Healthy School Lunches for Teachers

Anybody else get stuck in a rut of making the same school lunches over and over? Well here are a few ideas to help you to add more variety to your day! For some of these, you might need to go easy on the dressings to make them healthier!

Snacks:
Fruit
Raw veg
Yogurt
Cereal bars
Rice cakes with peanut butter
Rye bread with hummus
Rye bread with guacamole
Oven-roasted chickpeas
Trail mix

Salads:
Feta, olives, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, rocket
Caprese salad with grilled peppers
Gorgonzola, pear, walnuts, cucumber, rocket (don't knock it til you've tried it!)
Beetroot, chickpea, spinach
Sweet potato, lentil and feta
Three bean salad
Roasted broccoli, chickpea and rocket
Cucumber, quinoa salad
Mandarin orange spinach salad with chicken and lemon honey ginger dressing
Blueberry, feta, spinach salad
Lebanese lenil salad
Apple, pecan, feta
Avocado, mango, tomato
Mediterranean lentil salad
Sticky lime chicken salad (marinate the chicken overnight in the juice of 2 limes, a tablespoon of honey, a tablespoon of olive oil and two teaspoons of thyme . then bake in a preheated oven for 30 mins) You can use the chicken for dinner and then chop some up to make a salad. For the salad I normally add iceberg lettuce, sweetcorn and cherry tomatoes.

Dinner (eat the night before and bring a portion to school the next day):
Slimming World's bacon and brocolli pasta salad
Thai peanut wraps
The Happy Pear 5 Min dahl (with pittas or naan bread) 
The Happy Pear veggie paella
Tex Mex pasta salad
Avocado pasta salad
Caprese pesto pasta salad
Brown rice salad
Curried rice with raisins, cilantro and chickpeas
Peanut, lime and riced cauliflower salad
Roasted squash with spiced lentils, feta and pine nuts

Free "Rethink Your Drink" Banner (Healthy Teeth)

Happy Monday everyone!

As part of our unit of inquiry about keeping healthy, we measured out how much sugar was in different drinks. First the children made predictions as to which contained the most/least sugar, then we looked at the packaging and weighed out these amounts. Here are some photos of when I did this activity with my class last year (I didn't get many pictures this year!).

This year I've taped the bags of sugar to the window sill, put the drinks on the window sill and put a banner, reading "Rethink your drink!" on the window above them. If you want to download that banner for free from Google Drive, just click here!

Apologies for the photo. It's very hard to get a decent photo with all that natural light in the background!

Teaching children about portion sizes

Hello everyone!

These popped up in my Facebook news feed recently. They are portion size infographics. I found that there are lots of resources out there for teaching children about healthy eating. There are lots of food pyramid and food plate posters and activities. However, lots of these neglect to mention portion size. This is a question that comes up a lot when my classes have focused on healthy eating. Click here to see all of the infographics. (Please note that these inforgraphics show adult portion size. Visit the SafeFood site for more information about portion sizes for children.)

*both images sourced from www.safefood.eu