These healthy eating websites are a great starting point for lunch box recipes and ideas from the UK 's top nutrition experts including the British Nutrition Foundation, the Food Standards Agency and the Department of Health.
Tesco's Lunchbox Toolkit
http://www.tesco.com/health/food/healthy_kids/lunchbox_tool.page
Audience:
shoppers
Tesco have designed an interactive lunch box tool which enables you to design healthy lunches for you and your family. The tool will tell you what proportion of your Guideline Daily Allowance (GDA) that your lunch makes up.
British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)
Healthier Packed Lunches
http://www.nutrition.org.uk
Audience: kids and parents
A mouth-watering range of healthy eating lunch box recipes for kids produced by the British Nutrition Foundation. The good news for parents is – these lunch box recipes meet new nutrient standards for school lunches.
Department of Health (DH)
Food in Schools
http://foodinschools.datacenta.uk.net
Audience: parents, teachers, health professionals and regulators
A simple guide for schools, families and the wider school community to encourage kids to choose healthy eating and a balanced diet. This information has been tried and tested in a pilot scheme which ran in 126 schools in the South East of England.
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
A Month of Lunch Boxes
http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2004/sep/lunchbox2
Audience: kids and parents
Use this excellent healthy lunch box planner to take the pain out of making your child's packed lunch. This planner gives families a whole month's worth of lunch box ideas. These recipes have been put together to make sure they create a balanced diet and stick within your guideline daily amounts (GDAs) for salt, fat and sugar.
Fed Up with School Dinners?
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/agesandstages/children/lunchboxsect/
Audience: kids and parents
A guide to help families and kids "Get Started" on putting together a healthy (and fun!), balanced lunch box.
Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
Foodfitness
http://www.foodfitness.org.uk
Audience: adults and young people
Practical advice on healthy eating and how to incorporate regular exercise into your daily lifestyle.
It's Your Choice
http://www.foodfitness.org.uk/itsyourchoice.aspx
Audience: teenagers
A practical guide to food labels and guideline daily amounts for teenagers.
Join the Activaters!
http://www.jointheactivaters.org.uk
Audience: 5-9 year olds
A resource for the family, teachers and all those promoting healthy eating and an active lifestyle to primary school kids.
foodlink
http://www.foodlink.org.uk
Audience: kids, parents, teachers, health professionals, environmental health officers
A complete guide to how to prepare food safely.
What's Inside Guide
http://www.whatsinsideguide.com
Audience: consumers
The "What's Inside Guide" shows you how to use new food labels to find out what's inside the food you are buying. You can use the GDAs featured on food labels to see how many calories, sugars, fat, saturates and salt are in each portion of food. This makes putting together a healthy lunch box and a balanced diet for your child, much, much easier.
School Food Trust
http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
Audience: parents, teachers, health professionals and regulators
The School Food Trust (set up with funding from the former Department for Education and Skills [DfES] now Department for Children, Schools and Families [DCSF]). The Trust's website has lots of useful information about healthy eating at school. It includes the School Meals Review Panel report which covers nutrition standards for school lunch.
Scottish Executive: Healthy Living
http://www.healthyliving.gov.uk/healthyeating/index.cfm?contentid=1597
Audience: kids and parents
A week’s worth of simple lunchbox ideas from the Scottish Executive.
Year of Food and Farming
http://www.yearoffoodandfarming.org.uk
Audience: schools and organisations working with young people
The Year of Food and Farming promotes healthy living by giving young people direct experience of countryside, farming and food. The Year will run throughout the academic year from September 2007 to July 2008.
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