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40 Healthy School Lunch Recipes to Make for Your Kids
Packing lunch for your kids is one way to insure that they're getting well-rounded meals with good nutrition, but packing them something they'll eat every day can be a challenge. Here are 40 recipes, with something for everyone, from the picky eater to the adventurous eater and vegetarian, including snacks and desserts, to help keep your kids well-fed every day.
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Will the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act Fix School Lunches?
The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act has passed in the Senate, but even if it is signed into law (as expected it will be), school food in the U.S. will still be far from perfect. The act would increase the federal reimbursement of school lunch programs by six cents per meal, but that's a pittance compared with what kids actually need.
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5 Ideas That Would Revolutionize School Food (and Save our Kids)
Yes, you can pack a healthy lunch for your kid, but the only way we are going to see a major shift in childhood obesity levels (currently at about 32 percent) is to change the way schools feed our kids.
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7 Strategies for Packing a Healthy, Green School Lunch
Packing a brown-bag lunch for your kids helps them stay full, focused, and productive throughout the day -- without the chemicals and preservatives and who-knows-what-else that goes into cafeteria food -- but it can also mean a lot of waste. Trading disposable bags, snack packs, individually-wrapped treats, and silverware for reusable versions helps cut your carbon footprint -- and makes your kid the most popular one at the lunch table.
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Green Your Kid's Packed School Lunch: The Buy Guide (Slideshow)
Send your kids off to school in style with the lunch boxes, silverware, napkins, and containers that will make them the most popular kid in the cafeteria -- and, while you're at it, cut back on the waste inherent in disposable paper bags and plastic snack packs.
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5 Cool Programs Making School Lunch Better
School lunch is convenient, but it sure isn't doing kids any favors -- for now, but things are finally changing. Here are five cool examples of programs around the country that are working in or with schools to improve the food that's available to children when they hit the cafeteria.
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Could You Eat School Lunch for a Year? Mrs. Q of The School Lunch Project is Trying (Interview)
By now, you may have heard about Mrs. Q, the intrepid public school teacher who is eating the same school lunch as her students every day for a full year, and blogging about it at Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project. What started as a personal project has turned into a crusade, with a roster of fascinating guest bloggers, a Flickr Group, and a monthly Titanium Spork Award for an activist doing great work for kids and school lunches. We checked in to see how Mrs. Q is holding up.
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Fast Food Kid's Meals Have Adult-Sized Fat, Calories and Salt
Nobody ever claimed Happy Meals were healthy, but dietitians at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) had a bite of a few of them and found that they had half a day's worth of calories and more than a day's recommended intake of salt. Read more about some of the stuff sneaking its way into these meals via slick marketing and toy incentives.
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7 Strategies for Teaching Your Kids What Real Food Is
Every parent wishes they had kids who always chose pineapple over popsicles, broccoli over cookies, and yogurt over pudding -- but for most kids, those healthy choices don't come naturally. Still, no matter how young your children are, you can put them on the right track to a lifetime of healthy food choices with these seven strategies that help them learn what real food is, where it comes from, and why it tastes better than anything from a box with a cartoon character on it.
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The 5 Weirdest Policies That Make School Lunches Unhealthy
You'd think school lunch would be a simple issue: Feed kids healthy, nutritious foods. A no-brainer, right? Not so much. Dig deeper into some of the reasons that school food isn't always the healthiest choice for our kids.
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Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Passed By the Senate: A Big Win for Kids Across the Nation
On August 5, the School Nutrition Act Reauthorization, also called Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, was passed by the Senate. Now the bill needs to be rapidly passed by Congress before it expires September 30. Here's what it'll actually do if it passes the next legislative hurdle.
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6 Nutritious Foods to Put in Your Kids' School Lunches
Cookies, PB&J, chips, soda, maybe a box of raisins…. Sounds similar to what you fill your kid’s lunchbox with? Do you really think that chocolate, fat, sugar, and a little fruit is the best mid-day meal to power your child through the rest of the afternoon? Think again. Here are six super-nutritious foods that your kids will actually eat for lunch.
