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GMOs are the next thing to get out of school lunches.

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First order of business after dealing with all of my personal crap is getting back on track with the blog, getting the 30 + recipes I have sitting on my computer, and finishing out my «Fit Kids Breakfast & Lunch» series for the 2016 - 2017 school year!

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

My son missed lunch on the first day of school this year (9th grade) because of the crowds but wanted to buy lunch this week as now he's «figured out» how to get to the lunch line in time.

In the coming days, I'll be sharing a few more posts to help you out: a round - up of blogs and websites with helpful lists and recipes for healthy packed lunches; a guest blog post from Bri of Red, Round or Green that will get you «pumped up to pack» (plus her super-creative list of ideas for kids who need to go gluten - or grain - free); a healthy muffin recipe from The Simply Wholesome Kitchen that can serve as a quick breakfast, a school lunch item or an after - school snack; a free lunch menu subscription give - away from MOMables, and more.

I'm looking forward to her ideas and tips — it's so good to have someone else's perspective to help me get out of a food rut where it seems I'm always making the same things... Also, wouldn't mind winning one of the Easylunchbox sets — I love ours — but I have one set of 4 and no cooler, and up to 6 people I make lunch for — and I'd like to be able to make up an after - school snack ahead of time too!

But it's time to get milk out of school lunches.

What we need to do is remove the profit from school lunches and increase proper nutrition an we'd see the worldwide conglomerates get out of school.

All schools participating in the National School Lunch Program are required to have a wellness policy (see Getting Junk Food Out of School: How Your School District Wellness Policy Can Help) that includes goals for classroom food, nutrition education and more.

The National School Lunch Program allows schools to provide breakfast, but it's long been known that when breakfast is served in the cafeteria, economically disadvantaged students often don't eat it, either out of fear of stigma or because they have no time to get to the cafeteria before school sSchool Lunch Program allows schools to provide breakfast, but it's long been known that when breakfast is served in the cafeteria, economically disadvantaged students often don't eat it, either out of fear of stigma or because they have no time to get to the cafeteria before school sschool starts.

They were the true naysayers — they tried to say we couldn't get the junk food out of the schools, that no one would be able to get more families to fill out the free lunch application, and that students wouldn't want to eat fresh fruit or salad or healthier entrees.

If you were a TLT Facebook fan, you would also have gotten tons of great tips for nutritious - but - not - too - messy car snacks for kids (thanks, readers, for responding), some good school food news out of Minnesota, news about the pending school food regulations, and a cute photo of a TLT reader holding her very own vintage TLT lunch tray, won in a recent giveaway.

And when the rest of us pack our kids lunch and opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great food.

Taking fat and sodium out of school lunch while still getting kids to eat it can defeat the best dietitians.

Also, next week I'll be sharing with you an exclusive, free tip sheet created by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to encourage you to make a «school lunch date» with your child and to help you get the most out of the experience.

We are just a couple of months out from the end of the school year creative lunches are getting harder and harder to put together.

Lunch Tray readers following the astonishing progress of the Change.org petition launched here last week to get «Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings» (BLBT) out of school food (175,000 at present count) will hardly be surprised that the beef industry has started to come out swinging.

And if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&raqout «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.&raqOut of Your Child's Classroom.»

You say that school lunches provide only 5 out of 21 meals that kids get on a weekly basis.

A few years ago, I brought it to the attention of the food service director of my children's school district after my son got sick eating the [sic] school lunch and after the school closed down parent access to the school lunch area after they found out I went through food laws and regulations training.

My feeling about milk in schools, as shared by many TLT readers (judging from this morning's discussion on the Facebook page and in comments on the blog), is that milk does have a place on lunch trays, but not to the exclusion of other beverages like water (which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get into cafeterias) and plant - based milks for those who drink them.

Spending a little bit of time getting things ready for the next day, whether it's making packed lunches or laying out your little ones» outfits for school tomorrow, will give you less to worry about when it comes to going to bed.

«It would help to get junk food and soda out of school vending machines, it would help schools serve healthier lunches by providing more resources and training and model recipes, and it would help to bring more healthy produce from farm - to - school programs into schools,» she says.

He's spent most of them figuring out how to get mass quantities of appealing food from a central kitchen to schools that are ill - equipped to do more than run the lunch line.

The vigilance with which the USDA enforces the required «counting and claiming» of school meals seems extreme given that it is unlikely anyone is getting rich by scamming a free school lunch for their child, but this is just one of the ways in which the USDA appears out of touch with the realities of school cafeterias.

Lunch Tray readers often contact me for help in getting junk food out of their children's classrooms, but few seem to know that as of next school year, districts will for the first time have to impose a nutritional standard for classroom food.

If you want to know what led a bunch of shivering teenagers to sort through the trash behind Prosser Career Academy one recent, icy day, try to get your head around this statistic: Every day, kids in the Chicago Public Schools district throw out nearly a quarter of a million lunch and breakfast trays made of polystyrene foam.

As I discuss in my free e-book, The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, it's just this sort of confusion that complicates matters greatly when parents are asked to send in «healthy» food to school parties and events.

I get up early, take care of the dogs, coffee, the girls, their lunch boxes, breakfast — then out the door for school drop - off.

Plus I can't wait until the little ones are out of school, no more packing lunches and getting everyone out the door before 7:15 am.

«We also get suggestions from staff of initiatives they would like to see» says Lang, «a weekly fitness class after school is the latest one we're acting on» and while not all ideas were possible to achieve the board is now following up ideas of staff nights out, providing information about coping with stress and paying a housekeeper to tidy after lunch so it can be a haven for staff.

«At the end of the school year last year, we could get volunteers probably three out of the five lunch days for recess.

Schools are sending notes to parents about the importance of meals and sleep during test week, even as the schools also review their school breakfast and lunch menus to get the most out of these nutrition Schools are sending notes to parents about the importance of meals and sleep during test week, even as the schools also review their school breakfast and lunch menus to get the most out of these nutrition schools also review their school breakfast and lunch menus to get the most out of these nutrition bursts.