Healthy lunch boxes

Lunch box for a busy day

 

Pitas filled with chicken salad 

1 pita bread, halved

1 chicken breast filled, cooked and roughly chopped

1 small salad pepper, seeded and sliced

2 salad onions, chopped

60 ml mayonnaise

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Fresh herb salad leaves

1. Mix the chicken, pepper, onions and mayonnaise together. Season to taste.
2. Fill the pita halves with the chicken salad and fresh herb leaves.
3. Wrap with Glad Style wrap and place in a lunch box with biscuits and a fruit yoghurt of choice.

Serves 1

Chunky Peanutbutter and choc-chip cookies

440 ml (245 g) cake flour

5 ml baking powder

2 ml salt

125 g butter

125 ml (100g) white sugar

125 ml (100g) brown sugar

125 ml crunchy peanut butter

1 egg

125 ml (100g) chocolate chips

5 ml caramel essence

5 ml milk

2 ml bicarbonate of soda

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and line baking trays with Glad Bake Paper.
2. Sift the dry ingredients together.
3. Cream the butter, sugar and peanut butter together. Add the egg, sifted dry ingredients, chocolate chips and essence and mix well.
4. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk and stir into the butter mixture.
5. Spoon spoonfulls of dough onto the prepared trays, leaving enough space for spreading inbetween each.
6. Bake for 12 – 15 minutes or until biscuits are golden.
7. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.
8. Pack a few biscuits in a Glad Yummy bag for a sweet treat in a lunch box.

Makes 50 biscuits, depending on size

Tip: Store biscuits in an airtight container, with sheets of Glad Bake paper inbetween each layer, for 3 months.