Brown-bagging it. How To Do it Better For Our Kids.
I don't know about you but my kid's a brown-bagger (and a fussy eater, to boot) and I struggle every day with what to put in his lunch. The WSJ had a funny take on it today, noting that, with all the instructions and regulations -- no peanut butter, nut products, candy bars, soda -- what's a parent to do? Fortunately for me, my son pretty much sticks to routine -- a baggie full of saltine mini crackers, another of graham crackers, and maybe, if I'm lucky, some carrots. Period. Then there's all the media pressure about making our kids a healthy lunch. "I pack [my son] a lunch every day and I hate it," Amy Hood, a stay-at-home mother of three from Charlestown, R.I., tells the WSJ's Andrea Petersen. "It is like laundry. You're never done." I, too, hate making lunch. The minute my son comes in the door from school, I'm obsessing about it until I can make it and just shove it in the fridge. D...