In The Lunch Tray's Guide to
Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, I address a wide variety of topics including: how wellness policies and the new federal «Smart Snacks» rules relate to classroom junk food; the
tricky problem of birthday treats and how to respond to your opponents on that issue; the use of junk food as a classroom reward; the use of candy as a teaching «manipulative;» kids and sugar
consumption; and much more.
Tracking your
consumption of added sugars can be
tricky, since packaged foods don't list the number of teaspoons of sugar and few of us are
getting our sugar by spooning it onto our food.