Love the idea of keeping the marketing up close and personal — the story of taking
the kid out to lunch is awesome.
I took
my kids out to lunch at Sino Santana Row, and then I dragged them with me while I ran errands.
Not exact matches
I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that
to get
out of debt we have
to spend more, or that my tax dollars have
to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund
to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates
kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money
to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.
Programs
to help parents get jobs Pre k programs for children After school programs
to keep
kids out of trouble Affordable housing School
lunch Increase school budgets for the arts and sports Summer job programs for children
Even if we don't go
out and shoot
kids for fun, when we allow the images in the media
to perpetuate the idea that young black men are violent, when our own speech (I don't want
to talk about the conversation I had
to have at
lunch today) perpetuates an idea of black Americans as criminals, especially young black American men, we are accessories
to murder.
Welcome
to Day 6 of the Spring Into Health
Lunch Challenge!Do you ever feel like nothing quite works
out the way you wanted?I know I have that happen a lot.The struggle
to get the
kids...
After you check
out our post on
lunch box main dishes, and fill in around the edges of with some of the healthy school snack ideas and
lunch box sides dishes we posted last week, these desserts are a great way
to finish off a totally
kid - friendly yet really nutritious
lunch box!
Between getting school
lunches ready, getting breakfast into my
kids, and figuring
out which route
to take for our 20 - 25 minute journey
to school, and then driving back home I usually came back feeling like the entire process took me 4 hours.
Note I left
out the walnuts from this step because I knew I was sending the filling
to school for the
kids lunch the next day.
For more healthy recipes for picky eaters, follow Freebie Finding Mom's Toddler Meals Pinterest board and be sure
to check
out these 25 toddler
lunch ideas along with these healthy homemade snack ideas for
kids.
This is a great recipe
to make on the weekend and have
out during the week for the
kids or pack it in your
lunch and / or your children's
lunch.
As a
kid, I slathered it on saltines alongside chocolate milk during cartoon - drenched Saturday mornings; I ate it in sandwiches for
lunch throughout my teen years; once I acquired my own kitchen in which
to experiment in my 20s, I packed it into celery hollows for snacks, baked it in cookies, muffins or the occasional Rice Krispie square; later, I ate it straight
out of the jar for an immediate PMS pick - me - up, or after a late night when I was too tired
to cook.
Although not without controversy he's akin
to a modern - day hero by providing disadvantaged teenagers the same opportunity he had in the restaurant industry (Fifteen), taking fake fried meat and flavoured milk
out of
kids lunches (School Dinners) and explaining
to people that a hot chip is not counted as a vegetable serving (The Food Revolution & The Ministry of Food).
We want
to provide local harvests
to everyone from chefs planning seasonal menus
to kids picking
out lunch in their school cafeteria.
So whenever I have the last of 2 or 3 hardboiled eggs left
out, it ends up as egg kurma for dinner or
to pack in the
lunch box along with chapathis for the
kids.
These days, I'm packing peanut - free, egg - free and gluten - free
lunches that won't get my
kids kicked
out of summer camp, so needless
to say, July hit me like a ton of fireworks.
By the way: you can try getting your
kids to wash
out their own
lunches right when they get home (or whenever works best)-- let me know how that goes!»
Going now
to school
to pick up my
kids, will check
out what is on the menu for school
lunch tomorrow.
Out of many, we are one, but at the same time, we strive
to respect the individuality of our origins — school
lunches must, in some way, both appeal
to and avoid offending Cambodian
kids, Salvadoran
kids, Syrian
kids, Nigerian
kids, and all at the same meal.
Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «
kids and food, in school and
out» but in the near future I plan
to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the
lunch program in my own school... [Continue reading]
Thanks for all of the hard work you put in on The
Lunch Tray, Bettina — and especially thanks for continuing
to work so hard even while school is
out and your
kids are on vacation.
I have used them (for mostly my own
lunches) since I got them, and have bought a couple more sets of containers for summer use with my brother and his
kids, and gave some
to my mother - in - law for her
outings with the
kids, and she also uses them for my father - in - law's
lunches.
It was crazy
to watch a couple hundred people all eating
out of Ziploc baggies using about 4 for each
kids lunch and throwing them away after - we must have filled an entire Drum Trash Can with Ziplocks and brown paper bags!
