Tips for Getting Your Tween to Eat Healthy Lunches At School

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Kids & Family, Parenting, Arts, Food

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tweens are much like toddlers in many ways that mirror general child development— including picky eating tendencies.

The combination of pickiness and growing autonomy can be disastrous for a parent who cares if their rapidly growing tween, gets food that actually nourishes them. School lunch is the hardest meal of the day, since it's so thoroughly out of our hands. This week we share the trials, tribulations and tips for making sure your tween eats a healthy lunch all school year long.

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0:00.0	I also think that leftovers, just to say this, they do double duty for nights when there will be late practices or activities because then you always have something on a hand that's quick and easy and helps keep you from the fast food window.
0:17.0	Welcome to didn't I just feed you.
0:19.1	A podcast about feeding us kids.
0:24.2	Hi, I'm Stacey.
0:26.4	And I'm Megan.
0:28.7	Stacey.
0:29.6	Yeah.
0:29.8	Oh gosh.
0:30.3	Did you see there are three new reviews of Didn't I Just Feed You on iTunes this week?
0:35.1	Yes.
0:36.5	That's me squealing.
0:38.3	You guys, our listeners are like our hype machine.
0:42.8	They keep us going.
0:43.8	Like, keep us hyped.
0:45.3	They do.
0:45.9	It's really the best.
0:47.1	And, you know, not that I want to like compare a listener to listener, but here I go, if you are in our private Facebook
0:58.4	listeners group, you were even better. So if you aren't and you want to be even better,
1:06.3	you should join us there. No, but in all seriousness, it's so exciting to see listeners chatting with
1:13.4	each other, helping each other, like helping us. I ask questions there all the time. It's such a
1:19.9	like wonderful thriving community of people who really do listen to the show because they need
1:24.9	to know the password, which we really only say here, Which is whiskey or painkiller or just any name of any cocktail. Or really, boo, I see you. Like, we don't care guys. Yeah. Like just say it to the question. Literally when people are like, I don't know. I know you guys said something. We're still just like, okay, welcome. Yes. I mean, we know parent brain, right?
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