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Tips on preparing nutritional meals kids will eat

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dares, even shredded Goconut. Plow about
sheed cheese and tomate drrzled with
Italian dressing. or cream cheese with
ratty and chopped nuts?

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usual kid: pleasers such as peanut butter
or tuna fish, add variery by using a dit
ferent bread for cach day or che week.

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Uha’s naturally sweet and nutritious --
eng your Kids will lowe and you'll teel goad
about serving. Instead of cakes or candy,
try one of che single serve Frist Paks.

*Hale the veggies. Add tineiv Chopped
celery, carrots, of green pepper to run. or

on salad, and your youngster will ext
es the painless way.

@fn cold weather, pack a hot lich. A
wide mouth rhermes filled with vegetable
soup, chilli, stew or spaghetti is warmly
welcomed during winter months. Burt tor
a really fun surprise, put boiling water in
a thermos and drop in an all-beef hot dog
with some sauerkraut. The hot dow and
sauerkmiut will cook during the morning
while tne water cools, so your child won't
get burnt ar lunchtime. Don't forget the
hot dog roll and small packs of mustard
or ketchup.

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special days, aive sour Child chars to
share wath friends. Addin extra brian Pak,
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around

Pack same extra dove. Your child will
look formward to dunebrime to chere's a
special, foving touch trom you. Incbude
wrote of encoursgement about a quiz, or
other small, non-food treats such as
stickers, baseball cards, a tavonte comic
strip cut trom che morning paper, an old
family phate with a silly message scribh-
led on the back -- anything that conjures
up pood feelings and) brghtens sour
child's afternoon.

Experiment with some of these lunch
box sugzestions. You'll trad thar you can
prepare a healthy and nutririonally
balanced lunch chat your youngster books
forward to eating: — and one char keeps
him or herein high energy pear tor the rest
of the day.

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