Any parent of school-age children knows it can be a struggle to come up with creative portable meals and snacks five days a week. And all efforts to pack a delicious, nutritiously balanced lunch can be in vain if it comes back at the end of the day half-eaten or winds up in the garbage. Here are some new ideas to tuck up your sleeve, with some actually invented by kids themselves for their own school lunches. Involving your kids in the decision-making process can up the odds
that they’ll actually eat what you (or they) pack in their lunch bags. We made lunches for Hugo Sellmer and Steven and Lauren Glaser, to see if they would eat what we packed.
Alphabet Meatball Soup
Mini Frittatas
Macaroni & Cheese Blocks
Bento-Style Box Lunches
Chicken Caesar Salad Wraps
Published in August 2010
