Disclaimer: This is a giveaway post for Dairy Australia, I received a Tupperware Fuel Pack for my time. All opinions are my own.
Research finds that only 1 out of 5 primary school kids consume enough dairy to meet their daily calcium needs, and adding milk, cheese or yogurt is an easy way to make sure kids get their three serves of dairy needed every day for healthy growth and development.
It is really easy to include dairy in the lunch box, although I’ve found in the warmer weather it proved challenging. A good quality insulated lunchbox like the Tupperware Fuel Pack makes it much easier.
The Kids Need 3 Facebook page has some inspiring ideas, I keep some zucchini slice in the freezer, it defrosts well by lunch time and is super yummy with ricotta / feta added in.
Pieces of cheese and pots of yogurt are very simple lunch box additions and generally popular with the kiddies.
Dairy is also a great tummy filler for those growing bodies that simply can not get enough fuel to keep them going.
GIVEAWAY TIME – Dairy Australia have kindly offered to give TWO lucky readers the chance to win a Tupperware Fuel Pack
Tupperware Fuel pack retail value of approximately AUD$71.40 – two to giveaway to readers - each including:
- 2 x 250ml Fuel Pack Containers
- 1 x 500ml Fuel Pack Container – includes removable divider
- 1 x 1.25 Litre Fuel Pack Container – includes removable divider
- 1 x Insulated Bag
- 1 x Product Information Booklet
- 1 X Kids Good Health Recipe Book
- To enter – leave a comment below telling me what is your favourite dairy lunch box snack.
- Best snack, as chosen by my family (husband, Annie and Heidi) wins.
- Australian entries only please.
- Competition closes 6pm Friday 29th March 2013 AEDT
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My fav dairy snack for my kids is homemade choccie custards! Made low in sugar, high in milk… very yum and the kiddies cant get enough
After that has to be cheese slices cut with cookie cutters into the shapes. The kids think its awesome and even have a go cutting their own cheese shapes.
Yummy ideas and a great giveaway! My favourite dairy lunchbox snack is chobani greek yoghurt with some choc chips sprinkled through.(doesn’t need too many though) Can even do 100′s and 1000′s for ‘fairy yoghurt’- it’s a big hit with the kids.
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I made flavoured cheeses dips with cream cheese,some chives and onion flakes. I put rice crackers with them. My girls love them
This year I have really tried to spruce up the lunch box and try to ensure it is healthy and fun. My children enjoy a pot of cottage cheese (with some pepper and chopped herbs from the garden) as a dip with some vegetable sticks or home made cheese sticks. Easy peasy and I know exactly what is in this dip.
My favourite cheese snack is cheesey rice balls with Parmesan and Colby, chives and rice. Tasty, healthily and filling.
My daughter and I make pizza scrolls, we make a basic dough, roll flat, spread with tomato sauce and sprinkle with lots of grated chesse. Then we roll it up, cut into 1cm pieces and cook in the oven. They are delicious hot or cold and never last more than a few days in our house. Great for lunch box’s!!!
My little girl is only very young, but she loves to eat while on the run!
Cutting her cheese into tiny star shapes makes it exciting and tasty to eat up into her tum
My 2 little kiddies love having vanilla yogurt with either fresh blueberries or cut up strawberries and a cheese stick
My son always has sliced carrots and celery then dip on the other side with some crackers sometimes he also has a variety of diced fruits
Babybel – Its delicious and nutritious and comes in the cutest packaging
Fresh yoghurt layered with finely chopped fresh fruit and chopped diet jelly. A healthy trifle everyday!
Individual bread-crust quiches.
In muffin tins place slices buttered bread, buttered side down. Cram the bread in and trim edges. Into these bread wells pour a milk, egg and cheese mix. Also add other ingredients of choice-eg; ham pieces, corn , peas, etc. Bake until egg mix is set and cheese has browned. Great for lunch boxes. As nice cold as they are hot!
We mix up some cream and ricotta cheese, then roll spoonfuls in chopped nuts and dried fruits. The kids help, choosing the coating mix, and making a mess!! They love to eat and share with their friends….
