A naturopath’s school-lunch hack: ‘Put fruit and vegetables in a thermos’

When Catie Gett’s 10-year-old started school, she ate up the highly nutritious lunches her mum prepared. But when she got older, she wanted her lunch to look like everyone else’s – i.e., processed food.

Changing tack, the Melbourne naturopath now mostly concentrates on the “book ends” of her children’s diet – a healthy breakfast and dinner. When you’re packing cut-up fruit and veges for a school lunch, she says, a thermos for school lunch is a “game-changer”.

“I started putting her grapes and carrot sticks and cucumber and things in a thermos and it gets eaten,” she tells RNZ’s Saturday Morning.