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        Back to School Lunches

Kids are back to school and parents are back to packing lunch. Try buying a bento box to put together a healthy lunch.  Bento boxes are the craze and no kid wants to be without one. Kids no longer like  large sandwiches, so cut up smaller pieces of a sandwich and put in a bento box. Try Zulay bento boxes available at Amazon for a sturdy box that will keep your items separated and yummy.

What does a healthy lunch include?

1. Protein

Try hard-cooked eggs, low-fat lunch meats, tuna, hard cooked eggs, low-fat lunch meat, hummus or beans.

• Starch

Whole wheat bread, pita bread, tortillas, crackers, quinoa, or beans. Make sure you include 3 grams of fiber at each lunch each day to help meet your  kids’ fiber goal.

• Fruit and Vegetables

Fresh fruit, or individual packs of canned or fresh fruit, or no sugar added fruit cups. Raw vegetables with a side of light salad dressing or hummus or add lettuce and tomato to a sandwich. 

• Dairy

Yogurt, low-fat cheese slices, cheese sticks, milk, or  fortified soymilk.

Jacqueline King, MS, RDN, FADA, FAND