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Welcome to our first Lunchbox Diaries entry! This is guest blog space for our lovely parent readers to share their lunchbox secrets!
Today we have Bina from London, who talks us through the lunchbox she prepared for her 4 year old amid Covid-19 restrictions at nursery:
Since my kid started nursery again this September, the school has decided that they are no longer running a kitchen.
When I heard this I thought that’s fantastic, they are taking all precautions due to – yes you guessed it – Covid 19. But then I also thought OH GREAT! What shall I give her for lunch then? I like to plan, I mean when the occasion calls for it. So I started to plan and listed out bunch of ideas on what I could send in her packed lunch. Baring in mind it would need to taste good cold or room temperature at best.
The thing is, I have noticed that she is more likely to try new things at nursery (sometimes – it is dependent on mood, always dependent on mood when it comes to a 4-year-old). Maybe it’s due to being in the school setting, but she usually eats most of what I give her. II don’t get away with it so easy at home. There will be moans and wails and nose scrunches galore if she doesn’t want to eat something.
I have noticed that she is more likely to try new things at nursery
Here is what I gave her today:
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Roasted sweet potato slices topped with cream cheese and smoked salmon (and a squirt of lemon juice on top)
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Steamed baby corn and mange tout (steamed in the microwave for speed)
Sliced up Kiwi fruit
She downed most of it, (and to my pleasant surprise ALL of the veg). She left two pieces of the sweet potato salmon combo I assume because she was full not because she didn’t like it. Everything else was gone!
I have never given her this combination before. So its a start, I mean to keep trying and experimenting to see how many different things I can get her to try (even her dreaded enemy the avocado).
This was the quickest thing to put together. One thing I would really, really recommend is roast a bunch of veggies at the start of the week, to give you easy and quick access to ingredients you may want to throw into your kids lunch. This came in so handy since last night my daughter had a rough night’s sleep and as a result so did I. So we both woke up LATE! I HATE BEING LATE. But having the sweet potato ready to go and just slapping on cream cheese and pieces of salmon made it so easy. And the steamed veg I put in the microwave with a bit of water covered for 2 minutes and voila!
Bina, a Hapea Mum
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Roast a bunch of veggies at the start of the week, to give you easy and quick access to ingredients you may want to throw into your kids lunch.