by Sunny Queen
For many parents, packing a school lunch can be a tedious task. Knowing what to include in a lunch box that is both delicious and nutritious is difficult – but it doesn’t have to be.
Sunny Queen Farms’ Chef, Katrina Neill is helping parents with this challenge by incorporating Sunny Queen’s new Free Range Peeled Hard Boiled Eggs and a range of expert tips, tricks and recipes to make all lunches easy to whip up.
With Aussie kids learning for six hours a day, it’s important that lunches are nutrient-rich and packed with enough goodies that will ensure they have the energy and motivation they need to concentrate and power through their schoolwork.
With each Peeled Hard-Boiled egg packed with protein and containing more than 10% of the recommended dietary intake for over 11 essential vitamins and minerals, they are a sure-fire way to create a cracking lunch jam-packed with nutritional goodness, in moments.
So, here’s six easy and delicious top school lunch tips to help you with the morning school rush:
- The rainbow approach – foods of all colours – ensures kids get fun and colourful foods, with a variety of flavours and nutrients
- Include a nice mixture of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and nuts
- Think: the more fun lunches are to look at, the more likely your kids will be happy to bite down on your creation – you can create interesting shapes out of your foods or even use funky containers
- Get the kids to help out in the kitchen and make it with you. Getting them involved will help make sure they’re excited for their lunch
- Pre-make grab ‘n’ go sides like vegetable muffins or carrot and cucumber sticks with hummus and other bite-size snacks on a Sunday; that way you can just pop it in the lunchbox each morning
- Make faces out of your food or draw smiley faces on them (just like Sunny The Egg) and it’ll be sure to put a smile on their face as well
With its simple, yet delicious recipes to make every lunchbox a cracker, Sunny Queen Farms is set to put a smile on the face of Aussie kids – and their parents – for school in 2021!
Healthy Back-to-School Lunch Idea Recipe
BLT BOMBS: Serves 8
INGREDIENTS
- 2 x 4 packs Sunny Queen Peeled Hard Boiled Eggs
- 2 x small/medium Roma tomatoes – sliced
- Baby cos or gem lettuce leaves, torn to smaller pieces
- 4 strips of streaky bacon
METHOD
- Using a sharp knife, cut a very small slice from the bottom of each egg, to create a flat base
- Cut the eggs in half horizontally and put the top halves aside
- Cook the bacon until crisp and cut into smaller pieces to fit the bomb
- Top the egg base with some mayonnaise, then add the lettuce, sliced tomato and crisp bacon
- Add a little more mayonnaise to the yolk section of the top half of the egg, balance on the bacon and secure with a cocktail skewer
For more information on its Free Range Peeled Hard Boiled Eggs or further recipe inspiration, visit https://www.sunnyqueen.com.au/.