Energy bites: Healthy school lunch ideas from the Daly Dish

Energy bites: Healthy school lunch ideas from the Daly Dish
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Given the ongoing challenges posed by coronavirus, parents might be thinking more about putting hand-sanitiser and masks into their children’s back-to-school rucksacks, rather than musing over what goes into their lunchboxes. All the same, the perennial question of what to include in children’s packed lunches has not gone away.

Indeed, this year it is perhaps more important than ever, as a recent Safefood survey shows that nearly half of children (49%) have been eating more unhealthy snacks and treats during the challenging days of lockdown and the holidays that followed.

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