If you're feeling a little daunted by the prospect of another year of packing school lunches that your kids will actually eat, you might find inspiration from some of the following resources. Good luck! And if you have any favorite and full-proof suggestions you'd like to share, please post them on our Facebook page.
Catherine McCord of Weelicious is perhaps the best mom chef out there and she posts the lunches she makes for her son every day on Facebook. There is also a School Lunch video where she discusses making fun, nutritious lunches with super kid-appeal.
Healthy Child, Healthy World offers 28 tips to snap out of a school lunch slump.
Funky Lunch was born out of the desire to turn an ordinary lunchtime sandwich into something a bit different to encourage children to eat a varied and healthy lunch. They offer workshops, a book and a gallery of funky sandwich ideas, if you’re feeling creative.
Lunch in a Box. The definitive guide to Bento-style lunches from a Californian mom who spent 9 years in Japan. Tons of recipes and almost overwhelming list of other bento box resources. Not for the faint-hearted!
www.laptoplunches.com. Creative ideas, searchable recipe database and monthly newsletter from the good folks at Laptop Lunches
www.ilunchbox.com. Healthy and speedy lunchbox recipes, plus “A Week in Express” lunch and dinner planner.
Real Simple's Back to School Food Planner provides recipes and tips for easy family meals, creative lunches, and quick breakfasts that will ease back-to-school stress for you and your kids. Lunch ideas include top ten sandwiches to spice up a lunch box and smart ways to pack snacks.
Family Fun offers practical tips and fun twists on staple lunch box items.
Perfect Packed Lunch suggestions from UK chef and Healthy School Lunch pioneer Jamie Oliver
Easy Lunchbox has a number of lunch packing tips, creative labeling, yummy lunch gallery and recipe resource.
If browsing the shelves of your local library or book store doesn’t always lead to books that possess the “commendable quality” required by a national award or best-book list - books for example that might “exhibit venturesome creativity… or reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways” - then you might find the following lists useful!
2011 Notable Children's Books
Each year, a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. Books that have been recognized in prestigious Awards and Honors like Newbery, Caldecott, Geisel and other ALA awards such as the Schneider Family Book Award are automatically added to the list, so it’s a pretty comprehensive one and a good start point. Also has an archive of past winners all the way back to 1996.
www.the-best-childrens-books.org
Created by teachers to help parents find the perfect book for a given topic and reading level, it lists everything from Caldecott prizewinners to the best books for teaching science.
The Children’s Book Council works annually on various reading lists to help teachers, librarians, parents, and booksellers discover new, wonderful books for the children in their lives. One of these lists is the Children’s Choices List, a reading list with a twist as it's chosen by children. Co-sponsored by the CBC and the International Reading Association, the list has become a trusted source of book recommendations used by teachers, librarians, parents and children themselves.
New York Times Children's Bestseller's List A weekly look at the best selling children's books, from picture books to paper backs.
Reading is Fundamental Browse through several recommended booklists compiled by leading literature experts on this popular teachers' resource website.
International Children's Digital Library
A digital library of outstanding children's books representing every culture and language, created by the ICDL Foundation to give children access to the riches of children’s literature from around the world.
While we strive to maintain accuracy in our listings, information of this nature changes regularly, so we apologize if any of the details are incorrect. Please help us to keep this list up-to-date by emailing info@twirlhouse.com with any corrections or new information.
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