Guideline 7 – Healthy, tasty and easy lunch ideas
It seems simple but often becomes a daunting task to actually figure what to pack for lunch. Kids get bored easily of eating the same food and sometimes we are just plain short on time to cook fresh meals. So here are some quick ideas that are healthy, tasty and easy –
1. Roti, jaggery and ghee – excellent for both the long and the short breaks. You can give a roti with jaggery and ghee on the side or have the child spread it and make a roll of it and you have a nutrient dense dabba ready. Can even use last night’s roti. Especially good in winters or when the kid is down with cough, congestion or has low immunity. If your kid has frequent allergies, pick the liquid jaggery, it’s in season right now. In summers you have the choice of roti with ghee and sugar or its totally ok to continue with jaggery too.
2. Dahi-rice/ rice with tadka/ Fodnicha bhat/ Vagahrelu bhat/ lemon rice – Easy to cook and tastes great even when cold. Rice typically doesn’t taste great when its not piping hot but thanks to its versatile nature, give it a vaghar or tadka or mix dahi and it turns into a great snack. You can send the tadka rice with dahi or chaas that has hing or curry leaves along with a pinch of rock salt and you have a complete meal which is also a perfect mix of pre and pro-biotics. No yogurt in the market can match that. Good in all seasons, makes for a great big break snack or an after school snack.
3. Fresh fruit – Banana is my favourite, especially for growing kids, athletic kids and girls who get cramps during periods or if you have a kid whose knees hurt in the evening. Rich in minerals, packed with Vit B and rich in taste, this one is not to be missed on. Also don’t turn a blind eye to the ber, guava and amla that are in season right now or the mango, jamun, seetaphal, karvand when they come. Diversify your kid’s fruit portfolio and don’t buy into the marketing of kiwis, berries and the likes. Crucial at all ages, local fruits should be introduced as early as 2 years of age. Surely put them on your teenager’s plate. From constipation to acne and everything in between, the local, native fruits are a perfect cure for all. Good for the small break, post sports and as school bus snack.
Essentially, sit down with your child and draw up a 5 day menu. Help them pick options based on what is – Local, seasonal, traditional. And teach them to factor in for cooking time too.
Let’s teach our children to choose food based on climate resilience and not convenience.
And what should never be a part of the dabba –
1. Chocolate 2. Chips 3. Ready to eat snacks 4. Juices 5. Colas. I can go on but I think you get my point already.
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See hello we are at still say four o’clock and it’s time for a new guideline because we already know what to pack hours pull deposit no more plastic no more aluminium foils no buckling films but for under pack Kettering you know it’s actually quite simple what to eat and what not to eat
Is very very simple but it often becomes a daunting task as to what is it that we should be packing so here are a few simple ideas which are easy which are tasty and most importantly heavy so the number one idea that I have for you is
The age-old roti jaggery and ghee in the da ba we’re after rasca roti you skir September that way you know you’re not spending way too much time and then just a piece of jaggery and key on the side and your kid can go with it although big break
Kayla-vo supplier or it can even become an after school snack once they’re at home and if you really want to make it very stylish for them and tell them to mix the jaggery and he all by themselves and spread it all over the roti and then
Roll it like this nicely and then take it to school so a very very important thing for all growing kids especially for their mineral intake and well if you have one of those kids who complains about knees which hurt either after playing or at the end of the day all you
Have you know a girl who could be getting cramps for all those things this is an excellent meal also in this season sort of cold and congestion okay this is like the go to me then if you have a kid who’s very very poor on immunity what
You can do is instead of getting one of these hard or jacquees you get them liquid jaggery and who will find liquid jaggery light the season this is the season of liquid Jackie so for anyone with allergies infections in tolerances the liquid jaggery is what you should be eating it
Is even richer in nutrients as compared to the hard jaggery and yeah it’s locally available so wrong there in sources source it and now option number 2 option number 2 is very simple my all-time favorite hot or rice okay what kind of rice you can do very low pass
You can go home Lizabeth you can do lemon rice or you can simply do third rice and why is it that you should be doing rice well because it’s easy to digest it’s great to taste and it’s rice being as versatile as it is once you
Give it water or it is good to taste even when it is not hot because otherwise it is only good to taste when it is piping hot okay but the minute you do phone it’s a matter buggalo hotter than here eyes or lemon rice or turkey valorize as Banaras called then it is
Extremely good for you know as a snack you can take it again for the big break or you can have it right after school find them what you do is that you add the heat weight or you can add a glass of chaste to it and you can mix either
Mustard or King or curry leaves your ducky or chars and then you complete the profile of free and probiotic with a simple easy meal like this it is the stuff that not even the biggest and the most branded probiotic yogurt in the world can match so get down to the way
Get out of doing this then the third thing that you should be doing is a banana any local fresh food but my favorite for its mineral profile for its vitamin B for its fiber for its work as a prebiotic for its versatility for the diversity is a banana banana is a great
Snack your kid can have a banana before sports can have it after sports your kid can have it in the small break in the big break you know on a day they are not very hungry for lunch they can have a banana you can also have a banana in this
School bus so you know banana for all seasons and for all the right reasons but why on banana don’t forget the Bayreuth and the habla which is in season right now along with that also don’t forget to have the Sherman the Chairman the mango the Cetaphil when they do come in the season
So pick up the food which is in season and go more crazy so ver marries and Kiwis okay so don’t fall for all of those things fall wholeheartedly for the local native food because from constipation all the way to acne and everything in between it is the local native
Which helps you you can start introducing local native fruit to your kid whose that’s just two years and if you have a teenager specially ensure that there is access to the beta mu table and all the local native varieties of food so these are my three
Options sit down now with your child and a week ahead planned for you know at least five good options that you can have in your school debuff teach them to pick it up based on what is local what is in season and what is traditional also teach them to factor in for the
Cooking time because you know we are all limited on time when we go in the mornings that way you’re actually raising children to be right climate-resilient you’re teaching them to choose climate resilience over convenience and that’s how we believe behind the healthy world what is it that
We should not do last word you know sometimes when I am cycling I find like mothers and kids waiting for the school bus and then the kid opens the plastic dubba and mother empty is like a packet of chips and then the power sound at other times once I have seen you know
Like this only these will ready to eat snacks being given in school de bus so that is totally not OK chocolates are not OK chips are not OK colas are not okay that traffic juices are not okay ready to eat are dropped processed and packaged food is not okay
Even once a week it is not okay so involve your kids eat right and yours to the weekly guideline of healthy tasty and easy now if you have any questions please shoot quick questions in someone can they use Jackie or sugar well in some way you can just change it for
Ichiro and if kid has diabetes can they still have the has diabetes they can shortly have jaggery and Rohde and even the liquid jaggery can this be able to use for adults very much everything that I’m talking about what children is also meant for adults because it’s for the
Whole ecosystem we are all growing up and living together we can have one thing for the child and and other thing for the adult ok so so instead of loading and we gave Hikari but the kid has to have the taste for pathway I in my experience if the party is fresh and
Hot should not much more likely to meet it than when it is cold you know rupee somehow is easier to eat when it’s cold but Johar roti or a Java pathway again is easy alright so that’s all from us and thank you very much see you next Tuesday 4:00 p.m. bye bye