In this drawer there are all makings for healthy lunchboxes.
This month it is introducing Planet Lunch through Sainsbury's, a range of healthy snacks for lunchboxes aimed at children between eight and 12 years old, including breadsticks and vegetable dips, fruit and oat bars and fruit juices.
Rather than buy prepackaged food items, which are expensive, wasteful and often not that healthy, invest in a lunchbox, a Thermos and plastic containers for sandwiches, leftovers and vegetables.
Put healthy food in their lunchboxes.
At midday, he will manage to swap all the healthy food items in his lunchbox for Haribo Starmix and sherbet flying saucers, ingest them, and begin to exhibit startling behaviour.
The programme is supported by a teacher manual, posters, postcards, a lunchbox with a flyer and healthy food items, a magazine, a recipe contest, a website (with information, knowledge tests, and recipes), and a take-home bag with a note pad, healthy products and a newsletter with tips and recipes.
But he doesn't factor in the time his wife spent shopping for the ingredients, planning healthy, appetizing menus and emptying and cleaning the lunchboxes every day.
Julia tells me how Ms. O takes the lunchbox my daughter brings to school filled with healthy organic foods and lifts it up and down like a mock barbell.
Find more healthy options for children at tinyurl.com/6nlxft, under the pull-down themes "Lunchbox Fixes" and "Kids Week".
