The Lunch Link to Home Life

In the midst of the Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution and the Local Matters movement, we have been bombarded with a deluge of information of what is better for us to eat and why. But, most of us may not see the links to a student's home life and what they are eating for lunch and how important this link is.

While we encourage packing your child's lunch (at least until all schools have the Healthy Options program) to know what is going into their little tummies, during a time of recession, many public school goers are not able to do so. With parents laid off from jobs and some jobs cutting back, schools lunches are some parents' mealtime saviors.

Knowing this should be more of a reason to advocate for healthy options for children to eat for lunches and snacks because a child's socioeconomic standing should not decide whether or not they deserve a healthy meal.

Huffington Post has a great article here