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School Lunch Ideas for Kindergarten Through High School
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After School Snacks
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A parent will dish out a lot of snacks over their child's lifetime -- it's safe to say a little inspiration might be needed now and again to get beyond the goldfish and Cheerios. We've got you covered. Here are 20 simple and reasonably wholesome snack recipes for all kinds of kids (and all kinds of adults, too), whether it's for the school day, after ... Read More
Ramen Noodle Recipes for College Campus Cooking
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New Media PublishingAlthough I've long been a great believer in whole grains and cooking from scratch, and strived to raise my two daughters on wholesome foods, I will admit that I occasionally turned to convenience items such as packages of fast-cooking ramen noodles for quick lunches when the girls were young. I rationalized my choice by tossing out the flavor packet ... Read More
A Peek at a Paris School Lunch Menu
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Getty ImagesEarlier this year, Vivienne Walt, a Paris-based correspondent for Time magazine, wrote an essay about the lunches her 3-year-old son is served at his kindergarten. Every week the detailed menus are posted on the wall outside the school and every school in the country.
Each meal includes an hors d'oeuvre, salad, main course, cheese plate and dessert. ... Read More
8 Tips for Creative School Lunch Packaging
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Courtney RussellLast year, when I sent my kindergartener off to a tiny school with no food service, I braced myself as I unpacked his lunch box each day. I had heard stories during daily pickup of jilted PB&J's, leftover pizza ignored-- but my son? He was eating his lunch.
My smugness turned to discontent when a few months later I began to find his lunch ... Read More
The Politics of School Lunch
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PhotodiscPicture your kid's school lunch tray. A dollop of mac & cheese, a few carrot sticks, a splash of low-fat milk -- boom, you're done. But wait: Add onto that tray all the school food subsidies, federal nutrition guidelines, increasing prevalence of food sensitivities, and the push for local foods, and that lunch might start to feel really, really heavy.
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Making School Lunch Fun
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Seth and Kendra Smoot
Picky kids sometimes need incentives to finish their lunch when they're on their own at school. Make lunch as fun as recess with these easy ideas for adding humor, flavor and a little love to their lunch box every day.
Click on the gallery tab above to take a look at clever lunch ideas.
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Lunch Box Love
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Lisa Meyers McClintickWhen it's time to send the kids back to school (or maybe you have one going for the first time), what little mementos or surprises do you slip into your child's lunchbox to let her know you're thinking of her? Maybe it's a toy, or a heart-shaped sandwich, or simply a discreet note that says, "I love you."
KitchenDaily asked readers for ... Read More
Healthy Lunches for Special Diets
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Jessica WynneAsk Cybele Pascal -- author of The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook (Square One) and The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook (Ten Speed Press) -- how she gets her two sons to eat healthy lunches, and she'll tell you her simple rule of thumb. "Kids will chow down fun food, even if it's good for them! If they can roll it, dunk it, scoop it, stack it or skewer it, ... Read More
School Gardens
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Getty ImagesMichelle Obama may be giving school gardens cache with her school-linked White House garden, but she didn't invent them. Nor did Alice Waters when she started the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley in 1995. Even Life Lab, the Santa Cruz- based non-profit that has been helping schools develop gardens for 31 years (that's right, 31 years) didn't invent them.
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School Lunch Ideas for Kindergarten Through High School
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Getty ImagesI remember being delighted once summer started and I no longer had to pack the dreaded school lunch for my son. While other kids were having Lunchables, I tried to come up with something similar, but a little more healthy that wouldn't illicit the cry, "But Mom, all the other kids...."
The suggestions for school lunches below take into account the ... Read More
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