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Kids Quick Meal #1

You will need:

• 1 chicken breast fillet per child (I use hormone free)
• Frozen broccoli
• Frozen baby carrots
• Frozen beans

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How Can Take-Aways Be Safe?

The following are some commonly purchased foods and their ingredients. All 3 companies list their ingredients panels as chemical names (not numbers) so normally you would see a string of numbers. Do these ingredients have health effects? Of course! Down the bottom I have put a link to the safety data listed for one of the ingredients : sodium acid pyrophosphate. It actually lists it as poisonous if ingested! (All have been cut and paste sections direct from their websites).

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Packed Lunch Idea # 2

Packed lunch # 2

Wraps

Fruit

Rice cakes

Cookies

Wraps as follows :

Choose a low wheat or wheat free wrap. Add your favorite ingredients on one edge – eg ham, avocado, mayonaise, or tuna,onion, chutney. Wrap the edge with the ingredients in it, towards the centre of teh wrap, like rolling a scroll. Anchor with a bit of mayonaise.

Rice Cakes are easy. Grab 2 rice cakes, spread with any healthy topping and stick together.

These little cookies are chemical and preservative free. Click here for link.

Packed Lunch #1

A healthy option for kids. Great for ideas when you can’t be bothered thinking. This lunch costs approximately $5

Food Additives can affect your Health!

It is increasingly harder to discern between what is natural and safe for you and your family and what was historically called JUNK or treats! Companies either ignorantly or knowingly exploit labeling laws and therefore the consumer. It seems like regulatory bodies are losing focus or control in this exploding area and if we (the parents) don’t become better informed our children will suffer diseases we don’t even have names for today! (more…)

School lunches

7 steps to preparing a healthy lunch

Do you find it challenging, frustrating and maybe overwhelming trying to find healthy affordable school snacks and foods that the kids will eat? (more…)