Doin' lunch

Brown Baggin' It With Kid Friendly Lunches

(CBS4)

The start of a new school year is just a few weeks away and along with new clothes and shiny new school supplies it's time to start thinking about healthy kid friendly lunches.

Wednesday the Y-M-C-A of Greater Miami hosted a "Brown Bag It" event at Hialeah Elementary to teach kids and their parents how to make delicious lunches with kid-approved foods. YMCA nutritionist Gabriela Garcia put a group of seventy children through their paces as they learned to craft delicious, healthy, kid-tested lunches.

According to recent studies, most children consume 1/3 of their calories, vitamins and minerals during lunch.

Garcia says a simple way to make child's lunch more healthy is to replace handi-packs of chips or cookies with fruit, cut up veggies, cheese sticks or yogurt.


Brown Bag Lunch #1: Pinwheel Sandwich Lunch

1 Pinwheel sandwich
1 carton of 100% fruit juice
A handful of grapes
A small bag of pretzels

Ingredients:

1 slice of low-fat cheese
2 slices of turkey
1 whole wheat wrap
Cut-up Romaine lettuce
Directions:

Place turkey, cheese, and lettuce on top of wrap.
Roll up sandwich jelly roll style.
Enjoy!