Picnic ideas
December 29th 2009 07:58
Picnic lunches
• Potato salad - chop up a few potatoes; pop them into a pot of water, cook and cool. Drizzle wholegrain honey mustard dressing over the potatoes and add raisins, chives and pumpkin seeds. Potatoes are a fantastic source of vitamin C, which helps you absorb iron.
• Brown rice salad - cook up some brown rice, drain and let it cool. Add dried currants, mandarin segments, cashew nuts and pumpkin seeds and dress with olive oil. Nuts and seeds are excellent sources of protein and brown rice is a low fat source of fibre, iron, calcium, B vitamins and protein. Fibre helps fill you up and keep your digestive system healthy. Iron is essential for a healthy immune system, calcium is needed for muscle function, B vitamins keep you energised and protein is required to help repair damaged cells and for making all sorts of hormones.
• Sandwiches – sandwiches make a cheap, high fibre healthy meal, depending on the ingredients of course! Make sandwiches with fancy whole grain bread and fill them up with lean meats, tuna, or salmon. Add chopped cherry tomatoes, lettuce, hummus, carrot, avocado, low fat cream cheese or cottage cheese for a tasty sandwich. Try peanut butter sandwich with grated carrot and raisins for an interesting vegetarian alternative.
Snacks
• Rice wafers with hummus. Hummus and rice wafers are yummy but healthy and is reasonable inexpensive too. Hummus is full of protein, and is a source of iron and calcium. Try pumpkin and kumara hummus for something a little bit different.
• Grapes and cheese – choose a low fat cheese like Edam and cut into small cubes.
• Cottage cheese on rice crackers – these are tasty and are a good source of calcium and protein.
Dessert
• Tropical fruit salad – combine chopped up pineapple, guava, mango, rock melon and honeydew. Tropical salads are rich in taste, vitamin C and fibre.
• Blueberry muffins – homemade blueberry muffins made with wholemeal flour and minimal sugar and saturated fat are best. Wholemeal blueberry muffins are great source of fibre, and vitamin C.
• Strawberries – they are yummy and packed full of vitamin C and vitamin A, which helps you see. And guess what? Strawberries are almost in season, which means they will be cheap.
• Yoghurt – freeze a few pots of yoghurt and bring them along frozen to your picnic for a delicious cool dessert. Yoghurt is a good source of vitamin D and calcium, which are great for your bones.
• Potato salad - chop up a few potatoes; pop them into a pot of water, cook and cool. Drizzle wholegrain honey mustard dressing over the potatoes and add raisins, chives and pumpkin seeds. Potatoes are a fantastic source of vitamin C, which helps you absorb iron.
• Brown rice salad - cook up some brown rice, drain and let it cool. Add dried currants, mandarin segments, cashew nuts and pumpkin seeds and dress with olive oil. Nuts and seeds are excellent sources of protein and brown rice is a low fat source of fibre, iron, calcium, B vitamins and protein. Fibre helps fill you up and keep your digestive system healthy. Iron is essential for a healthy immune system, calcium is needed for muscle function, B vitamins keep you energised and protein is required to help repair damaged cells and for making all sorts of hormones.
• Sandwiches – sandwiches make a cheap, high fibre healthy meal, depending on the ingredients of course! Make sandwiches with fancy whole grain bread and fill them up with lean meats, tuna, or salmon. Add chopped cherry tomatoes, lettuce, hummus, carrot, avocado, low fat cream cheese or cottage cheese for a tasty sandwich. Try peanut butter sandwich with grated carrot and raisins for an interesting vegetarian alternative.
Snacks
• Rice wafers with hummus. Hummus and rice wafers are yummy but healthy and is reasonable inexpensive too. Hummus is full of protein, and is a source of iron and calcium. Try pumpkin and kumara hummus for something a little bit different.
• Grapes and cheese – choose a low fat cheese like Edam and cut into small cubes.
• Cottage cheese on rice crackers – these are tasty and are a good source of calcium and protein.
Dessert
• Tropical fruit salad – combine chopped up pineapple, guava, mango, rock melon and honeydew. Tropical salads are rich in taste, vitamin C and fibre.
• Blueberry muffins – homemade blueberry muffins made with wholemeal flour and minimal sugar and saturated fat are best. Wholemeal blueberry muffins are great source of fibre, and vitamin C.
• Strawberries – they are yummy and packed full of vitamin C and vitamin A, which helps you see. And guess what? Strawberries are almost in season, which means they will be cheap.
• Yoghurt – freeze a few pots of yoghurt and bring them along frozen to your picnic for a delicious cool dessert. Yoghurt is a good source of vitamin D and calcium, which are great for your bones.
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