Rainbow Lunchboxes Handouts
Ask children to bring in seasonal fruit to share every day and make a Rainbow fruit platter to share. Ask parents to send interesting fruit to share as well as the old reliables.
Left over fruit can be made into a Rainbow Fruit Salad for dessert.

Carers may need to keep a few interesting fruits on hand in case parents only send in apples, oranges and bananas. Passionfruit is a must and/or a few berries,
plus a squeeze of lime and a sprinkle of almond slivers.

Children will love to participate in making the Rainbow Fruit Salad, serve with plain yogurt.

Rainbow Snacks:
Rainbow vegie pieces: red capsicum, orange carrot, green capsicum,
snow peas and celery sticks.
Yellow natural corn chips, purple corn chips, seaweed paper, seaweed crackers
or rice crisps - serve with hommus, cottage cheese or tahini spread.

Rainbow Lunch:
Rainbow Rice salad (with chicken or meat).
Serve with mixed green salad and dressing.
Rainbow salad nicoise: tuna, tomatoes, greens, coloured capsicums,
black olives and purple onion.

Byron Childcare and Montessori Centre

Dear Parents
Just a few ideas for you child’s lunch box. Mix, add or subtract from the suggestions below. Don’t forget to include a bottle of water for your child to drink throughout the day.

Week 1	Morning Tea	Lunch	Afternoon Tea
Monday	Dried Figs Macadamia nuts Watermelon Fresh Juice	Buckwheat pasta spirals with grated cheese and chopped parsley	Yogurt with fresh chopped mixed fruits in season. Fresh juice
Tuesday	Sliced tasty cheese seaweed rice crackers strawberries and fresh juice	Dahl and brown rice	Date banana and walnut bread. Milk or Soy drink
Wednesday	Tahini and honey Rye crackers. Fresh fruit in season. Soy or Milk drink	Turkish bread toasted with ham, cheese and roasted pumpkin with lettuce	Cheese, olives and rice crackers. Fruit Milk or Soy shake
Thursday	Banana smoothie. Dried fruit and almonds	Pesto pasta topped with avocado and grated cheese	Grilled cheese on rye or wholemeal bread Fresh juice
Friday	Buckwheat pancake with berries of your choice. Fresh juice	Corn on the cob, grated carrot lettuce and baby beetroot topped with grated cheese.	Apple pear fruit crumble with yogurt. Fresh juice

 

Week 1	Morning Tea	Lunch	Afternoon Tea
Monday	Apple/ pineapple Cheese and rice crackers	French toast with raw carrot and lettuce	Boiled egg, olives and cucumber. Carob soy or milk drink
Tuesday	Fresh fruit salad with yogurt	Chicken wings with carrot sticks, olives and tahini sandwich	Strawberry muffin Watermelon fruit drink
Wednesday	Pancakes with fresh fruit and yogurt	Grilled or tinned fish with rice topped with parsley and lemon	Berry crumble with yogurt
Thursday	Grapes, strawberries Carrob Soy or Milk drink	Toasted chicken or ham, lettuce and tomato sandwich on wholemeal or rye bread	Yogurt with honey and apple
Friday	Apple, dried mixed fruit and macadamia nuts. Soy or Milk fruit smoothie	Tofu or meat on pasta with fetta, tomato, olives and chopped parsley	Date, walnut and banana bread. Soy or milk drink