Kids Lunch Box - Let’s make it yummy and healthy!

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Kids Lunch Box – Let’s make it yummy and healthy!

Hello Qurbook readers and mothers, is your little one very picky with food choices? How many of you are facing challenges with what to pack in your kids’ school lunch boxes? Most of the mothers are tired of seeing the filled tiffin boxes after school.

Today we will discuss how you can make healthy and joyful food for your little one. You can deliver health and taste both in your kids’ school lunch box.

Nowadays it is a big fact that kids are very picky about their food, they prefer not to have vegetables, fruit, and other healthy foods rather than junk ones. I am sure all mothers out there are having a serious worry about how to serve nutrition to their kids which can ensure their adequate growth and development.

As we all know, nutrition is very important for kids; it is one of the primary areas that can ensure the overall growth and development of your kids. Inadequate nutrition can lead to several ailments in children like child obesity, underweight issues, low immunity, nutrient deficiency, lack of energy, etc.

An ideal school lunch box should be a source of all the nutrients. Usually, incorporating vegetables is becoming a challenge to mothers for their kids, so here are some ways how to make interesting, tasty, and healthy tiffin lunches for your little one,

Let us start with unleavened flatbread (Chapathi), usually, it is one of the go-to choices for school lunch boxes. To make it unavoidable for kids, you can pick any seasonal green leafy vegetables, dark colored vegetables that your kids do not prefer to eat usually, just boil the vegetables, and paste them with oats, then you can mix the paste with any flour and make pancakes out of this batter. It will not only deliver the nutrition but also taste. Pancakes can be a great exchange for the usual cheelas or unleavened flatbread. You can choose cottage cheese for pancake toppings to enhance the protein quantity. Dark-colored vegetables are rich in Vitamins and minerals, like Vit-A, Vit-C, Vit-K, Iron, Calcium, Zinc, and Folic Acid which is an essential part of growth.

Another way to make unleavened flatbread full of nutrition is to make it stuffed. For kids the usual wheat flour unleavened flatbread is not that joyful, they find it boring, and they come up with a lunch box filled with food. You can make the dough by adding spinach paste, pumpkin paste, beetroot carrot paste, some nuts powder, and dry fruit powder. In this way, you can enhance the nutrition of the unleavened flatbread. You can also stuff cottage cheese in the unleavened flatbread to boost the protein availability. Dry fruit and nuts are great sources of Omega fatty acids, which are essential for the growth of the kids.

Now, let us discuss another most common choice for the school lunch box, which is Sandwiches. For all the mothers whose kids are not finishing the lunch box filled with sandwiches, here are some ways to get a solution. So, you can prepare sandwiches with an enormous variety just by adding some good spreads. You just need to mash beetroot, spinach, garlic, and cottage cheese with hung curd in a grinder, it will become a delicious spread with loaded nutrition for your kids. You can easily avoid artificial sandwich spreads, and mayonnaise, if you are opting for the homogenous hung curd spread. It excels in the nutritional values of any sandwich by adding healthy homogenous spreads. It will not only ensure nutritional support but also provide probiotics to take care of the gut and eventually digestive system.

So, as we discussed today, you can incorporate such changes in your little one’s school lunch box. Keep the below-mentioned points in mind while packing the box for your kid:

Food should be freshly cooked.
Keep variety in the boxes just replacing the items with the same ingredients, example: you can make spinach pancakes instead of spinach unleavened flatbread.
Keep all the seasonal vegetables in the boxes by stuffing them into unleavened flatbread, and sandwiches.
Prepare the bread spread with the base of hung curd, it ensures the probiotics availability.
Add nuts powder or dry fruit powder in the flour, which you are going to use to make chapathi or flatbread, paratha, and pancakes.
Say no to junk foods and try to incorporate variety in your home diet.
Junk food includes artificially flavored juices, ketchup, mayonnaise, etc.
Prefer not to give packed fruit juices, try to give whole fruits or freshly prepared juices out of the whole fruits.
Try not to add only cereal and protein sources for the meal, you need to add some fibre too through vegetables.

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