The Healthy Lunchbox is full of suggestions and ideas to help you provide your child with an appetizing and appealing meal each day. It will explain why many lunchboxes are unhealthy. What a healthy lunch should consist of. What size of portions children and adults of different ages should have. It makes suggestions about seasonality, variety and how to encourage children to experiment. It tells you how to personalize their lunchbox and make it special. How to adapt a lunchbox for different age groups. How to get over children’s fears of being different. How to dealing with the reluctant or fussy eater and the overweight. Dealing with pester power. How to get kids involved in making their own lunchbox. What children from other countries take to school and lunchbox notes. Finally it gives the plan for a week's meals on the basis of one or two shopping expeditions, and a table with a month’s suggestions for lunch boxes, as well as food safety and food hygiene.