Tips for a varied lunch

Undoubtedly for many moms it is synonymous with "breaking their heads" when it comes to sending their children lunch every morning (it happens to me often). But the answer is even easier than one expected..

Lunch is that food or snack that children take as a snack between one class period and another, as you know, half the life of the day the child spends in school, concentrated, doing academic and sports activities, which brings about a wear and tear on the physical and mental child.

The daily routine to go to school sometimes becomes somewhat complicated because the child does not want to eat breakfast, maybe the 7 in the morning which is the average time they get up to prepare everything for school is too early to wake up their little stomach with a very strong breakfast, so I leave you some tips:

Breakfasts:

• Smoothies: a quick and nutritious option, what can take milk, egg, fruit, some chocolate powder, amaranth, avena. This easy recipe contains protein, a little sugar that is also necessary for them to wake up, and seeds that give energy and fiber.
• Yogurt with fruits and a little honey, It is something light and non-aggressive to wake up the body and start working without causing the child any type of indigestion.

Preparing more complex breakfasts like an egg with chorizo, sausage, tomato and the like you can leave them for a weekend where they wake up later and there is more time between one meal and another, with this the stomach can hold without suffering consequences.

The light but nutritious breakfast provides the child the most important to start their activities.

For the time to prepare the snack, the main option can be a sandwich, it's fast, economic and the most traditional but we can put some interesting accessories.

Refreshments

• Steamed vegetables: Vegetables can be as fun as we make them see, check which are the favorite vegetables of your children, it could be broccoli, cauliflower, chayote, carrot, tomato, pumpkin, accompanied with a little lemon and salt, or with a homemade dressing or the brand of your choice.
• The fruit chopped with honey seeds such as amaranth either with honey or roasted, with yogurt or other variants is a good option.
• Beans in golden cubes not very greasy.
• Some of the food from the day before that is not too heavy or spicy.
• Quesadillas with flour or corn tortilla
• Some dry cereal with fruit
• Fruit jelly to complement

It must be taken into account that in order to send a balanced lunch we must omit juices that are high in sugar, candies, chocolates and the like, they will certainly activate the child but they are not guaranteed to be a nutritious source of energy.

Currently in some schools they have the restriction of allowing the child to enter with desserts that contain high levels of sugar, in order to eradicate obesity in the short or medium term and hyperactivity within the classroom.

Too much fried foods, high in fat and cholesterol can cause health problems in the child although it seems impossible, like excess sugars.

Try not to send “junk food” like churritos, papas, These should be consumed to a lesser degree and only on leisure occasions, distraction and entertainment, not like a usual dessert.

Accustom children from an early age to consuming fruits, vegetables and proteins in a balanced way will make them see them not as enemies but as allies and a normal and daily food routine.