Learn more› By Laura Motley Packing lunch for your kid(s) can be an ... A 4-year-old tester was able to operate the metal latch to open the tray, but it’s on the heavy side (the Rover, with ...

These easy school lunch ideas for kids will make packing ... since you won’t have to buy sandwich bags. 2. If your kids are old enough, enlist their help. Let them bag snacks or wash fruit.

The landmark Healthy Hunger-free Kids Act, which was passed five years ago, came with a mandate to put fruits and vegetables on every lunch tray ... Act is now 5 years old. And Congress begins ...

Jonathan Ernst, the custodian at Needham Public Schools’ Middle School, used to take out nine barrels of trash each lunch ...

They must adhere to strict sets of nutrition guidelines for each meal and, most important, appeal to the picky palates of kids. During that Friday lunch ... old to add a vegetable to their tray.

Four Portland students in third grade through seventh grade helped tote more than 1,000 used plastic foam lunch trays in front ... "We have always put the money on kids' trays, in other words ...