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School Lunch Makeover: When a Chef's Hat Replaces the Lunch Lady's Hairnet

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Like we needed another reason to love Bill Telepan.

A recent, inspiring story on EdibleCommunities.com explains how Telepan, a professional chef who runs a well-regarded, eponymous restaurant in New York City, is working (really, really working) with his daughter's public school…

3 foods that should be in your child's lunchbox

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Most of the “water cooler conversation” around our office this time of year is about back to school. I’m sure this comes as no surprise because we work at EatingWell, but most of the focus has been on what to pack kids for lunch. You might find it refreshing to know that we too struggle with what to feed our kids. So we were inspired to pull together this kids menu, highlighting some of the best foods for fueling young brains. Make sure your child’s lunchbox has these 3 foods to help your kids (and you parents too!) start the school year off on the right foot.

Back to School Basketcase.

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by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Mommy Track'd - Two Cents on Working Motherhood)

As much as I grow wistful as summer ends, like most moms, I secretly look forward to a return to the peaceful…

Lunch what? (The smarter lunch carriers)

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LunchBots are stainless-steel food containers that just surged to No. 1 on our back-to-school shopping list.

Why do some parents oppose President Obama telling kids to take responsibility, study, and get an education?

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After the White House released President Barack Obama’s address to school children, there remain schools that will not air the president’s educational pep talk because of pressure from parents who don’t like the president’s political positions.

Even if you are aghast at the vitriol spilling at public meetings about health care reform proposals, you can understand that many people are worried about what changes to our current health care system will mean for those currently insured as we attempt to insure the 46 million Americans who have no coverage. But to oppose an address by the president to students about taking their studies seriously at the start of a school year--why? At best, it’s “silly,” as Education Secretary Arne Duncan put it. At worst, it’s downright frightening, uninformed, and terribly, unnecessarily alarmist and disrespectful.