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Singing the Lunchbox Blues?
How to Create a Healthy Meal for Your Student
Part One
By Donna Smith
Judy Ring from Cocoa, Fla., makes pizzas out of biscuits for her children. "I do it two ways," she says. "One is to roll the biscuit real thin, put some pizza sauce, pepperoni and cheese on one side, fold over and seal edges and bake as you would biscuits. With these I also put in a small container of pizza sauce for them to dip it into. Other times I take a biscuit and shape it to the inside of a muffin tin, add pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni in the indentation and bake as you would bake a regular biscuit." Other fillings Ring has tried are meatballs with a little sauce, small pieces of bacon with scrambled egg and Sloppy Joes. "The kids like these a lot better than peanut butter sandwiches," she says.
And who says their lunch has to be cold? Ely suggests sending soups, stews, pasta or last night's leftovers. "The new wide-mouth thermos has come a long way since the days of breaking thermoses," she says. "They stay hot, pack easily and work perfectly." Here are some other hot lunch ideas:
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