Lunchbox Resources

A Q4 Lunchbox Activity which ran in 20 Central Coast primary schools during 2006 showed a significant proportion of unhealthy ‘sometimes foods’ (mainly chips, sweet biscuits, muesli bars) in our children’s lunchboxes. The amount of fruit brought from home was adequate, but the healthy core foods such as dairy foods, vegetables, meat and meat alternatives and breads and cereal foods were below suggested amounts.
Based on these results and some parent and teacher surveys, a range of resources were developed and distributed to participating schools. The Lunchbox Look was repeated in 16 of these schools again in 2007. Overall, there was an improvement with more fruit serves, and less ‘sometimes’ foods in children’s lunchboxes. The amounts of the other food groups remained the same. For more details see the Lunchbox Look Report.