The kids don’t like school lunch. You can make it cheaper. You want your kids to eat unprocessed food.
Whatever your reason for sending a home lunch to school, you don’t have to get stuck in a PB&J/bag of chips/cookie rut. There are ways to pack a healthy and creative lunch from home — and keep the food safe, too.
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Nutrition facts for most of these recipes come from www.sparkpeople.com
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The minute your children start school, requests for you to volunteer start rolling in. Because your child’s education is critical, it can be very difficult to turn down the requests. After all, there is a definite correlation between active parental participation and school performance.
But getting it right is another matter.
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If you’re sick of carrot sticks — you, the trans-fat-shunning, sodium-watching grown-up — it’s safe to assume your kids are even more so.
So what to pack as a side dish in that daily test of resolve, aka, the school lunch? Served day in and day out, carrots and apples — no matter how you slice them — are capital-B Boring. Still ...
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So who really wants to start thinking about getting back into the school grind when there’s still time to enjoy the last dreamy days of summer? Or maybe your summer schedule is as frantic as ever, with work, summer camp, day care and everything else filling your itinerary.
Even so, time’s a-wasting.
Not to worry. Take a deep...
