The Perfect Lunch Box

What should your perfect lunch box include? Fresh fruit, crunchy vegetables, meat/protein, dairy food, bread or pasta. Well the Western Downs Libraries have all the correct answers – in books of course.  The following books are the pick of the bunch:

Best Lunch Box Ever

Best Lunch Box Ever by Katie Sullivan Morford and provides ideas on how to rekindle your love for the lunch box. The book includes 75 recipes and creative ideas for simple, made-from-scratch lunches, snacks, and after-school pick-me-ups that are easy to throw together on busy mornings. Your children will love tummy filling treats such as Chinese Tacos, Pesto Pita Pizza, and Waffle Iron Grilled Cheese.

Love Your Lunchbox

The next book we recommend is Love your Lunchbox by James Ramsden. The author states that homemade lunches needn’t be boring or repetitive. He urges you to liven things up with some creative recipes, that are also easy on the wallet. The book includes recipes for super noodles to nutritious salads.

Pete Evans Lunch Box

Pete Evans has also written a book titled Lunch Box. Pete features 70 simple, healthy options for your family to try. He includes breakfasts on the go such as nut-free banana bread and sausage and egg ‘McMuffins’. There’s snacks to satisfy such as crispy pork rinds and salt and vinegar sweet potato chips. Main meals such as BLT-stuffed avocado bowls and beef and rosemary sausage rolls, and healthy treats such as raspberry bounty bars.

Women’s Weekly Lunch Box

The final book that will help you be inspired to create wonderful lunches is the aptly named Lunch Box published by The Australian Women’s Weekly. This book is a favourite among staff members as it provides ideas for diary, nut and gluten free lunch box options. The book contains 80 great packed lunch ideas that include so-good sandwiches, seriously satisfying salads, hot stuff portable meals for little tummies and sneaky savoury snacks and tasty sweet treats. The book also contains ideas on how to keep that bento box interesting for all the family.

So this year send those little ones to school or your loved ones to work with a great lunch box full of tasty treats that everyone will want to eat.

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