Egg Drop Soup
I love this for kids, and for our family replaces the canned Chicken Noodle Soup to warm us up in the wintertime and make tummy troubles go away. Easy, quick and nutritious. Ready in 10 minutes. Recipe listed is for 2, can easily be adjusted for more or fewer. Note that you can make [...]
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OK, this one may be a bit of a no brainer. However, I think it is easy to forget that making your own trail mix is easy and an excellent, healthy addition to a packed lunch. Almonds and dried fruit are top choices for a healthy trail mix base, but the options are endless. Including some [...]
These are great, relatively healthy dessert treats for a lunchbox, and kids love to help make them!
Ingredients:
1 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter
1 cup powdered milk
3/4 cup honey
Optional ingredients: crushed cornflakes, Grape Nuts, crushed almonds or walnuts, rainbow sprinkles, crushed graham crakers (chocolate or regular), crushed oreos… use your imagination!
Combine peanut butter, powdered milk, and honey in bowl [...]
The Laptop Lunches lunchbox is one of the best lunchbox products I have found. I would recommend the Laptop Lunch Bento Box Set, but not necessarily the insulated carrying case (see below). I also am not very fond of the plastic bottle that comes with the full Laptop Lunch System because I feel that it [...]
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- Wall-E Bento Lunchbox Art
- Love Food Hate Waste? Pack a Lunch Box!
- Lunchbox Banana Saver
- Lunchbox Economics
- Egg Molds for Cute Bento Lunchboxes
- Packing a Green Lunchbox
- 5 Easy Dinner to Lunch Box Menus
- Is that a Froose in your Lunchbox?
- Laptop Lunches Lunchbox Giveaway
- Lunchbox Dinosaur Sandwiches
- Meg: Quick followup -- I now own six of the egg molds and have tried them all out, they are great! However, the Heart and the Star shapes did not turn out
- Meg: Kim, Thanks for visiting, and yes--aren't they awesome? You can definintely use them for onigiri (molded rice balls). Not so sure about the meatbal
- kim: Those are incredibly cute! Do you think you'd be able to use them for other things like mini-onigiri or meatballs? Or would the shape no longer stand
- Grassroots Movement Reducing Lunchbox Waste
The Laptop Lunches lunchbox has inspired a grassroots movement in Redding, California known as the Healthy Lunch and Lifestyle Project (HELP). The new nonprofit environmental program was founded and is run by Executive Director Bridgette Brick-Wells.
The program aims to create healthy lunches for kids while drastically reducing lunchroom waste. In select schools, they provide [...] - New "Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids" Lunch Ideas Book
A new book has come out by London author Amanda Grant that looks great: “Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids” (Ryland Peters & Small, 2008, $19.95). On Amazon.com, you can get the hardcover book for $15.
Based on an interview Grant did with the The Star-Ledger, the book seems to have a lot of great tips. Some [...] - Ten tips for controlling Halloween sugar overload
10 tips to stop kids’ Halloween sugar overload
(summary from The Associated Press). The AP tips are printed in Bold below, while my take on the tip & what I plan on doing is printed in regular text…
These ideas help kids on Halloween feel neither deprived, nor sick to their stomachs:
-Talk with your kids, before Halloween, on [...]
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