At home even during the holidays we have fruit only days. I am bad, because if my kids wouldn't eat fruit then that's all they'd get. And when they get home whatever fruit isn't eaten is all they get for afternoon tea.
I am a bad mother.
BUT have you tried putting fruit/veg into muffins and anything you can. When you make it yourself you can hide so much more nutrients than you would be able to normally.
Morning tea -- handful of grapes, half an orange, half an apple, homemade vanilla yogurt
Lunch -- carrot, celery and cucumber sticks and smiles, baby corn, broccoli, homemade oat sort of bar and some wholemeal peta bread with melted parmesan on it (what she thinks is chips lol).
Don't have a picture of everything but here is one of the oat bar thing (oats, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seed, chia, sesame seeds, honey, coconut oil, coconut flakes, cranberries, cacao, cinnamon and vanilla).
My DD doesn't start until Monday but basically she will have: a sandwich (usually ham, cheese & tomato), yoghurt, two pieces of fruit and some sort of treat such as mini cupcake, rice wheels etc...
Sometimes I make pizza pinwheels from puff pastry or do the dip, kabana, cheese etc....
The main staples for DD1's lunches are:
Choc Banana Muffins (Nigella's recipe)
Bacon & Zucchini slice done in muffin tins
Veggie sticks, apple slices and hommus.
I often try to work out what I can do with dinner leftovers for lunches:
Cut up sausage, cheese, veggie sticks and sauce
Sausage sandwiches
Meat and veggie fritter (diced veg and meat in a fritter batter) cut into fingers for dipping in sauce
Homemade pizza
Homemade cheesymite scrolls
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Show us your lunchbox!
Also wouldnt mind your impossible mini quiche recipe you have mentioned elsewhere.
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