HEALTHY SCHOOL LUNCHES

WELLNESS
Ask JJ: How To Pack Healthy Lunches Your Kids Will Eat?
By JJ Virgin, Contributor
Celebrity nutrition, fitness, and mindset expert
One of the quickest ways you can upgrade your child's lunch is by making "lateral shifts." That means swapping out traditional, less nutritious lunchbox items for healthy goodies that taste better and give your kids an advantage with their focus and energy. My favorite lunchbox lateral shifts include:
NEW YORK
A Local Apple a Day... Benefits Kids, Farmers and the Environment
By Gena Hamshaw and Claire Uno, Contributors
These days many of us are looking to get more fresh, local, and sustainably grown food onto our plates. Now we have a chance to ensure that New York students have more access to local produce too.
IMPACT
Michael Moore's New Movie Nails School Lunch in France -- On The Menu: Lamb, Endive, Lentils and Leeks
By Tom Conrad, Contributor
Christmas design expert, antique dealer, travel operator and b...
Fine cuisine is alive and well in the school lunchrooms of France. The menu includes lamb tajine, veal, crêpes, organic veggies, pâté and organic bread. Oh, yes -- and a cheese course.
Jasmine Castillo/The School Lunch Project
TASTE
The Problem Is Gross School Lunch. These High Schoolers Are Fixing It.
By Joseph Erbentraut
Students at a Chicago high school blame the district's contractor for serving meals they say are worse than prison food. And they're getting results.
WELLNESS
Give Schools the Tools to Solve Cafeteria Challenges
By Jessica Donze Black, Contributor
Director, The Pew Charitable Trusts’ child nutrition project
Under the healthier meal standards, more children are choosing and eating fruit and consuming more of their entrees and vegetables, increasing their nutrient intake and decreasing food waste. Parents and students alike support the healthier meals.
PARENTING
What Happens When Students Love School Lunch
By Kirsten Saenz Tobey, Contributor
Co-Founder, Revolution Foods
As former educators, we share the goal of all school leaders to set students up for success. As moms, we recognize that to get kids to eat healthier foods, food needs to be delicious and kids need to help generate new menu ideas, develop and test recipes, and even name the foods they create.
WELLNESS
See What a Nutritionist Feeds Her Kids This Back-to-School Season
By Heather Bauer, Contributor
Nutritionist, Author, Founder of Bestowed and The Food Fix
Lunch is the most important meal of the day to keep our kids full and focused until that final bell rings. Don't make the afternoon harder on them! Pack a nutritious lunch and they'll be well on their way to a productive day.
PARENTING
5 Healthy and Kid-Friendly Meals for School Lunches
By Hannah Helsabeck, Contributor
President and co-founder, WildMintShop.com
The new school year has begun and even if you prepared for weeks, the daily routine can get hectic very quickly. In the midst of all the tasks, sometimes lunches are the first thing to fall to the wayside. But with a little preparation and a few solid lunch ideas, you don't have to give up on sending your kids to school with healthy lunches every day.
WELLNESS
What's in Your School Lunch?
By Margaret Marshall, Contributor
Author: Healthy Living Means Living Healthy...Lose Weight, Fee...
"As parents, we try to prepare decent meals, limit how much junk food our kids eat, and ensure they have a reasonably balanced
DC
The Problem With DC School Food -- as Told to DC City Council
By Sadie Barr, Contributor
Researcher, author, consultant, and food educator
ENVIRONMENT
Fierce Love for the Planet? Step Up to Your Plate
By Suzy Amis Cameron, Contributor
Executive Director of Plant Power Task Force
Through it all, I have cared deeply -- okay, some might say fiercely! -- about the health of our planet. Most everything I do, as a parent or advocate, circles around the environment.
IMPACT
Obesity Swept the Nation and Now Healthy Schools are Taking it Back... With Your Help
By Rob Bisceglie, Contributor
CEO, Action for Healthy Kids
There are many incredible and life-changing improvements around health taking place in schools across the country right now, led by everyday heroes who deserve and need our support.
POLITICS
Don't Let Food Industry Stir the Pot
By Pam Koch, Contributor
Researcher and educator who connects food systems, nutrition e...
We can help all of our citizens have a healthier and more productive future when we let science and public health, and not food industry, cook up our food policy.
HUFFPOST LIVE 321
Good News, Parents: School Lunches Just Got A Lot More Appealing
By Kira Brekke
VIDEOS
Study Finds Home-Packed Lunches Can Be Unhealthier Than School Lunches
Sarah Misyak, Ph.D. and Tassika Lloyd join Nancy to discuss a study that reveals packed lunches can actually be less healthy than the lunch being served at public schools.
VIDEOS
This Student Is Helping Bring Healthier Lunches To NY Public Schools
Kristina Erskine joins Nancy to reveal what she’s doing in order to help bring healthier lunches to New York public schools.
TEEN
These Teens Hate Their School Lunches And They're Blaming Michelle Obama For it
By Rebecca Klein
However, two surveys released in July show that students are actually warming up to the new lunch standards. Notably, another
EDUCATION
What We Feed Students -- But Also How We Feed Them
By Larry Strauss, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
Gone are the days of President Reagan's ketchup as a vegetable. And it is about time the feds try to do something to combat childhood obesity and promote healthy eating habits. Problem is, a lot of students aren't eating any of it.
PARENTING
The Sneaky Way To Get Kids To Eat Healthy School Lunches
By Alexandra Svokos
The Smarter Lunchroom strategies have been so effective that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has sought to improve
PARENTING
Why I Quit Making Fun Bento Lunches for My Kids
By Beau Coffron, Contributor
Husband, father, and blogger on LunchboxDad.com
I'm thickheaded sometimes, but I finally get it. It's clear as day. All of the faceless Internet trolls, who have never met my family, are making sense now. They have been trying to speak wisdom into my life for the last two years, and I haven't been willing to listen.
WORLDPOST
Four Ways Other Countries Are Successfully Tackling Obesity. Take Note, America
By Mark Hyman, MD, Contributor
Practicing physician
In 2000, Australia implemented a 10 percent tax on soda, candy and white flour bakery products.
PARENTING
Eighth-Grade Student Gets Detention For Sharing His Lunch With Another Child
By Rebecca Klein
“I just wanted to give mine to him because I wasn't really that hungry and it was just going to go in the garbage if I didn't
EDUCATION
Common Core Standards: What to Make of This Problem
By Khanh Ho, Contributor
Writer, Scholar, Activist
Common Core Standards is the equivalent of a steamed burrito in a plastic pocket--enough nutrition but not enough nutriment. Those who are truly feeding their minds, and those of their children, are not seeking their intellectual calories from what, essentially, are empty warming trays of mystery meat.
POLITICS
Texas Official Is Freaking Out About School 'Meatless Monday'
By Rebecca Klein
The Dripping Springs district adopted meatless Monday to encourage healthy eating that is environmentally conscious, a local
PARENTING
Do You Know Which Of These Snacks Are Healthy Enough For School Vending Machines?
By Rebecca Klein
This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Week, where it was originally published.
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