06. Tackling School Lunch

Are your kids back to school yet? As we are getting back into the swing of things around here, social media has reminded me of something that many parents like to forget about in the summer…. Making lunches.

I get it. I’ve been there. I’m still there some days. As a busy mom, let’s be honest, it’s easy to let making lunch fall to the wayside. Add in a possibly picky kid and some days it feels impossible to live up to the Pinterest mom expectations.

Research has shown time and time again that a nutrient-dense lunch can be the difference between kids being able to focus in their classroom in the afternoon and kids acting out or even falling asleep.

Think about how your own afternoon goes. For example, maybe you have a turkey sandwich with chips for lunch. Do you crash in the afternoon? How long do you have energy for?

Now, what if you had a more balanced lunch such as turkey meat on an open sandwich or one slice of bread, carrot sticks dipped in hummus and an apple. How much longer would you make it before you needed a snack?

Think about it… why should we expect kids to get through the afternoon on an uncrustable and juice box when we wouldn’t be able to make it with energy on the adult-sized portion?

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