Our service is 2 hours long and Bohdan stayed dry the whole time (I was asking him
to tell me if he needed
to go) «WOW» My husband and I then took the
kids out for
lunch where Bohdan told us three times he had
to go
to the bathroom!!!!! By this evening Bohdan is actually tells us when he has
to go making it (4 pee's and 2 poops on the potty this evening).
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.
While I believe all the issues on The
Lunch Tray are worthy of discussion (even if some are a little sillier than others), and even though we've certainly discussed childhood hunger here and will continue
to do so, any site claiming
to be dedicated
to «
kids and food, in school and
out» really ought
to take affirmative steps
to help
kids with no food at all.
We have friends whose
kids are going
to the public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest of the day; their little ones are already stressed
out because they have just 2.75 hours in school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for
lunch while foregoing rest time in favor of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»
But I'll most likely send
out kid - and - food updates in the interim via the
Lunch Tray Facebook fan page — yet another reason
to go over there and «like» it, if you haven't already (hint, hint.)
Nursing, changing diaper, changing spit - up clothes (baby's and yours), made a cup of tea, spent an hour trying
to get in 10 minutes of Tummy Time so the baby won't be a dolt, spent 40 minutes getting the baby down for a nap which ended up lasting 20 minutes, made
lunch and spilled half of it on the baby's head, clothing changes all around, nursing, found now - cold cup of untouched tea and drank it anyway, more nursing, baby falls asleep on you but wakes up if you try
to move him so you just stay slumped on the couch with one leg forward and the other bent uncomfortably under you because this
kid needs
to sleep or we'll all diiieeee, nursing, realize you forgot about the weekly mothers» meeting which was your only adult
outing dammit and now who will be your friend?
If one of your many duties as a parent is making
lunch for the
kids to take
to school, then you need
to check
out these tips on how
to prep and pack up
to two weeks of school
lunches.
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.
Paper and crayons is now an essential item in my bag for helping
to keep the
kids amused if we're
out and about and stop for
lunch or a coffee (for me, not the
kids!)
If there was one thing that didn't stress me
out about the whole prospect of sending the
kids to school in France it was the
lunches.
Once school is
out, parents still have
to work, and worry about finding the
kids breakfast and
lunch.
I had a long talk with Hubby about what we could do for our
kids — While I do cook for and with my
kids... We take them
out to eat all the time — they are eating chicken nuggets, pizza and all that for
lunch everyday.
If your
kids love pizza, and you need new ways
to send it packed in a
lunch box, check
out MOMables
to learn more about these Pizza Dippers:
Check
out what
kids are eating for school
lunch in Columbus, Ohio compared
to a another big city in France, called Montpellier.
Here are fifteen grain - free
lunches I'd happily pack for any
kid (and you could easily adapt them
to include grains, if you'd prefer)-- round them
out with staples from your «
lunch pantry» and everyone will be happy.
Lucky for you this means that I was able
to test
out some new
lunch boxes on my
kids for an entire summer.
I thought it was going
to be more expensive
to make my
kids»
lunches this year (i have 3 going
to school) but once i cut
out the packaged snacks and started buying fresh fruit and veggies and organic «quick» snacks like Cliff granola bars or fruit rope, there is really no change!
So many
kids don't go
to school for xxx days each month because their family has run
out of foods that pack in a
lunch.
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.
Universal school
lunch is a proven policy that takes the shame and stigma
out of free meals and ensures that all our
kids have full stomachs and the best chance
to learn and grow in school.»
Today was Bento Day on TLT, which means we saw some adorable bento
lunches that three talented moms prepare for their
kids regularly, and then I interviewed those moms
to find
out more about bento.
«These people watch the
kids at
lunch to make sure they don't get too noisy and that they stay put and don't get
out of hand.
I blog over at The
Lunch Tray, a daily blog devoted
to «
kids and food, in school and
out.»
Finally let's finish
out this sweet little trip by buckling possessed toddlers into the stroller, running home, feeding
kids, swearing at sand, and trying
to make
lunch.
Check
out these school sandwiches
kids will love
to help you offer your family healthy, filling, and delicious school
lunch options that will keep them happy and... MORE excited
to open their
lunch boxes every day.
Taking fat and sodium
out of school
lunch while still getting
kids to eat it can defeat the best dietitians.
At any rate, I popped into my
kids»
lunch room this week
to check
out two new menu items, sweet potatoes and a frozen... [Continue reading]