Lunchboxes: Tropical Pasta Salad with Cucumber Twists

Today Melissa and Kelsey have a tropical pineapple salad in their lunchboxes with sliced apricots and pineapple chunks. They also have a strawberry and kiwi fruit kebab and a Cucumber Twist. Slightly uninspired yesterday, I simply filled the lunchboxes with whole fruits and mini rice cakes. Melissa's comments yesterday afternoon: "Mom, why have you stopped packing shapes in my lunchbox, it looks like you just stuck the food in to fill the box today."- need I say more.

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Lunchbox Idea: Peanut Butter and Banana Pita Pocket

Another great lunchbox idea, today Melissa and Kelsey have a wholewheat pita filled with peanut butter and banana slices drizzled with honey. They also have a salad skewer of cucumber, baby rosa tomatoes, baby mushrooms and folded lettuce. Carrot stars and fresh strawberries complete the box.

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Lunch Box Idea: Basil pesto tortilla stuffed with garden veg

Decided to try a wrap as todays lunch box idea. (Still trying to find a delicious wholewheat version though.) I filled it with basil pesto, shredded lettuce, bean sprouts, grated carrot and some chopped red pepper. Melissa devoured her wrap and Kelsey's came home without a bite. I also skewered some watermelon balls and large black grapes for a bit of variety and included some trail mix and a peeled minneola.

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On a stick: Fruit Kebabs

Today I chopped up kiwi fruit and orange segments and threaded them on a stick. The girls thoroughly enjoyed these, always amazes me how children think that the taste of food changes when you change the shape. I also found some boxed rice crackers at the spar free of sugar and other additives.These are exclusive to spar but not readily available and I have been unable to find them again. I have asked my local Spar to source them for me and will let you know as soon as they are in stock. The girls love these and they are wonderful to include in their lunchboxes be careful of the regular rice crackers which all supermarkets stock though as they are loaded with additives

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