Healthy Lunchbox
NEW* How to pack healthy lunch box video:
Perfect for kindergarten orientation programs, this fun 3 minute video will inspire parents and carers and teach them how to easily pack healthy lunch box. Here are some ways you can share the video with your school community:
1) Show the video at your parent information night
2) Email the video weblink to parents
3) Include the attached Nutrition Snippet promoting the video in your school newsletter
4) Include the video weblink in electronic kindergarten orientation packs
5) Download the video from Dropbox and provide to parents on a USB stick
You can find more kindy orientation resources including flyers to print and include in your newsletters or order hardcopies here.
New Recipes:
- Cauliflower and barley salad – a delicious salad using in season cauliflower. Perfect as side or meal.
- Easy vegie curry – our vegetable curry recipe is a simple family meal. Packed with vegetables, leftovers are perfect for the lunch box.
New Blogs:
- 6 easy tips to get legumes into your diet – legumes are a nutrient powerhouse that we need to eat more of!
- The Healthy Lunch Box website – not just for lunch! - don't let the name fool you, our website has hundreds of recipes to provide inspiration and ideas for any time of the day
- Healthy snack solutions – healthy snacking can be hard, but it doesn't have to be. Here’s your guide to fast, tasty and healthy snacks.
New simple packed lunch box ideas:
Healthy lunch boxes don’t have to be fancy. We have 10 new, very basic but healthy lunch boxes that only take minutes to prepare. Perfect for the time poor parent or carer, sticking to a budget or trying to feed fussy eaters. You can find them here.
New Lunch Box Builder items:
We know that packaged snacks are easy to keep in the pantry and throw in the lunch box. However, it’s important to know which package snacks provide good nutrition for kids. We have added the healthy options for packaged snacks to our Interactive Lunch Box builder.
Nutrition Snippets for newsletters:
Have you seen our Nutrition Snippets? Nutrition Snippets are bite-sized nutrition tips, facts and recipes designed to be used within newsletters.
If you have not already signed up, you can sign up to receive our FREE Nutrition Snippets (5 snippets every 5 weeks of the school term) by emailing the following information to healthylunchbox@nswcc.org.au
- Name:
- Role:
- Organisation:
- Preferred email address:
- How do you hear about the snippets?
- Please list which formats you would like to receive the snippets in, PDF (with hyperlinks), JPEG format for printed newsletters, social tiles (you can receive more than one format)
We hope you find our website a useful resource and can help us promote it.
For any feedback or for more information on the Healthy Lunch Box website please contact healthylunchbox@nswcc.org.au
Kind regards,
Nina and Korina
Nina Tan | Senior Nutrition Project Officer
Tuesday & Thursday
Cancer Prevention and Advocacy – Nutrition Unit | Cancer Council NSW
Address: 153 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011
Postal: PO Box 572, Kings Cross, NSW 1340
T: (02) 9334 1480 | E: ninat@nswcc.org.au
Cancer Council NSW acknowledges the traditional custodians, both past and present, of the lands on which we live and work.
