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Healthy Meals for Busy Families

It’s just so easy to pick up take-out on the way home from work when you know there’s no way you have the time or energy to cook dinner. That little voice may be nagging you about healthier eating, but when the entire family arrives home late in the afternoon, it takes some effort to coordinate tasty and good-for-you meals. However, with just a little preparation, preparing healthy meals can be a snap.

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Healthy Meals for Children

The healthy label scares off some kids from even trying a meal. Balancing health with child-friendly meals keeps you and your child satisfied. You feel confident that she is eating a nutritious diet, and she gets a tasty selection of meals. Healthy meals that appeal to the entire family make it easier to avoid the role of short order cook to appease everyone’s appetite.

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MM Exclusive: Laurie David Shares Her Secret to Ideal Family Meals

ModernMom was honored to interview Laurie David, the author of “The Family Dinner” (see link below), producer of the Academy Awardwinning film An Inconvenient Truth, and a regular blogger on the Huffington Post. Laurie’s been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Martha Stewart Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, and MSNBC and was named a 2006 Glamour Woman of the Year. Among her many accomplishments, she’s a pro when it comes to nutritious and delicious family eating. We picked her brain and here’s some of her wise advice. Enjoy!

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Join in the Fight to Make School Lunches Healthier!

Corn dogs, canned fruit and a bag of chipsthat was a typical hot lunch offering at the posh private school my daughter attended in Marin County, California six years ago. It took me, and five other Marin moms, more than a year to initiate organic lunch programs in our local private schools. We had to work hard to convince parents and administrators that it was worth an extra $1 a day to serve organic food to our kids. There are still many schools in my county where kids are given unhealthy (highly processed, microwaved and packaged) foods and drinks (soda and high fructose corn syrup sweetened juices) on campuses and in cafeterias. Instead of real and nutritious food, they are eating food that doesnt help their brains or bodies develop optimally.