Beating back the lunch box blues

BACK to school for many mums means back to the daily drama of finding something fast, nutritious and kid-approved to put in lunch boxes.
It’s not easy and it’s downright disheartening when the lunch box comes back untouched and it’s even harder when you have kids with allergies and intolerances.
It’s a problem that Noosa local Tara Bruin knows a lot about and is working to eradicate.
Tara is a mum, an early years school teacher and former nanny and now the author of a brand new book ‘Forget the Sandwich! – Fast, easy, whole-food, kid-approved recipes and ideas from a Teacher, School-Mum and Food Blogger’.
Currently available as an eBook, her book is an extension of her successful food blog www.onefinegrainfreeday.com
The blog was started following her own digestive health problems and self-healing through a grain-free lifestyle.
And through the blog and spurred on by becoming a “school mum” to two children with food intolerances, she decided to embark on writing a school lunch box handbook.
Tara’s book can be downloaded from her website onto your computer, iPad or Kindle.
“The price is less than two canteen lunches a year!” she joked about the book which is more than just recipes but also shows the how and why of lunch box-making and speaks from the perspective of a teacher.
It is also mindful of the nut-free policy that many schools now employ.