Healthy School Lunches: 8 Ways to Keep It Fresh

Getting your kids to eat healthy when they’re away from home can be tricky. At home, it’s easy to say “You’ve had enough cookies.” At school, though, kids are presented with a lot of opportunities to make their own choices and those choices are often bad ones. One way to make sure your kid is eating healthy at school is to pack a healthy lunch that they actually want to eat more than the junk food provided by the school. To make sure they actually eat what you send, it’s important to mix things up so they don’t get bored with lunch. After the jump, some fresh, healthy, and tasty ideas to make lunch fun for your kids.

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Fruit salad

We usually send our daughter to school with fresh fruit, but we found that a lot of apples, bananas, and oranges were coming home mostly uneaten. One way to combat that has been to make a quick fruit salad in the morning, putting some in her lunch and sticking the rest in the fridge for an afternoon snack. Now she's actually eating her fruit and we're feeling less guilty about throwing away apples with two bites taken from them.

Make starry fruit salad

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