Students and staff in the Park Elementary lunch room are doing a lot of experimenting these days. “Lunch is a lot healthier than it used to be,” said Lesli Mueller, District 423’s food ...

W ith the emphasis on healthy eating, preparing lunches might seem like a daunting task, but packing healthy options for your kids doesn’t have to be expensive or time-consuming. With a little ...

Foods like these may qualify as healthy enough for school lunches but they aren’t necessarily the healthiest options for your ...

A federal law aiming to make sure kids have enough to eat at school as well as have healthy food options is set to take effect July 1. The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act requires schools to focus on ...

the HHFKA set new nutrition standards for school meals while expanding access to taxpayer-funded breakfast and lunch to millions of students. “This bill is about giving our kids the healthy ...

In our (totally anecdotal) survey of secondary school kids, one thing that came across was that lunches should not be “embarrassing”. Too posh, too healthy, too smelly, too weird, too hard to ...

Kathrine Lynch, founder of The Daily Menu blog, shares tips for kids' packed lunches. Video / Mike Scott School is nearly back and with the return to class comes the daily stress and scramble of ...