Wilkie's Daily School Obento
Every morning, this is what I prepare for Wilkie's obento (packed lunch) for school: rice sprinkled with salt, wrapped in nori and sliced into bite size, plus a chicken ball also sliced into bite size. The chicken ball is very easy to make: minced fatty chicken meat (usually thigh meat with fat) and salt. Shape into thick mini sausages and bake at 180 C for 25-27 minutes until nicely brown.
This is as plain as he would happily eat. As I've said before, Wilkie is a very fussy eater, but at least his lunch is pretty healthy. No toxic industrialised processed food involved. Although plain, I don't mind him eating the same thing almost everyday at all since all the essential macronutrients are there: carbohydrates from the rice (rice is a safe starch as oppose to wheat-based products like bread, pasta, or noodles), protein and fat from the chicken. Nori is the only vegetable, albeit from the sea, Wilkie happily eats. It's a rich source of nutrients including iodine, calcium and iron, plus Vitamins A, B and C.
Wilkie eats 3 solid meals a day and rarely asks for snacks. The daily treat he gets is a square of 72% dark chocolate that he eats after school at 2pm, followed by dinner at 6pm.
Sometimes his school would make salad from vegetables grown in the school garden. They would involve the kids to prepare and eat it as well during lunch. It's a really wonderful activity to have in my opinion and I think every school could do this as part of the school educational curriculum. Learning about food, especially, real healthy food should have more emphasis on early education and I think Jamie Oliver's effort in introducing cooking in school is a step in the right direction if authorities are serious about tackling obesity issues that are increasingly visible among young children. No, obesity is not a problem in Japan, but the point is knowing what is real food and what isn't, since more often than not, kids have no idea what real healthy food is. Wilkie doesn't know the toast he eats for breakfast is unhealthy, but it's the only time he eats it and I try to minimise junk food as much as possible, while encouraging him to eat healthier food most of the time.
Sometimes his school would make salad from vegetables grown in the school garden. They would involve the kids to prepare and eat it as well during lunch. It's a really wonderful activity to have in my opinion and I think every school could do this as part of the school educational curriculum. Learning about food, especially, real healthy food should have more emphasis on early education and I think Jamie Oliver's effort in introducing cooking in school is a step in the right direction if authorities are serious about tackling obesity issues that are increasingly visible among young children. No, obesity is not a problem in Japan, but the point is knowing what is real food and what isn't, since more often than not, kids have no idea what real healthy food is. Wilkie doesn't know the toast he eats for breakfast is unhealthy, but it's the only time he eats it and I try to minimise junk food as much as possible, while encouraging him to eat healthier food most of the time.
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