School: Dazed and Confused

January 26, 2022

What a relief when the school grind is done in May. Come August, though, we're throwing rose petals in front of the school bus.

Kids choose what they eat, trade or throw away. So when they don’t eat what I put in the lunchbox, it doesn’t matter how healthy it is.

Here are three of our current tricks to sneak in some nutrition:

• Juice lots of spinach (and freeze it in 1/4 cup servings). Then blend up the following and pour it into a thermos:
  • 1 cup Greek yogurt (the sweetened vanilla kind)
  • ½ cup milk (any kind of milk!)
  • 1/3 cup frozen mango
  • ¼ cup frozen pineapple
  • 1 peach (skin off, pit removed)
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1 scoop collagen powder
  • ¼ cup juiced spinach
• Puree lots of butternut squash and freeze it in 1/3 cup servings. Then add it to the marinara sauce. Pour over the shape pasta noodles they’re eating that week. Boom. Done.
• Farm&Oven. Strangely, the cookies we put in our kids’ lunches don’t come home. So our bakery bites (with a sneaky 2 servings of veggies in each pack) are a perfect lunchtime treat.

Good luck! And if you have other ideas, please email us!

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