Sentences with phrase «often kids meals»

Often kids meals are priced almost as a lost leader and there is very little if any profit margin on them for the restaurant.

Not exact matches

This is especially important because for many kids, their meals at school can often be their only meals for the day.

When they have a choice, however, most will opt, alas, for hamburgers or pizza; and when Pineapple drags her little sister with her to the corner store to buy a treat between meals (which she does more often than she should), she usually reaches for the same big Hershey bars or packages of Twizzlers — reddish licorice sticks that kids buy at the local store in my hometown in Massachusetts.

I think this is because some of the more difficult parts of parenting are easier because a) the kids are often pretty good at entertaining each other AND b) when you are with another set of parents that appreciate and identify with the day - to - day struggle of parenting, meal prep, etc., then it just becomes a little easier.

I make this meal for my husband and son quite often, but trust me, don't try to make a little kid eat the rapini.

I think most kids growing up in an Italian house ate this meal often!

Twenty - eight percent of diners with kids indicate they often tell family and friends about their restaurant experiences on social media, with many including photos of their meals.

Once they're eating three meals of solid food a day (plus snacks in between), kids often breastfeed less and less.

Meal debt is a difficult problem that negatively affects both kids and school food programs, and it's important to keep in mind why schools often resort to these practices.

Cooking mistakes are bound to happen, but you can show kids that a little improvisation or creativity can often fix a meal.

Breakfast and school meals are an education issue; we know that kids who don't have breakfast go to the school nurse more often, they don't have the same level of concentration, they don't do as well in school.

But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.

And on the a la carte line, kids can and often do come back for multiple pizza slices at a single meal.

It's the most - skipped meal, partly because adults are too busy and kids often wake up not hungry.

By planning in advance, you can cut back costs on often expensive items or outings such as meals, theme park entries, concerts, activities to keep the kids occupied, accommodation and more.

But young elementary - school kids are often too busy chatting with pals to eat a huge lunch, and many don't eat huge meals in one sitting.

In addition to their three regular meals, kids often get quite a few calories from the snacks they eat throughout the day.

The French think this is practical for a few reasons: (i) it gives kids enough time to eat and digest their most important meal of the day; (ii) it gives teachers a proper break (they get a three or four course freshly prepared lunch (often the same thing the kids are eating) in a separate lunchroom!)

Yet because 80 % or more of HISD students qualify for free or reduced price meals, I've often wondered if stigma is really an issue in my district; in other words, if most kids qualify for federal assistance, maybe there's less shame in taking advantage of those benefits.

It's often difficult for parents and kids to get together for a family meal, let alone spend quality time together.

As long as your child is drinking enough milk, offer water with some meals, as well as when your child says she's hungry — kids often misread their thirst cues as hunger.

And when kids help prepare the meal, they are often much more enthusiastic about eating it!»

And my kids were VERY irregular nursers, especially my older son who seemed to eat less tahn every 2 hours apart and often needed 45 minutes per meal which left me all of 30 - 60 minutes total between nursing sessions.

My hubby and I often fall into the trap of talking to each other about our day and failing to purposefully engage the kids during meal times.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

It happens more often than I like (ideally I would love to always serve my kids home cooked fresh meals, but I can't / don't!).

Schools can serve healthy lunches, but whether kids will eat them is a question that has been asked often since the 2012 - 13 school year, when districts across the United States raised the nutritional quality of meals to meet updated national standards.

My middle schooler often prefers an adult offering to the kid meals, but still has an appetite that's in line with her small size.

As a result, with every reform I seek on behalf of kids, I now can't help but see other side of the coin: how those improvements will impact (often negatively) the people doing their best to keep their meal programs afloat.

Often we just give her some of our own meals so she will eat since we are pretty much guaranteed to waste money and food if we buy a «kids» meal.

Making kids take fruit / veg is no doubt a contributor to food waste, but letting them skip it every single day, as was often the case before the HHFKA, teaches kids that those foods are not necessary parts of a meal when, in fact, we know we should be filling at least half of our plates with those foods.

Not too often, but in my weaker moments, with said kids in tow and four more shopping aisles to go, it was simpler to appease them than to again explain why I wouldn't rack up good mommy points feeding them non-nutritious «meals».

A mom from Portland, Oregon, explained why on an online parenting discussion board: «The nanny is often more «soft» with older (daughter)-- doesn't expect her to do the things I expect (i.e. no separation from other kids when [she] is speaking rude or being mean, no expectation for her to say please and thank you at meals).»

Preparation is also key when it comes to getting those toddler meals ready too, and in our daddilifeforce post you can see more tips to get the kids eating better, more often.

When my kids were babies, we would often make baked poached eggs (crack whole eggs into greased or non-stick muffin tins and bake at 375F until hard boiled) because they made for such an easy, nutritious meal or snack.

Kids who «graze» between meals often, or snack randomly throughout the day may come to the table feeling too full to eat.

How often kids eat with their families also might impact childhood obesity rates — one group found that every meal not eaten with the family each week predicted an 8 percent increase in the likelihood that a child would be overweight.

I am often asked how I keep up with kids, homeschooling, cooking meals times a day, and running a blog.

I often get asked how I manage to «get it all done» each day including cooking real food meals, homeschooling my kids, maintaining my home and running the blog.

Pedometers that gauge movement with a flimsy mechanism called a hairspring and that cost less than $ 15 (like the ones you get with fast - food kids» meals, for example) often wear out within six months and may give you wrong information, according to a recent Real Simple article.

This healthy flour so filling it's often referred to as a «second meal» because it allows you to eat once, but gives you the satisfied feeling of eating twice, which is great if you are trying to lose weight, or have little kids with big appetites to feed!

People are often busy running from this meeting to that meeting, or running the kids here, or there, so many times people just don't take the time to prepare a lunch to bring with them to work, or take the time to cook and prepare a meal at home later on.

Whereas people WITH kids often wonder how anyone has time to eat multiple meals per day.

And, our kids are still young, so we often order off of the a la carte or side menu for them — cheaper and healthier than a kids» meal!

It's often hard to come up with meals that will satisfy both you and your kids, but these staples will make everyone happy.

I love being with my kids, but often after a long school break, I sure could use a few blocks of time to focus on work without the endless distractions of meals, activities, and arguments.