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The Lunch Box Kit

It is becoming more and more common for children to bring packed lunches to school.  It can be a good way of making sure they have healthy choices, they get what they enjoy eating and can be the cheaper and often tasiter option.  Our lunch box ideas page is great if you are stuck for inspiration.    

Tips for Stress Free Packed Lunches

Lunch bags with shoulder straps are easier for children to carry.

Soft or hard lunch boxes? Generally schools prefer the soft lunch boxes/bags. If a child gets accidentally banged by a hard lunch box it can hurt (think of 30 little ones all getting their lunchboxes from the cloakroom at the same time). From our point of view, soft lunchboxes are easier to use and easier to fit things in. The downside is that they tend to look grubby on the outside after a while - but so does everyone else's.  Hard plastic boxes are easier to keep clean but the catches can be tricky to use and can break.

Buy some re-fillable plastic containers for food which give much more flexibility that foil and plastic bags (eg for pasta salad or chopped up veg). We'll have loads more on lunchboxes later on.

Buy small bottles of bottled water from supermarkets and you can use them time and time again. They rarely leak (unlike some of the expensive ones!) and you'll be doing your bit by recycling. *Click here for guidelines on reusing bottles.  

Buy plastic cutlery as spoons or forks seem to rarely make it back home!

Keep their lunches interesting and varied with our healthy lunch box ideas.

 

*Wash and dry bottles and lids thoroughly between uses and check for signs of wear and tear, to prevent contamination from bacteria. Click here for more information from the Food Standards Agency.

 

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