Documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim explores the tragic ways in which the American public education system is failing our nation’s children, and explores the roles that charter schools and education reformers could play in offering hope for the future. We see the statistics every day — students dropping out, science and math scores falling, and schools closing due to lack of funding. What we don’t see are the names and faces of the children whose entire futures are at stake due to our own inability to enact change. There was a time when the American public education system was a model admired by the entire world. Today other countries are surpassing us in every respect, and the slogan “No Child Left Behind” has become a cynical punch line. The Film Documents Bianca, Emily, Anthony, Daisy, and Francisco who are five students who deserve better. By investigating how the current system is actually obstructing their education instead of bolstering it, Guggenheim opens the door to considering possible options for transformation and improvement. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A kid-friendly lunch doesn’t have to mean a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Not only can dishes such as fruit kabobs, pizza quesadillas and noodle bowls be just as easy to make as a sandwich, you may be surprised to discover how popular and kid-friendly such healthy choices are.
Ideas for spreading the lunch love:
Give kids something they can assemble themselves. They love dipping, stacking and rolling up their food into fun treats.
For kids, anything “mini” equals fun. Serve them things like mini whole grain bagels, potstickers or cheese cubes.
Make food into fun shapes. Colorful or interestingly shaped pasta, sandwiches cut into shapes with cookie cutters, or fruit cut into triangles, circles, etc.
Try to expose your children to at least one new flavor each week. This could be an item they’ve never eaten before or one they haven’t had in awhile.
Include a fun container, special note, napkin, cartoon or joke in the lunchbox.
BUILDING THE IDEAL LUNCHBOX
Like the ideal breakfast, lunch should have lots of fiber and whole grains, some protein and healthy fat, a veggie and just a bit of natural sugar, like a piece of fresh fruit.
To give kids a sense of control and a vested interest in eating their lunches, involve them in the prep-work and the decision-making process about what goes in the bag. Best to do this on the weekend or the night before to avoid morning meltdowns.
Tips for building a kid-friendly lunch:
Involve them in the prep-work.
Include a protein.
Choose whole grains, whole grain breads, crackers and pasta for fiber.
Choose one fruit and at least one veggie per lunch.
INSPIRED LUNCHES
Stuck in a peanut butter and jelly rut? Try these ideas for a little something different:
Whole wheat tortillas spread with peanut butter sprinkled with raisins or dried cherries, rolled up and cut in two.
Pizza quesadilla or a tomato cheddar soup and cold antipasti spread including tortellini, meats, cheeses and green beans served with grapes any other fresh, bite-size fruit.
Hummus and spinach wrap, cherry tomatoes with string cheese, and yogurt.
Baked corn chips, black beans, cheese wedges and fresh pico de gallo with jicama sticks.
Whole wheat or buckwheat noodles with peanut sauce, sugar snap peas, a pear, almonds and a fortune cookie.
Tuna salad with grated carrots, served with crackers or in a pita.
Cheese triangles served with pepperoni and whole wheat crackers for stacking.
Crostini (toasted French/Italian bread slices) served with chopped olive salad, roasted turkey and hard-boiled eggs.
Vegetarian brown rice sushi rolls with soy or ponzu sauce.
Smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumbers on mini bagels.
Shumai dumplings/potstickers packed cold with ponzu sauce or peanut sauce.
Vegetable fried rice (make the night before or use dinner leftovers).
Chocolate almond butter with graham crackers.
Fruit kabobs made from assorted colors of melon balls and other fruits on a bamboo skewer, served with yogurt for dipping.
Kids will love to help you make this healthy snack since it’s fun to spread the nut butter and sprinkle the chocolate chips. No corer in the kitchen drawer? Slice the apples into rounds first then use a small cookie cutter to remove the core from the center of each slice. Wrap sandwiches tightly and tuck them into lunchboxes, if you like.
Ingredients
2 small apples, cored and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch thick rounds
1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)
3 tablespoons peanut or almond butter
2 tablespoons semisweet chocolate chips
3 tablespoons granola
Method
If you won’t be eating these tasty treats right away, start by brushing the apples slices with lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.
Spread one side of half of the apple slices with peanut or almond butter then sprinkle with chocolate chips and granola. Top with remaining apple slices, pressing down gently to make the sandwiches. Transfer to napkins or plates and serve.
Nutrition
Per serving (about 7oz/192g-wt.): 300 calories (150 from fat), 16g total fat, 4.5g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 115mg sodium, 36g total carbohydrate (6g dietary fiber, 25g sugar), 8g protein – WholeFoodsMarket.Com
Whole Foods Market is participating with Chef Ann Cooper to provide healthy salad bars to schools across the country. We are jump starting the movement by raising money for a salad bar in at least one school in the communities surrounding each of our stores in the U.S. That’s almost 300 schools! You can help us reach this goal by donating to your local Whole Foods store and also by helping a school of your choice to apply for a grant.
A healthy salad bar in every school across America so all school kids may have access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and healthy proteins, every school day.
The time is ripe for 31 million schoolchildren. We need a solution and we need it now to deal with these unhealthy facts:
According to The Center for Disease Control, children born in the year 2000, one‐third will contract diabetes. And, these children will be the first in our country’s history to die at a younger age than their parents.
70.1 percent of Americans are overweight; 4.3 million children ages 10 – 14 will become overweight or obese in the next 24 months.
Rates of childhood obesity are soaring. About 12 percent of children ages 2 to 5 are obese compared with 17 percent of kids 6 to 11, and 18 percent of kids ages 12 to 19.
“The number one thing any school can do to improve their school food is to add a healthy salad bar and allow children to make their own choices.” – Chef Ann Cooper, AKA The Renegade Lunch Lady and co founder of The Lunch Box Project and Food, Family, Farming Foundation.
I’ve donate to this very worth cause every time I shop for groceries, So next time you find yourself in Whole Foods add your donation to you bill or Click below to find out more information. – Taryn Cox for The Wife.
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