Looking for kids' lunchbox ideas? Bin the soggy sandwiches and get inspired with our healthy, speedy and scrumptious school packed lunch ideas. Thinking of healthy and exciting packed lunches can ...

Squeaky clean shoes, new school supplies, a fresh start, a fall crisp in the air, and … packed lunches. If the thought of packing a nutritious lunch for your kids every single day gives you ...

Health and nutrition studies on packed school lunches mostly focus on elementary, preschool, or high school intake. Some studies have examined the nutritional content of home-packed school lunches.

Packed lunches, the study found ... which subsidizes the cost of school lunches. Meals must also contain three-quarters of a cup of vegetables and a half-cup of fruit, not including fruit juice.

The 2012-2013 National School Lunch Program (NSLP) nutritional standards govern what those students eat; for those who bring packed lunches, there are no nutritional standards, however.

The nutritional shortcomings of school lunches have been a matter of national debate for decades — but the focus has been on what schools serve, not on what moms and dads pack in the lunch bags.

At the other end of the scale Morrison’s is the most expensive, with an average of £15.11 for a week’s worth of packed lunches. How much is the average school dinner? The average cost of a ...

Lunches packed at home are generally not as nutritious as school lunches, a new study shows. Researchers compared more than 750 school meals with more than 560 packed meals given to pre-K and ...

those purchased at school. These results emphasize the need for research and intervention in packed lunches, they said. On 3 separate days, researchers observed second-grade children in seven ...

School cafeterias have come under fire for ... So Salge Blake has some tips on how to improve the quality of home packed lunches. For example, she advises parents to shop for food with their ...