Lunch Boxes and Snacks: Over 120 healthy recipes from delicious sandwiches and salads to hot soups and sweet treats
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Lunch Boxes and Snacks is packed with mouthwatering recipes that can boost your child's brainpower, increase energy, and strengthen the immune system. You'll find a wide range of delicious and easy lunch ideas, from Oriental Turkey Wraps, Individual Focaccia Pizzas, and Chicken Superfood Salad to Trail Mix Bars and Fruit on a Stick, that guarantee that your child will be the envy of the cafeteria.
In Lunch Boxes and Snacks you will find:
- Inspirations for hot meals that can be packed in a thermos for winter days
- Quick recipes that can be prepared in advance and kept in the fridge or freezer
- Tips to get your child involved in the lunch-making process
- Helpful hints on packing your child's lunch box so that food stays safe to eat
With Annabel's help, even the busiest parents can easily pack a healthy and tasty lunch that their child will look forward to eating.
Annabel Karmel
With a career spanning over thirty years, London born mother of three, Annabel Karmel, has pioneered the way families all over the world feed their babies and children. Credited with starting a food revolution with her trusty recipes and methods, she has become the UK’s no.1 children’s cookery author, bestselling international author, and the mother of all feeding experts with over forty cookbooks including Real Food Kids Will Love and Annabel Karmel's Baby-Led Weaning Recipe Book. In 2006, Annabel received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition, and she has since become recognised as one of the UK’s leading female entrepreneurs.
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Lunch Boxes and Snacks - Annabel Karmel
lunch boxes and snacks
Also by Annabel Karmel
Complete Party Planner
SuperFoods
Top 100 Baby Purees
Favorite Family Meals
The Healthy Baby Meal Planner
For more information, visit
www.annabelkarmel.com
lunch boxes and snacks
Over 120 healthy recipes,
from delicious sandwiches and salads
to hot soups and sweet treats
Annabel Karmel
This book is dedicated to all those parents who can’t face
making yet another peanut butter sandwich, myself included.
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Text copyright © 2003,2007 by Annabel Karmel
Photographs copyright © 2003 by William Lingwood
Photographs copyright © 2007 by Dave King
Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 as Lunchboxes by Ebury Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Karmel, Annabel.
Lunch boxes and snacks: over 120 healthy recipes, from delicious sandwiches and salads to hot soups and sweet treats / Annabel Karmel.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Lunch box cookery. 2. Cookery (Natural foods). I. Title.
TX735.K37 2007
641.5’3—dc22 2007020048
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4892-8
ISBN-10: 1-4165-4892-0
eISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6502-4
contents
the creative lunch box
special sandwiches
savory specialties
crunchy salads
super soups
sweet sensations
index
acknowledgments
the creative lunch box
Welcome to Lunch Boxes and Snacks, the book aimed at putting the fun back into making packed lunches for children. The ubiquitous sandwich needn’t be a slice of ham slammed between two pieces of bread; it can be a delicious, moist filling of chopped ham and tomatoes mixed into cream cheese to fill a pita pocket. Hot meals can warm a hungry tummy on cold winter days, and treats can be made by your child to meet his or her own, sometimes exacting, needs.
According to a recent study, three out of four elementary and middle school parents regularly pack lunches for their children. Packed lunches are typically seen as the healthier option, but this is often wishful thinking. Children are all different, but what they usually want is a quick, tasty meal. A soda, potato chips, and a candy bar can be wolfed down in minutes, saving maximum time for the playground, but obviously this is not an ideal, nutritious lunch that will sustain them until dinnertime. Below are some of the questions that thousands of parents battle with on a daily basis.
• How do you make a packed lunch healthy and still get your child to eat it?
• What do you do if your child is a fussy eater and likes only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?
• How do you keep the food fresh and still looking good?
• How do you cope when other children bring in lunch boxes filled with potato chips, chocolate cookies, and soft drinks?
• What do you do if you want your child to have a hot meal for lunch when the weather is cold and miserable?
Read on, that’s what you do!
food for your child’s lunch box
In a recent survey on children’s packed lunches, it was found that eight in ten packed lunches include potato chips or other salty snacks (see below). More than a third of parents give a chocolate cookie. Healthy foods presented in an enticing way are more likely to appeal to children, like cheese and cherry tomatoes threaded onto a straw, or miniature chicken balls. Both make great finger food.
Top 10 items packed in children’s lunch boxes
1 Sandwich 94 percent
2 Potato chips or other salty snacks 84 percent
3 Fruit juice or juice drink 72 percent
4 Piece of fresh fruit 68 percent
5 Yogurt 56 percent
6 Chocolate cookie 35 percent
7 Cheese 31 percent
8 Chocolate bar 29 percent
9 Piece of cake 26 percent
10 Cereal bar 25 percent
I’m not a believer in extremes of any kind—I don’t think potato chips or chocolate cookies should be totally off-limits to children, but neither do I believe that a jelly sandwich, package of chips, chocolate cookie, and soft drink constitute a proper meal. There is a happy medium, and it’s important to remember that habits and food choices begin in childhood and what children eat can make a big difference to their long-term health.
A healthy lunch box should:
• Help to improve your child’s attention span, behavior, and learning in the afternoon
• Provide one-third of your child’s daily requirements of nutrients
• Contain a source of protein to keep children alert, complex carbohydrates for slow-release energy, protein and calcium for growth, fat for staying power, and fruit and vegetables for vitamins and minerals
In order to contribute to a healthy, balanced diet, your child’s packed lunch should include elements from all the food groups shown below.
carbohydrates
Choose complex carbohydrates like whole-grain bread, pasta, potatoes, or rice, as they release calories slowly and help to sustain energy levels and concentration. Refined carbohydrates such as white bread, cookies, and cake provide only instant, short-lived energy. Their natural fiber is stripped during processing, and most of their valuable nutrients are lost. The more fiber and protein eaten with starchy or sugary foods, the more slowly those foods are digested and released as sugar into the system.
For fast-release energy, offer banana; dried fruit; apricot; mango; fruit juice; white bread; popcorn.
For slow-release energy, give pasta salad with tuna or chicken; peanut butter sandwich on whole-grain bread; egg sandwich; rice cakes with hummus; pumpkin or sunflower seeds; nuts; raw vegetables and cherry tomatoes; apple; grapes; plums; kiwifruit.
calcium
Children under the age of five shouldn’t have a low-fat diet, so choose whole-milk products like Greek-style yogurt rather than low-fat yogurt. In a recent survey, it was found that 25 percent of young girls were not getting enough calcium in their diet to build strong bones. This could lead to osteoporosis later in life, so make sure that you regularly include dairy products in your child’s lunch box. Cheese, yogurt, yogurt drinks, smoothies, and milk shakes are all excellent sources of calcium.
fruit and vegetables
Health experts recommend that we try to include five portions of fruit and vegetables in our diet every day. To give you an idea of what counts as one portion, here are some examples:
• 1 medium-size piece of fruit such as an apple or banana
• A small bunch of grapes, 2 small fruits (for example, apricots), or a cupful of berries
• ¼ cup dried fruit
• 1 serving of salad or fruit salad
• ½ cup cooked or raw vegetables
• 1 glass of fruit juice or fruit smoothie
Some fruits and vegetables provide different vitamins and minerals than others, so try to offer a wide variety. It’s a good idea to include