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09/06/12

It’s that time of year again. Kids are heading back to school, but they aren’t heading back to the same school lunch. In 2010, moms, advocates and Congress worked together to pass the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and as a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated the nutrition...

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Margo Wootan

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09/06/12

It’s back-to-school time! School supplies? Check! Medical forms completed? Check! Clothes for the first day? Check! School lunch?. . . This year as you prepare to send your kids to school, consider checking out more than the math and reading lineup for the year. Take a look at what is going to be...

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Jessica Donze Black

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09/06/12

This weekend, I spent some time at the park with my two-year old daughter and two friends from my mother’s group who also have two-year olds. We're all working mothers, working both because we want to work and because we have to work – and the conversation quickly circled around to the hot topic of...

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Manel Kappagoda

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09/06/12

Many of you may have heard about some big changes coming this Fall to the school lunch and breakfast programs. As a result of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated the nutrition standards for school meals for the first time...

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Lisa Sharma Creighton

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09/06/12

Are you looking for ideas for healthy, affordable and brown-bag-ready lunches? As kids head back to school, the Environmental Working Group wants to help you get the year started right. Here are five lunch ideas that come in at less than $2! Our staff nutritionist put them together based on the...

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Dawn Undurraga

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

As many blog posts as I have written bemoaning school lunches and nutrition for kids, it's refreshing to share good news. Here's an updated menu with the proposed USDA changes for better nutrition for school meals . It's much improved and I was even surprised to see jicama on the ingredients list...

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Beth Bader

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

"Chocolate begets more chocolate; it never leads to carrots. Or spinach. Or tofu." - Dina Rose, PhD and parent educator I really like this quote a lot. It's an essential piece of human nature. Sitting begets more sitting. Moving begets more moving. Reading begets more reading…and so on. Why am I...

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Alison Crockett

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

Today one of my students came back from lunch and said, "They are doing Michelle Obama's thing!" I said, what do you mean? "They are giving seconds only on vegetables and fruit, but not on the pizza!" she said, smiling. She did not seem fazed by this in the slightest bit, but I wondered if some of...

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Katy Farber

Food! Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/06/12

Are there vending machines lurking in the cafeteria or hallways of your children’s school? If so, you may want to learn as much about what is in those machines as you do about the books your child will be reading in the classroom this year. A study published in Pediatrics found children who live in...

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Margie Kelly

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09/06/12

It’s been a long haul, but after 8 plus years our kids are finally on semi auto-pilot in the morning. There are still a few pieces of our morning routine where guidance is needed, but our three boys make a good effort to independently get their “jobs” done. One of those morning jobs is packing...

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Lori Popkewitz Alper