Imagine a world where kids head to lunch at their school cafeteria and eat a full range of produce from arugula to zucchini. A school lunch fantasy land? Not in the world of School Nutrition Plus, one of the country’s most cutting-edge school food companies, where an array of colorful fruits and vegetables have the […]
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Pizza Farm
We’re all for healthier school lunches, right? But sometimes it feels like we talk and talk about it and we sound like broken records. Well, here’s a fresh and funny look at school lunches, as produced by Funny or Die and the American Heart Association, and presented by the brilliantly off-kilter Nick Offerman (of “Parks and Recreation”). […]
“Cheeseburger” and “Fries” for #SchoolLunch
What’s that? It’s only the beginning of September and you’re already in a school lunch rut? We feel your pain. Some days it seems like there’s a long ten months ahead of us. To remedy some of that dread, how about this: Once a month during this school year, we’ll give you a new twist […]
Rock the Lunchbox 2014
If you gave your kids free reign to design their perfect lunch, what would it look like? That’s a question the Rock The Lunchbox folks asked us earlier this summer and, intrigued, we put the question to our 7-year-old. We weren’t quite sure what to expect – Would he come up with a cheeseburger and […]
Lazy Mom’s School Lunch Guide
Back to school…school lunch…zzzzz. Wait – where was I? Sorry, my bad. Even though this is supposedly a blog about nutritious kids’ food, the thought of making school lunches always puts me to sleep. (If I’m going to be in the kitchen, I’d much rather be carving watermelons or making a Tim Burton pie.) Even […]
Fresh Summit
Try to imagine, if you can, almost every variety of fruit and vegetable in the world under one enormous roof. We’re talking massive produce displays, spread out over multiple football fields worth of space. If you can begin to picture that, you’ll get a sense of the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit, which took place […]
Hi! I'm Jeanne Fratello - a writer, reporter, and a mom who is on a mission to find great food for kids and to keep parents up to date on the latest nutrition news. You can read more about me here.
