Healthy School Lunches

It's Back to School time again! What is in your kids' lunch box? Here are some great tasting and healthy ideas:

DRINKS
Water, 100% juice, drinkable yogurt, milk.

SNACKS
Graham crackers, animal crackers, baked chips, pretzels, popcorn (not microwave), popcorn cakes and rice cakes with peanut butter, dry cereal nuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, dried or canned fruit in natural juice, applesauce, fruit leather made of 100% fruit, cheese, grapes, bananas, orange slices, fat-free or reduced-fat pudding, yogurt, cottage cheese, granola bars that have less than 3 grams of fat and fewer than 30 grams of carbohydrates.

MAIN ENTREE
Turkey wraps, left over chicken, tuna, veggies with hummus, sandwiches on whole wheat, cold pizza, leftover meatloaf, and so on.

Just don't send the kids with Lunchables - they are full of fat and salt. Or big bags of Hot Cheetos. I work in a school and kids actually come into the lunch room with these things...