Back to school lunch ideas from a Denver mom
Karen Erickson, a Denver home economist and mother of four, shares practical lunch packing tips. She emphasizes variety, exposure to foods, and balance, including garden-fresh veggies, half sandwiches, and lower sugar options. She suggests involving kids, planning ahead, and offering two to three healthy choices.
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Apple Yogurt Salad and Veggie Toss
A two part recipe card offering an apple yogurt salad with yogurt maple dressing and a mixed vegetable salad with optional toppings. Includes ingredients like apples celery raisins cranberries walnuts and dressings with mayonnaise buttermilk cider vinegar and olive oil for versatile servings.
Easy Pasta Salad and Pita Cream Cheese Wraps
A compact recipe collection features Easy Pasta Salad with cooked pasta olives bell pepper scallion apple juice vinaigrette and optional seasonings for 2 to 3 servings followed by pita cream cheese wraps layered with tomato spinach herbs and rolled into logs cut into spirals for 2 to 3 servings. Also included is a baked cookie recipe yielding 24 cookies with oats flour sugar baking cocoa and vanilla.
Safe lunch tips from ADA for kids meals
The American Dietetic Association offers a dozen safety guidelines for packing children’s lunches. Tips cover hand washing, clean prep surfaces, separate storage, avoiding cross contamination, using insulated containers, proper microwaving, refrigeration access, ice packs, night-before prep, and discarding leftovers.
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