I pack berry and apple bircher muesli for my kid’s recess. I mix two tbs untoasted muesli, with 1/3 cup berry yoghurt, 1/4 apple, coarsely grated a handful of fresh or thawed frozen berries, and sunflower seeds. I combine muesli, berry yoghurt, apple, berries. Sprinkle with sunflower seeds. Served in fuel pack container.
Vegemite & grated cheese pinwheels are always the first things eaten, so I know they are a great way to add dairy to the diet & lunch box.
My favourite dairy snack for lunch boxes is Cheese Kabobs, alternate cheese, cherry tomatoes and carrot pieces on toothpicks. You can put anything on that you want.
My 5-yr-old is very underweight so I mix a handful of blueberries to some Greek Natural Yoghurt for her to eat…luckily she loves it.
Strawberry Up & Go Poppers. My personal fave.
My kids love yoghurt but don’t like the mess of it at school do we freeze our yoghurt (home made not store bought). Along with cheese sticks.
Frozen yoghurt is great as it keeps the rest of the lunchbox cool and is enjoyed by all the kids.
Unfortuntly I have to agree with everyone else!
Yogurt seems to be the winner.
We love Vanilla or Strawberry.
And we mix it up with either muslie, Jelly or cut up fresh fruit.
Healthy Protein Balls
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup nonfat milk powder
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup crushed cereal, such as Honey Bunches of Oats
Add some dreid fruit (or choc chips for a treat)
Mix together and set in the fridge.
Kids love them!
My daughter loves french onion cheese scrolls!!
My kids favourite dairy snack would have to be Home made Rice Pudding.
Homemade rice pudding just like mum made when I was young. Yum!
My favourite dairy snack is home-baked cheese pastries, made with puff pastry and filled with a ricotta and feta cheese filling. They’re delicious either hot or cold!
My son is finicky, but will never say no to a little tub of vanilla yoghurt with fruit kebabs in his lunchbox!
As a mummy to five sumptuous snacks can be tricky,
Especially when each has different desires and one is extremely picky!
However this lunch box snack I’ve been using for years,
AND always brings happy and satisfied cheers!
“Seasonal Fruit Smoothies” is guaranteed to please,
Natural yogurt, fruit, teaspoon of honey and in a small airtight container to freeze,
Keeping lunches refreshingly cool,
AND a nutritional snack for school,
By lunchtime it has been thawed and ready to enjoy,
If there is dietary requirements you can use rice milk or soy!
The kids don’t even realise that they’re having two servings of fruit,
AND it is never ever returned in their lunchbox which is a toot!
You can make large batches which freeze for 3 months at a time,
Saving your sanity for ideas, time and of course a dime!
yoghurt – so delicious you can eat it on it’s own, with fruit or as a tasty snack dip with carrots
home made cheese and bacon rolls, especially when they are fresh and still warm out of the oven.
A challenge with an autistic son is giving him variety, but not straying too far from his favourite foods (and colours). Bega Stringer strips wrapped around his favourite vege sticks of carrot, cucumber and celery is a winner!
I make custard slice. I just use some puff pastry or sometimes lattice biscuits and make up some custard, from scratch. I make raspberry icing to go over the top. Always so delicious. Never lasts long in our house.
Yoghurt… my kid takes it to school
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My teenage stepson is dairy intolerant; so I make him special soy iced-cappuccino’s. Few spoonfuls of coffee, soy milk, ice and a good dollop of soy whipped cream and choc sprinkles. Soy-good! Even hubby who’s not intolerant will not turn down my special iced-cappuccino!
My son loves cheesy monster pita pockets for his snack time in school.
I Cut small triangles out of the side of each pita bread – which makes monster fangs. Brush its inside with cream cheese and stuff with shredded cheddar cheese, shredded carrot and boiled egg slices. wrap in cling wrap. .
Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing and sprinkles.
I just love cheese. I love it straight. I cut it into cubes. I’m totally obssessed with the stuff!
Frozen squeezi youghurts. I just buy 5 lots per kid each week at the supermarket and pop them in the freezer. The morning of school, I thow in a sandwich, a treat, a piece of fruit, the yougurt and a water bottle. Budda Bing Budda BOOM! Lunch is done for this busy Mumma! xxx
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We love cheese and olive sandwiches…. my daughter has them almost every day in her lunchbox.
