By Amy Bell •
January 18, 2009
So now that you have everything you need to send your child off to school with a greener lunch, what do you put into that eco friendly lunchbox? There are cookbooks out there focusing entirely on kids lunches. (Try Vegan Lunch Box.) Or, you can come up with fun ideas on your own. Here are a few suggestions and recipes to get you started…
Wraps- If you kids are getting tired of the same old sandwiches, try layering their favorite sandwich fillings onto a whole wheat tortilla. Roll it up and cut into bite size pinwheels.
Soup- During the winter months heat soup and pour it into a thermos, don’t forget to include a spoon!
By Amy Bell •
January 15, 2009
Remember the school lunches from back in the days of your youth? Playing the guessing game was a daily occurrence. Was that mound of goop macaroni and cheese? Or maybe tater tot casserole? You would think that by now things have changed in the lunchroom, but have they?
In public schools all over the United States children are at the mercy of the National School Lunch Program. The NSLP was started back in 1946, with the purpose of providing affordable nutritious meals to kids. Don’t get me wrong, it’s wonderful that this program provides lunches to children no matter what their family’s financial situation is, but the quality of the food being served is very questionable. (In the 1980’s the Reagan Administration declared ketchup a vegetable for use in school lunches.) According to a 1993 survey, the USDA found the nutritional quality of most school lunches to be mediocre at best. In this day and age, with childhood obesity at an all time high, and overly processed foods being the norm, is “mediocre” good enough for our children?
By Rebecca Carter •
March 30, 2007
When you spend all of that time preparing lunches for your kids, to make sure that their little bellies don't go hungry and they eat (healthy) delicious meals at school, the last thing that you might think about is the lunchbox. Turns out that's a pretty important step, especially considering that many traditional lunch boxes are made of vinyl. Some even have issues with lead.
