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Banana Bread

September 1, 2010 · 0 comments

in Lunches, Recipes

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Quick and easy school lunch. A moist sweet bread that has mashed bananas included. Slice it and add some butter or honey and pack it into the lunch box for all the family. The kids love it as it is a bit sweeter than your standard bread. Being  homemade you are also [...]

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photo credit: Kat Johnston / Sanura Sakai
Acarrot cake alternative to please the entire family. Everyone  loves cupcakes and finds them quick and easy to eat. They are without a doubt simple to pop into the lunch box and nice and filling.
This moist healthy carrot cake is really delicious, often the kids don’t even realize [...]

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Pumpkin Bread

July 27, 2010 · 2 comments

in Lunches, Recipes

photo credit: avlxyz
Try a different variety of bread for your lunch today. This is an incredibly yummy fragrant bread. It can be frozen for later and is even better the second day. Making lunches even easier. Just slice and butter.
You can even slice it up fresh butter two slices together then freeze in lunch [...]

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These banana pikelets are a good source of fruit and calcium for your children’s school snacks.
They are so cheap to make and quick to whip up. You can double up by making an extra batch, having some for a fun Sunday breakfast then sandwich them together with a small amount of butter and wrap them [...]

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Whether your feeding a 5 year old or a 15 year old, this is a crowd pleaser for school lunch. They can be made with lots of each ingredient or scaled down for the younger kids. If you have a variation of ages this becomes easy to give them half each or half to the [...]

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Most kids have a sweet tooth, so here is a great slice giving them the sweet rush they love without the sugar overload. The combination of the icing and lemon in this healthy slice provides a sweet tang. Too many sweet products packed into school lunches make kids tired and lethargic. This then affects their [...]

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Coconut Cookies

August 23, 2009 · 6 comments

in Recipes, Snacks

All kids love cookies and these are no exception. We have kids friends requesting these cookies when they come to visit. The hard task for these is to save some for lunches. Straight out of the oven they are yummy and we have found that these cookies work well in the freezer. This came about [...]

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This great healthy salad is easy and quick to eat and is a favorite on those warmer days. I tend to make this as a larger meal for dinner on those busy days, as it can sit in the fridge until we come home from after school activities.
The kids will [...]

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The ham or bacon and cheese pinwheel is a favorite in my household. It’s hard to get these packed and into the freezer without them all disappearing before they get there. And they certainly don’t make their way back home when packed in a school lunch.
The pinwheels in this recipe are easy to make and [...]

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A quick and easy to make recipe for an old time favorite – banana cake. This packs well and can be stored wrapped in the freezer for those emergency mornings where time has slipped you by.
This recipe is light on ingredients, only the things you’re most likely to keep in the [...]

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