A few healthy ideas and recipes for this week's lunchboxes!

Our cultures are designed very much around consumerism and clever marketing ploys to persuade people that this product is the 'must have', or can benefit us in some unique way.  We get lured by labels such as "now with 50% LESS sugar!" or "virtually fat free!" or "high in Omega 3", and often don't read anything beyond that, not even the ingredient label.  

We get a fixed notion that certain commercial products are healthy, such as cereal bars, boxed salads, deli soups, and sandwiches that contain salad.  We choose the 'no mayo' options and proudly request brown bread rather than white.  But are these things really healthy, or just in a clever disguise?  

Unless we start to give it some serious thought, it may be illness later on in life that reveals our diet choices played a bigger part than we realised.  Worst - if we find out one day that the products we'd been feeding our children for years are actually responsible for their nutrition deficiencies, hormone disruptions, poor immune function, behaviour issues, allergies, skin problems, weight regulation problems, and the list goes on and on.

In the natural world, other animals and plants don't deliberately eat things that would harm them.  They're well aware of which are food and which are poison.  We all know the story of Snow White and the wicked witch who tricks her into biting the poison apple, and as children we shout at the TV screen "don't eat it Snow White!!!"  She had no way of knowing, but we don't have that excuse.  The truth is there if we're paying attention and using our heads, and my question is: 

What idiot would knowingly eat the poison apple?

Some 'lunchbox' ideas and recipes for you!  If you have any you'd like to share in this LUNCHBOX series, please tag with #makeithealthy.  Only natural ingredients please!

All recipes curated by the Make It Healthy Project are free from anything processed, refined or artificial.

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"Banana & Clementine Cinnamon Sticks" (Original Recipe, Sugar-Free, Vegan) by @woman-onthe-wing

Two-Ingredient HEALTHY CHOCOLATE DIP || Original Recipe, Sugar-Free, Vegan by @woman-onthe-wing

Vegan Banana, Walnut Oatmeal Biscuit Recipe by @erikah

Running Snacks {Fig & Walnut Oat Bar Recipe} by @plantstoplanks on behalf of the @runningproject

Salad with Coconut Yogurt by @biglipsmama

If you have any healthy suggestions or recipes that would make great lunches/snacks, please tag your post with  #makeithealthy and they will feature in this curation series.  Let's get our children eating healthy NOW so they don't have to learn how to heal later on in life!

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