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Healthy Lunch Box Activity

Find out some simple tips to ensure your children are enjoying healthy and tasty snack and lunch options at school.  ...more

Stupendous Safari Lunchbox

School lunches: they're no picnic.

Not when you consider that every lunchbox needs to be packed full of healthy, nutritious food with enough energy to provide fuel for a whole action-filled day of learning and playing. There's a jungle of fabulous food options out there but when time's short how do you keep coming up with tasty, new ideas to tempt young tastebuds? ...more

Feeding Active Kids - The Junior Australian Football Player

It is important for the junior footballer to eat well every day – not just on game day or before a carnival.

Active children need constant refuelling and cooling. Their nutritional needs are of great importance to their overall health, growth and development, as well as to their sporting performance.

The junior athlete will play better, for longer, and recover quicker from training and competition when well-nourished. The junior footballer, who is not getting enough total energy, may become tired, irritable and lethargic, and may even struggle to maintain interest and enjoyment in sport.

Feeding Active Kids - The Junior Australian Football Player (.pdf)

Feeding Active Kids - The Junior Netballer

It is important for the junior netballer to eat well every day – not just on competition days or before a carnival.

Active children need constant refuelling and cooling. Their nutrition needs are of great importance to their overall health, growth and development as well as to their sporting performance.

The junior athlete will perform better, for longer, and recover quicker from training and competition when well-nourished. The young netballer who is not getting enough energy may become tired, irritable and lethargic, and may even struggle to maintain interest and enjoyment in physical activity. It is well known that girls tend to drop out of organised sport in their early teenage years, so please nurture and encourage their participation and enjoyment of netball.

Feeding Active Kids - The Junior Netballer (.pdf)