
• Packed lunch ideas for all occasions - suggestions from the BNF
• Healthy Lunchbox - a lunchbox sign-posting site

 

 

Active Kids Get Cooking June 2009