I mix heaps of blueberries into natural yoghurt for my daughter so it’s lovely and purple, and then add a heap of frozen blueberries as well to keep it nice and cold until lunchtime. I also pack a little container of all bran and crushed cereal and she sprinkles this on top of the yoghurt before eating it.
Baby Bell cheese. They’re fun to peel out of their waxy shell, and even more delicious to devour.
Cheese sticks! Easy & delicious, they always excite & delight
Sandwhiches aren’t the only way! My little boys help poke things on blunt knitting needles (satee sticks are too sharp)…..ham, cheese, pineapple, tomato and mushrooms are a hit xx
To start with, I would put in some
Home made pumpkin scones (this way they are getting some
vegetables) with a spread of butter.
A cheese stick (some calicum)
A bottle of water (better for you)
A fresh salad sandwich
Yoghurt! It’s sweet and good for you!
My boy loves cottage cheese with some herbs chopped up in it wrapped in ham! Easy and so yummy!
No poem, no rhyme – I ain’t got the time! No fancy shapes or bento boxes (I have three young boys, they couldn’t care less!)
Just cubes of cheddar cheese and toothpicks for stabbing! Lunchbox fun the old-fashioned way
my daughter loves cheese sqaures cherry tomatoe and kabana on a skew, healthy quick and very easy.
my kids love rice crackers with cheddar cheese cut into cubes and gerkins.
Ricotta cheese and spinach pie,
Favourite snack for my little guy,
Dairy goodness that’s so tasty,
All wrapped up in delicious pastry.
Strawberry yoghurt
and
block of dark chocolate
Cow cheese with jatz and cucumber slices kids love it
Cream Cheese & Avocado dipped into cruskits!
My little fella loves cheese sandwiches. I cut them into different shapes. His favourite is the dinosaur, we us cheese spread and stick on sultana eyes and carrot teeth.
Miss 7 loves celery with peanut butter and sultanas, my Mum introduced it to her, unfortunately she can’t take it to school but we always pack it for a snack at netball.
cheese and apple has always been a hit with my two young boys
Bagel Bites – Cut a bagel in half and toast it, then spread it with spring onion cream cheese. I then cut them in half again (semi circle) and top off with either a tiny bit of well-drained sandwich tuna.
My favourite (and the kids) is homemade vanilla yogurt mixed with fresh chopped up chunks of strawberries.
I stew my own apples with sultanas and pop it the kids lunchboxes with some natural greek yogurt.
Does chocolate count as dairy? It does have milk in it. I would have to say that it is my favourite dairy lunchbox snack – for me. Never for my children of course!
The kids go through stages,
at the moment they are loving red capsicum cut up,
watermelon and mini egg and bacon quiches.
Poached seasonal fruit ( pears, apples, strawberries) with home made custard is a daily favourite with my three children. Cheap, nutritious and simple.
Muesli bars – when it comes to lunches, i have a One ‘Snack’ mind!
Cheese and ham sandwiches – we were born and ‘bread’ on this and now my kids love it too
Babybel Cheese – Kids and adults alike love to take off the surrounding wax! Kids can even make little wax animals once they’ve finished eating their snack!
My sons love two things I make, both of which I make as healthy as I can. Apple crumble muffins, always a hit and always get eaten. As well as home made yogo, so delicious.
I love to make fresh garden salads filled with veggies and fruits straight from my garden
Frozen yoghurt pots – they usually thaw out in time to eat, if not completely thawed, then it’s like having an ice cream in your lunchbox!
My kids love homemade cheese and onion dip with biscuits!
Fresh yoghurt with berries, fruit, and nuts
the children enjoy selecting their own flavors to mix with a plain yoghurt to create a taste that suits their own tastes
A favorite is vanilla yoghurt with blueberries and banana!
i pack 3 lunch boxes in the mornings 1 for my grandson 1 for my grandaughter and 1 for me….they all contain the simple easy yummy cheese…those little cheese triangle things. we three love them..
Pack my lunchbox with avocado sushi. Add cherry tomatoes and cheese cubes. Finish with a tropical juice popper and a chocolate treat.
I SIMPLY CANNOT RESIST MY MUM’S BANANA YOGHURT MUFFINS. SIMPLY DELISH!!!