Lunch Boxes

by Jennifer Joyce

An easy-to-use and entertaining guide to making packed lunches fun, nutritious and delicious. There are over 100 brilliant ideas for healthy food for kids from the startlingly simple to the more adventurous. There are lots of tips for cheating to save time and money such as supper ideas that produce leftovers for lunch boxes the next day, salads that make enough for three days and homemade, healthier and cheaper versions of shop-bought products. There are weekly plans, shopping lists and everyday solutions to take the headache out of packed lunches for the whole school year.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 25, 2007

About the author

Jennifer Joyce is a successful food writer, author and stylist based in London. She is American-born but has been resident in the UK for more than 24 years. Working for leading UK magazines and newspapers, such as BBC Good Food, Waitrose Kitchen and Jamie Magazine as well as The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, she draws on her unique dual talents of creating mouth-watering recipes and styling the dishes for photography. Leiths School of Food and Wine in London hosts Jennifer's popular cookery classes and she has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows in the UK and US, including the BBC's Today and Good Food Show Live. My Asian Kitchen is Jennifer's eleventh book. Her previous titles for Murdoch Books are My Street Food Kitchen, Meals in Heels and Skinny Meals in Heels.