Lunch boxes should be made up of five basic categories, including :

• Dairy
• Starch & Protein
• Vegetables or Salad
• Fruit
• Diluted fruit juice and/or Water 

Here are five lunchbox ideas to make your life easier.

Lunch Box Idea 1 : An apple a day keeps the doctor away

• Cheese blocks x 2
• Wholewheat crackers with Bovril or Marmite spread
• Carrot sticks or SPAR Freshline baby carrots
• SPAR Freshline snack apple
• SPAR Fruit juice

Lunch Box Idea 2 : Featuring the much-loved peanut butter sandwich

• Squillos yoghurt 
• Brown Bread sandwich with chicken or peanut butter
• Freshline Banana
• Freshline Cucumber slices/sticks
• SPAR Fruit juice

Lunch Box Idea 3 : An option abounding in natural sweetness

• SPAR Drinking yoghurt
• Wrap with tuna mayonnaise
• Freshline grapes
• Freshline mini plum tomatoes
• SPAR Fruit juice

Lunch Box Idea 4 : Sweet, savoury and nutritious, all in one 

• Squillos yoghurt
• Freshline bran muffin & small container of nuts
• Freshline carrot and cucumber sticks
• Cubed pawpaw or watermelon
• SPAR Fruit juice

Lunch Box Idea 5 : well balanced with a little bit of everything

• Cheese triangles
• Roll with ham or SPAR mini cheese viennas
• Freshline whole strawberries
• Freshline baby corn
• SPAR Fruit juice

• Don’t forget that children must eat breakfast everyday. No lunchbox will make up for the energy they’ve missed from this important meal.
• Pack lunch in a cooler bag with an ice pack to keep food fresh and safe.
• Try to pack food items that have different colours – a colourful combination is fun and appealing.
• If you have time, experiment with cutting food into different shapes.
• Buy little plastic containers for smaller bits to keep things tidy. Make sure to mark these containers with your kids’ initials.
• Many children are resistant to eating wholewheat or high fibre breads. Choose bread that provides as much fibre as possible and explain to them that fibre means healthy ‘tummies’. There are breads on the market that have added fibre, without the kernels and seeds, and these can be used as an alternative.
• Although fruit juices are depicted in these images, they are high in natural sugar, and so it is best to dilute them with water. Children do, however, use up a lot of energy, so 100% fruit juice would be suitable for an afternoon activity. Encourage them to drink water, and give them an extra water bottle to take with to school if possible.