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From our friends at GoodBite.com
If your kids are tired of the same old PB&J or bologna sandwiches for lunch, it may be time to switch it up. But what??? We asked mom “in the know” Jen Levinson, mother of 5 boys (two sets of twins!) to give us some pointers on everything lunch. After all, she feeds a lot of hungry tummies…
Jen says…
What to pack:
• Think of the four food groups. A balanced lunch could then be 1-2 servings of Vegetables and Fruit, 1 serving from the Grain Products, ½-1 servings of Milk and Alternatives and ½ a serving of Meat and Alternatives.
• Think outside the sandwich! Get creative when choosing items for your child’s lunch. Sometimes changing something as simple as the type of grain. For example, using pita, flatbread, tortilla, or cereal instead of bread can make lunch more interesting for your little eater. Cut sandwiches into triangles or diamonds. Use cookie cutters to make fun shapes.
• Offer various types of cheese (mozzarella, cheddar, Jack, Swiss) in different forms (cubes, strings, slices and balls). To create a cheese ball, shred and then shape into balls.
• Switch up the veggies and fruit. Give your kids something different to experience with each bite. Group foods according to: Type (citrus, tropical.); color (green, red, orange, yellow, purple); shape (balls, strips, chunks, whole); or texture (soft, juicy, crunchy)
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Just gotta try this Creamy Avocado Dip recipe via Momables.com - love how you can spread it on a sandwich in lieu of Mayo! 
Comment by Torrance on Nov 17 2012 06:30:33:
They probably are the same sort of plpeoe who need’ a tank as family car. I’ve started feeling more sympathetic to such plpeoe since acquiring my own carseat, nappy bag, pram, toys, books, food supplies and portacot for any trip that may take more than a coupla hours. Carseats, for example, are now designed with the assumption of a family tank, and they take up most of the backseat in a smaller car. If I hadn’t been dead set against such things before I had a kid, and clear in my reasoning against them, I’d be thinking a new Hummer was a good idea right about now. If I hadn’t been dead set against gear’ I’d have more of it to tote around with the kid, and the need for a larger car would be more extreme. Because cleverly arranging all of that one handed into a seat on the tram, or the boot of a small car, is a bit more than most of us are prepared to take on a regular basis.In much the same way, if I hadn’t been well educated about why breastfeeding is promoted. If I hadn’t seen my younger sister and my cousins breastfed and accepted that as normal (in addition to having a really good lactation consultant make it work for us) I’d have given it up. There are a lot of plpeoe who become parents without engaging in either lactivism or the environmental movement. They’re (not necessarily) stupid though, and they know smug when they hear it, it get’s their backs up. Slagging them off without explaining why you want it to be easier to breastfeed, to get around with a baby without a car or with a small car, and why your kids will thank you later if you recycle now is pretty unproductive.