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Back to school, back to sack lunches

By Amanda Hill The back-to-school season is upon us, and each year I still get excited about the thought of crisp notebooks, freshly-sharpened pencils and a brand new lunchbox. Growing up, packing my lunch was a daily event. My mom or dad would help me assemble a healthy meal of some sort of sandwich, fruit, [...]

Kids in the Kitchen

By Matt Felder Table Top would like to thank Texas Farm Bureau's Matt Felder for this guest post about the Junior League's Kids in the Kitchen program. Matt is field editor for TFB's publications. Nationally, about one in seven children are obese, and that statistic increases to nearly one in three children in Texas. But that’s something the Junior League of [...]

June 14, 2011|Categories: Healthy Kids|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

Chocolate milk going extinct?

By Nathan Smith To this Texan, the only thing better than milk is chocolate milk. It’s a favorite part of my post exercise routine, so it’s a good thing I’m not a student in some Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. school districts where chocolate milk is a thing of the past. School administrators in some [...]