I was reading our local newsletter and found that the local school had run two sessions on Healthy Lunchbox Options (run by a chef and a dietitian) and they gave the recipes for the 2 most popular 'options'. The first - vegetable scroll - vegetables and cheese rolled in a wholemeal flour dough - whilst not low carb seemed reasonable. The second - muesli/cornflake cakes - truly suprised me. I wouldn't have thought it was healthy in any respect let alone a Healthy Lunchbox Option. The ingredients were cornflakes, brown sugar, sultanas, honey, golden syrup, oats, plain flour and oil. So much sweetness/sugar - how is that healthy? If a dietitian actually thinks this sugar fix is healthy, no wonder so many of our school kids are hyped up and overweight. Maybe they were going for 'natural' (barring the white flour) or thought it was better than a chocolate bar. Is this direction really where dietitions think we should be heading towards?
