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State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead  Read More

When your office is overflowing with holiday cookies, candy and snacks, a great way to counter all of those extra calories is to brown-bag your lunch. Why add to the calories with a fast-food lunch? Read More

I have to admit my mom never wrote me a note in my lunch or created fancy shaped sandwiches.  But I also never expected one because none of my friends got notes in their lunches.  I do think it's a great idea--any opportunity to keep communicating with your kid.   Read More

Here are some great lunch ideas from Chef Ann Cooper who is partnering with Whole Foods to encourage parents to pack healthy lunches for their kids.  Some good ideas to break up the monotony of a PB&J sandwich everyday.  Plus kids will love the variety!  Also interesting tidbit at the end is how important it is to green your kid's lunch.  Chef Cooper claims that we throw away 20 million sandwich bags a day! And each lunch usually uses 3 sandwich bags.  That's a lot of bags that are unnecessarily filling up our landfills.  Keep checking in to get more lunch ideas.  We want healthy, green lunches for kids across America!  Read More

so says an article in Convenience Store News "Lunch Behavior Varies by Generation" published Sept. 23, 2011.  Basically the article says that if you're over 45, you tend to eat healthier. Read More

According to an article on OnlineSchools.com, only 1% of packed lunches in the UK meet the required nutritional standards that cafeteria food meets. Read More