Contest – Send Us Your School Lunch Recipe for a Prize

. . .  win a Beyond Health Back-to-School Kit! Sending your child to school with a healthy lunch that will please a child’s finicky palate, won’t subject them to peer ridicule, and won’t take hours in the kitchen to make – is no mean feat.  So we’re out to help stumped parents everywhere by collecting successful recipes from our clever readers. Send to [email protected] your child-tested and approved healthy recipe. You’ll be helping other parents, and we’ll reward the top three winners with these prizes: First Prize: A Beyond Health Back-to-School Kit Second Prize: A bottle of Beyond Health Children’s Multivitamin Third Prize: A Beyond Health Water Bottle All recipes should be in by Wednesday, September 26th. The winner will be announced in the Newsclips on Saturday, September 28th. For guidance in selecting a recipe to send, at Beyond Health, we consider a healthy diet to be plant-based and free from the foods that are downright hazardous to your health. We call these foods The Big Four, and they are:

1. Refined sugar and other refined carbohydrates
2. Gluten
3. Processed oils
4. Dairy/excessive animal protein.

It should include 10-12 servings of fruits and vegetables daily (ideally 10 vegetable and 2 fruit servings) and the healthy oils: coconut oil, olive oil, flax oil, and fish oil. Protein sources should be primarily plant-based, with very small portions of pasture-raised, grain-fed animal sources. Meanwhile, here’s a recipe to add to a lunch box. It’s from Beyond Healthy Recipes, and it’s been a hit with kids we know: BAKED APPLES 2 apples 1/3 cup walnuts 1/3 cup pitted dates 1 tiny scoop KAL Pure Stevia Extract Powder ½ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp nutmeg 1/2 cup water 1 tsp coconut oil Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Wash apples and remove core with an apple corer or a paring knife leaving at least ½ inch of the bottom of the apple. With a melon baller or regular spoon, dig out the seeds and make a cylindrical hole about ½-3/4 inch wide. In a food processor, process the walnuts and dates into small chunks. Then add stevia, cinnamon and nutmeg and process briefly again to blend. Pack half this mixture into the center of each apple, pressing firmly to push it down in. Place ½ tsp coconut oil on top of each apple over the filling. Put the apples in an 8” X 8” baking pan with 1/2 cup of water. Bake 50-60 minutes or until the apple is tender when pricked with a knife. Check twice during the cooking time to make sure there is enough water in the pan and baste each time with juice from the pan.

Davis MK. Beyond Healthy Recipes. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2010.