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Healthy lunches for your little heroes!

We're thrilled to be partnering with The Health Improvement Commission for Guernsey and Alderney to make it easier for parents on Island to create healthy lunch options for their children. We want to help make it easier for parents to ensure their children are eating well and staying healthy.

Our aim is to support children’s health and help them thrive. By eating healthy foods, children have the fuel they need to focus and learn throughout the school day.

Providing a nutritious lunch doesn't have to be challenging or costly to make, we've teamed up and put together a list of ingredients, recipes and top tips that will help give your children everything they need so that they're ready to learn in school and can grow to their full potential.

As part of our lunchbox heroes partnership, The Health Improvement Commission are recommending a fantastic list of products that can be turned into tasty packed lunches. Ideally, for a nutritionally balanced lunch the goal is for each lunch to include one fruit, one veg, one dairy, one protein and one carbohydrate item. Please see the list of recommendations below:

Fruit	Veg	Carbohydrate	Dairy/alternatives	Protein
Apple	Carrot sticks	Wholemeal sandwich thins	Low fat yoghurt (unsweetened)	Tuna (in Spring water)
Banana	Cherry tomatoes	Wholemeal wraps	Small cube of cheddar cheese	Tinned salmon
Easy peelers	Sliced peppers	Wholemeal pasta	Reduced-fat soft cheese	Roast chicken
Frozen berries	Cucumber	Brown rice	Calcium-fortified plant-based yoghurt (unsweetened)	Mixed beans and pulses
Tinned fruit in natural juice	Frozen veg	Cous cous	Semi-skimmed milk	Eggs
Kiwi	Sugar snap peas	Wholemeal pitta bread	Plain kefir yoghurt	Chickpeas
Slice of melon	Tinned veg with no added salt	Wholegrain crackers	Calcium fortified, plant-based milk (unsweetened)	Edamame beans
Grapes (halved)	Radish		Cottage cheese	Lentils