Packed lunches

Sorry I haven’t posted a recent blog in while, I hope this one makes up for it. Based on my previous post a couple of weeks ago “school dinners,” I decided to go to the opposite subject this week “packed lunches.”  As I have school dinners at my current school, I would appreciate it if you comment below, healthy and cheap packed lunch ideas. Enjoy reading!

 At my primary school packed lunches were prohibited. However, after joining my secondary school, I noticed how many people have them. Although at my school they serve a great range of hot food, sandwiches, salads and more almost 50% of the school every day. This is not only a problem for environmental reasons, but is also a problem for healthy eating.

My friend’s packed lunch usually contains: a sandwich, a drink, and a packet of crisps and a chocolatey product of some kind. Having this cold pre packed meal five out of seven days a week is not always good for a child's balanced diet. people will of course rely on more processed food than fresh food in their lunch box. 

Having plastic wrapping being thrown away every day can lead to problems such as pollution. All of these problems, just because someone is not keen to have school dinners. Having a packed lunch once in a while is not bad for you but having sugary products such as chocolate bars AND salty products such a crisps is not good enough if you are having it five out of seven days a week.

if your child is having a pack lunch, think about the products you are putting in everyday. maybe stop making them sandwiches and start making them more healthy filling foods: like pasta salad .  maybe even try to get them hot School lunches which will save you the stress of making a quick lunch every morning. you will also be helping the environment by not wrapping up so much food in cling film. 

Like I wrote above, if you have any packed lunch ideas I would love to here them so i would appreciate if you could comment below.
Thanks 
Lottie X