Food has a major impact on the mental and physical growth of kids. Indian mothers in particular face a major challenge combining nutrition and taste in the school’s lunch box each day. Use of dry fruits, fruits, chopped vegetables, seeds in a number of ways can help to increase the nutrition in your child’s daily lunch. Today, we will share with you all a few mouth-watering nutritious ideas to fill up those little bellies.
1. Paneer Wraps: These can be made easily at home, all you need to do is to make chapattis and stuff small cubes of sautéed cottage cheese neatly in a row. Then make rolls. Bind these with a colourful ribbon after rolling them in an aluminium foil. Ribbons give rolls a beautiful look and rolls are packed with protein, calcium and B vitamins.
2. Soya Tikki: Soya Tikki are an all-time children’s favourite. Soybean Chura mixed with boiled potato, chopped onion, carrots and stuffed with peas can be shallow fried to make soya tikkis. These are rich in proteins, taste and can be served with mint dips in Tiffin
3. Pin Wheel Sandwich: Colorful pinwheel sandwiches are heavenly. Yes, they are the eternal favourite small sandwiches made in three-layer. On one side apply little butter and place tomato, and on the second side apply little pudina chutney and place cucumber. Top layer spread little ketchup and place on top with peanut butter facing the cucumber and sprinkle flaxseeds in between. These small sandwiches are bright, nutritious and full of vitamins.
4. Mini Burgers: So easy to make, and just so easy to disappear into your kid’s stomach. All you need to do is slice bun into a half. Apply a thin layer of both mint dip and ketchup inside. Place a tomato/onion in the middle, you can mustard sauce if your kid is fond of it. Place a slice of cottage cheese in between for protein munch. Let them enjoy the nutritious homemade burger.
5. Fruit Corn Salad: For this nutritious recipe, steam corns till soft, then sauté corns, almonds, peanuts in a little butter and now add chopped onions, apples, guavas, few grapes and mix well. Fresh corn fruit salad is ready. It is rich in vitamins, minerals and fibre.
6. Boiled Egg Dummies: You can make boiled eggs look like a mouth-watering treat. Start by boiling the egg. Remove the hard shell. Take a coloured marker to make 2 eyes and a smile on the foil and wrap the boiled egg in the foil. These little dummies with different coloured smiles and faces are kids favourite. Send a little salt, pepper and bread along for your kid to enjoy.
7. Cheela Sandwich: Make 2 small sooji cheela made with a batter of sooji, curd, water and salt, chilli powder with little oil on non-stick Tawa. Take one cheela and place cottage cheese, salt and chopped onion, tomato and place the second cheela on top. Press to join the 2 cheelas on the non-stick and make a sandwich.
8. Nutripoha: This is a nutritious recipe. Take cubed cottage cheese, small soya nuggets, plenty of cubed carrots, peas, almonds, pistachio, cubed white bread (slice down the bread into small pieces with a knife). Sauté them in little oil and spices till all are well cooked, adding dry fruits in the last. Filled with proteins, vitamins and energy this is a healthy snack for kids.
Serve these meals to your kids and they won’t crave for fast foods in school canteens ever again. And your kids will bring back empty tiffins and smiling faces.
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