7 Tips for Packing Healthy Kids’ Lunches

Those frozen sugary sandwiches and mini-packs of cookies and chips may offer an easy solution for quick and simple kids’ lunchboxes, but they are hardly the path to healthy eating to fuel young minds and bodies. Your kids need to pack in servings of healthful foods during their mid-day break, including whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, fruits, and veggies. These choices—day after day—will nourish their play time, academic concentration, and physical and cognitive development.

I talked to top registered dietitian nutritionists to get their own strategies for how to fill your kids’ lunchboxes with healthful foods your kids will actually eat!

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