11 Healthy Eating Ideas for Kids Lunch Box

Kids are notoriously difficult to please. They need food that is both tasty and healthy. No matter how nutritious the snack is that you’ve spent ages in the kitchen to prepare if it doesn’t appeal to them, all your hard work goes to waste!

Read on below to get inspired with ideas that will help you boost your child’s health and captivate their taste buds at the same time! Also, know how to eat healthy on a low budget.

French Toast (Eggy Bread) and Stewed Apples

This is a spicy, sweet and delicious snack that your kids will love. It is made from ingredients easily available at home. It can be made from leftover bread and is called "pain perdu" in French, meaning "lost loaf." It’s great because it is really easy to make and tastes heavenly!

The preparation is similar to the common french toast we make and eat. There are a few tricks to make this dish really stand out. For example,

• Use slightly stale bread, like 5-day old bread. Fresh bread absorbs too much egg and becomes soggy when fried. We need the fried bread to be crisp.

• Though apples are the natural choice, this recipe will work with any fruit you have in case apples aren’t available.

The ingredients that are generally needed to make this dish are bread, apples, a knob of butter, eggs, cinnamon powder, sugar, icing sugar for garnishing, milk, water and cooking oil.

Baked Beans with Potato Cakes

Deliciously light potato cakes. A modern kid-friendly twist on the classic bacon and beans most of us have enjoyed in our childhood. The ingredients you will need to make this treat are shredded pork, seasoning (salt and pepper), cooking oil, red chilli, garlic, onions, raw sugar, cider vinegar, tomatoes, white beans, potatoes, a knob of butter, flour and some olive oil.

The preparation is simple enough. The pork is cooked first in oil and condiments. The beans are added in with pureed tomatoes. The potatoes are mashed, doughed and fried to make cakes. The pork and beans are then portioned on top of the cakes.

Fish Fingers with a Chip Butty

Tasty convenience food at its best, yet hygienic, wholesome and nourishing. Simple to make, yet tastes amazing. To make this, get hold of some potatoes, paprika, cooking oil, seasoning, flour, eggs, dill, breadcrumbs, a knob of butter, bread and fish.

Dial up the wow factor of this simple and tasty dish by paying attention to the following:

• Use fresh fish. The freshest you can get your hands on. Like those at Jim’s Fresh. Use 250 grams of any fish of your choice, for example Pollock.

• Put the fish on a plate and lightly salt them. It is a good idea to do this 20-30 minutes before starting to cook them. It firms up the fish beautifully and allows it to become more durable, specially in the pan.

• After coating the fish batons thoroughly in seasoned flour, roll them in your hands to get rid of the sharp corners so they don’t burn in the pan.

For the chip butty:

• The bread should have a nice and thick crust. Also, it should be cut into thick slices.

• When retrieving the baking tray from the oven and mop up the flavorful juice released by the potato chips using the buttered bread slices. Then arrange the chips between two slices of bread and cut in half. Do not cut each butty at an angle but cut straight along the width in a vertical motion.

• Have this treat with a little ketchup.

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