Back to School Healthy Eating

Each 12-ounce soft drink contains approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar and 150 calories.
Drinking just one can of soda a day increases a child's risk of obesity by 60%. Restrict your child's soft drink consumption.
Try to get your child's school to stock healthy choices such as fresh fruit, low-fat dairy products, water and 100 percent fruit juice in the vending machines.
Tea sandwiches: These are bite-sized sandwiches. You can make your child a cream cheese tea sandwich with very thin cucumber slices. (Meatless)
With this advance information, you can plan on packing lunch on the days when the main course is one your child prefers not to eat.
Most schools regularly send schedules of cafeteria menus home.