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Outwit Your Kids--Sneak Healthy Choices into Back-to-School Lunches
Aug 16, 2006

Not sure what to put in your child's lunchbox? Trying to find something that they will eat beyond peanut butter and jelly - that is nutritious too? Here's a whole month of suggested menus and recipes to start the school year off on the right foot.
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(PRWEB) August 16, 2006 -- It’s not easy striking a balance between the lunch your child wants, and the lunch you want to serve them. Although most schools now offer a variety of dishes, many parents continue to pack lunch for their children. Whether you make that choice because of concern about nutrition, or because your child is a finicky eater, or because you want to save money, or because your child has food allergies, each new day presents the question, “how do I get my kids to eat healthy lunches?”

Just in time for the start of the school year, author Renee Pottle’s booklet; The Happy Lunchbox – 4 Weeks of Menus and Recipes, provides numerous suggestions that should have the kids clamoring for more. The booklet offers:
·    20 days of menus and recipes helping you sneak fruits, vegetables and whole grains into your child’s lunch, without complaints.
·    Unique ways to combine purchased items and easily homemade favorites from YOUR childhood.
·    Menus that go beyond boring peanut butter and jelly, with as nutritious cookie sandwiches, kid-friendly salads, chips and dip and much more!
·    Fun, easy recipes like Old Fashioned Gingerbread, Green and Gold Fruit Salad, and pinwheel Stromboli.
·    Meatless options for the vegetarian child.
·    “Nutrient Watch” identifying the basic nutrients your child needs for growth and development, and how to include them in each lunch.
·    Daily “Mom’s Tips” to make preparing lunch even easier.
·    A bonus feature of 5 “All Grown Up” sandwich recipes for Mom and Dad including Take me to Hawaii and Mediterranean Sandwiches.

Pottle, author of the cookbook, “I Want My Dinner Now! – Simple Meals for Busy Cooks” is a Family and Consumer Scientist and Healthy Eating Coach who packed innumerable lunches while her sons were growing up. From them she learned how to be a creative cook and sneak wholesome ingredients into cookies, muffins, salads and sandwiches.

The Happy Lunchbox is available for $6.95 at www.craftandcook.

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